Attrition and the role schools play
I have always felt and firmly beleive in the fact that, it is not the student who fails school, however it is the school that failed the student. learning this later in life as i went thru the very thing from elementary scholl thru high school, only to find later that between the home life with parents and the lack of desire for school faculty to help, forced me into a position of doing very poorley. However, it also takes a person of constant and honest self evaluation and motivation to pule thru these types of circumstances. Further as we have come to learn in our lifes, we know understand the true meaning of surrounding ourselfs with people that do care, can also make all the difference in pass or fail!
Thanks for the reminder, Michael. Indeed, hopefully we all will remember to be students and develop a greater empathy for those in our classrooms.
In speaking directly with students, working with students, and being students ourselves, perhaps we remember that what we take with us from the training is not all the knowledge, but the experience and the application of that knowledge. Many older students have voiced concerns about "being a student", are asked at the start of classes if they have young children in school. As the classes progress, they are asked how their relationship with their children/students has evolved. Many have said positive and intuitive statements on how they have a greater respect and interaction with their children now - due to the fact that they both are.... students.
we are teaching these youngsters how to be Professonal tech.s
I can't agree more. In fact I never gave that much thought until I read your forum. I too believe the same for myself. I was always "bored" with school and very few of my teachers understood that and ven worse my parents could not understand why I did not perform better in school. It became a race to see how soon I could enter the work force and not go to school anymore. I did become excited about junior college but was discouraged by my parents who asked one simpole question that shot me down. "I thought you hated school"?
Alot of students, don't have a great home life, so alot of dissapline come's from instructor's or ed managers.
