okay uh Utah has a a good school system where uh
as far as i'm concerned i can't really
see the difficulty uh or any problems that we have other than
they keep saying the ACT scores were a little low
or lower than well we're above above the national average but
they're talking in the newspapers all the time that we're not doing as well as other countries in science and math
which i think there's been an effort to to increase that so
i don't see that there's serious any serious uh problems with our
school systems here in Utah
uh what about Texas
oh i'd say uh we probably have what could could be described as serious problems
uh-huh
from uh
gun toting kids to uh
low grades on the teens test
yeah
they uh
well i hate i hate to hear it
they got a pretty much of a handful of
problems to deal with
huh
where the students are kind of controlling the the schools then in some areas
well i don't know if you could say that but they're uh
are having to uh
put in
metal detectors and
oh boy
security and
yeah that's not good uh i'd hate to teach under those situations
indeed
well well that hasn't got here yet i hope it it doesn't but uh
it i know we're we're starting to have a few gangs here
associated with the schools
yeah that's bad news i tell you they uh
yeah
but that's where it begins i guess
course it always sounds a lot worse than it is i suppose but
uh-huh
but at least uh
i i go into the schools quite a bit in my occupation
the different high schools in the
in the six western states that i
i work in
and uh
generally from what i can see the uh
we don't really have that type of problems in any of the states yet
but i know talking to my uh counterparts back east that they're
they have uh security guards that patrol the hallways and
and that's not a good learning situation if you've got to have policemen there to
keep kids in class and
yeah
so it sound like that's it's kind of getting to that point in Texas in at least where you're at
yeah they uh
i don't know i think they uh
they need to uh
get back to the basics i think we
yes
throwing a lot of money at the problem but it hasn't uh seemed to
do what's necessary yet
um-hum
that's true and i i think that uh
in in our Utah school systems we
we've kind of reversed going from the social classes back to
a lot of the academic classes that uh they feel is necessary
and i think that is that's a good change to
to get back instead of so many uh
off the wall classes that have nothing to do with academic education
you know education
i think learning social interaction is good too but uh i think it has to be a balanced curriculum
uh
yes there does uh you can't uh
go from one extreme to the other and
there there has to be a balance there's got to be both there but i think it should be a little stronger on the academic uh portion
in order to prepare them for the society today with the technology that we have they've
that's right
they've got to have a good math an english background in order to compete
yeah i don't think uh American schools in general are uh
coming up to where they should be
no they're talking about uh in some of the states back here are going two hundred days a year instead of a hundred and eighty i don't know what your school year is there but
they're talking about going to year they're actually testing out we just had it on the news tonight about the uh year round school
um-hum
they go for three months and then take a month off or something
we have a a there's a little of that going on here but it's all in the elementary grades it's not in the upper uh
um-hum
in the secondary area
but i it's there's some test cases to see uh if the students are able to if they don't lose as much uh
they're able to retain more where they're only out for a month instead of three months and they have to go
exactly i think that was the uh thing they mentioned too
uh-huh
so it sounds like uh
in your area and this area too that they're trying to work on the problem that they see as a problem
to correct the some some some of the situations uh
