Changing our Schools
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- Oct 13, 2014
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Schools now a days seem to be too focused on helping everyone. Recently a school was instructed by the community to call the kids "purple penguins" because "boys and girls" was not inclusive to transgenders. This is just one of many examples of catering to every single minority and making sure every single person's needs are met, at all times. Now, calling kids "purple penguins" might seem rather silly and dumb, but really that's not a problem for schools or the education of young minds. However, if things like this continue, it may not be long before our entire education system is tailored for minorities.
Say for instance, if a school has no money to fund a support group for dyslexics. To fix the problem, they simply change the curriculum to something that dyslexic kids can keep up with. With this mindset, if everyone can still get the learning done, whether you have dyslexia or not, then what's the problem? In that case, the entire standard of learning gets lowered because educators sought to meet the needs of everyone.
Overall, this effort to meet the needs of every individual will become detrimental to the education of our children. While it is important to meet the needs of the people that need special help, changing the way we treat the majority is not the way. As cold hearted as it sounds, the minority might just need to suck it up if they can't find groups like them to be included in. Because the loss of single person is much better to have than the loss of many.
Say for instance, if a school has no money to fund a support group for dyslexics. To fix the problem, they simply change the curriculum to something that dyslexic kids can keep up with. With this mindset, if everyone can still get the learning done, whether you have dyslexia or not, then what's the problem? In that case, the entire standard of learning gets lowered because educators sought to meet the needs of everyone.
Overall, this effort to meet the needs of every individual will become detrimental to the education of our children. While it is important to meet the needs of the people that need special help, changing the way we treat the majority is not the way. As cold hearted as it sounds, the minority might just need to suck it up if they can't find groups like them to be included in. Because the loss of single person is much better to have than the loss of many.