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Originally posted by AnIntellectualRedneck
There are 3 reasons that schools are failing and the kids these days are stupid:
1. They're teaching to the tests rather than actually educating. Their funding and jobs depend upon a set amount of kids passing random tests, and so you can hardly blame them for doing this. These kids remember what they have to in order to pass a test and then forget it. And can you blame them? Because they've been told that the only thing that matters is the test.
2. Look at these graduation requirements: Tennessee graduation requirements And that's Tennessee, folks. They spend so much time on this advanced junk that most of them will never use that the basics completely atrophy. On top of that, they know they're not going to use it, so they just tune out the stuff that they will need right along with the stuff that they won't.
3. The kids and the parents. Despite what everybody seems to want to think, a teenager is still just a kid. Even an 18 year old still needs some parental involvement, let alone a 15 year old. Add onto this that some of these kids are spoiled rotten, a system that seems to do nothing but defend these little brats and punish their victims, and you've got a regular mess.
This isn't a problem that can be blamed on one spot or another. It's a giant mess all the way around, and the problem has many root causes.
Originally posted by Tw0Sides
reply to post by AnIntellectualRedneck
Bring back Disicpline in the schools, from pre-school up.
Teachers spend so much time trying to maintain control, theres no time for teaching.
Schools today are just Day Care with a Theme.
Originally posted by AnIntellectualRedneck
There are 3 reasons that schools are failing and the kids these days are stupid:
1. They're teaching to the tests rather than actually educating. Their funding and jobs depend upon a set amount of kids passing random tests, and so you can hardly blame them for doing this. These kids remember what they have to in order to pass a test and then forget it. And can you blame them? Because they've been told that the only thing that matters is the test.
2. Look at these graduation requirements: Tennessee graduation requirements And that's Tennessee, folks. They spend so much time on this advanced junk that most of them will never use that the basics completely atrophy. On top of that, they know they're not going to use it, so they just tune out the stuff that they will need right along with the stuff that they won't.
3. The kids and the parents. Despite what everybody seems to want to think, a teenager is still just a kid. Even an 18 year old still needs some parental involvement, let alone a 15 year old. Add onto this that some of these kids are spoiled rotten, a system that seems to do nothing but defend these little brats and punish their victims, and you've got a regular mess.
This isn't a problem that can be blamed on one spot or another. It's a giant mess all the way around, and the problem has many root causes.
Originally posted by Tw0Sides
reply to post by AnIntellectualRedneck
Bring back Disicpline in the schools, from pre-school up.
Teachers spend so much time trying to maintain control, theres no time for teaching.
Schools today are just Day Care with a Theme.
Originally posted by NthOther
The schools aren't "failing". They're doing exactly what they were designed to do. If anything, the public school system (at least in the United States, which is all I can speak to) represents a case study in successful social engineering.
Educated people, capable of critical thinking, threaten established power. That power, of course, doesn't want that. So you're not going to get anything else until you take your kids out of that power structure. And then you'll be demonized for doing it.
The system is so transparent, it would be laughable if it wasn't so insulting.