What do you think is the biggest failure in the education system?

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FTnWo · Accepted Answer

I feel like until 12th grade is completed kids are being taught to be obedient and to follow... I think that they should be allowed and encouraged to question everything and taught that a lot of what they are learning is debatable and actually to get the best understanding of something you have to look at everything with your own eyes and do your own research and form your own opinions on things and I say this because of things we are taught like Christopher Columbus discovered America and well anybody that ever thought about it more deeply later in life had to realize that for one I kinda think that if people were here then ol Columbus didn't discover it, actually he just
discovered that an unknown to him occupied land that had been discovered thousand of years previous to his rediscovery was ruled by a people that were still like primitive compared to them and therefore would be easier to steal it from... Columbus didn't discover America however he could be credited with the eventual theft of it along with the thousands that were slaughtered for it.
Anyways they should be encouraged to come up with they're own conclusions of things because just because it's written in a book or taught a certain way especially history and or space doesn't mean it is a fact because first off most of history is learned from texts that was written by the Victor... meaning a lot of what we know about the history of some people and places was rewritten by a foreign invader that ordered the history of the area to be destroyed so it can be rewritten by the winner and manipulated to make themselves sound better and then on top of that some documents have been rewritten by several different folks of several different timelines and who is to say that this or that was left out or added to make it sound better in they're opinion and especially when you realize that their are secret societies out there that like to hide knowledge from the masses because knowledge does equal power and they have wanted to rule over everybody and some of them societies are huge and potentially could have hundreds of thousands of members and have been working a secret agenda for thousands of years and that they could be the ones deciding what is taught and what is hidden away for the masses... they should also make it clear that like especially anything they are learning about that has to do with space is pretty much theory and the same goes for really old ancient history.
And honestly their is a lot more wrong with it to, it's kind of like the justice system as in needs to be taken down to the foundation and rebuilt.

Citizenkirk · Accepted Answer

Standardized education and testing. An individual approach is better.

Bel88 · Accepted Answer

The focus now seems to be on political indoctrination at the expense of the basics, like proper grammar and spelling. The aim seems to be to churn out an army of mindless, communist drones who will do as their government tells them without question. The sad thing is that it seems to be working, as is evidenced by the ready acceptance of the coronavirus death jab.

midnightmoon05 · Accepted Answer

There are a lot of successful systems out there. Which are you referring to?
Some countries are very successful.

Some are not. The failing system has to do with - its not about edcuating kids. Its about controlling a large poplution to follow rules.

RealMarek · Answer

The biggest failure is that it fails to educate. There are many reasons why. Some of the biggest:

Failure to discipline children at school or at home results in tons of wasted time on behavioral problems.

Centralizing and micromanaging the curriculum (Common Core is an example) disempowers teachers and local school boards and makes many teachers hate their jobs. The rigidity of the curriculum also prevents teachers from lowering or raising the difficulty to match what students are prepared for.

Throwing money at school system administrators even when schools are failing while paying teachers poorly results in a toxic combination of failing to attract good people to teaching and success in attracting the worst sort of managerial-class bureaucrats to run the system.

University education departments are rotten to the core and wedded to ideology more than reality. This is why they have pushed nonsense that doesn’t work like Whole Language off and on for decades and stubbornly refuse to use tried and true methods line rote memorization of math facts. The result is ineffective curricula and poor outcomes with real people.

Responding to poor educational performance by “early intervention.” We are trying to force children to learn early before the behavioral problems get unwieldy in third grade. Kids have homework in 1st grade and sometimes in kindergarten now, and recess, play, and phys ed time has been cut back a lot. This is ridiculous and harmful to child development.

Making going to college the sole goal of education while portraying trade schools as the place where stupid people go is very unfortunate and has resulted in an overproduction of college educated people and a lack of skilled labor.

Refusal to segregate students by capability, most remarkably displayed by the idea of “mainstreaming” mentally handicapped kids into regular classrooms, drags the level of teaching down to about the 30th percentile. This makes capable students who cannot get into gifted and talented programs hate school.

Lliam · Answer

1. Children are sponges. They learn automatically. It's what they do. They enjoy it. They also want to please. But throughout history, schools treated children rather abusively and turned learning into a grind. Kids are taught that learning is no fun.

Forcing kids to sit still, remain quiet, not fidget, and not be playful has always been counterproductive. It's necessary to an extent, but the way it is done creates an oppressive atmosphere. And in recent decades, any kid who displays any degree of non conformity, restfulness or playfulness is diagnosed with some sort of abnormality and drugged.

The education system is about molding compliant order followers who don't question or think too far outside the box.

2. One size fits all. Everyone is different. Some are shy, quiet or reserved, some are bookish, some are high spirited and lively.

People are more interested in certain things at different points in their lives. They may learn different things at different rates. So grading every kid in a classroom on their mastery of every subject in the course of one semester can discourage some students and harm their self esteem even if they are actually quite bright.

And people motivated by different teaching styles or incentives.

3. The biggest failure is, schools are about memorizing and regurgitating facts, not about teaching kids HOW to think. They don't teach kids to be curious, to research things on their own, or to pursue their own passions. Creativity is not encouraged.

demonics · Answer

Algebra, Calculus, Trigonometry > Financial, Applied math, Accounting
Art > Shop, Home Ec, Firearms safety and Homeland Defense
Zero tolerance > letting kids defend themselves
English I, II, III, IV > Technical writing
Health > BLS

Switch this ">" to this "<" and you'll produce a much better class of human.

Also:
Take the teachers union out back and &^*@$ it in the face.
Tenure starts at 5 years not two.
Teacher pay is dependent upon performance, y'know like in the real world
Zero tolerance for CRT, BLM, stupid liberal opinions from women who don't have kids but want to "leave their mark on the world."

TallAnon · Answer

Forcing kids to learn too many things they won't care about (like a lot of things in history and literature), while forgoing important topics, like the human rights, how tax works, how to invest, etc.
And way too many tests on those subjects too. Kids have way too much to do, way too much stress.

I'll give you an example, in history classes, I had 2 years just following WW1 and WW2, it was dreadfully boring (I was 14ish). Tell me about Spartans, Vikings, why chainmail was a huge change in warfare, get us interested. Then give us an optional test, there's no need for it to be mandatory. Introduce the topics, but don't force kids.

dustybiker · Answer

Anyone who has been in a school system outside of the US knows how much of an embarrassment US school systems are and in desperate need of overhaul. From the people they hire to ‘fill a spot’ (long list of issues there), lack of fresh content/receptiveness. How far US age groups are behind other countries in the process. Then there is lack of discipline or at least accountability which makes the good kids miserable.

MCheetah · Answer

In the US? The corrupt politicans and school board members who give themselves hefty bonuses and take their children to private school because to them, an entire country of low IQ burger flippers who believe in social justice is more important than not being a piece of sh*t who betrays their own country's youth.

Over here in South Korea, it's the opposite: children do 9-12 hours of schooling a day and become fried and depressed because of it, often leading to suicides.

Oigit · Answer

Lowering standards in order to keep standardized testing grades from falling too far. That and becoming far too political. But parents also carry a lot of responsibility for the major issues in the education system. Because many parents act as of it's the education systems job to raise their children and they are too willing to accept their children's subpar education.

KennethNoisewater · Answer

The easy answer is the education system is what's wrong with the education system. How kids are graded and taught is chicken manure. Does everyone realize all through out school, your grades and how you are judge on how smart you are is based on your memory? Damn near every single subject you are graded on memory. Math, some science, music and art are the exception and a lot of school districts have cut music and art. It's a sad situation.

AdithyaR · Answer

The fact they are reducing the quality of education to decrease the number of failures, instead of trying to improve teaching quality.
Also underpaid teachers, lack of good teachers, lack of good content in syllabus.

This is purely with respect to India.

skyeee_ · Answer

the education itself (jk)
but it is the competition of who gets more grades rather than actually learning the information, also learning information which you won't need at all, and teachers who don't try to explain the information in a better way.

Luopio27 · Answer

Here in Finland, universities have a million dollars worth of video production equipment, while career schools of lower levels dont even have an afobe photoshop instruction manuals. Even then they dare say that our countries edu system is world class and yet support the unfair world.

weysally · Answer

the biggest failure in my opinion has been all this lack of discipline well trained pupils in the art of listening, you can have class rooms with as many as you like, all the problems stem from lack of a little things as, do as your told

motownplayer2000 · Answer

I think our educator don’t really care about the kids learning. Not saying it all of them, or they didn’t have that passion at one point.. however, in my life time I can count on three fingers how many educators were good at teaching and I actually really learned and enjoyed learning in there classroom. The rest, to me, love the technical side of every.. love using the technology and really don’t know how to really teach the kids

ilistengood · Answer

The unwillingness of the system to truly challenge students to do better. In the grades I barely passed, but when I reached college, and had teachers who took an interest in there students, and presented their subject matter in inspiring ways, I became a 4.0 student.

NathanDavis · Answer

the biggest failure with most education systems is the fact that governments will not make it a priority that's why it is neglected and with that, and because of that... all of the issues will prevail

Babygirl_S · Answer

In the Indian system it's definitely rote learning without understanding something. Another thing is the horrible accent of most teachers to the point that you can't understand anything and have to learn from the internet or a tutor. Even in the best schools it's usually only the English teachers who know the correct pronunciation. Most of the things learnt are self-taught.

nawtee_me · Answer

Lack of fear in the eyes of the students... Kids these days think they should have rights, they think they know everything and yet once they graduate they realize they don't have a clue... No life skills at all... No entrepreneurial skills... In this pandemic graduating seniors should have thoughts and ideas on how to make there way in any situation. Including this pandemic. In stead they sit at their parents home waiting for government help or advice from someone else...

Star_88 · Answer

Cram everything word by word which doesn't help much IRL, instead of doing practical exams. They give lots of homework, long lectures but also expect us to cram 6 thick books within 5 months. Only Sunday is off.

Voodoo69 · Answer

Allowing liberals to teach. Allowing teachers to express there political views of there own to OUR children. Allowing warped minded transsexuals to stand in front of our kids and say it’s ok to have a mental disorder.

QuietRunner · Answer

Going away from the teaching of facts for math, language, history, and science.

The introduction of political thought and trying to shape students into what to think instead of how to think is the biggest mistake

Let students decided after the K-12 system. College courses that don't focus on political topics would help too

Non-retributions for thought discussion would help too

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