Hello, This issue has been discussed before, but not at a national level and it should require more attention from those who are or were being educated in the year 2001 through present times. Our national government, specifically the Department of Education, was established to combat the education systems across the globe to achieve greater technological heights mainly in the areas of Mathematics, Science, and Literature, forcing public schools to meet federal standards while failing state standards. Everything single state has dumb down their standards to be equal to federal levels, thus creating an inappropriate intrusion on state and local education systems. Teachers are forced to help every child in the classroom succeed where children refuse to learn. My argument is, It is not the Educators fault if a child refuses to learn about the subjects taught, Education of children should be the responsibility of Local communities individually, and our education system should be based on the needs of our national community, not a global competition to determine who is intelligent. I ask anyone to provide an explanantion, why this situation is being ignored? and why does our society care for those of others in an educational manner when we should focus on our own? Thank you.
yes, dragging a child along even though they do not understand the current grade level is not helping anyone
the government could invest in cheap computer based training that a student that "wanted" to learn could take at home to catch up\refresh or move ahead, that would not cost much and would help a lot
You know, that sounds impressive and doable, but can our current economy support this and how could it be implemented. Schools should have some form of writing classes, calligraphy, in early grades from 3rd - 6th so children can have writing and grammar skills, plus reading comprehension and from there on, we could implement your idea into the higher education system, high schools, while also allowing them to pursue courses related to their career agenda. Is that feasible?
SageV: "My argument is, It is not the Educators fault if a child refuses to learn about the subjects taught, Education of children should be the responsibility of Local communities individually, and our education system should be based on the needs of our national community, not a global competition to determine who is intelligent." Of course not. With the Blame Campaign, teachers because of the union affiliation are one of the few, very few, groups to escape blame for anything. When I went to school, all the students showed up every morning saying, "Oh, please, please, teach us something." Blaming the victim would be embarrassing to most people but comes naturally for the education indsutry's apologists. Personally, I'd repeal NCLB and shut down teachers' unions. I wuold make educating children the priority instead of giving lifetime employment to a bunch of irresponsible non-profesional union goons. My guess is that in a fair system, perhaps 40% of the teachers would be retained and none of the administrators.
it would be cheap in terms of government projects, once they were made could last forever, they could put them up on youtube or something like it, released as public domain
If it costs billions to do and someone will make a lot of money, they should keep the money flowing and force the taxpayers to cough up more money. After all, money for education falls from the sky. No matter what they do, they can't fix stupid. No amount of money will satisfy the educators in the USA, and no amount of tax payer money will shut them up. Just as sure as the next mass killer in the USA will be irish, you can bet the USA's municiple bond market will be the next big bust that will send the USA further into bankrupcy.
