Why do you blame education on the Government?

Question

You have to go to school to learn....to become smarter, to get better jobs.......if the kids rather skip, join gangs, and the parents don't push them to do what is right, no government can make it happen....and they will remain in the slums forever

Answer 1

I blame parents, They don't read with their kids, they don't talk to their kids about what's going on at school. They see school as glorified day care.

Answer 2

Because it's a very convenient cop out.I'm sure that the government could do a little more but how many times have you heard someone say "I didn't fail school,school failed me"Education should take place outside of school as well but too many people either think that it's not cool to be smart or just don't care about having any knowledge about anything.I did poorly in school because I never did the work,just passed all of my tests and required papers.Many of my teachers gave me passing grades because I participated in class showing that I had the answers.They all thought that I was stupid until the fourth grade so they gave me an IQ test.I scored 140 and I still enjoy learning on my own.I read all of the time.Ultimately it is up to the parents and the individual because the government can't put millions of people under the microscope one at a time.This has to be done by people who are within arms reach of the problem.That's my opinion.Doesn't make it right but it's a shot.I graduated high school because my pride would not let me fail.I was the only kid of 3 in my family to graduate.I'm not going to blame the government for someone else's failure.That's just passing the buck and failing to place the blame on the people who are ultimately responsible.
And I hardly think all of these wars are unnecessary.Noone thought that when the towers were destroyed and we stomped Afghanistan.This answerer helps make your point with grammatical errors like the lack of the proper adverb badLY.Not bad.The ly makes it an adverb thus making the grammer correct.Joe

Answer 3

I think that the government and communities should be all for public education.
There will be good examples to for children to follow as well as poor ones.
All our volunteering and school funds and supplies etc. should be for public schools.
This way I can only assume (yes I am aware of the connotations of the word) that all children will experience school as an important place to discover what societies priorities are.
School, a place the community and government supports. children will learn compassion and the are to service and the well known educational experience of working together, helping each other, cultural diversity, disabilities, gifted students, children will SEE EACH OTHER.... BE AWARE OF EACH OTHER and their futures will benefit.

School should not be time to divide children and create class, race or status issues.

Privatization is for those who would rather turn away from the problem and shove their kids in a little box rather then address the problems themselves or become active in any small way. which would benefit ALL CHILDREN. These people are cowards and breed fear. They see starving children Africa and want to help but they will not help their neighbors and unite . It all starts with the children. It is ridiculous

Answer 4

Yes, but if we paid teachers more money, they'd go home to better houses after their students join gangs or skip! (sarcasm as it's too early for me to make sense)

The government only funds education. Why anyone believes that throwing money at a problem fixes it is beyond me.

Also the vast majority of funding for schools comes from your state not the federal government. People have to get involved locally with these matter. Since private schools spend half as much money per child and provide a better education, it could be done.

Answer 5

I was looking through these answers and saw the recurring theme, more funding. No amount of money is going to help if a student doesn't want to stay in school, do the work, and learn. It requires motivation by several groups, the students, the teachers, and most importantly, the parents. But the motivation shouldn't come in the form of entertainment, "watch videos or something" but reward of better grades, learning, the possibility of going to college, getting a better job, doing better than their parents. Not the instant gratification of no homework, no authority, working a menial job for a bit of cash now, that later becomes a menial career, or worst of all criminal activities that get them a bunch of cash, but land them in jail or dead.

I'm not sure this is correct, but I've heard the figure of $10K per student for each year. I suppose it depends on the grade. It may be an average. It seems to me that I could educate my children for that money by sending them to a private school. I little competition wouldn't hurt, would it?

Answer 6

This a poorly-worded attempt at a right wing talking point. Education is primarily funded by local property taxes, i.e I pay for schools in my area and Kevin_W probably doesn't pay for the schools in his. I don't know who the "you" Kevin is talking about is, but I think he's trying to attack the far right's favorite boogieman, "the libruls", which is what he does in every one of his posts

A public education isn't a substitute for a good upbringing. But most parents can't buy groceries and keep a roof over the family's head while simultaneously teaching their children the R's and history and science, so the public schools have to fill that void. Some school districts do that better than others. Schools in poor minority areas tend to teach poorly for many reasons, none of which are going to be solved by a badly-phrased rehash of something Sean Hannity said.

Ironically while Kevin_W extols parental control over government control those of his mindset strongly advocate forcing public schools to teach children that God put dinosaur bones in the ground to test our faith, that Jesus turned the water into a non-alcholic wine, and that condoms always break while vows of chastity never do.

Answer 7

This question should have been worded "Why do some blame..." Not all people blame the govt. I don't think we can place total blame on the parents. Yes there are some parents who don't care and don't get involved with their kids nor push them towards the right direction.

There are some parents who try to encourage their kids to go to school and do well. Sometimes kids listen sometimes they don't. Parents can only try their best. Parents can not be their holding their kids hand and sit with them in class to make sure that they are there. The school can contact the parents and the parents can keep trying but some kids are to involved with the peer presure and to busy to listen to the parents.

Lets not put totally blame on parents. As far as the govt. I have not enoug knowledge to make a comment.

Answer 8

Ummm.... who pays out the money for shcools? Sure the taxpayer, but the government distributes it.

By the way to the fool who claims the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) was founded by Carter, and has much to do with education needs some more education. The NEA was a Works Progress Administration program founded by FDR to fight the depression. The NEA was initially used to give work to writers, poets, painters, photographers in the depression. It is still part of our government and uses it's endowment to fund art education programs, museums, individual grants, documentarians (wether film, photo, or otherwise). The NEA is funded through private donors as well as tax money. The US spends the least of any western country per capita for the arts.

Answer 9

I don't blame that part on the government. i blame the funding. Educational funding gets cut every year. The government expects us to do more with less money. Then they slap you with no child left behind. Which ideally is a great concept, but will never come to fruition. Lets face the facts, some people will never be able to achieve an 11th grade education due to mental handicaps and the like. Anyway, if the government excepts educators to do more, they should give you more money to do it with.

Answer 10

Mainly because the government controls education. They decide which schools get more money and have set the standards for education. Also frankly schools don't work, they are overcrowded and teachers are underpaid and overworked. This site has some interesting information as well:
http://www.thememoryhole.org/edu/school-mission.htm

Answer 11

Quick answer...Haven't test scores and results steadily declined since the federal government got involved/took over from the state and localities, the education systems through the Department of Education?
Quick solution...Repeal D.O.E. and leave states and localities to their own, formerly successful control of education.
Outlawing unions whose workers take government money would also be a positive step.