How Important is Middle School?

Former lst Lady, Laura Bush, has a great idea. I feel that middle schools should teach trades like welding, electrical, etc. trades, to keep them interested in school. Students should get prepared to be able to get apprentice jobs, when they finish high school. College prep is not for everybody, and these days, many cannot get jobs even with college degrees.

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I beleive that have to much doings in school these kids dont need any thing different the reading, spelling, writing and math( add, subtract, divide, multiply.( These kids dont do well cause to much other gearbage is put on them that more then 90% of the kids will never use. Heck college kids have a rough time getting jobs.
Most of all to many classes and book rental way to high and you don't even get a freakin book like we did in our days I could buy 3 packs of paper and save. We pay a foutain on paper there given we could but it for them which would be cheaper for all parents.
As for lunches Ombama doesnt think kids who are diabetic or have othe nucurial problems can't eat her so called foods. So those who get free are out because 60% of them are free lunches which they can no longer eat!
So now taking away from the elderly to slowly kill them off now there gonna start with our kids. My thoughts my feelings!
And then try to add more work load on top of what they have were gonna have double the kids quiting school becasue of more stupidness be added. Not all kids are equipt with giant brains yet they get treated as if they do!! Oh well what there throwing out to our kids as the saying goes it will turn and hit them back in the face one day!!! Ombama is not thinking of the kids there thinking how much more they can drain us for the extra to put in te white house pockets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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When I first saw the Headline, "Laura Bush Has A New Mission", I immediately thought that she had finally come to her senses and was trying to get rid of "W".

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Good for her, maybe she can finally do something that gives her some meaning other than make excuses for her husband and his fellow douche-bag friends who kinda screwed this nation.
I have always liked her, despite thet fact she was married to Bush.

She is right, the middle school years are the tough years for many kids when it comes to social interaction and their own personal conflicts within themselves.
If you miss the boat in primary school, middle school/junior high are the last shot you have to give those kids direction and some decent abilities to manage themselves.
After high school, they pretty much have it in their heads what and who they "think" they are and the social pressures of "fitting in" become the driving force. (yes many will argue this point) but the numbers bear this out.
anyway, good for her.
She is not as lame as her husband seems to be and was.
again , just a thought

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The most important people in a childs education are their PARENTS.My grandparents came from other countries LEGALLY, I might add. They taught their children to RESPECT their teachers, behave, do their home work and God help you if the teacher had to contact the teacher because you were not holding up your end of the bargin! Today, there are no parents in the home as the government has reduced our young people to breeders. Young unmarried people are rewarded for not being married. If a parent is called by the school, they come with the attitude that right or wrong, their child is right. Head Start, has, not been the help that it was thought to be, children who have not learned what is required in one grade are pushed to the next because thats what the parents want! The only ones to suffer are the children. Teachers are required to be Mothers and Fathers, required to deal with changeled students who are main streamed, to the determent of the rest of the students, who the teachers are trying to teach a lesson plan. Schools are forced to provide breakfast, lunch and in some areas dinner. It is the parents job to care for their offspring, not societies job! Children today have more information about where babies come from, than my generation was and we did not multiply like rabbits. When you reward bad behavior, this is what you get!

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I so agree with Laura Bush. I so admire her. I believe sports, Friday ever-school dances (not evening) and any activity that will allow the kids to let off steam, is so good for this age group. Ub Jr. high, we even did square dancing. It was a blast. Line dancing could be incorporated.

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ALL you folks railing on the first lady and first LADIES in general, how would you folks feel if you were held responsible and given grief about the actions from your husbands or ex husbands when they have screwed up. You wouldn't. So hate the Bush family name, hate GW Bush, but give her some slack folks, just like Michelle, they are wives, not the ones who got elected and they are people and they deserve the right to be themselves and most of them show ,more compassion then most average folks do and they are always in the spotlight, bet most of you wouldn't last a week under daily camera flashes and intense public scutiny.

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The problem isnt too much facts or too much work, it is not enough back up at home, not enough tactile hands on interaction. too many speed crash course and too much based on the results of memory tests not actual application of that knowledge.
loss of counselors and the loss of the physical education requirements and the loss of the arts is why we have so many issus with education,(these things were hands on and made your brain and your hands connect the dots) plus get the money to the teachers and the clasrooms, not the administrative and textbook industries.
Then maybe you would see education become what it once was here. part of the social learning process, not just the reason for more schools to add honors classes that look good on paper, but create students with no sense of originality anfd creative instincts.
Oh yeah, also get the corporate slant out of our schools so that the students can find pride in hard work and things they love, not just the status marketed to them about hugh end education, some folks are willing and happy to do jobs that are not fortune 500 positions and raise a family with pride knowing they work hard at what the like, not what the are told looks good.

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AND ARE THESE MIDDLE SCHOOL KIDS LEGALS IN THE USA....OR DOES THE BUSH FAMILY STILL THINK EVERYONE IS ENTITLED TO AN EDUCATION JUST BECAUSE THEY HAVE MEXICANS IN THE FAMILY.....LAURA, JUST TAKE CARE OF THAT DRUNK YOU MARRIED AND STAY OUT OF THE SCHOOL SYSTEM...YOU TWO HAVE DONE ENOUGH

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Take away tv, gidgets,widgets and phones and get back to basics.
underachievers today have 1 parent, no parents and just dont care.
free lunch, free this, free that - its disgusting. I came from a steel workers family and 1 would never humilate the family name. we had core values and religious beliefs. Kids werent having kids in great numbers back then. Welfare for the truly needy not the illegitimates!!

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Good lord, hasn't that family done enough to destroy this country. Lawrah, stay at home with your cigarettes and bourbon.

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Middle school / junior high is a critical age and time for these young people. They learn increadably fast but are easily distracted. Save for their college education but learn what the middle schools are doing.

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She ought to focus her energies on keeping her husband out of jail and out of the bottle, although she probably doesn't care any more than I do about that.

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I think she is right. That is when my son starting thinking he knew it all and didn't need to apply himself. High school has been pretty much the same until this semester. Thankfully, he is finally starting to understand that school and good grades are important for his future.

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Laura needs to stay home and teach Dubya his letter sounds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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kids keep what they learn more in the middle years than at any time..thats why obama keeps more of his muslim teaching ..they need to learn how to read and learn how to read so they enjoy reading...obama mother had trouble with her heart ins. when she was dying of cancer..i believe thats why hes so against the insurance. co. he wasnt there so he blames the insurance co,

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and you know that peterson cause you have been in ther home and see all of this

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I have one child in middle school, and I don't think middle schools get overlooked in the overall school scheme. In my daughter's school kids are working hard, already having their minds set on getting into the high school that will suit them best. There are all sorts of programs going on that kids can do in order to get ahead, including summer camp programs by a local college. And no, my daughter doesn't go to a fancy private school, far from it.
I think one of the most important things is parent involvement. I work at my younger children's elementary school and see every day how poor parenting is reflected in some of the children's attitudes and behavior. Unfortunately a lot of parents seem to think that they can just dump their kids at school and that their job is done. They're the same parents who don't discipline their kids, and we (school staff) has to deal with the little monsters they created. But don't ask them to help their kids with their homework or attend school functions! No way! They could miss an episode of Jerry Springer!
All this carries over into middle school. If your parents didn't care about your education in elementary school, they won't care in middle school. I found that the schools themselves try their hardest with the few means they have to educate our kids. If Laura Bush decided she'd like to help out, kudos to her!

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