Why USA public education system is bad?

Answer 1

Because those who are in power prefer to keep the majority of the population under-educated. Those who receive a decent education fall into two categories:

Those who reap the benefits of keeping the majority of the population ignorant and the rest of us, who are outnumbered by the majority and out powered by the corrupt.

Answer 2

Because everybody is in such a rush...
The promise of technology was that we would have all kinds of time left over because this does that so much more efficiently... Unfortunately, rather than using that time well, we jam it so full of activities, that we're overly time-committed and fail to have the time to devote to higher purposes such as learning... Another thing: Our system throws a TON of information that is either worthless in real-life situations or has little age-appropriate applications...
Take math, for example... My 2nd-grader was bringing home GEOMETRY questions that my WIFE couldn't figure out...! There should be a structured approach to teaching: start with the basics, then the fundamentals based on the basics, then the next level, and the next...
Essentially, it's a dumbing-down of the student population due to the current educational process...
Take English, for example... Remember last time you paid the phone bill and they asked you if you had a dangling participle...? NEVER HAPPENED! NEVER WILL!

The education system in America reminds me of the body-builders and their work-out regimen... They do all those exercises to look good and physical strength is a good thing, but - by and large - they do all those exercises so that they can come back and do all those exercises...!

Answer 3

It costs a lot of money to educate a child and the taxpayers don't want to pay anymore for quality schools that have state of the art facilities and more than competent teachers. Most Americans are happy with the schools being the place to send their kids for daycare, to learn the alphabet, their colors, and that 1 + ! = 2. Besides that, most parents couldn't care less if their kids are educated. That explains why parents are searching for options, home schooling, private schools ( which means the parents are paying twice for the education of their child because they still have to pay taxes that support the substandard education system ). Also, America is one of the only countries that consider a school year to be 180 days. Most countries have children in school 11 months in a 12 month period for a school year. I have been hearing politicians, both red and blue, say they are the "education party" while test scores diminish, the drop out rates increases, and the kids come out obese and only 'educated' by their ipods, mp3 players and cell phones.

Answer 4

Reader's Digest has an interesting article about how to raise A+ students. The main idea of the article is that it all comes down to parental involvement. The parents who are involved in their child's education (public, private, charter, homeschool) raise intellectually-capable students.

We certainly can't hold the kids responsible for their education (or lack thereof). We could hold the teacher's accountable, but they can only do what the law, the principal, and the school board allow. We could hold the school board accountable, but they can only do what they can do with the money they have (granted, they have a LOT of money). We could hold the federal government accountable, but they do not have authority over individual school districts. We could hold the media responsible, but that's only relinquishing our own responsibility for our children.

When you look at the arguments logically, the ones who are MOST responsible for a child's education are the parents. If a parent allows a child to grow up with only the TV/computer and no books... If a parent allows a child to have their own way at home... If a parent takes no responsibility for the moral education of a child... well, you see where I'm going with this. Ultimately, it is the parent's responsibility to raise their child. They can NOT abdicate this responsibility by sending their child to a public or private school - that child is STILL their responsibility until s/he is 18. What that parent does in the hours the child is NOT in school will (generally) determine what that child does in the hours they ARE in school.

Answer 5

The current USA public school system has left the family out of the equation. It becomes too easy to forget that God created parents to teach and direct their children's education.

Too many programs are required by the gov't. There is not enough time to focus on the basic essentials of academics.

Group schools are prone to pressure from special interest groups. Everyone wants it their own way and there is too much fighting over what should be done.

Answer 6

It is a complicated question.

The problem is not the schools. It is not the teachers. It is the children and their support systems, or the lack therof, that make the difference in learning outcomes.

There are so many factors that influence a student's ability to learn - such as reading to a child at home, the condition of a student's health, the number of ti,mes a child moves to another school, and, the language spoken in the home.

These only scratch the surface of the problems facing public education...

Answer 7

Because parents don't get the right to choose schools and the state issues money based on attandence. If parents were permitted vouchers the schools would have to compete to be better. That means better teachers driven to bring in more students, better pay for better teachers and poorly ran schools close. Competition is what is missing from public education. Works in other countries but teachers say it won't work here because they have strong union ties and complain they don't make enough money. Remeber teachers only work 9 months a year and earn more than the average single family income.

Answer 8

Quotations from Notable Persons Who Saw Problems in Schooling

From my grandfather's father, [I learned] to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home, and to recognize that on such things money should be eagerly spent.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Roman Emperor from March 7, A.D. 161 to March 17, A.D. 180), Meditations Book I, verse 4

School has been a waste of time for a long time, and the world's best learners have long known that. Here is what some of them say:


I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.
Petronius, Satyricon

I have not the least doubt that school developed in me nothing but what was evil and left the good untouched.
Edward Grieg,
quoted in Henry T. Fink, Grieg and His Music (1929), page 8

I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was always at the foot of the class.
Thomas Edison,
quoted in Matthew Josephson, Edison: A Biography (1959), page 20

School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence.
H.L. Mencken

[Schools:] vast factories for the manufacture of robots.
Robert Lindner (1914-1956)

Show me the man who has enjoyed his schooldays and I will show you a bully and a bore.
Robert Morley, Robert Morley: Responsible Gentleman (1966)

Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as a universal remedy for everything from juvenile delinquency to premature senility.
Malcolm Muggeridge,
quoted in The Observer (1966)

No wonder that biographers have discovered that hundreds of thoughtful, creative, diligent human beings who later became famous hated school:

Rejection of the classroom is an international phenomenon and has little to do with whether the schools are public or private, secular or clerical, or with the philosophy of teaching employed in the various schools.
Victor Goertzel and Mildred George Goertzel Cradles of Eminence (1962)
So it's no wonder at all that perceptive teachers are among those most skeptical about the effects of school:

Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school.
Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society (1971) (In saying "we," Illich is referring to his fellow teacher, Everett Reimer, author of School Is Dead (1974).)

Teaching means different things in different places, but seven lessons are universally taught from Harlem to Hollywood Hills. They constitute a national curriculum you pay for in more ways than you can imagine, so you might as well know what it is. . . . 1. Confusion. 2. Class Position. 3. Indifference. 4. Emotional Dependency. 5. Intellectual Dependency. 6. Provisional Self-Esteem. 7. One Can't Hide. . . . It is the great triumph of compulsory government monopoly mass-schooling that among even the best of my fellow teachers, and among even the best of my students' parents, only a small number can imagine a different way to do things.
John Taylor Gatto, speech on accepting 1991 New York State teacher of the year award, reprinted in Gatto's Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1992), pages 1-12.
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Answer 9

Not bad - just inept.

The government has taken the morality of right and wrong out of our schools. Parents today are afraid to discipline their children, they think that it is up to the teachers to teach them right from wrong.

Put GOD back in the schools.
Give the rights back to the parents and teachers.

There is a difference between discipline and abuse. Parents need to learn what that is or tomorrow is lost.

Good luck and God Bless!

Answer 10

it all boils down to trying to keep up with the Jones..... we did it one way for so long and now we are trying to change it over night..... we do not pay our teachers enough to make it worth their time and effort.... and we spend to much money else where..... we are a country going down the drain FAST.. a teacher should be making what our top execs are... the minimum wage should be around 15 $, and this country should have top scienctist coming out of the wook work..... and we do, but they end up in other countries making twice the money they could make here........ if we could keep those ppl in the country they in turn could teach our children.... go figure.....God bless