why is it that the students nowadays are getting less knowledge from the teachers?

Answer 1

Because of people like you that stand back and blame. If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. They are not getting less knowledge. The amount of knowlege required has increased while the teaching time is the same. Like it was mentioned before, many believe education is secondary to activities outside the educational setting.

Answer 2

Your question contains a faulty premise. What students? When is then-a-days? What do you mean by less knowledge? In what areas, or in all areas? Which teachers - elementary, middle school, high school, college? What are your facts to present?

You are willing to present an assertion based on your own experience, but you are a single person in a large number of students. I cannot believe that all students are getting less knowledge nowadays when you consider the vast amount of information and new technology that is out there to be learned.

There is a saying I like: When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

Were you ever ready?

Answer 3

I don't think that's the case. SATs didn't change all that much until the new SAT came out. Maybe a little dip in math last year, but for the most part, things have been pretty stable.

Something to remember that if you look at figures from the early 20th century, high school education was not a right back then. Few students who weren't elite or upper middle class left eighth grade.

With more students getting educated, of course the amount of content knowledge has decreased since 1900! My goodness! When you're dealing with multilingual classrooms that incluce autistic students, functionally illiterate students, and students with major learning disabilities all in a regular classroom, you're never going to get the same results as when you had an elite core of students who were self motivated to learn.

I think honors students are learning just as much as they always did.

Now, there's less memorization. There's little point to memorizing random facts in this day of internet searches. We focus on organizing information and teaching concepts. No point in memorizing the Periodic Table of Elements when you can always have it handy.

Lectures just don't do it anymore for lower level students. These are the students who used to drop out by 10th grade. If you try lecturing a class full of 14 year old males who don't want to be there, you'll be wasting your times and theirs.

So don't fall into the trap of thinking things are worse than they were. Watch "Blackboard Jungle" and "To Sir, With Love" to see that education has always been accused of being "awful" when in fact it simply rises and falls like everything else.

Now read to your children before you put them to bed tonight, and they'll be strong readers, in honors classes, and do fine.

Answer 4

They aren't. For the most part, scores have flatlined for about 30 years now.

Now, because of No Child Left Behind, the emphasis is on the TESTS. So teaching strategies are different. The teacher doesn't get to teach what they want to, or what they think is important, they are, for the most part, told what to teach and sometimes when. I fully expect one day soon for the powers that be to just hand me a comprehensive manual to read verbatum each day.

Answer 5

I think there are so many factors, but I believe that the MAIN factor is just lack of caring. When my son was 11, (he is now 21) he was having a rough time as his father and I were divorcing. He was showing his butt a lot and getting bad grades. I asked his teacher what I could do to try to help her help him. She looked at me as if I had grown 2 heads and snapped, "I do not care what you do, as long as I get my paycheck every two weeks, I do not care if these kids pass or fail!" Needless to say she no longer is a teacher and probably never will be again!

Answer 6

Teachers are there to aid a student in learning. If there is something they do not know, they should at least know how to guide the student to the answer.
Students today are too distracted by cellphones, sports, and other outside activities. Learning is secondary.
Here's a great example.....have you ever scheduled your child's orthodontist appointment during the school day, rather than after school? why? because they can't miss their sports practices.....priorities have changed.

Answer 7

Well, I can only speak for my local school district. What happened here is that we have been overrun by immigrants who don't speak our language. The schools are now so worried about teaching them English that they forgot to teach the Americans anything else. Also, the state is pushing for more students to pass the standardized tests, so the little bit the students are being taught is just to prepare for the state PSSA exam, hardly enough to actually learn anything useful.