The significant number of young men that are unemployed because of the lack of needed skills in the work place is growing. Unless they ditch the falls pride that is getting them nowhere and assume their responsibilities for themselves and their family the better it will be.
Many of them do not stand a chance because they are either unskilled or illiterate. This as a glaring manifestation of the problems that has been raised and discussed in various forums across the U.S.A over the past five years or so.
Skill centers and schools like ours are available but are not being utilised sufficiently by our students, school counselors and politicians. What needs to be addressed is the lack of will and motivation by our young men and women to take advantage of these existing opportunities.
Even as these teenagers and young adults grow older they do not advance to higher education and the percentage who return to school to acquire what they should have obtain in high school is very low.
Whatever the cause or causes, the implications for the stability of our society are frighting. The large amount of unemployed and unempolyable young men and women make them easy recuits for gangs drugs and other crimes.
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FINAL BLOG POST - OUR "DAILY TRIPLE" (DUE 12/1).
This week I would like you to use your imagination. You have just won the lottery and will leave your teaching post immediately to travel around the world. As you leave your keys you meet your replacement. You are asked to give this new teacher just ONE piece of advice. What would that be, and why? Enjoy your world expedition!
Blog Post - Week 7
This past week in my own teaching I felt a little disconnected which prompts my question to you, "What was the moment (or moments) when I felt most disconnected or disengaged as a teacher - the moment(s) I said to myself, I'm just going through the motions here?"
Fall Semester 2016 Blog Post - Week 6
For the past couple of weeks you have experienced asynchronous online learning (doing modules by yourself). Previously this semester you have experienced synchronous online learning (all together in the Collaborate room). Which do you think is more effective and why do you think that? Which do you like better, and why?
Fall Semester 2016 Blog Post - Week 5
This week we have what we call "open mic." You can write a post about anything related to your teaching that you would like responses from your classmates.
Fall Semester 2016 Blog Post - Week 4
Here is this week's question: "What was the event that most took me surprise this week - and event that shook me up, caught me off guard, gave me a jolt, or made me unexpectedly happy?"
Fall Semester 2016 Blog Post - Week 3
Please write a post about the following question, "In thinking about my past week teaching what is one thing I would do differently, and why?"
Fall Semester 2016 Blog Post - Week 2
Please write a post about the following question, " In thinking about my teaching activities this past week, of what do I feel most proud? Why?"
Fall Semester 2016 Blog Post - Week 1
Describe something you used in your program in the first weeks of school that you learned in the summer NTI program. How did it work? Did it get you off to a stronger start than last year?
3 comments:
Trevor until kids are made to be responsible for their actions this will continue to happen.If special ed had the same criteria when I was in high school as it does now I would have been considered Special Ed.I Couldn't read very well ,I couldn't do Algebra,not because I coudn't but because I had better things to do.You know fishing,working on cars ,playing football.At 21 years old I became a fireman,a couple of years later I wanted to become a Driver but at that time Couldn't even do a simple algebraic formula for friction loss.There will come a time when they will understand it's time to put up or shut up.This is where we come in,maybe our own story will help these kids to understand that to get what you want in this world you have to work for it.What I tell my students is learn from others mistakes so you don't make the same ones.I also tell them ,hey, since we have to be here anyway lets learn something.
Trevor, I agree with Steve. I don't know where the breakdown occurs, if it is in the home or if it is in the schools. Maybe a little of both.
I do know that kids are allowed to get away with a whole lot more in school these days than when I was in school. I remember very well that my dad would sign the letter every year giving the principal permission to paddle me if I did something wrong. I remember my dad making a big production about signing the letter and telling me that if I ever did something so bad in school that required a paddling from the principal that I would get it again DOUBLE from him when I got home. Then he would always end it with he knew I was a good kid and he wanted me to stay a good kid. And that is why he signed the letter every year.
Thank goodness, I never got a paddling! But I always had the thought in the back of my head that I might get one. And that my daddy, who I loved dearly, would be very disappointed in me.
Today's kids don't have that same fear, or the same desire to please their parents. Sad to say, but the apple does not fall far from the tree sometimes.
The sad events that just happened at the school in Ohio is a prime example. How very sad for the child shooter. He could have killed the teachers and other kids that he shot. He tragically killed himself. He had a terrible home life. What kind of mother would provide her son with all those weapons? So sad.
Connie
Hey Trev,
We need to implement a new class in our schools. One that addresses all of the social shortcomings of every student. When we were in school in the 60's and 70's there was a lot going on. Vietnam, integration etc. Civil commitment was stressed by all facets of our society. It helped to stabilize something that could have beendisasterous. When need to go back to those days.
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