What are they teaching kids in schools these days?

Question

All i ever see here is kids asking for sex advice!!! What are schools teaching kids? I was taught sex ed in school in grade 6 (age 11) also where are their parents to answer the questions that they have? Is it just me who thinks that the school system is failing? Christ half these kids dont even know HOW you get pregnant...

Answer 1

They don't teach kids a damn thing. They can't spell, they don't know history, geography or English. The only way they can do math is with a calculator. (ask them to give you change from a ten dollar bill for a six dollar and thirty two cent tab). And when these "scholars" are confronted with the fact that the school system is failing, "six billion dollars will fix it".) Whatever happened to the three R's? That worked!!

Answer 2

Your question is what are they teaching kids in schools these days. Let's assume you are talking about the United States. As a result of No Child Left Behind, individual states have generally been strengthening their focus on standards-based education. Assume we are talking about California. For every grade K-12, there are frameworks detailing the standards that should be taught. (At the high school level, the frameworks become subject-specific rather than grade-specific.) In a high school student's Algebra II class, for example, the student should learn concepts such as "using permutations and combinations to solve probability problems". Frameworks in California are lists of these standards.

Well, this is what SHOULD be happening. However, taken into account how screwed up the state of education is; how much funding education does not get; and how schools have generally failed to attract, retain, and cultivate quality teachers; schools have been very inconsistent in helping students meet these standards. In urban schools marked by poverty, there is an even greater disparity.

Regardless of whether or not you agree with the state standards, it would have been nice to say that students all over California are learning about the quadratic formula, the causes behind World War I, and the reproductive system - or whatever topics we wanted them to learn. However this answer is really not as simple as we would like for it to be.

I think the question you should then ask is, "What are my kids' teachers teaching my kids?" If you are a concerned parent, I think you can really try to catalyze quality education for your kids by keeping your kids' teachers and administrators on their toes. If you don't have any kids and are just wondering, I think the point of my "standards" discussion was to highlight the need for the consistency that currently lacks.

In short, I don't know what "they are teaching kids in schools these days"! I know, however, what they SHOULD be teaching.

Answer 3

Yes, the schools are failing kids in many ways. I am (was) a teacher. What I witnessed shocked me. The problems basically stem from the American attitude of individual freedom: the children are afforded freedom from their parents, and the schools, who pay teachers' salaries with taxpayers' (parents') dollars, do exactly what the parents want. What they want is to give the children license. I do not approve of any kind of corporal punishments of any kind. But the schools are reluctant to really discipline children. I was a substitute teacher a few years ago in Somerville, New Jersey. There the substitutes could not file a report on an unruly or undisciplined child; the sub. could only report it in writing to the regular class teacher, who was not present when the misconduct occurred. I knew I had no authority, and the students knew it. Needless to say, not much learning took place.
Tragically, poor people in the cities who try to get their children out of dangerous underperforming public schools often send the children into private school environments hoping for a better outcome. But I applied for a teaching job at a religious private school near Newark, New Jersey a few years ago, and I discovered in the interview that they wanted me to teach creationism. The poor were, very sadly, still cripling their children, by sending them sometimes to schools that taught them nonstandard sectarian notions and dogma. It is all very sad.

Answer 4

Schools are run by adults so they are obv gona fail there kids but thats ok because the kids will win the day in the end. If only adults were smart enoth to learn leasons from children they might learn something new and wonderful. I myself am still a child and dont plan on ever growing up in the way most people see growing up as. Children are learning to have sex earlyer because well there ready for it sooner then past generations. A day may come when humans are born pregors and wow will that be an interesting day that I look forward to coming. In sort children need to remain children wise and dumb and adults need to learn how to be young again. Just imo.

Answer 5

Not spelling. That's for sure.

My guess is, about sexual education is, that they think sexual ed should be taught at home.

There are TOO many parents that do not want it taught in school because they are afraid the teachers will give out too much information, causing their kids to have sex at too young of an age.

This has been a problem between teachers and parents for decades. All the PARENTS, can't even agree on what should be taught, when it comes to sex.

Sadly, most of the parents are too shy to talk to their kids about it.

This leaves the poor kids out in the blue, knowing very little.

Answer 6

Parents are deceving
probably half the kids in grades lower than 4th or 5th still think that storkes delivered them to their parents. Schools teach a bunch of crap that no one cares about. Maybe if they made it a little bit funer then us kids would listen up. I say whats the point, the way this world is going we wont be hear lond enough to get through college. If we are the world will be runned by machines...

Answer 7

Well, if you're talking about American kids, yes, they feel awkward about that. I'm a teenager myself, and I think my classmates are a bit insecure about sex. Although from the Philippines (where I came from), sex is like casual conversation anywhere. Even adults make sex jokes around kids, even elementary.

Even my American-raised cousin who I thought would be mature enough to talk about sex is getting all twitchy and he's 17 for crying out loud!

Answer 8

I wish they taught kids some geography so that they could have some culture and not be so ignorant in comparison to kids from other countries. Some world history would be terrific too. How to use a condom wouldn't hurt either, because they will be having sex regardless of what adults teach them.

Answer 9

I think those kids know, but they just wanted to ask those dumb questions to see what kind of dumb answers they will get. They still teach sex education in school these days from 6th grade until your freshman year in high school.

Answer 10

kids are alot smarter than you give them credit for compared to years ago. kids today are more curious and they probably learn it from home or the tv or the computer. i started learning about sex in grade hmm 6 or 5.
i dont think the school system is falling apart, i think its great that school teaches what our parents are too uncomfortable to say. without school, i probably wouldn't have been educated properly and gotton my questions answered.