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One of the questions i asked my interviewees is what kind of classes should be added to school. The interviewee said there should be a class that helps financially. Coincidentally i found another person who thought of that as well. Peter Anderson posted on the web about how everyone has no idea how to maintain the amount of money they have and some adults today don't fully understand how to balance their checks, budget, credit card etc. Anderson posted this: http://www.biblemoneymatters.com/2009/06/should-there-be-mandatory-personal-finance-classes-in-high-schools.html.

In this website a question was posted "What subject not currently studied in school should be included in the curriculum?" This is not a forum however but where people post up essays. Ranging from adding classes such as politics, and how to improve school, the nine people that posted an essay have something to say about the question and schools. They also back up these ideas with personal interaction. The top post, J. Russ, wrote that the lessons learned in school are more important than we think. http://www.helium.com/knowledge/97943-what-subject-not-currently-studied-in-school-should-be-included-in-the

One of my other questions were ways to improve school. A website with a list of ways to improve school by the Texas School Performance Reviews. In nine years, the schools in Texas have made over 3,500 different ways to improve their school. They made a top ten list posted on the web and definitions of how to do this. http://www.window.state.tx.us/tpr/tspr/t9.html
This website really only talks about how to save money and how to make a school last long. I found it interesting that there is no talk about educations but rather the school itself. The "improvements" are more about how to save taxpayers money,

Same question before but with a different website. This is more of an enthusiastic approach on how to improve school. Not just improving school but improving how lessons should be taught, rather then textbook reading, students go outside to study this. Teachers are not just teachers but mentors guiding students every step of the way. Upgrade school supplies and get parents more involved. Sadly enough, even though they have come up with real life examples, this will probably never come true. For instance, some students aren't looking to learn, and some teachers just want to get paid for what they are worth. Some schools don't have enough money to get better techs and our parents would probably complain if they have to help teach a their child when they are paying the school to do so. Anyways, here's the site: http://www.edutopia.org/big-ideas

In my search for my question does school prepare you for real life, i came across the debate between homeschoolers and public school. My initial thoughts were that public school would provide more of a real life situation because of the diversity of the school from every corner of the city. But in this website, the parents are suggesting that home-school kids learn just as much about socializing than kids who goes to public schools. Some homeschooling parents teach a a handful of kids of different ages while teaching them the same topics.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_it_necessary_to_go_to_school_to_experience_real_life

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I decided to go a different direction on my research for a more interesting one. Instead of finding out what types of classes should be added to a school, i want to know exactly what kind of child is society trying to breed? Health is not the issue, though more and more kids today are vulnerable to diseases. I want to know what is everyone looking for in a child, is it discipline? Is it intelligence? Is it a bright future? If parents are looking for these things yet believe that children today are as stupid as ever, then they haven't done their job. If parents are responsible for a childs' outcome, then they need to take a stand and fight for what they believe in. True that they have jobs, but if they don't have time for their children, then they shouldn't complain when they don't know their child well enough. I tried looking online to see what kind of child is society trying to mold us into. Unfortunately, it's not as much of a hot topic as i hoped, so i gathered what i can get:

In this site (http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/21019/teens_our_societys_dangerous_little.html?cat=25) Candida tries to explain our flaws. Societies "selfish, self-serving, egotistical and demanding monsters." In this article, she blames the advancement in modern technology for children today robbing banks, getting raped, underage drinking, etc. And to solve all this problem, the only thing the parents have to say to stop this chaos is "no." I like to see this work. "No," doesn't have much effect as it us to. Nowadays, after a parent disagrees, I would think the child would complain and whine, then go out of their own way to make the parent regret their decision. If that doesn't work, then the child will go about, depending on friends and maybe other relatives to get what they want. It's funny how much smarter children have gotten, even though parents call us idiots.

One popular topic is "how to get your kids to behave." One phrase they use a lot is "guerrilla parenting" techniques which i thought was funny. I found it funny because they refer this name to guerrilla warfare. Basically a small battalion used to fight. Have you ever heard of Sun Tzu, wrote the book art of war? One of the quotes he wrote was something like, fight with a large group, win with a small group. I feel like over the a course of the years, parenting has gone from a battle to a war. Guerrilla parenting is basically when a child acts up, the parent will act differently so to catch the children off guard. Not necessarily the opposite, but different then how one would normally act. (http://www.iftheycanlearn.org/Guerilla-Parenting-Techniques-What-are-they.html)

I found a very funny topic: when should child be exposed of the reality? We are brought up to be good little kids and made examples from imaginary characters like santa claus and other imaginary angel characters. Do we really need an imaginary character to represent the nature of child? I feel that children should be exposed to reality when they have a conscience. If you represent good with a false character then does good only exist in false lies? This is my opinion, this could all be bullshit, but here's the site:(http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23378895-santa-claus-does-not-exist-school-tells-stunned-kids.do)

My new question is what kind of child is society, as a whole, trying to mold? Because everyone knows you can't be a good boy or girl but have "freedom." At least i don't believe that. And everyone is looking for something different in a child. Some parents want profit. Some want happiness, depression for their child. Others want their child to be a hero, remembered, a revolutionary, something big. And parents think they have it hard.

This topic of what kind of person society is trying to imprint in our children is a really big topic but one that cannot be discussed by me alone. And this kind of topic is not only talking about me, but about every children and anyone who considers themselves a child. So gullible at a young age, were ripe for the taken if anyone cared to. To me, society is trying to make us happy and successful when they themselves aren't. Trying to make us the solution to their problems if any. I can't say much because this is what i feel, we are the answer to all of society's problems, but we are also the beginning of another problem. And we as children grown up into adults, will think like our parents, and feel like children are the answer to our future problems.
Schools will ultimate be apart of our lives whether we like it or not. Even if one of us didn't go to school, that person would be affected by everyone around them because everyone else went to school. Schools help us make decision, that's how i feel about school. I don't think they can influence a good life or a bad life upon a student because first off, everyone has their on views on bad and good and secondly, a student can react differently, so if a school were to teach about fighting crimes, the student can rebel against this idea. And its hard to be certain whether school has done a good or bad job on a student. They could have have done what they today without school's help.