The ever changing opportunities in school.

Hawaii is expanding its preschool education program to encourage and assist low income families to send their children to preschool. A child who enters kindergarten without first attending preschool may not have the proper knowledge for success in school, and may be less likely to have the necessary social and behavioral skills. This can slow down academic progress in the classroom, impacting all students. A study quoted in the legislation showed that 60 percent of kindergarten classes in Hawaii had a majority of students who were unprepared for school. In addition, the Hawaii State School Readiness Assessment indicated that fewer than 60 percent of kindergarten students had attended preschool. Before this bill was signed, Hawaii was one of 11 states without a government-funded preschool program. Eleven out of fifty is not exactly a good ratio. In my opinion that is a bad thing. Eleven out of fifty is below fifty percent,below half, and in school  below a 60 is failing. So to me the government is failing our students.

The average family in Hawaii pays 640$ a month to send a child to preschool. The "Preschool Open Doors" program provides approximately 6 million dollars to help pay for approximately 900 to 1,000 children to attend preschool in 2014. This amount is less than the original proposed amount of 32 million dollars, which would have provided funding for approximately 3,500 students. this program will help participating parents who enroll their children in any licensed preschool program in Hawaii. In my opinion that is sad. The future of our nation rest's on the shoulders of these young children, and they made major cutbacks on the allowed budget? It just doesn't seem right.

Governor Abercrombie, governor of Hawaii, remains optimistic about the future of state-funded preschool education in Hawaii. Last year, he established the Executive office on Early Learning with the hope to begin a program that would provide publicly funded universal preschool in Hawaii. This was only the first move in what looks to be an ongoing effort to increase public access to preschool. This leads me to believe that even though the government is making budget cuts there are people out there working to better our education program, and that there is hope for the ,bright young, youth of America. 

http://www.educationinamerica.com/blog/hawaii-expands-preschool-opportunities/

Current Connection 1.1

What is different between education in the past and education in the now?

A few differences are known. For example increased knowledge, and constant increasing complexity and quality of materials. There are also many more. Did you know that the issues involved with student behavior are totally different now than they were in the past. 50 years ago, the most common behavior problems were talking and chewing gum in class. Students respected their teachers and obeyed them and the rules. if they didn't respect the teacher, they at least showed them respect. There was the occasional fight, but nothing that was not handled quickly and effectively. Standing in corners, missing recess and spanking were acceptable punishments. Now, behavioral issues can involve almost anything from showing teachers disrespect to the most dreaded of all, school shootings. In my opinion this all started well the rules got soft, and parents started spoiling there children. Also it could be caused by them not disciplining their children. If you do something wrong but you aren't told it was wrong then whats to stop you from doing it again?

Schools were smaller back then, so parents usually knew the teachers. Curriculum was focused on academic subjects like reading, writing, arithmetic, science, etc. Formal sex education was nonexistent in schools. Prayer was allowed without questioning that it was "unconstitutional." in fact, when schools were first organized,  the Mcguffy Readers that were used contained scriptures from the Bible. "Zero Tolerance" was unheard of in the past. There are so many classes that a student can take now that they barely have time for the time to focus on there more important classes, and if they don't do the work for their non required classes they still get into trouble.

The school year was also shorter back then. The year started after Labor Day and ended the last of May. There were no choices for lunch. we ate the one meal that was prepared or just did not eat. There were no vending machines in schools. This is part of the reason why i believe that the children of today are so obese. They have access to food all the time therefore they almost are always eating.

There are indefinably more differences,relativley short ones, but that is just a few of them.


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