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Children, a cnua aoesn i nave to leave school to drop out. Neither does a youngster’s continued attendance at school indicate that he is learning the things we want him to learn.”
Fortunately, there are schools ' which have taken the first critical 1 look at what schools should be 1 attempting to accomplish. The 1 Beloit-Turner Middle School in , Wisconsin was founded on the idea that schools should design 1 programs and budget according to what is known about human 1 development and behavior in children, rather than on what is expedient for a faculty, administration, or community. The program in this school assumes that, “early adolescents need an active, social school environment, where they can be deeply involved in questioning who they are and in exploring the nature of their relationship to every other thing.”
This school considers' that students in the Junior High grades are not ready to confine their study to “separate, highly organized courses”. Rather, the emphasis is on knowledge of immediate relevance to the students which will help them develop individual interest, values, and attitudes. The school is characterized by wide-open space with few walls, learning activities which allow movement of the students and do not confine them to a single desk and classes of various size which meet for differing lengths of time. One student said of the school, “You can’t help but learn more-there are many things to do.” The Beloit-Tumer School, appears to be succeeding in providing a well-rounded program geared to the needs of its’ students. Many public schools and communities, on the other hand, appear to be oblivious to the needs of half their students who will not go to college or who fail to learn basic skills such as reading. Pt Henry Ii$vj«H' pf Sftiftrd University, indicated in a recent article that,“The basic flaw that characterizes an educational system is that if students are not learning in a particular school, there are qo direct incentives to change the situation. Principals and teachers get pay increases on schedule. In short, accountability is a missing ingredient in our schools and must be remedied by an approach that rewards success and penalities failure, just as other organizations do.” The implication seems clear -
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