Do you think schools have changed for better or for worse?

Answer 1

My daughter is a school teacher. A few years ago, she said she had heard of McGuffey's readers, and was curious what they were like. Those readers were printed in the early or middle 19th century. (That means 1800's for you public school kids.)

So, I bought her a set of reproductions. After some time, she got around to reading them. She called me and said, "Dad! I needed a dictionary to look up the words in the Sixth reader."

I told her, really serious, "Um, I don't understand that. I didn't need a dictionary to read them." Hee, hee.

She admitted her room-mate who was also a teacher also needed a dictionary to read the Sixth reader.

Note the Sixth reader was intended for kids in the Sixth grade.

Yet, here were two college graduates who couldn't read them without looking up the words.

Abraham Lincoln's generation were more literate at the sixth grade level than our college graduates to day.

So, yeah, they have changed.

Answer 2

Worse. The public school system is brainwashing our children.

Answer 3

For the worse, unfortunately.

Answer 4

That depends on your prospective. As for information and subject manner it has improved greatly. But teaching positive role matters it has definitely gone down hill.

Answer 5

worse

Answer 6

its both. improvements r better technology, better teachers, kinda, better equipment, etc. changes that r worse wuld be peer pressure and things like that

Answer 7

Hello,
that depends from which school in which country we talking about.