Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Summary of R oger Sipher's "So that Nobody Has To Go School If They Don't Want To"

Roger Sipher believes that we should abolish compulsory attendance laws in school. These schools are full of children who have no desire to be there anyways and so are antagonistic towards school. Teachers could stop nagging rebellious students and only have to teach the committed students. Students would soon find out they had better learn something or risk flunking out. Roger Sipher points out that education was meant to serve all children, but in doing that, they have failed to provide a good education. Taking away compulsory attendance laws would make education superior.

paraphrase:

Roger Sipher concludes that we should abolish mandatory attendance laws in school. It would be easier for teachers to teach and children would not be distracted by antagonistic children who do not want to be there.

quote:

According to Roger Sipher, a solution to the perceived crisis in education is to, "abolish- compulsory attendance laws and only allow those who are committed to getting an education to attend."