My Ideal School

"If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education"- Thomas Jefferson.

This quote implies that there is no freedom without education which is what I honestly believe. One of the most important sources of education come from what we learn in school. If the children do not get proper schooling, how can this apply to them? If I were principal of a high school, and were given the opportunity to develop the students' curriculum, rules of behaviour and criteria for promotion, I would do everything as fairly as possible, so nothing is prejudiced against anyone. In the following paragraphs, I have given my recommendations about what I think would make a good school system.

Before I try to change the attitudes of my students, I would make sure that I have a competent, cooperartive, yet a caring team of teachers who have a good background and record of teaching in their subjects. They will need to have the ability to change teaching based on what does and does not work in the class. They should be open-minded, tolerant and patient. They will need to be able to handle any situation they encounter

with confidence. They will be perfect role models.

These students will be the leaders of tomorrow. They will be our future teachers, doctors, nurses, lawyers and maybe even our prime ministers. Whatever they turn out to be, they should be kind, gentle, hardworking people who don't make the same mistakes that some people from our past generations have made/ We need them to be as best as they can be, and I feel that with the proper schooling methods, like I have provided in the paragraphs above, and of course their own motivation, they can be just that.

The criteria for promotion would be very straightforward. The students would be required to complete the necessary courses with passing grades in all subjects. They should also have a fairly good attendance record. For those students who do not meet the school's promotion criteria in June will be required to attend summer school where they can receive instruction in whatever subject they had failed. In August, they would be retested and- if they meet the criteria- be promoted.

What I need to take into account when I develop the curriculum is that everyone is different, having different interests and personalities. Not everyone dreams