Indian billionaire is transforming his country’s dreadful public school system. And getting results, all without a $29 million performing arts center. Last week New York State admitted that only 45% of its high school graduates were “college ready”, a readiness standard that is so low as to be laughable were it not so sad. In Syracuse among hispanic kids, that dropped to 1%. I don’t know what that rate is here in Greenwich, but I’d be surprised if it’s more than 75%, in one of the richest towns in America.
If Indian slum kids are going to be better educated than ours, we should figure out what their teachers are doing and get busy duplicating it, or those kids are going to eat our lunch, peace love and tolerance notwithstanding.
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One of my best friends is a brillant Indian who had his two kids in Greenwich schools for several years. First at Whitby then at Country Day. He loves American schools. He says that Indian schools kill creativity and motivation. The learning is rote and boring and the pressure breaks a lot of students. Here in the US he standards movement and the constant rant for “tougher” schools is missing the point. In my day, American schools were easy. I never had ANY homework until 10th grade, and afterwards not much (at GHS) but I got into Yale. If kids arent learning today its because they spend too much time in front of screens. Boring them to death with “more rigourous” boring stuff and more standardized tests isnt going to help.
…. waiting for the part where we realize that the problem isn’t our schools, curriculae, teachers, or auditoriums, virtually all of which have slowly improved over time
it’s our families and our parents
take away the goddamn video games and junk food, and teach your kids to work their asses off and have fun kicking ass in school and sports, and maybe things will improve
this auditorium with the orchestra pit is laughable
@ greenwich dud, why is it so obvious, but cannot get traction?