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How Important is Middle School?
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Middle school is a pivotal time in a student's education, according to Laura Bush. Credit: Getty Images
According to the Associated Press, Bush feels strongly that middle school is a very important period of a child's education that is not getting enough attention. The program, Middle School Matters, "will develop, implement, test and scale a school transformation model that enables middle schools to achieve their mission of ensuring students have the required academic foundation to successfully complete high school," according to the George W. Bush Presidential Center website.
"We know now from research that a lot of kids that drop out in high school really drop out in middle school," the former first lady tells the AP. "They just leave in high school."
What do you think? How important is middle school?
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ReaderComments (Page 5 of 5)
2-11-2011 @ 8:10PM
Sheryl Banak said...@TONY--NAMECALLING shows ignorance & immaturity.
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2-11-2011 @ 8:19PM
Nancy Toney said...How dare Laura Bush come out now and speak about the importance of education! Why didn't she say something when her husband was cutting funds for educating our youth? Typical uncaring Republican who is now trying to act all concerned. Laura walked around like a Stepford Wife while her husband screwed up our educational system. How dare its importance now, assuming that we all forgot how her husband did nothing but cut funding! She should have said something when Georgey Porgey was ruining edudation for so many!!!!!!
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2-12-2011 @ 8:45AM
Carol said...I think the real problem is, the quality of education in those public elementary schools are not as good as the purochial or religious schools. Pupils learn alot more in those religous schools than in public schools by having more classes/subjects to learn; plus the classrooms are smaller so they get alot more one-to-one attention from their teachers.
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2-12-2011 @ 9:10AM
Carol said...From what I've read from a Reader's Digest magazine decades ago, girls get better grades in a same gender school for all girls than in a coed (boys and girls) school and boys study harder in a same gender school for all boys because they get no help from girls. I remember when I was in high school, it was hard for me to stay focused on my studies because I was too interested in boys. I think there is alot less tension in same gender classrooms than in coed classrooms. Teenagers who are going through puberty (physical changes) are more self conscious than people in any other age group, so this also makes teenagers too conscious about how the opposite gender classmates view them. I also think it is easier for teachers to manage a same gender classroom than a coed classroom. Teaching is a very stressful job with low pay for a bacherol's or master's degree. Especially, with classrooms of teenagers with different personality traits and different cultures. We all have different personality traits, there are no two people with exactly the same personality. I am not a teacher but I do empathize with teachers; they are people too.
2-12-2011 @ 7:33PM
nick said...Laura needs to stay home and teach Dubya his letter sounds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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3-22-2011 @ 11:42PM
Brandi said...I have a middle schooler that I homeschool for that exact reason. the school here offers them a smaller class, intimate setting and yet somehow seem to be oblivious to the children in the class rooms. How?! So i took on the task of home schooling. What a relief. My children love it and they don't miss regular school at all! Unfortunately, not all of the parents in our country have the luxury to choose home school. But, the middle school is like the middle child in the family and they do tend to get overlooked.
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