Chapter 5

I just finished reading chapter five of Don Tapsott's book. This chapter talked about the increasing drop outs of high schools and colleges. It also talked about how there is an increase of college graduates since the baby boomers generation. In this chapter i read about how some schools are falling behind in the fast moving technology world. Some schools in the United States still have the same layout and structure as a school would look like one hundred years ago. Studies show that the biggest cause of why kids drop out is because of boredom. The kids become bored and do not have the desire to want to work hard at school. I would have to agree with this statement. School can be really boring. I have many friends who live in St. Louis and instead of having text books like we have they have their own computer that has all the text books on their and thats how they do their homework too. I feel like many more kids would get their homework done then because they are using a device that they know. Also like in the previous chapter we read, if the student gets stumped and can not think then they can get online and play a game for a little while to regenerate ideas. The last thing i want to talk about that i saw in the reading is that the schools are becoming segregated again. Many schools are known as the "white kid's school" or the "black kid's school". Statistics show that schools in urban areas tend to have more drop outs then the suburb schools.