Monday, February 10, 2014
Our Failing Schools - Enough Is Enough!
Geoffrey Canada, an education advocate, discusses the problems in our education system and poses solutions to them. He makes bold statements about the education system and why it fails. He brings up problems such as why so many students slip through the cracks of the education system, fail, and end up dropping out; how teachers continue to make the same mistakes time and time again; and why the government needs to stop investing money in other countries such as Afghanistan and start investing money into education.
What problems do you see in the education system and what solutions would you pose to fix these problems?
- K. Plotts
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In the education system I think that many teachers in middle and high school don't create close enough relationships with the students or make the content of their curriculum engaging enough to grasp the students' attention. If students were excited to go to school and learn then I feel like the education system wouldn't have as many problems.
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I partially agree with crystalvolpe. I do think that the student/teacher relationship is lacking, but then again, how close of a relationship can they legally form? Being a teacher is handwork. Teaching aside, the teacher also has to be a babysitter, a psychologist, etc. There's a line between being a teacher and a friend and sometimes I feel like teachers either make it work of they just don't.
ReplyDeleteI do however see that the curriculum is lacking. I personally felt in high school that I wasn't being challenged enough, and that it was a waste of my time.
Another problem I see is on the teachers side. Sometimes I feel as though the teachers lack enthusiasm for the subject they're teaching and treat their job as just a job, and ignore the fact that they're molding young minds. I thoroughly think that every year teachers should be evaluated by students, as well as staff in order to make sure their jobs are being well done.
-EmPascoe
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ReplyDeleteI think the issue of education in the U.S. is a very important and relevant one. Personally I believe the biggest problem to be the price of education at a college level. Colleges and Universities today are basically unaffordable to most students. I often wonder what students or their parents are actually paying for. It is especially disconcerting when college graduates who pay all the money to get through school cannot find jobs when they graduate and are stuck paying off college loans for the next twenty years. As the years go on and the unemployment rate continues to rise I wonder if students will stop going to college all together..
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