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[RokofKangnam]

[splok]

I think you'll find that the problems vary incredibly from school to school. I went to a VERY small school and always thought that it could have been much better. There was pretty much one set of classes for everyone, and if you wanted to go to college, you could take a couple of extra math classes (which pretty much stopped at some basic trig). On the other hand, it was free of many of the problems that larger schools have. I see graduation rates in some areas quoted as being 50-60%, and I can barely believe it. What makes those numbers worse is the lack of basic reading and math skills that students are allowed to graduate with in some areas.

The idea of anyone graduating from my school being illiterate is just unthinkable really. It just couldn't have happened. I think the problem is either that there just aren't adequate standards being applied to educational systems and that the funding isn't adequate to properly execute the standards that are in place. It's a complicated problem, but imo education is the last place that should ever be lacking in funding.

Additionally, I think teachers should be far better trained and far better paid. We should have the most capable members of society teaching our children, and their training and wages should reflect that.

[laogaiguk]

[SOOHWA101]

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[SirFink]

[laogaiguk]

[RACETRAITOR]

An American friend of me once referred to wartime Hiroshima and Nagasaki as military installations. I had to explain that I'd just visited Nagasaki and it was a city (which happened to have shipyards or something). He told me it was just what he learnt in school.

There's probably a wide variety in curriculum. Probably if you go to some more liberal schools they'll teach you all about scalphunting and residential schools and Japanese internment camps.

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[Yo!Chingo]

[SuperFly]

I had an opportunity to attend a private American school overseas in Athens back in the 70's & 80's. It was a pleasant surprise to us when we found out that our regular classes in Athens were somewhat more advanced than their equivalent in the Florida (Capitol) public school we attended upon our return to the land of round doorknobs.

Yes, I can remember that far back gdammit.

[Bulsajo]

[going_places]

In my opinion, as a person educated in both the American public school system, one private, as well as state university, there seems to be an overall lacking with regard to the following areas:

1) Low expectations and teachers who want a cushy job with summers off. I was always a curious kid and was never pushed, both my parents worked and I was an only child. Television was my babysitter, best friend and spiritual advisor.

2) Teachers are either scared of teaching, or assume that kids already have, "common sense" in a hopelessly politicly correct climate. Many things become the parents responsibilty to teach by default and parents assume the same of the schools they are sent to. I believe that school, on some level, is a mode of convience for many parents. Critical thinking skills are not generally not taught; and if they are at all, too late in life. I didn't get a solid foundation in logic until taking some Philosophy courses in college that are not always required as Gen Ed.

3) Teachers assume that kids understand grammar.

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[IchiTK]

[dulouz]

The Mexicans filed a lawsuit to a communist judge's court that argued that the USA has to provide an education for every child on the planet regardless of immigration status. They won, and its been nothing but a big flushing sound ever since. Its refered to as "basket case".

We have also spared the rod and spoiled the child. Liberals destroyed the education system as they destroyed The US.