Pageant Questions: Education and Schools

Pageant Judges Questions about Schools and the Educational System

• How important do you think education is?


• Should schools be allowed to require drug testing of all students?


• Do you support the recent trend toward teaching explicit sex education in elementary grades? Where would you draw the line?


• Is requiring school uniforms a good way to lessen peer pressure? Do you support it?


• What do you think about the NCLB, the “No Child Left Behind Act” which requires schools to collect data on K-12 students? Is it good policy - or government intrusion?


• Do you believe that schools should have the right to search lockers for drugs and weapons? Explain.


• The book The End of Homework argues that schools should abolish homework and let families spend more time together. Do you agree or disagree and why?


• What is the biggest problem our educational system faces and what can be done about it?


• Do you support laws to require mandatory bilingual education for all students in American schools?


• Are you a supporter of school vouchers?


• Are you familiar with Colin Powell’s recent advocacy for volunteerism to support education of inner city youth? Are you pleased to see him take that stand?


• What is your opinion about the staggering amount of student debt so many students nationwide are facing upon graduation?


• What can we do to make college more affordable to today’s youth?


• Should military recruitment be allowed in American high schools?


• It has been reported that 1/5 of Americans cannot locate the USA on a world map. What has gone wrong with our educational system that our population is that illiterate?


• Do you think it is important that everyone know more than one language?


• Some states support automatic promotion of students to the next grade, “social promotion”, even when they have failed academically. Do you support that or oppose it and why?


• If a child has failed their grade for the third time, why don’t we view it as a failure of the system rather than of the individual child?


• Do you support Title One (vouchers to allow a family to take public funds to let their child attend a private school)?


• What do you think about peer mediation?


• Are vouchers and charter schools the answer to the problem with low student scores?


• Schools are being mandated to add more and more non-educational programs into the curriculum. Where do you stop putting things into the curriculum?


• Do you support pre-K education to be required for all children, even when parents oppose it?


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