Is our education system failing the country or are the people simply failing themselves?

People send their kids off glad to get rid of them for the day expecting teachers to just saw off the top of their heads and program their brains magically. They don't want to work for their education, they want it handed down like the rest of the free stuff that they get.

Teachers are not allowed to hold students back a grade anymore (or at least it takes an act of congress or something.) because it makes the school look bad. They cannot reward the better performing students. We have to keep the violent and disruptive kids in school because it is their "right" to an education.

I say: flush public education. Cut the school taxes (probably have to cut some other things in there too, but work it out people) so that people can pay for private education. And you know what? If the student chooses not to perform, they won't get the grade there. If they disrupt another paying student, then the disrupting student gets expelled. OMG! Accountability! The wonders of a little accountability!
 
Go spend a day in the life of a teacher. There is very little funding and support. They can bring the education to the student, but the individual moral and personal beliefs will dictate what they do with the information. We have legislated the teachers ability to influences personal belief out of the class room, so who is to blame for the failure of education?
 
BOTH. but it is the kids and parents more than the teachers, but they are falling short also. look at our international test scores by comparison.
 
They are interrelated. The education system teaches victimization which leads to a lack of trying, afterall its everyone elses fault.
 
The government. Sorry, but Bush put us on this 'No Child Left Behind' crap but what did the government do: bailed out the f-in automakers and left our kids and teachers out to dry.

How can you institute a grading scale of a school when the budgets aren't given enough allowance for the teacher salary and good materials? I don't know about anyone else but the first thing you see when in a recession is how the EDUCATION system is one of the first areas to take a budget crunch.

If they'd of given 100k to each school in America, our teachers could provide better materials to the students and maybe the kids would be able to learn more and find a way to reduce the effects of recession periods.

I had FOUR schools in our area (already overcrowded and underfunded) close down...but we're building a new town hall, new library, and the mayors drive high dollar show room cars? Seems to me like THEY should have to take an upaid furlow and donate their paychecks to the schools.
 
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