It's a complex issue, and won't be readily resolved with all the partisan rhetoric and snark.
Oh, the irony!
Scary Stuff
by Farkel 93 Replies latest jw friends
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ohiocowboy
Schools today seem to be nothing more than a babysitting service. Teachers nowadays are most often forced to stick to a pre-approved, overly politically correct curriculum, and any deviation usually results in termination.
Yesterday's teachers challenged kids and got them to think, today's teachers are generally not allowed to use their own creativity to reach their students or make learning fun for them, leading to boredom and lack of interest. Striving for excellence means nothing in much of today's education system, they only care about teaching kids the absolute basics. The Government does not want schools to create inventive thinkers, they would rather create dull, mindless, easily controlled sheep who do as they are told.
Of course there are exceptions, but in general, especially in Public Schools, the above holds true. I feel sorry for the kids who really want to excell in today's world, it must be incredibly difficult for them.
Hats off to the Parents who decide to home school their kids!
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jgnat
The school system failed me, and I'm a bright one! I learned to read from Nelson's West Indian Readers before I returned to Canada at age eight. My North American contemporaries could not read.
http://www.ted.com/topics/education
P.S. My granddaughter is turning out all right. She's attended french immersion. Her math education is superior to mine and to my great joy, is a great reader.
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Resistance is Futile
Studies have shown that younger people are actually smarter than previous generations, as demonstrated by the rise in IQ scores over the last few decades.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=will-we-keep-getting-smarter-flynn-effect-says-yes
There is also currently a higher percentage of educated Americans than at any other point in U.S. history. As measured by the percentage of Americans with four year college degrees.
http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/education/cb12-33.html
"In March 2011, for the first time ever, more than 30 percent of U.S. adults 25 and older had at least a bachelor's degree, the U.S. Census Bureau reported today. As recently as 1998, fewer than one-quarter of people this age had this level of education".
If we're serious about stressing the importance of education, than we need to be giving more respect to the teaching profession, not less. Bashing teachers by calling them "bottom of the barrel" is absurdly counterproductive. We need a cultural shift, one that raises the value of educators and their extremely important profession. And for the record, I am not a teacher.
We also might not want to alienate the younger generation too much by insinuating that they're less intelligent than we are. Especially if the evidence points to the opposite being true. After all, we are talking about a future generation of voters.
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Satans little helper
Um....what about your Right to Bear Arms?
The right to bear arms is the second amendment. One of the original bill of rights is right to freedom of religion.
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hamsterbait
It IS NOT THE JOB OF THE GOVERNMENT TO PROVIDE YOUR KIDS WITH EDUCATION.
Socialised education is as bad for democracy as socialised medicine.
Teach your own kids, if you cannot afford to pay a GOOD teacher. Same with a doctor - you cant pay one: that is NOT the Governments problem.
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garyneal
The problem is that ignorance, and its parochial view, is a breeding ground for bigotry, racism, mysogyny and many more of societies ills. Education is what combats such evils.
A poorly educated society is easily led by any charismatic charlatan, or would be Dictator. Ignorance is the road to Totalitarianism, we should not make light of the the younger generations lack of education.
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Aunt Fancy
LongHairGal, cursive has stopped in many areas. I was writing a note in the office and my grandkids (at the time they were 8 & 11) said they couldn't understand some of it and I was shocked. I said you never write cursive and they said no. My sister is a teacher in the same school district so I text her to see what was going on and she said they don't have time to teach it any longer because there are too many other things they need. My grandmother would roll over in her grave because she was a 4th grade teacher and that was her pet peeve. She had beautiful penmanship and wanted us to write beautiful like her too.
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Aunt Fancy
Also my grandkids are both straight A students and one will be in advance classes this year and the other in the National Honor Society so it wasn't because they weren't aware.
I see a lot of problems with our education system, parents not involved or deciplining their children then sending them to school for the teacher to take care of, teachers that aren't allowed to really teach because they have all of these tests and reports that they are required to do, unions that protect bad teachers, underpaid teachers so it does not attract some of the really good teachers that go into other fields because of the pay. I also think children learn differently than we did because of the computer age. I know my husband and I were talking about how we are always going to our I Pads or I Phones every time we want to know a fact but when we were kids we had to go to the library.
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never a jw
Gary Neal,
The video strated well, but ended disappointingly. C'mon. Yes, big business owners have greater influence over politicians. Taller basketball player have also an advantage over shorter ones, and use it too. What do you expect? But to jump from this thought to the idea that business owners "own you" and want you to fail in school. Please.
Who is this cartoonish old man? A Neo-marxist?