Topic: In many countries, schools have severe problems with student behavior. What do you think are the causes of this and what solutions can you suggest?
Answer:
Inadequate student behavior is a growing issue nowadays, in Brazil the cause is related to home environment, teacher's lack of will to teach and specially to government policies. Kids are protected from their mistakes until adulthood, making them unprepared adults for working properly.
In Brazil, the school policies allow the students to advance to next grade even if they weren't good enough. This happens because the government is not willing to spend more money than it should into these students, allowing a bigger share of unprepared students. Sometimes students leave fundamental school not knowing the basics of writing and reading, being able just to write and read their own names. The government does this because when a student leaves fundamental school it's considered as an alphabetized student, decreasing the analphabetism rate of the country.
Furthermore, the students don't respect the teachers as they should, they're protected from their mistakes, for example, if a student until the fourth grade made a mistake on a test, the teacher is not allowed to show the student that the answer was wrong, because the government imposed that this will make the student feel demoralized among others in the classroom. If some student is disrespectful to a teacher and receives back a severe feedback there's a big chance that the teacher will receive a complain from the student's parents.
Today's parents are product of this faulty learning system, and the learning system is one of the most important aspects of a country, this said I believe that the solution would be a policy reformulation, forcing schools to be more rigid with non automatic grade approval and increasing the money investment on learning material and teacher training, allowing only really prepared students to graduate.
Answer:
Inadequate student behavior is a growing issue nowadays, in Brazil the cause is related to home environment, teacher's lack of will to teach and specially to government policies. Kids are protected from their mistakes until adulthood, making them unprepared adults for working properly.
In Brazil, the school policies allow the students to advance to next grade even if they weren't good enough. This happens because the government is not willing to spend more money than it should into these students, allowing a bigger share of unprepared students. Sometimes students leave fundamental school not knowing the basics of writing and reading, being able just to write and read their own names. The government does this because when a student leaves fundamental school it's considered as an alphabetized student, decreasing the analphabetism rate of the country.
Furthermore, the students don't respect the teachers as they should, they're protected from their mistakes, for example, if a student until the fourth grade made a mistake on a test, the teacher is not allowed to show the student that the answer was wrong, because the government imposed that this will make the student feel demoralized among others in the classroom. If some student is disrespectful to a teacher and receives back a severe feedback there's a big chance that the teacher will receive a complain from the student's parents.
Today's parents are product of this faulty learning system, and the learning system is one of the most important aspects of a country, this said I believe that the solution would be a policy reformulation, forcing schools to be more rigid with non automatic grade approval and increasing the money investment on learning material and teacher training, allowing only really prepared students to graduate.
