. As a Senior Citizen I am writing to you about General Topic. Greetings: I am concerned that too narrow a view of the options for education is being used. In the past there have been ideas for reform that addressed the need for an adjusted school year; particular in the lower grades. It has been known for many years that skills and information needs be reinforced within a specific length of time or it will not be set in long term memory. That is especially true for children and their studies. Educational psychologists know that the summer vacation is beyond that retention period for most children. That requires One fourth of the next school year is remedial study to reinforce last year's material. Why has that knowledge about memory retention not been used to adjust the school year to negate the loss during summer vacation? With a forty one week session the attitudes, study habits, and knowledge would be more easily maintained. It would also enhance retention of teachers by deleting the need for so many to seek summer jobs to get by. If our most important product truly is our children, teacher pay should reflect it and we would not have to import people with skills needed today to supply industry? For obvious reasons there should be a choice of coed schools or single gender schools. Fewer disruption problems, fewer hormone problems, better learning environment, and better safety. would be the benefit for students and parents who chose single gender schools. better control of class rooms would be possible also. It would not require any more schools and future schools would not have to have double plumbing facilities in most schools, which would be more economically feasible. It is time for real reform, not just throwing money at it and wringing our hands at accountability tests on students who need more individual attention not tests.

“Problem, no motivation to study”
By David H. Marshall






The problem is a motivational problem. You must first realize that there are consequences involved that will be with you for the rest of your life.

Make a list of the ways you think your not studying can and will effect your quality of the rest of your life. Think of the lack of choices you will have In the level of creature comfort you will be able to achieve. That would also include the choices of spouse you could attract. Your financial status would be greatly diminished with a second rate education. Your self esteem will cause you to resent your self, possibly hate yourself for the chances you throw away to better yourself.

It is your choice to become a stump watching trivia and playing video games. You will be the one to pay the consequences for such a choice, and it is a choice simply made by changing, or by doing nothing about your perceived problem with your self.

You as an individual must do this for yourself. It is not necessary to be a study freak to succeed, an adjustment in your time management is needed. Set rules for your self that are not so strict that they have no chance to succeed. A most important rule, is never to break your own rules. The punishment for that is in distrusting yourself and hating yourself for it. You can never get away from your self so the consequences for that are yours for life.

Bottom line; choices you make now are choices you must live with, along with the what those choices bring with them into the rest of your life.
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