Schools do not prepare a child for the outside world?

Question

you are agree?
yes or no?
express your opinion

Answer 1

I'm going to have to say yes AND no.

The most valuable thing you could ever teach childred in school would be to think for themselves. If a child knew how to reason, was taught to question and find out things on their own, and shown how to do this, then almost any other teaching you might give would be superfluous. When a person who knows these things wants to find something out, he or she DOES!

I know of very, very few schools that teach this, and most of those that do so do it largely by accident. Nor are things getting better in this regard. Standardized tests have only one answer to any question, and free thinking will only distract you from getting a higher score. Teachers fear unruly students and thus stress obedience over curiousity. And efforts to provide the same kind of thing to each student (while an admirable goal in the larger sense) tend to assure that there is only one way that anything is ever presented or discussed. Even the CONCEPT of difference is often eliminated in schools to the extent that they can be.

Still, there are some subjects that cannot help but teach some reasoning ability, and for some students failure is a strength. Geometry proofs, for example, are an early taste in logic that can sometimes whet the appetite for more. And in almost any school can be found students who, upon learning that their school is going to be of little help to them in their education, take matters into their own hands and learn to teach themselves. This is little to be proud of... but it's better than nothing.

A really good school would not only teach the above, but in the most flexible of possible ways. Different people learn better in different ways. And while it serves some people well to learn to overcome such differences, other just need to know what they need to know as fast as they can know it. Likewise, there are many subject that are typically taught in school which CAN be useful to almost anyone, but aren't likely to be unless the person wishes to apply it. Teaching these things where interest is lacking is thus pointless.

Contrariwise, there are many things that could easily be of vast use to people but is only rarely taught. Like auto repair. Or accounting. Or how to get melted cheese stains off your favourite shirt. These are probably things (unlike calculus or history) that everybody is probably going to want to know at one point or another. Even where they are offered, though, they are marginal electives. Too bad.

Answer 2

F*** NO! It's all nap time, playtime, atta boy, you can do it, blah blah blah. False praise rules in these times and kids are pu**ies.Schools give you unrealistic income stats in HS
and unrealistic goals in how it will be spent. Even if teens listen they think they'll just marry someone with $ or get a better job. NO ONE is telling kids you have to bust your tail and when you're tired you better keep going. Be it College bound, Tech or Trade school bound, scholarships, or right to work. Expenses are always underestimated. Just look at the Bankruptcy and foreclosure rates. The average person cannot settle on their existing means they always want more but will never achieve it cuz they can never make enough money or get a good enough education or job. Top execs in fortune 500 companies are like winning the lottery there aint that many. There are always more servants than rulers. Additionaly, look at how many "kids" go back home to live or just stay at home. Everyone is broke and getting broker. It's not totally the schools responsibility, the parents should prepare kids more than the schools, but the schools need to get the stats out there and get em right. Kids dont listen to parents anyway. I'll stop now even though I'm just gettin started.

Answer 3

They absolutely do not. The school environemnt is structured in such a way that we are not prepared for the inevitability of hardship and failure. We are consistanly told that things work a certain way, you go to school, you get a job, you have a family. School does not prepare us ofr any of those things. You're 18, you're out of school, you had neither the grades nor the money for college. You have only what you learned in school (history, basic math and language skills etc.) With just that it is almost impossible to find a job making enough money to support one self. School doesn't teach you how to manage you money so you're not always broke. There are no classes in how to find a spouse, where to go, what to say, and the, like. There is no instruction in anything even remotely resembling social skills. There is no support system for those that need one on an emotional level. Just fact and dates of who, what, when, where, and why. A person can go through 13 years of school and have absolutely no useful skills fro finding a job when they are done. They will just be 13 eyars older. So no, school prepares you for nothing and only sets you up for failure after frocing you to rely on them then truning you out with no sense of self, no sense of independence, no understanding of how the world really works at all.

Answer 4

You know, the older I get the more I think they prepare the child *too* much for the outside world.

It's almost as if we take the most wonderful, open-minded creature in the world ... and put them in an institution where we teach them to think like we think, work when we say work, and rest when we say rest.

Then, twelve to sixteen years later, out pops a perfect little automaton who's been conditioned to enter the work force like a good little citizen.

I wish schools taught more of the basics of day to day life. How many kids get out of school with no idea how to balance their check book ... how to manage credit ... what kind of bills they'll be faced with.

Hell, not to sound like Grandpa Simpson here ... but years ago, schools actually offered home-economics courses that taught you how to cook and sew.

I know that mathmatics, science, etc. are important ... but so are life skills.

Answer 5

Parents have a crucial role in raising their children, supporting them with their school activities.
Schools have an important role in teaching the children, how to think for themselves, develop their own views, so overall helping them to develop their intellect and also to train them for physical activities. Many schools do not do this. It's all about statistics. A school is good if a number of children passed the year. Probably many parents don't know who is teaching them, how and what they are taught. Schools which are very good are very expensive. They use different methods. The child learns at an early stage how to look for information, how to do work regularly, how to organise their time making most of it. They will have a tutor for guidance. They usually learn a second language when they are really young and learn how to play a variety of different sports. At the end they will become very independent, confident, they will think critically and will be very good in what they choose to do.

Answer 6

Of course they don't.. u can't rely on school to do everything for the kid... so what are the parents & the good relatives for??!!!!

Being prepared to the meet the "world" means t go throw tough situations to gain experiences.. school can't guarantee enough of that... besides, the kids surely needs a hand, a shoulder to cry n & to learn his lesson, where can he find that in school?? All he'll find there is a bunch of other kids who're just as unexperienced as he is, or a busy teacher who's got her own kids to worry about....

Answer 7

Well in certain schools yes, but the ones who dont are called slackin schools. Alot of teachers dont get paid enough so they are not really motivated to put more effort. Its sad to say but its the truth. Some may prepare the kids mentally, but alot of schools dont prepare logically for the world, and the ups and downs for the world. So im kind of 50/50 on the education, especially in america.

Answer 8

I don't think much of the public education system in America. Too many students are passed on rather than taught.
Also, the curriculum is not "real world" related. Many cannot balance a checkbook or fill out a job application.
The media assumes that the average consumer has less than an eight grade education, and that approach is accepted. WHY?

Answer 9

My daughter went to a private school from k thru 8 and now attends a public high school. I believe that without me she would have been unprepared for the real world and public high school. In private school the staff and parents keep their kids in a bubble and pretend bad things don't happen. The only reason she stayed there as long as she did was because the area we lived in was ridden with crime. Now we have been able to get out of there and I feel attends a very well balanced high school.

Answer 10

I don't think they do really. At least my school doesn't. One big problem I have is that we are taught no survival skills. If I were stranded in an isolated forest somewhere I wouldn't last a week. And they don't teach us current history. What good is going into politics if the only politics you know alot about happened 150 years ago.