Yes. Both higher education and the lower education. Obv, the US education system is really bad. It's a not so fun common fact.
Lower Education: Young americans come out of highschool and many of them are total imbeciles. Besides the fact that the system fails to teach them to behave like normal people, have manners, respect the laws and what else not, they also have no clue about the world outside the borders. Most young americans that travel abroad will likely be ridiculed at one point for their lack of general knowledge. The education system is very self centered. Almost as if it's expected that Americans will never travel abroad or come in contact with foreigners. Not to even mention that the education is not free for all. In Europe most countries have almost completely free education. The govenrment will pay for all the services. Commute, books, school meal. The students only have to pay for accessories like notebooks, pens and other not at all expensive stuff. When our kids finish highschool, they are well mannered, respectful, well educated. Some countries like Finland, even pay some kind of salary to the parents to ensure their children have everything they need to provide for their children's education. Also the grading system is completely wrong in the US. Making some students feel like they are worth less than others will divide the children and prevent them from working together.
Higher education: Besides the fact that many can't even afford it (while in Europe it's completely free), many that can afford college drop out before getting their degree. Many reasons. Some just realise they are not cut for the path they chose, some can't afford it any further, some are kicked out because they do something the lower education failed to tell them not to do. But what bothers me most is that of those who do get their degrees, not all of them will get their chance at getting a job. And they are judged by the university or college they finished at. Studying at Harvard doesn't automatically make you more knowledgeable than someone who studied at a small, local university. But they are more privileged. The government should instead ensure everyone gets an equal chance, if they are equally well educated. Also, I should mention that both American and european students choose to have a job while attending higher education, but there is one key difference. American students mostly work to pay for their education, while european students work to pay for their daily live expenses.
Many changes are needed and the govenrment seems to be ignorant about this issue. I'd argue they need young americans uneducated so they can keep their policies. The less americans are aware about the outside world, the more they are ignorant to it, thus allowing the government to continue it's very agressive foreign policy, feeding propaganda through the media, while the clueless americans approve of everything their government does.
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It's really sad that school hasn't changed in forever. The concept is you go to class, get topic material to study the same way as everyone else, get cookie cutter assignments, tests and exams, does not determine anyones strengths or weaknesses, just determines if they succeed or fail in a certain category.
Everyone has different strengths, weaknesses and desires. Not everyone learns verbally and completely zone out in class when the teacher/prof is speaking. Not everyone learns well by reading and when there's reading sessions, they follow along much slower or lose interest. Not everyone learns by doing things hands on. Some people are less physically coordinated than others so giving them a grade based on their performance or "apparent effort" is unfair. Some people would rather learn on their own than listen to lectures, etc.
"If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid." -Albert Einstein-
Another factor is interest level. If you make everyone learn the same thing, not everyone will be as enthusiastic and that also affects learning.
There should be methods to distinguish what people are interested in, assess their psychology and what ways they learn best and make a program based on those findings. People who say "Well we don't have the resources for that" are delusional. Where there's a will there's a way and it's a simpler concept than people think. First week everyone goes through a thorough assessment and then everyone is put into specialist classes fine tuned for a certain category of learning.
Yes, we depend way to heavily on standardized testing. We do not encourage uniqueness and quality learning because of no child left behind idea. Instead of praising hard work, we encourage kids to take easy courses or dumb down tests. If we really want to compete with other countries, we would update our methods on teaching math, science, and foreign languages.
Dunno what they teach in American schools, but worldwide history certainly isn't one of them that's for damn sure.
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But first let me say this, if the parents don't instill a love for education and knowledge for their kids while young then the following mostly won't matter.
#1: First things first. Classrooms in America has too many students in it. A single classroom shouldn't have more than 15 students inside.
#2: Prolong the school year so that teachers can spend more time teaching various subjects and not rush through important subjects.
#3: Raise the salary of teachers who show constantly their students grade and do well.
#4: Invest heavily in early school education. The more kids spend at school especially at a very young stage, it's inevitable they won't reap the rewards of knowledge.
#5: We are living in a new modern era with technology is literally everywhere even in our pockets (smartphones).
Kids now, were born in the digital age, so we have to change and adapt what works and doesn't work for modern-day students to help them stay focused and motivated to help then learn.Honestly in my opinion its not just the US school system I think there needs to be a change worldwide. I personally believe education and creating a system of positive and negative reinforcement related to all kinds of stereotyping need to be implemented starting from elementary school. I also believe that for gender identity and sexual identity I actually think that should be a part of the health classes people take starting in middle school with positive and negative reinforcement as well. Of course there has been a lot of debate about people such as Treyvon Martin and George Floyd in history classes which I can certainly get behind as well. I also think other minority figures from other countries should be taught such as Che Guevara and court cases affecting other minorities in more depth. I also think schools should have an open mic system for kids that want to share their talents and have private rooms kids can use to practice their talents privately to promote expressing feelings and experiences with music which can lower violence if kids have a productive way to get their anger out in most cases. Also I really think finance and investing should be required classes for high schoolers instead of classes like geometry and other useless classes you never use so that way kids can at least start learning how to invest with different strategies at a young age instead of trying to figure it out in college or after college by themselves (apps like Stock Market Simulator are free to use to practice now too). I also think philosophy should be recommended so kids can start having a more open mind early.
Yes. I have two issues with our school system.
1. They seem to have adopted capitalistic qualities (and not the good ones) where they care more about funding, and how to get it, at the cost of the customer. Too often are we told "here's the answer/fact, memorize it for the next test." Rather than helping us improve rationalization or teach us problem-solving skills. Instead, they just want to artificially bolster the rates at which their students score, so they can go to their funders and say "look at how well we're doing, you definitely want to fund us more/not fund somebody else."
2. As a very recent addition, they're beginning to teach things that very large portions of the population firmly disagrees with. For a while they taught things that most, or nearly everyone, agreed on, like math, science, English, etc. But now, since you are legally obligated to send your kid to school, they can disregard nearly half of the population and teach what they want, as if they have the right to raise your kids in a way you didn't consent to. And it's not as simple as just pulling your kids from school, because parents have jobs and other obligations. They can't just on a whim begin homeschooling their children. We have public schools to serve the public, as a government should, not so that half the population can push their ideology onto heavily impressionable children.Absolutely, the education system in the entire western world is absolute garbage. Your wasting many years learning things you do not need so that at the end of spending your entire youth being indoctrinated with one single truth and worldview you can do a starter position because you don't know anything relevant to your career.
Its much better to stop after elementary school and then train on demand, based on what you need to know. You'd learn much quicker, more effective and in a way that fits with you. Specializing right away. 18 year olds could be experts in their field, but only if you train them effectively.darstically,
it should be illigal for social studdy practiceing, and gender shit,
sex ed, its bull shit lies, i was MGM male gential mutilation, its rape, i was a victum, haveing my forskin riped off, and then learning what i lost, i want to fucking kill my self,
but hey pander to religus nut jobs,
and parants that force childrent to go to church or other shit, thats brain washing at its fucking best,
if i have kid, and the kid was trully cureus about what i was doing. then i would tell them,
if they continue on being curius, i would keep going on, but i would never shove relgus shit or crap that schools do onto aa child,
thinking about it pissis me offHell Yea
In my time in the school system it wasn't 'that' bad and it needed reform then. Then I seen the crap my sisters were taught as they were going through the system. Finally, had enough when my daughter was entering High School and I pulled her out of the public school system.
Can't no longer find Music or Art, History keeps getting rewritten, Civics is non existent, no one can divide 2 digit numbers without a calculator, reading / spelling is worse now even though there's more practice (Internet).
Yea, at this point I say gut it and rebuild it
, the system's getting worse and worseUr 14 so I'll keep this pg. I didn't learn doo doo in school. in my opinion they don't teach you things you actually need irl.
Your 14 so it'd be great if you learn whatever you want to on your own. Don't let your schooling get in the way of your education.
Don't worry about college people can go to college anytime in their life, and most really really successful people never had a degree.
School won't teach you about making money. This you do yourself.It just needs to be privatized so it's subjected to the same market competition as any other service. That way different schools will adopt millions of different approaches to teaching, every parent can choose whichever one they think is best for their kids, and in time, the approaches that produce the best outcomes will become more popular and be adopted by other schools.
yea first they care more about money than education and just that should be changed
Absolutely. We need to teach peoole about the country they live in, and be very VERY strict against bad teachers, especially those in elementary who insist on belittling children until they feel worthless. I've heard far too many stories. Including my own.
Yes they should take out all these weird she classes like gender studies. And include classes that actually will be useful in the future.
Such as personal finance, real estate, and investing.
I've seen way too many people wrecklessly throw away their paychecks and wonder why they go broke in the future.There is no "US school system." Schools in the US are run at the local level. And thank god for that! It means that if you screw something up (which happens ALL the time) it doesn't have to impact EVERY single student in the whole country. It also, means that you can observe how all the many different school systems function, which ones do well and which do poorly in all kinds of specific dimensions and you can take the ideas that work and discard the ones that don't.
Yes... Now with indoctrinated curriculum based with (the error of judgment ) (sic) ARTIFICIAL COMMON SENSE , its revolving door to graduate has become the new standard of logic rather than just good ol'e common sense.
Yes the school system needs some changes, however unless parents once again begin to do their part on the home front raising their kids properly nothing will change.
I would like to hope so start educating for cuz they're going to become later on in life I mean in history science they're all important but come on Japan and China and other schools are way more advanced than we are
YES!!! I can write an entire book on it, but I'll just mention that teen suicide rates have multiplied by 3 folds within the last 20 years and depression is on a very sharp rise with teens and young adults.
Since the US keeps falling behind... yes.
Go back to local control in the communitiess instead of the 1970's formation of theFederal "Dept. of Education"
The U. S. has been falling back ever since.Yes. Start with outlawing public sector teachers unions.
Then get the federal federal government out of the education business.to make it more academic and less culutural education then yes
Math, language, Science, and History basics
Let people learn about more in-depth topics in college or as a further study topic.
Forcing US students into social education classes is not correct use of the school systemDo we need to breathe to live?
America is dead last in K-12 education in the developed world. We are actually on Par with 3rd world countries in terms of quality of education.
Cancel culture has taken a deadly toll on education.
Look up how we compare in international ranks via United Nations stats reported by Americans.
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