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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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