Week Four - Posting Four

I feel like the way we teach children in schools now is overwhelming. We throw so much information at them without actually seeing if they understand the material. I think the students try to remember as much information as they can so that they can regurgitate it to the teacher. We teach our children to be good and better Americans, but what does that really entail? I remember in school everyday before my first class we would say the Pledge of Allegiance, now we cannot even speak about god without worrying about offending other people. What happened to free speech? If parents are not teaching their children the "American way" or morals and ethics of Americans, children are punished in school for behaving badly. There is so much to focus on in school that i do not believe that children now in today's society really think outside of the box (think about other societies and cultures).