American Public Education is Failing...and Getting Worse Every Year

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

A woman in Mobile, AL was recorded by one of her children absolutely beating the crap out of her 12 yo son. First on the butt with a belt some 20 times, then pulled him up by the hair, then beat him across the arms.

She was arrested and fired from her PRIVATE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL where she taught 2nd grade

Anecdotal stories don't change anything.

 

[Jarlaxle]

The only schools I see turning out good students are Montessori's. The public schools are all failing in northern Nevada.

The only question is how badly.

Don't bother. The midshipman has a personal stake in gorging at the trough. Therefore, he will never suggest ANYTHING that might interfere with the next bucket of slops.

A woman in Mobile, AL was recorded by one of her children absolutely beating the crap out of her 12 yo son. First on the butt with a belt some 20 times, then pulled him up by the hair, then beat him across the arms.

She was arrested and fired from her PRIVATE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL where she taught 2nd grade

She should be nailed to a cross. Her children should probably be sterilized.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Trying to make it racist? You pathetic loser. There are plenty of small schools in blue areas that do well.

Like I said, if the parents are involved, preventing your propaganda from being pushed on kids, they do alright.

How is red vs. blue racist? You taking lessons from IM2?

Lay off the drugs while posting. It will help!

 

[Unkotare]

... (don't blame Covid - that's just a lame excuse)...

As usual, you don't know what the **** you're talking about.

 

[Unkotare]

... more people care about the record of the school's ******* football team than their test scores.
...

Bullshit - again.

 

[Unkotare]

...Two-income households, where the parents can't be bothered to play an active role in their children's education. The cornucopia of extra-curricular activities that take the focus away from learning. Cultural rot, especially in the Black and Hispanic communities.
...

You have no ******* idea what you're talking about X3

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

You have no ******* idea what you're talking about X3

He is just channeling his inner bigotry.

 

[Captain Caveman]

MSN

I apologize for the length of this article, but it is a good explanation of how bad our public education is, when it started its latest decline (don't blame Covid - that's just a lame excuse), and how pervasive it is.

In other forums you can read about how aggressive other countries are with their public education, their successes, what they expect of their students, and the contrast with our system, where more people care about the record of the school's ******* football team than their test scores.

Who and/or what are to blame? Teachers' unions are at the top of the list; no significant changes can be made unless they benefit the teachers, which makes real change a non-starter. Government employment in general, where the goal is always to make yourself (i.e., the school administration) look good. Two-income households, where the parents can't be bothered to play an active role in their children's education. The cornucopia of extra-curricular activities that take the focus away from learning. Cultural rot, especially in the Black and Hispanic communities.

Colleges are part of the problem as well, as they keep lowering their standards to accept marginally-educated HS grads, which carries through with their course and major offerings, and produces a generation of ignorant people with sheepskins that are close to worthless.

There are some schools that do well, but in many cases, the parents are delusional about how well they are doing. The best public schools are in the suburbs, where the only "diversity" is an influx of Chinese and/or Indian professionals. But if you cannot afford to live in one of those posh suburbs, the best solution, if at all possible, is to send your kids to a private or parochial school - maybe a Charter School if a good one is available.

And one cannot fail to mention that great, involved parents can produce great students in almost any school (district).

For everyone else, get your kids out of regular public schools, before it is too late.

Well, just look at the quality of the posts from Americans on here, thread title answered.

 

[initforme]

My kids had a great public education and all were well prepped for further education so they didnt have to start out at $17 per hour for an obviously al

 

[initforme]

awful employer. Most employers here arent good.

 

[DGS49]

There is a neurotically persistent poster here who claims to be a public school teacher. His idea of a "rebuttal" is, "...you have no idea..."

Think about that.

 

[Unkotare]

There is a neurotically persistent poster here who claims to be a public school teacher. His idea of a "rebuttal" is, "...you have no idea..."

Think about that.

You really have no idea, yet you keep shooting your ignorant mouth off. Think about that.

 

[Unkotare]

MSN

I apologize for the length of this article, but it is a good explanation of how bad our public education is, when it started its latest decline (don't blame Covid - that's just a lame excuse), and how pervasive it is.

In other forums you can read about how aggressive other countries are with their public education, their successes, what they expect of their students, and the contrast with our system, where more people care about the record of the school's ******* football team than their test scores.

Who and/or what are to blame? Teachers' unions are at the top of the list; no significant changes can be made unless they benefit the teachers, which makes real change a non-starter. Government employment in general, where the goal is always to make yourself (i.e., the school administration) look good. Two-income households, where the parents can't be bothered to play an active role in their children's education. The cornucopia of extra-curricular activities that take the focus away from learning. Cultural rot, especially in the Black and Hispanic communities.

Colleges are part of the problem as well, as they keep lowering their standards to accept marginally-educated HS grads, which carries through with their course and major offerings, and produces a generation of ignorant people with sheepskins that are close to worthless.

There are some schools that do well, but in many cases, the parents are delusional about how well they are doing. The best public schools are in the suburbs, where the only "diversity" is an influx of Chinese and/or Indian professionals. But if you cannot afford to live in one of those posh suburbs, the best solution, if at all possible, is to send your kids to a private or parochial school - maybe a Charter School if a good one is available.

And one cannot fail to mention that great, involved parents can produce great students in almost any school (district).

For everyone else, get your kids out of regular public schools, before it is too late.

No one from any union has ever told me how or what to teach.

 

[Unkotare]

MSN

I apologize for the length of this article, but it is a good explanation of how bad our public education is, when it started its latest decline (don't blame Covid - that's just a lame excuse), and how pervasive it is.

In other forums you can read about how aggressive other countries are with their public education, their successes, what they expect of their students, and the contrast with our system, where more people care about the record of the school's ******* football team than their test scores.

Who and/or what are to blame? Teachers' unions are at the top of the list; no significant changes can be made unless they benefit the teachers, which makes real change a non-starter. Government employment in general, where the goal is always to make yourself (i.e., the school administration) look good. Two-income households, where the parents can't be bothered to play an active role in their children's education. The cornucopia of extra-curricular activities that take the focus away from learning. Cultural rot, especially in the Black and Hispanic communities.

Colleges are part of the problem as well, as they keep lowering their standards to accept marginally-educated HS grads, which carries through with their course and major offerings, and produces a generation of ignorant people with sheepskins that are close to worthless.

There are some schools that do well, but in many cases, the parents are delusional about how well they are doing. The best public schools are in the suburbs, where the only "diversity" is an influx of Chinese and/or Indian professionals. But if you cannot afford to live in one of those posh suburbs, the best solution, if at all possible, is to send your kids to a private or parochial school - maybe a Charter School if a good one is available.

And one cannot fail to mention that great, involved parents can produce great students in almost any school (district).

For everyone else, get your kids out of regular public schools, before it is too late.

Covid is NOT "a lame excuse." It (and more to the point the response to it) was a disaster that set a generation of kids back at least several years. There is a mountain of evidence about this.

 

[Unkotare]

MSN

I apologize for the length of this article, but it is a good explanation of how bad our public education is, when it started its latest decline (don't blame Covid - that's just a lame excuse), and how pervasive it is.

In other forums you can read about how aggressive other countries are with their public education, their successes, what they expect of their students, and the contrast with our system, where more people care about the record of the school's ******* football team than their test scores.

Who and/or what are to blame? Teachers' unions are at the top of the list; no significant changes can be made unless they benefit the teachers, which makes real change a non-starter. Government employment in general, where the goal is always to make yourself (i.e., the school administration) look good. Two-income households, where the parents can't be bothered to play an active role in their children's education. The cornucopia of extra-curricular activities that take the focus away from learning. Cultural rot, especially in the Black and Hispanic communities.

Colleges are part of the problem as well, as they keep lowering their standards to accept marginally-educated HS grads, which carries through with their course and major offerings, and produces a generation of ignorant people with sheepskins that are close to worthless.

There are some schools that do well, but in many cases, the parents are delusional about how well they are doing. The best public schools are in the suburbs, where the only "diversity" is an influx of Chinese and/or Indian professionals. But if you cannot afford to live in one of those posh suburbs, the best solution, if at all possible, is to send your kids to a private or parochial school - maybe a Charter School if a good one is available.

And one cannot fail to mention that great, involved parents can produce great students in almost any school (district).

For everyone else, get your kids out of regular public schools, before it is too late.

"Other countries" are NOT the US in too many ways to list, but significantly "other countries" to not accept, support, include, or test ALL students the way we try damn hard to do here. It's pointless to compare.

 

[initforme]

No one from any union has ever told me how or what to teach.

Very true. The local school boards decide based on the state depatments of education. I was a school board member here for 4 terms.

 

[Unkotare]

MSN

I apologize for the length of this article, but it is a good explanation of how bad our public education is, when it started its latest decline (don't blame Covid - that's just a lame excuse), and how pervasive it is.

In other forums you can read about how aggressive other countries are with their public education, their successes, what they expect of their students, and the contrast with our system, where more people care about the record of the school's ******* football team than their test scores.

Who and/or what are to blame? Teachers' unions are at the top of the list; no significant changes can be made unless they benefit the teachers, which makes real change a non-starter. Government employment in general, where the goal is always to make yourself (i.e., the school administration) look good. Two-income households, where the parents can't be bothered to play an active role in their children's education. The cornucopia of extra-curricular activities that take the focus away from learning. Cultural rot, especially in the Black and Hispanic communities.

Colleges are part of the problem as well, as they keep lowering their standards to accept marginally-educated HS grads, which carries through with their course and major offerings, and produces a generation of ignorant people with sheepskins that are close to worthless.

There are some schools that do well, but in many cases, the parents are delusional about how well they are doing. The best public schools are in the suburbs, where the only "diversity" is an influx of Chinese and/or Indian professionals. But if you cannot afford to live in one of those posh suburbs, the best solution, if at all possible, is to send your kids to a private or parochial school - maybe a Charter School if a good one is available.

And one cannot fail to mention that great, involved parents can produce great students in almost any school (district).

For everyone else, get your kids out of regular public schools, before it is too late.

This OP ^^^ has been whining and bitching about school sports here for years. One can imagine he spent much of his youth stuffed in a locker or with his head in a toilet. Regardless, "physical" has been an integral aspect of education since the ancient Greeks.

 

[Unkotare]

MSN

I apologize for the length of this article, but it is a good explanation of how bad our public education is, when it started its latest decline (don't blame Covid - that's just a lame excuse), and how pervasive it is.

In other forums you can read about how aggressive other countries are with their public education, their successes, what they expect of their students, and the contrast with our system, where more people care about the record of the school's ******* football team than their test scores.

Who and/or what are to blame? Teachers' unions are at the top of the list; no significant changes can be made unless they benefit the teachers, which makes real change a non-starter. Government employment in general, where the goal is always to make yourself (i.e., the school administration) look good. Two-income households, where the parents can't be bothered to play an active role in their children's education. The cornucopia of extra-curricular activities that take the focus away from learning. Cultural rot, especially in the Black and Hispanic communities.

Colleges are part of the problem as well, as they keep lowering their standards to accept marginally-educated HS grads, which carries through with their course and major offerings, and produces a generation of ignorant people with sheepskins that are close to worthless.

There are some schools that do well, but in many cases, the parents are delusional about how well they are doing. The best public schools are in the suburbs, where the only "diversity" is an influx of Chinese and/or Indian professionals. But if you cannot afford to live in one of those posh suburbs, the best solution, if at all possible, is to send your kids to a private or parochial school - maybe a Charter School if a good one is available.

And one cannot fail to mention that great, involved parents can produce great students in almost any school (district).

For everyone else, get your kids out of regular public schools, before it is too late.

Extracurricular activities have always been an important aspect of education. There is ample evidence of the benefits of studying music and art, for example. Other activities can introduce students to trades that they may ultimately pursue. Clubs and such can provide highly beneficial social and community ties that can connect back to academic success.

 

[Unkotare]

MSN

I apologize for the length of this article, but it is a good explanation of how bad our public education is, when it started its latest decline (don't blame Covid - that's just a lame excuse), and how pervasive it is.

In other forums you can read about how aggressive other countries are with their public education, their successes, what they expect of their students, and the contrast with our system, where more people care about the record of the school's ******* football team than their test scores.

Who and/or what are to blame? Teachers' unions are at the top of the list; no significant changes can be made unless they benefit the teachers, which makes real change a non-starter. Government employment in general, where the goal is always to make yourself (i.e., the school administration) look good. Two-income households, where the parents can't be bothered to play an active role in their children's education. The cornucopia of extra-curricular activities that take the focus away from learning. Cultural rot, especially in the Black and Hispanic communities.

Colleges are part of the problem as well, as they keep lowering their standards to accept marginally-educated HS grads, which carries through with their course and major offerings, and produces a generation of ignorant people with sheepskins that are close to worthless.

There are some schools that do well, but in many cases, the parents are delusional about how well they are doing. The best public schools are in the suburbs, where the only "diversity" is an influx of Chinese and/or Indian professionals. But if you cannot afford to live in one of those posh suburbs, the best solution, if at all possible, is to send your kids to a private or parochial school - maybe a Charter School if a good one is available.

And one cannot fail to mention that great, involved parents can produce great students in almost any school (district).

For everyone else, get your kids out of regular public schools, before it is too late.

Most people who post here derisively about "Black and Hispanic communities" have never been near them, let alone worked closely with students and families from such supposed communities.

 

[Unkotare]

MSN

I apologize for the length of this article, but it is a good explanation of how bad our public education is, when it started its latest decline (don't blame Covid - that's just a lame excuse), and how pervasive it is.

In other forums you can read about how aggressive other countries are with their public education, their successes, what they expect of their students, and the contrast with our system, where more people care about the record of the school's ******* football team than their test scores.

Who and/or what are to blame? Teachers' unions are at the top of the list; no significant changes can be made unless they benefit the teachers, which makes real change a non-starter. Government employment in general, where the goal is always to make yourself (i.e., the school administration) look good. Two-income households, where the parents can't be bothered to play an active role in their children's education. The cornucopia of extra-curricular activities that take the focus away from learning. Cultural rot, especially in the Black and Hispanic communities.

Colleges are part of the problem as well, as they keep lowering their standards to accept marginally-educated HS grads, which carries through with their course and major offerings, and produces a generation of ignorant people with sheepskins that are close to worthless.

There are some schools that do well, but in many cases, the parents are delusional about how well they are doing. The best public schools are in the suburbs, where the only "diversity" is an influx of Chinese and/or Indian professionals. But if you cannot afford to live in one of those posh suburbs, the best solution, if at all possible, is to send your kids to a private or parochial school - maybe a Charter School if a good one is available.

And one cannot fail to mention that great, involved parents can produce great students in almost any school (district).

For everyone else, get your kids out of regular public schools, before it is too late.

No one has to go to college. It is a choice, and in the case of private universities, it is a business. Conducted as such.