TA: Topics on education

1. Availability of scholarships
2. Zero-Tolerance policies (for drugs, violence, etc.)
3. Effects of expulsion and detentions
4. Growing gap between advanced and remedial students - it is in the best interest of the advanced students to widen the gap, but it would benefit remedial students more to bring everyone to a level playing field.
5. Dress codes and uniforms
6. Property taxes to fund public schools creates inequality in the resources available to schools in different areas. Poor kids have fewer opportunities for education.
7. No Child Left Behind - Bush's little pet project that he used to get popular, but he also cut lots of funding to the program. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
8. Hiring coaches that are also teachers, or Hiring teachers that can also coach?
9. Public school libraries: do they have enough resources for high school students?
10. What's more important: Grammar, reading literature, or learning to write well?
11. Should there be logic and philosophy classes at the high school level?
12. There should be more academic options for high school students, like different kinds of sciences, social studies, psychology, etc. so kids can explore their options before college.