She was held accountable each day for her behavior and academic responsibilities. She was not allowed to go to school looking as though she were going to a strip tease show. I am eager to see if school vouchers will change the face of the public schools. As a retired public school teacher of 40 years, I see very little hope for public schools. College and University research has not helped.
Most new programs are futile.
Teachers are ill prepared to deal with the problems with which they are presented. Unless there is a committment to build a foundation for a child's educational career beginning in kindergarten and first grade, then we need to scrape public funded education as we know it. Children do not survive in our public schools if they do not have the tools for learning by the time they get to second grade. It is failure and trouble for most children if they can't read, write, spell and do math comfortably by the time they enter second grade. Most monies are directed to remediation, not to building a foundation to succeed in life skills.