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 Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 12:23 pm
Is the educational system in the United States imporving, worsening, stagnate? IS it amazing or sucktastic? Is No Child Left Behind working or failing? Is the SAT actually useful? Is there a better system in another country that we should use rather than our current one?
Discuss. It's a fairly borad topic so it should amuse you deep thinkers for a bit 3nodding
If you are from another country, tell us how the education system works in your country.
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Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 8:50 am
Education system is a joke in the US. Call it favoritism, but I think we should model our schools more after Japan. Sure their schooling is like 80 times more disciplined and difficult than our own, but they're pretty much the most advanced country in the world, and I don't think that is a coincidence. All of this crap about keeping the more advanced kids learning their ABCs with the average/below average kids, and passing kids with failing grades just to make them feel better is totally sick, Trying to keep everyone on the same learning level is just dumb, because you are, at some point, stunting certain people's educational growth. It's like saying everyone can wear the same pants size. We all know for a fact that this is not true. Some people need bigger pants, some people need smaller pants.
First off, what message are you sending to the kids who work hard to get good grades if the kids who got crappy grades get passed just as easily. Also, what kind of educational future are you setting the kids with crappy grades up for if you're prepared to send them off to the next grade without an acceptable knowledge of the material in their current grade. You can't send kids who can't even add and subtract off to the next grade to learn multiplication and division.
What is the point of grades? It's to tell us who has a good knowledge of what they're learning about, and who needs improvement. I happened to think that is is a good system. But what is the point of having grades if you're just going to ignore it and pretend like everyone is equally smart.
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 5:09 pm
I'm inclined to agree. what american students learn in college, european students learn in high school. at least, that's what I'm told. my son is going to a math and technology focused high school, so it's a little better than most in the city I live in now, and the high school I myself went to was focused on science (marine science to be exact), but over all our education system is a bit behind. and the No Child Left Behind is a joke. the $$ thats supposed to go to the schools gets stopped on a state level and *poof* amazingly it's gone. nice idea, but it's not going anywhere.
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