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I was part of the guinea pig group who's been screwed by this curriculum... so let me give my thoughts.
There's only ONE problem with the new curriculum. And that's that the government didn't implement it starting at the beginning and let the kids already halfway through the old system work their way through. Instead they just started it up and gave a big "FUCK YOU" to the kids who weren't properly prepared for the new curriculum the way elementary school students currently are. 1 hour of homework per class a night isn't a problem... what IS a problem is that most elementary schools had a "no homework" policy. And then in Grd 7 and 8 there were no measures taken to teach kids proper study and work habits, homework skills weren't really important, just make sure you do well on the tests and you'd be fine. Then in grd 9 The new curriculum hit with it's 4+ hours of homework a night, and many kids just couldn't teach themselves how to work with it on time. That was my problem... I simply didn't have the work skills required to do well in school. (that, plus I really don't give a damn, 90% of what you learn in school will never be put into practise in the real world)
It's NOT the parents fault, in many cases they're forced to work to 5 or 6 every night just so they can pay the bills and keep food on the table and between the hours of 3 and 6, kids can get into a lot of shit. And since schools aren't able to run proper after-school programs anymore, many of those kids end up smoking weed and playing video games rather than doing work or something else constructive. And if parents ask about school work "Oh, I did it all before 5 Mom." And if the parents don't believe that you did it, just pull out some old work and pretend it's new... it's not hard to get around doing homework and there's not much parents can do about it if the kid really doesn't care.
It's NOT the teacher's fault... there have always been, and always will be bad teachers. Shrug, that's life, learn to work around it. Likewise, there will always be and always have been bad managers, and other superiors in jobs... don't expect different from a school.
It's NOT the new curriculum's fault... it really isn't that hard... if I had put even a minimal ammount of effort into my schooling I'd have easily achieved a high 80's average and if I really worked at it a mid-90's.
It IS the government's fault for implementing the new curriculum the way they did. It was a load of BS and screwed over thousands of kids who now have to put their lives on hold while they catch up.
Now... You seem to think the whole article is a "boo hoo" story... if that were true it would be a lot of bitching with no evidence to back up the opinion that there is a problem. But the numbers are there proving that there is a problem with how the new curriculum was put into place... unfortunately no one's smart enough to realise the problem isn't the curriculum or under-funding... it was simply the way it was implemented. And there's nothing that can be done to fix the problem right now, the only thing that will stop the mass drop-outs is time, because eventually the elementary kids are going to enter high school and succeed, because they're being properly prepared for it. What they need now is something for the drop-outs to get their lives back on track.
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