In a Perfect World: Correcting the Educational System

It is important to recognize that every child has a different learning style and pace, but every child has the ability to learn in their own way. If we would go back to a time where this was the genuine practice in our schools, you would have more well adjusted and enthusiastic students, willing to participate in the learning process and not tuning it out.

Keeping with the first point, the education system needs to adjust the classes to fit each student's learning style and pace: remedial, average, advanced. This does not mean these students will be exposed to different curriculum, but rather exposed to different teachers teaching the same curriculum at the correct pace and effective method to reach every child. As it stands now, school systems often track students according to their pace and style, encouraging the average and more advanced students to excel, while all other students are left dangling off to the side. Remember every child can be reached; it is a matter of finding a method that works with the child to bring out their true potential.

Content curriculum needs to be consistent, meaning, that you can take one 7th grader from one school and place them in a new school and expect the same content to be covered. It will lend more to a fair and balanced educational system. Schools say they are keeping up with the standards presented to them by the state and federal level, but too often there content is diluted or missing or presented in such a way it is unrecognizable.