Unidivisional Educational Mode

Essentially, most schools (except some colleges and private pre-college institutions) expect people to learn in one way, one direction.  Regurgitate information via essay, speech and group project, regardless of one's strengths and weaknesses in such areas.  For instance, I am not a public speaker; I am barely a private speaker, if you care to term it as such.  Written communication is my best mode of communication.  In speech class, my social anxiety (diagnosed) and general introverted personality was not, in any real way, taken into account with my grade.   The same goes with any speeches, group or individual, that I had to give for other classes, especially for other classes really.  Group project communication of data from my end?  Stuttered, usually incomplete, nonsensical and, quite otherwise, out of order.  While I certainly didn't have the motivation to write essays that were pages long on a daily basis, when I did write them, no matter how impromptu, tended to border on greatness.  All of my blogs are written in an impromptu manner, no spell check required, no reorganizing.

I imagine that there were more in my class that were like myself, written word being their strength and spoken word their weakness, just like I know that there were in my class that written word was their weakness and spoken was their strength.  Group projects benefited them more than myself and others like me, no matter how relatively extreme I may have been in my communication bias.

I know in my children's elementary school, there are two teachers per grade.  It would make more sense, in my opinion, to split the children up into groups based on mode of communication strength, where you would be graded (more strongly, at least) in your strong mode while spending time to create ways to develop your weakness so it is passable in more realistic situations.  Obviously, six years old would be too young to have such a system, but I just needed an equal teacher division as an example.  Another obvious counter-point is that some are more in the middle, can do both either equally well or equally poorly.  I realize it would be difficult to split, but isn't that why tutors exist?  Out of school time?  Recess?  Parents?  Split the middle ones as evenly as possible, then have them tutored by older students who went through the same educational course, so they know the struggles and should have an understanding of the techniques to help them correct the deficiency.

While I still wouldn't have done well in school, even with the split due to lack of motivation and challenge of topics (a whole issue by itself), a lot would benefit from such a division.  A motivated version of me would be top of the class in the written division, I would think.  At least, I would certainly be better than the bottom 15% of my class that I was.