Posted on 01/07/2012 2:24:22 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Comparatively speaking, the United States does not starve its education system of revenue. The U.S. is one of the leaders in spending on Education, and yet it's schools are rated "average" by international bodies.
The three-yearly OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) report, which compares the knowledge and skills of 15-year-olds in 70 countries around the world, ranked the United States 14th out of 34 OECD countries for reading skills, 17th for science and a below-average 25th for mathematics.
Worse, out of 34 OECD countries, only 8 have a lower high school graduation rate. The United States' education outcomes most resemble Poland's, a nation that spends less than half on education than the U.S.
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Correct. Get rid of our Socialist Public Schools. Get the Government and the Taxpayer out of the schooling business. Pay for your own children.
I agree with others that it has mainly to do with degradation of the family, and thinking of it as a daycare.
If a student is not too bright with parents who care about their education, they will be trying their best and likely pass regardless.
If a student is very bright but whose parent(s) couldn’t care less about their education, they themselves will start to not care.
teachers unions
This is a good posting, because we can see just how fractured the opinion is on this. So far we have the following:
1) One clown blaming the curriculum
2) Next is the NEA
3) Next is the parents
4) Next are laws requiring that brats stay in class
5) Then comes social indoctrination
6) Followed by political correctness
7) The drive for equal results
8) Followed by lack of school choice
9) Federal/State regulations
10) Special ed costs
11) Excessive overhead
12) Teachers (finally, someone getting close)
13) Socialist (i.e., government-run) Public Schools (good answer too)
Unions seem to be the favorite
Thomas Sowell compared our education system with a Hydra. It’s multi-headed and each time you cut off a head, it grows right back and also grows an additional one.
WHAT ARE CALL TEACHERS ARE NO MORE THAN COMMUNIST BRAINWASHERING BABYSITTERS!
Pet peeve:
American journalists refering to things American as “its”.
America is an “ours”, not “its”.
/rant off
Other countries administer a sound whipping to the bad kids. We let them run the schools.
From the trenches.
I agree....lots of reasons.
For example: We have students who live several miles from our district and yet we are required by federal law (McKinney-Vento) to pay for a taxi cab to deliver and return them daily to their home. They lost their home in the district so moved in with a relative. The law gives them the right to demand a ride to our school though there are some in their new neighborhood.
We had a handicapped student whose parents demanded a lift that would take their son up and down a stairwell (old building). The basement was a locker room and small gym. He was too disabled to use either and only rode it once. Thousands of dollars. “Special Education” is incredibly expensive. Private schools aren’t required to have it.
I have students who are “shadowed” by a single adult as they move through the day.
Only the beginning. I could go on and on. Government mandates in all areas have impacted schools greatly.
Teachers unions.
My formerly homeschooled daughter is in 8th grade. She is doing well. Her art teacher recently contacted parents to tell them:
I am ......, your student’s art teacher this year. In the last weeks of the quarter your student’s are exploring graffiti in the fine arts. They have chosen a concept (Folk Epigraphy, Art, Tagging) for this project and are developing a piece of work that reflect this. Student may use any material/medium to do this project. Your students have decided to work with spray paint. Because I cannot use spray paint in school your student will be doing this project at home. It will be due on the day of the 19th.
I wanted to touch base with you to let you know this is in fact a project, and they are not buying/asking for spray paint to vandalize something :) If you have any questions please feel free to contact me.
Thank you!
I cannot begin to tell you how disappointed I am at the low expectations ... and waste of time this is.
Because we teach children to socialize instead of giving them independent thinking skills. Not to mention trying point them toward sexuality far too soon and confusing them about the difference between men and women. We are creating all the wrong obsessions with all the liberal propaganda.
Teach crap, get crap for results. Any questions?
the shols are fine
it’s the kids’ dysfunctional families that suck
The increased spending must stop. Those urban schools will not get any better given their students' backgrounds.
Every comment here is correct. Our schools are failing due to unions, low standards, idiotic fad teaching methods, poorly-educated teachers, decreasing parental involvement and too much time spent on social indoctrination.
Not to mention that the lunches suck.
'If America Spends More Than Most Countries Per Student,Simple answer:
Then Why Are Its Schools So Bad?'
Because there's little to no connection between amount of money spent and the quality of education?
yes, I went to public schol
or was it skewl?
You forget about “No Child Left Behind”. Even before the passage of that, school districts would get problems if the performance of white students was too much higher than the performance of minority students. Raising performance of minority students is hard. Crippling performance of white students is easier.
“I cannot begin to tell you how disappointed I am at the low expectations ... and waste of time this is.”
One of my kid’s teachers, I think in 4th grade was a bird watcher. Many, many, field trips. My kid could literally name every bird in Southeast Texas. Fortunately we only used school for daycare, we took care of educating him (and the others), and he was about 6 years ahead of his grade level by then (which doesn’t mean that much, as grade levels are so watered-down now).
But I did feel sorry for the other parents, who must have felt just like you. And this was a Christian School - and believe me they’ve been brought down (at least some of them) by the demise of the public schools.
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