In hindsight my problem with that school was an inability to articulate feeling exposed and significantly different and, for the first time in my life, outnumbered.
"The problem with these schools is they all want to say they're doing drug testing, but they're not really doing anything I would call drug testing," he said.
Less directly, researchers seemed to suggest (based on their work and, just as often, their experiences) that one problem with high school is the "big box effect:" high school is a giant building full of people with little in common beyond their age.
"The problem with shooting after school is that outdoor light gets a little darker every five minutes," Jonah said.
For me the deeper problem with the prevailing school is its blockheaded literalism, its refusal to address the ineffable, unquantifiable — to use an ancient term, "Dionysian" — aspect of wine.
The problem with school is its design -- they are authoritarian constructs where students have no voice and are forced to seek approval from their oppressors at all times due to the commodity system of grades which impact their future.
Of course, ultimately, the problem with girls' schools is that the real world remains coeducational.
My problem with free schools is that they are an unplanned process of school development that is not related to need in any way.
Robin A. Beach South Dartmouth, Mass., Sept. 12, 2010 To the Editor: Thomas L. Friedman quotes the Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson to the effect that the current problem with our schools is not teacher competence but student apathy.
Guggenheim argues that the main problem with schools is bad teachers; but tenure, built into the unions' contracts, prevents schools from getting rid of them.
