A Growing Trend: Young, Liberal and Open to Big Government

[Kane]

And yet it still maintains a better budget than all other departments (relative in size anyways).

[Medius]

[Mo~]

[exploited]

It is better to do both. I value my time at both school and my menial jobs. They both taught me many important things.

[Hyperion]

One semester of hard labor would pretty much motivate kids to take education seriously.

[Homer]

[Winchester]

[Hyperion]

[cool_chick]

Do you see how all those involve technical/right side thinking tho? Not everyone has the aptitude for those topics, some people are more on the creative/humanistic side with regard to aptitude (authors, psychology, etc.).

[Hyperion]

It's mostly a myth that the technical subjects lack creativity. The greatest experiments in physics and chemistry are probably the best display of human creativity in history. I used to be a humanities person (all AP classes for history and English in high school) until I fell in love with science and found it more fulfilling.

I make my students write even more than they do in English class in addition to all of the math, definitions, and logical applications just to demote this idea that the subjects are separate.

American students are far more creative than their peers. They just lack discipline and a culture that values knowledge. Throwing them in for a semester of hard labor would fix that. And repealing 'No Child Left Behind' so that students learn to fail and recover.