Can anyone who cares, tell me their opinion on what is wrong withour educational system?
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I don't think we're holding our kids to high enough standards. I think kids are getting passed when they really don't deserve it. Just for example, look at some of the spelling and grammar on Yahoo Answers. How did some of these people pass in school?
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I wish the British people would pay for better education. "Surly", is an interesting way to perceive this argument, but I don't think it's the right way, if you want a better country, you need to be taxed. The question is, who to tax? Big Business? The government need them in this country to provide employment. I think it shows that the British still have an aptitude to keep complaining.
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The quality of finish education system is in a bad condition, and Im ashamed of it. Our teaching metods has changed in direction where there is no actual  teaching, but all kinds of childish assiments that you`re supposed to know how to, without any teaching at all. When the course starts, the teachers give a long list of books, and assiments, then they dump the class on their own. All kinds of redigilous group assiments are commonly used too, as the teachers are assuming that pupils will teach pupils, even if no-one of them knows what to do.\n\n Also, In Finland`s higher education circles there is this phenomenal boom of studying abroad.  I`ve seen and heared it what it`s all about: Drinking beer and partying, and in the end delaying the graduation to profession. I think it`s useless waste of time and money. Usually heavy loans are needed when you rent appartment in western europe, and then you end up paying loans the first ten years in case you get a degree and a job someday, which are not by all means written to stars in these days.
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The dumb thing about this is that ALL education is "outcome based".  Even the classic styles suggest that the final OUTCOME will be a productive member of society.\n\nWhile there are some HUGE problems w/ public education, this particular author mixes up so many theories in her conspiracy quest, that she does a disservice to those who want to improve education.\n\nShe bashes on "total quality management" with no understanding of the concept.\n\nShe bashes on "outcome based learning" with no appreciation that not all students are suited to studying latin...and btw they are valuable members of society as well.\n\nI'd love to see education improvement, but it ain't coming from this lackwit.
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I am a grown man,but I remember homework,and I agree that it is not right.The education system is paid to teach our children and kids are required to spend,eight full hours a day of their lives in school.Five days a week,and three quarters of the year.Their time at home should be their FREE time.Tottally unconnected with school and schoolwork.If eight hours a day isn`t enough to teach them,then something is wrong with the system.
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What do you define as "poor performance"?  When you can be specific about the data that supports your allegation, it becomes much easier to find the causes.\n\nBe careful about the sources of your statistical data.  Frequently, they are politically slanted.\n\nWhen we find a way to measure whether a student has been educated to limit of his/her individual ability and not to some arbitrary standard, we will be on our way to determining the success of our educational system.
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If you don't trust the education system, just don't send your kids there... you don't need to cripple/alter the bad system. Let it extinct itself....
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No Child Left Behind is FULL OF IT!!!\n\nIt is unfair to students (how fair would it be to go to the hospital and inform the staff there that every patient, including those in the ICU, will have to run the New York City Marthon in less than 6 months or the hospital will be closed down and the staff won't be able to find jobs elsewhere?), makes teachers and schools the scapegoat for variables out of their control such as parenting issues (student attendance, etc.), and totally ignores most Special Education and ELL best practices research.\n\nAlso, increased testing time reduces instructional time (both the "big" state testing done in the spring, and the constant "data collection" efforts by districts using various assessment instruments in an attempt to provide alternative data if the kids fail state testing).\n\nThe "highly qualified" provisions place burden of proof for knowledge and skills on districts and teachers rather than on teacher prep programs. You would think that the college diploma (and continuing professional development certificates) would be proof of appropriate professional training. If incompetent teachers are there, it is because college programs failed to screen them properly. \n\nThe top cause of teacher burnout is paperwork/administrative stress, not the students. NCLB increases paperwork and administrative demands on the teachers.\n\nSchool administrators are finding their hands tied in regards to building discipline, because NCLB places AYP in jeapordy if there are "too many" office referrals and discipline actions...and the real troublemakers are quick to notice this and abuse it.\n\nWell, I could go on with more examples, but you get the idea.
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yus that's wye aye uze spell-cheque awn evree lettur eye tipe\n\nI really do not believe that you needed the query character because I do not think that you are really asking a question, and certainly not whether anybody is bothered by bad spelling or grammar. \nI think you are, from the way that you phrased your entry, making a statement about your opinion that the education system is failing, and about how this makes you feel. \nI tend to sympathize with you. But surely you realize that the purpose of the education system is not to turn out people who have skills and can  think for themselves. No indeed not. The purpose of any modern education system is first and formost to teach people to sit down and shut up. If that can be accomplished in the first ten to fifteen years then there is a chance that these people can be trained to do simple tasks, and be useful citizens and good voters. In fact, except for an extremely limited need for professional engineers and doctors the rest of the population needs to be able to do little more than tie thier shoe laces and not dribble food down their faces when they eat, and this could be taught in less than six years of schooling. However good citizenship is very much more difficult to instill. It requires the people to be taught to sit down, shut up,do as you are told and believe in what ever the authorities tell you. This my friend is what you should be afraid of, that the education system works too well, that the facility for critical thought is being indoctrinated out of people all over the world (most especially in North America, Untied Kingdom and Australia). It all seems very Orwellian to me but that is the way it all works. Like growing mushrooms.\n\nDoes it bother me, no seems like a good sign, how else are we supposed to be able to compete with two billion starving overseas people who have no education at all.
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The total ignorance of our lawmakers about the importance of education and the educators that make it happen. As a teacher I am disgusted with the lack of monies given to our educational systems and the amount of @#%$&* we as teachers are expected to perform to meet their requirements, yet we are paid chicken feed. I am a single mom and only JUST have my head above water financially and work my toucas off to educate my students. It's a travesty!
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I agree with you.To many much more important things to worry over.\nAlso,home schooling isn't right for everyone but it is for my son.Everyone is entitled to their opinions but no one is entitled to down someones beliefs.
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None of the above. The problem that confronts American Education is the lack of people who are running our Education system at the top level.  I am an educator but refuse to go into the school system of today because of the hyprocracy that it represents. Our American Education system has started slipping about 30 years ago and is, maybe to your surprise, behind that of China, India and elsewhere. American schools have gotten away from the basics of the three Rs.
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From what I am seeing on Yahoo answers a lot of money is wasted on education.
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These are some of the bad effects of Globalization and politicization of the education. Education curriculum and students are easiest to be target by political parties to make their point and score brownie points from different quarters. \n\nNo one understand where is problem with reservations - is it concept or implementation of this. Similarly adding film stories and making maths and English optional to please a strata of the society who votes and pay money to these political parties to gather power. \n\nSo I fully agree with you that education about which boast around all the world is deteriorating and this way we will loose whatever position we have got in world.
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looking at no child left behind... I almost start to wonder if this isn't trying to destroy an already underfunded education system... \n\nWith no public education...the wealthy would be the only ones that could afford to become educated and then keep control of their wealth through that control of education... \n\nah... capitalism at it's best...\n\nDon't you just love how freetyme813 insults basically every American with his rants on public school... almost everyone attends public school and if we're all that "stupid" then why did the majority vote for conservatives?\nTest scores are at all time highs... so if he's calling today's kids dumb... and you graduated a long time ago like I did... then he's calling all of us really dumb....\nI think we all know who the "dumb" one is here...\nSorry we didn't go to private school because our daddy was rich like you apparently did... some of us have to actually work for what we have...
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well i think school systems vary in different states. i always hear about the NY school system where i live, and i think its on the right track right now. also, its a little known fact that the United States has one of the lowest standards of learning in the world. out of the top educated countries(i think about 12) were 10th!!! how embarassing.
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Well, you are right, but money never solved anything.  Actions solve problems. We have to change the educational system from top to bottom.  And to start we need passionate teachers who know how to teach, enough of glorified babysitters.