Why do you think needs to be done to fix public education in America?

Question

I'm sure that I am opening up a can of worms here...but what are your thoughts and ideas about this issue?

Answer 1

Change the school curriculum for openers and how it is taught, we are in the supposed information age, start acting like it instead of the same old thing for the past hundred years. Standardize the curriculum for the whole country in reading and math. Give kids shorter breaks more often instead of one long summer vacation. If a teacher teaches history, have a history major, same goes for every subject. Pay teachers the wage they deserve if they are our children's future and make it a sliding scale, the better the performance the more a teacher earns and weed out the poor performers. As for the kids, if they go to school and do nothing but be a disturbance to others, pull them out of the class and put them to work around the school doing menial jobs, stop giving them drugs to sedate them. If they continue to act out, put them in juvenile hall, don't punish the working parents for the behavior of their children.

Answer 2

I think we need the parents to demand the quality of public education in this country.
Meanwhile, the parents have to work closely with the teachers and volunteer time in school.
At the same time parents have to monitor what are their children doing at home as well as outside the homes. This including hanging out with the right crowd.
Parents do have to monitor the kid's grade and their improvement. If anything goes wrong parent need to communicate with the teachers right away. The Internet can help communicate between parents and teachers as soon as possible.
Parents can not drop his or her own child in front of school and expect to see them doing wonderful within 6 hours. The after hour is very crucial for parent to monitor the children especially from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
So far we, the parents are not doing what I advice and that is why our public education is failing. This is my personal experience since I volunteer my time in school for 16 years.

Answer 3

Quit dumping endless money into it. Change what and how students learn. Stop passing people who can't read. Get rid of the Dept. of Education at a federal level. I don't like the fact that people in Washington think they know what's best for children in South Carolina. I'd have to think about this for a long time, but those are just a few starters.

Answer 4

In the 1960's or whenever they took Christianty out of schools the ratings in EVERYTHING droped dramaticly....thats no my opion thats a fact! They need to put the SCHOOL CHOICE bill in congress and pass it! It gives the parents the choice to pick what school thier children go to. I think this will never happen under the Democrates

Answer 5

School should be in session 50 weeks out of the year. And none of this 9-3 stuff. Classes should run 8 to 5 eveyday, six days a week. Classes should be no more than 15 students.

Answer 6

One interesting proposal that is used in some countires in Europe where it has been overwhelmingly successful is to creat student vouchers so that if your school isn't very good, you can leave and go to another one. That way, it uses a free-market approach to schooling. If your school isn't good enough for your business (your voucher) than you leave.

Answer 7

Create a national curriculum that every school in the United States must follow, instead of giving each state the ability to decide its curriculum. I would be in support of states selecting their own curriculum, but that isn't particularly effective when each state is beholden to the federal government through accountability assessment. The only way to get every school on the same level, in this country, is to adopt a single set of curricula.

Answer 8

corporal punishment, stop social promotion, give grades that the kids deserve. if their feelings are hurt so what. grow a backbone.

Answer 9

Put religion back into schools and take liberalism out.

Answer 10

maybe try teaching???