Universal Secondary Education

[del]

I must admit that I am satisfied with the comments that all of you all made on the subject. They are very informative and I also believe that we should share some of these ideas with the policy makers as well.

I just want to add a view of my views as well.
Like everyone said some of the students are benefiting some are not.
Most of the teachers are not prepared to handle the students and like Ms Polius said, they believe that they were hired just to teach their subject area.
In an effort to try to solve the problem; teachers should try to teach the vocabulary that the students need in order for them to excel in the subject area. Furthermore, I propose the idea that all the teachers at the schools should be take the course EDCL.
Moreover, there should be a curriculum that addresses the students needs not one for the students.
Lastly, the schools should try to put in place more technical subjects for the students who are linguistically or logically competent.

[del]

I must admit that I am satisfied with the comments that all of you all made on the subject. They are very informative and I also believe that we should share some of these ideas with the policy makers as well.

I just want to add a view of my views as well.
Like everyone said some of the students are benefiting some are not.
Most of the teachers are not prepared to handle the students and like Ms Polius said, they believe that they were hired just to teach their subject area.
In an effort to try to solve the problem; teachers should try to teach the vocabulary that the students need in order for them to excel in the subject area. Furthermore, I propose the idea that all the teachers at the schools should be take the course EDCL.
Moreover, there should be a curriculum that addresses the students needs not one for the students.
Lastly, the schools should try to put in place more technical subjects for the students who are linguistically or logically competent.

[marci]

I have to agreee with the comments that were made about universal secondary education. One point that keep coming up is that teachers are not trained to meet the needs of those students who are really lagging behind.USE therefore seem to be failing dismally in meeting it's main objective,NO CHILD WILL BE LEFT BEHIND, ALL STUDENTS WILL BE GIVEN A CHANCE TO SUCCEED.
I say this because, the very students that the program was suppose to help are the ones getting hurt. Before implementing the program government should have trained a number of special education teachers. These teachers would then be posted at the various secondary schools tro help students reach their full potential.

[kami]

I do believe that USE has its benefits...so many individuals are now able to get acess to this education and free of cost but on the downside USE does not always cater to the different learning needs ..we are not all scholars some of us are prone to the arts, technical/vocational training, we need to now reform the USE so all learner can be trained in the field they much prefer than go 5 years of doing subjects they cannot relate to

[velveti]

I applaud the government for this move, but my view is this USE was not orchestrated with the intention on focusing on the needs of those students who are part of this program. In my view what should be done is to to implement a Universal Secondary Skills Education. What I am trying to say is that those students should be encouraged to learn skills that will enable them to gain a living from that skill. The academic learning should be complimented with hands on experience learning. Most of those students left primary school unable to read and write properly,instead of being introduced to learning things they can relate to,they are being bombarded with the traditional classroom agendas. Most of those students (especially the males) are more interested in earning a salary than learning at school. This is so because they are vending all kinds of stuff on the very school compound! So it would be an even wiser move to engaged those students in some serious life skill that they can earn a living on upon leaving school, so they will not be aimless wanderers on the streets with no skills, or education and having completed this U.S.E.

[dessa]

as mentioned by most of the students I believe that there are both advantages and disadvantages with the introduction of Universal secondary school education.
However i believe the disadvantages out way the benefits ThereforeI urge thoes in authority who can make a difference to end this. As millie rightly stated some students just do not have the preresquisit to move on to a higher level, as a result they will become frustrated and will eventually give up. Secondly teachers are not adequately trained to teach these students. additionally i feel that parents are wasting the moneies that "don't have" on trying to force students to be academic when theycould have used this money to help their develop some skills etc.

[crianth]

Universal Education can give slower students an opportunity to improve, this enables technical students with an opportunity to learn a skill. Teachers will be face with problems such as aiding slow readers and encouraging students to participate and stir their interest. Implementing reading in content areas, using various strategies and activities and also getting to know students by knowing how best they learn will curb these problems.