The Politics Test

[The Former DMiller]

But yes, I totally understand where you're coming from but it seriously is bullshit. You're trying to fix the car by washing it, follow? you need to attack the real issue and not try to dance around it. Parents are teachers, parents are the only teachers, if your kid cant learn from you, he's going to have issues

Schools do not work at all, everyone knows this, unless the student is willing to learn of course, which is destroyed as soon as you try and force it. Forcing it does not work, making it a law to enforce the forcing does not work. Just because adults were able to force you as a child in to completing tasks and now after your subsequent brainwashing you 'love math' when in reality you love the attention it gets you as others around you fail at grasping the mathmatical and so you use it as a WEAPON to combat SOCIETY because of your personal DOWNFALLS, such as your MEATLESS LEGS, WHERE ARE MY GUNSHIPS? FIRE AT WILL

No, lazy, I now love math because discovering it on my own led me to find things that I hadn't been taught in high school, and I found math was actually a much deeper subject than I thought. It's true that students don't learn if they don't have the will too, but who says that parents will be able to convince unwilling kids to learn? A lot of families do have "issues" so are these kids who come from difficult homes going to be put at an even larger disadvantage because their parents can't teach them? Teachers learn ways to try and convince children to learn, and forcing learning is definitely not one of the successful methods. Positive encouragement for even small accomplishments can help a lot for struggling or unwilling learners. I have one student in my lower-level algebra class who failed algebra last semester because his previous teacher gave up on him when the student stopped turning in work. In my class he is my strongest student because I keep encouraging him and it convinced him to come in for extra help when he needs it. He is now getting about a 98% in my class. You said "making it a law to enforce the forcing does not work" but isn't that exactly what your idea is doing? Don't think I'm supporting NCLB since it is mostly a crock of shit and does a lot more harm than good, but your idea seems to not only be forcing kids to learn, but forcing parents to learn how to teach.