Why is the american education system so bad?

Question

In grade 9 in canada we learn the same thing they do in the usa

We learn what the same in an american college in grade 9!

In canada the teachers care more abouth the umm not as smart students but are math teacher makes fun of the smartest kid. Plus he likes to brag so its really funny

Answer 1

There are LOTS of answers for this-

1) Disclipline has been taken out of schools, so kids can be as bad as they want and no one does a thing about it.

2)The american federal law called 'no child left behind' has really made education bad. THis law mandates that ALL public school kids take tests every year. The scores they get reflect on how well the SCHOOL is TEACHING, and not how well the student is learning.

The better the scores are, the more MONEY the schools get.
So, teachers can no longer TEACH, they have to spoon feed information into the students and have them MEMORIZE the info, so they will pass the tests so the school will GET MORE MONEY. The teachers ONLY teach what is going to be on these tests.

LOTS of schools cheat and 'fix' the kids tests so it will look like their scores are high, so the school will GET MORE MONEY.

They should make the TEACHERS take these tests and NOT the students!!

3) SPecial education in schools is VERY corrupt. It's swept under the rug cause no one wants to do a thing about it. THese special ed kids are not getting the help they need, plus schools are passing them just to get them out of the way.

4) There are way too many students under 1 teacher. The job is too hard, not enough pay, many teachers are leaving the profession.

5) The things that kids in America learn in schools is made way too easy for them to learn, that way the school can pass them on to the next grade without having to teach them anything.

There have been many high school graduates who go on to college, only to quit because the work in college is too hard. It's not because they are lazy and won't do the work, it's because the schools did not TEACH them how to do the work.

You can google many reports about any of this.

THANK GOD FOR HOMESCHOOL

Answer 2

American Education system isn't that bad I would say. Actually the thing I like about American Education is the teachers' attitudes, most of the teachers care about students even if they are fall behind the grades or are the bad ones while compare to a school in different country where they only focus on the good students and leave the bad graded students there.

However, I don't really agree on American education system being bad because there are advanced courses that you can take in high school which goes on more advanced stuff and require more thinkings.

So, I'd say it varies from school to school and the courses that you have signed up for.

Answer 3

We should take after countries that are superior in education. Not necessarily pushing children to the edge with stress and expectations, but by helping to create an environment in which they can learn. Children from poor and adverse families do poorly in school because they're not focused on school work. They're focused on survival. Our educational system is only designed to allow wealthy children to flourish. Teachers should be paid like doctors. Education should become more based from home via internet. And children with special needs or learning difficulties should be given the fundamental help they need. School was the only place I ever used pencil and paper ... so primitive.

Answer 4

Alvin Toffler has a general vision of the history and shows how a industrial society needed a public education for the labor posts on that society that requested punctuality, obedience and a repetitive labor training. Now, that is changing due to a different need of the future bio-tech society, but the leaders don't agree yet on how should be the educational program now. I think the training will be a very much specialized one and too much diverse compared with the current one.

Answer 5

the reason the educational system is so bad is because all the English classes only give one side to the story that the children study and not to mention math the kids have to do all the math on paper but in the real world we can use calculators on anything and everything even though school "prepares them for the real world

Answer 6

The reason is it is a dated system that cannot keep up with the dynamic changes facing them.
Kids are more geared now to technology and they learn all that stuff essentially on their own.
Schools are behind in this, and kids are left with classes that teach to the test in order to keep their accreditation.
Government and state mandates choke off the little life left in local school boards.
Students and parents need to start taking charge of their education and contribute their ideas to teachers and principals. Not all children learn alike and they need to figure a way to individualize learning, not only for the special ed or the gifted and talented, but for all of them.

Answer 7

Because we don't care about education only warehousing kids and making sure they feel good about themselves and can pass standardized test.
If we were to take only the best and brightest and educate them to the best of our ability then teach the middle children trade school things and the kids who have disabilities and only teach them to the level were they could learn then we would have more appropriate education for most of them. Now we mainstream kids who need much more help than the schools can provide without shorting the average to bright normal kids. No child left behind, social issues, day care, feeding programs all take time and money from teaching the ones who are able to excell and want to.

Answer 8

Umm I guarantee you don't. You may learn some of the same things in some classes in some colleges but not all. I bet you even learn some stuff taught in colleges all over the world. *gasp* American schools aren't that bad we just get graded by all of our high schools. In other countries they only test certain high schools and it makes their scores way higher.

Also we have no child left behind. Which is a bunch of crap imo which does not help. All in all though our schools really aren't much behind anyone elses. (especially canadas)

Answer 9

It isn't so bad. The United States does a better job than most countries in providing educational opportunities to everyone, including the extreme poor, those who are out of the mainstream, and the handicapped.

There are still gross inequities in those educational opportunities, and we have not been very successful in correcting them.

Two factors have contributed to the decline in recent years:

1) Teaching is no longer one of the few occupations open to intelligent, well-motivated women. Consequently, there is no longer a large pool of such women willing to work for small wages under difficult working conditions.

2) When educational opportunities were opened to everyone, some parents withdrew their children from public education, enrolled them in private schools, or elected to teach thm at home. This created an additional burden for the public school system, especially as such parents were reluctant to add increased school taxes to the private tuition they were already paying.

I volunteer in my local school. Do you?

Answer 10

They apparently didn't teach you how to write very well. Our school systems are not bad. We simply believe in teaching the whole child rather than forcing something down a child's throat that they are not prepared for. Children need to be children. They need to have time to grow up and experience life rather than being forced to act like miniature adults. Don't get me wrong. I think we can think some things at earlier grade levels, but you really shouldn't put too much on a child at one time. Children who are advanced and ready to move on are allowed to enter gifted and talented programs. Tell me this. If the American education system is so bad, why do you have so many people sneaking into this country and bringing their kids here and enrolling them in our schools so that they can have a better way of life? OBVIOUSLY WE ARE DOING SOMETHING RIGHT!!!