Wasted Time

     I have a theory. I think that we just like to waste time. Every day, I spend from 8:00 to 3:00 in school. I think that time could be significantly reduced. I don't learn enough in science for that to be an entire period and social studies is completely useless. We are studying New Mexico history right now. If you've ever studied the history of New Mexico, then you'd know that there's not much to learn. We don't do very much in language arts either, except learn third grade grammar. I have a computers class completely devoted to wasting time. My point is that we don't need a seven hour school day. It's not necessary. No matter how much we value education, we don't need to learn how the "Indians" (Christopher Columbus was completely justified in calling that) roamed and land and where. There isn't much that happened in New Mexico. 
     I believe that education would be okay if the government wasn't involved. Especially the federal government. When the standards are lowered, people respond. There is a problem now that people aren't being thought the proper amount of material in the lower education. Colleges are having to teach materials that should have been thought in high school. And if it should have been thought in high school, it must be extremely easily because high schools doesn't teach much. But now that Common Core Standards are being brought into our sacred education, the education is spiraling downhill. 
      Currently in language arts, we are reading The Call of the Wild by Jack London and reading articles that connect to it. Today, we read an article on dog packs and it talked about the hierarchy of the dog packs. To understand what hierarchy means, we talked about the hierarchy currently existing in America. We decided on a triangle that looked like this. 

If you have one, two, or all three of these things, then you high on the hierarchy in America. That is just the sad truth. 
     Every week, we read what we are going to "learn" that week. It is usually the same from week to week. I don't think there are enough standards for them to vary it form week to week.
    Here's a link if you want to read a bout dog packs:http://www.laschools.net/cms/lib07/NM01000458/Centricity/Domain/512/Dog%20Pack%20Mentality.pdf