Todays Flawed Education System, What's Your Take?

Learning the material is irrelevant. I was always told by teachers that homework was to re-enforce what you learned in class. I never did homework because I didn't need too, I still got 95's and above on my tests yet got low grades because I didn't do homework.

Meanwhile Joe/Jane Schmoe who copied homework from the class nerd and got 50's and 60's on his/her tests passed.

Honestly, from experience, here'ssome big reasons:

1. The system is built ina way that students don't give a s--- anymore. I took an Algebra 2 class and had some problems there, and when I looked at the grade sheet, there was a time where I had a B and had the highest grade in the whole class, and half the students were failing. There was a general lack of interest into anything but football at my last high school.
2. It's become so results oriented that if you're not coming home withan Honor Roll you're seen as a failure. Given how funding can now be determined from test scores...yeah.

Believe it or not, there was a time where, before the elementary school I had took a big statewide test, we were told that we needed to get great scores in order for the school to receive funding.Need I say more?

ChrisSpartan117

I thought the Bush No-Child-Left-Behind policy gave funding to schools falling behind in academic achievement? I know my high school was ranked top 50th in the nation, but we recieved basically nothing in terms of funding from the government because we didn't 'need' it compared to the schools around us with poorer performance.

Ya need to get new people in the government to change the education system. But year after year its the same type of idiots in government. And in California, I didnt vote for Gavin or Jerry.

This is purely from experience of someone who left the education system last year.

-No Child Left Behind: I love this in theory but in practice it pulls the people who try and want to do good down. They cator to the common demeanor and its just unfair. Seperate people into classes based on performance but don't force me to go at the pace of the crackheads (yes some people came in stoned) and people who simply don't care. It was so bad I started sleeping through the easier classes and STILL getting the best grades.

-Standarised testing: I get it that schools need funding. What I don't get it teaching pointless facts. Who the 35th president was and how to read some scientific charts on an obscure subject matter doesn't help me and has no application in a general education.

I don't know what they can do to fix it but a good start would be to stop the cuts from education. Whoever thinks its a good idea to cut eduation is a moron considering schools are already teaching the test to get more money...

[QUOTE="hakanakumono"]

Sometimes kids don't care because their parents don't care.

greendayR0cks

It makes me sad that I had so many of them so far in High School that it makes me not excited for my Senior year, which is sad.

I'm talking about situations when there are good teachers, that just cant get kids to engage themselves in school. Obviously, if there's a poor teacher then there's a poor teacher. I've had a few bad teachers myself, but I've also had good teachers as well.

It's important to understand that what teachers do teach is often heavily regulated. They have to teach for the tests, they have to teach in whatever style their district is promoting at the moment, they have to teach to state standards, etc. Just because your teachers teach for the SATs doesn't mean they like it.

I don't really understandt he bold though.