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Edited by M37h3w3:
3/4/2013 6:21:43 AM
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Education: Where is our money going?
Explain how Finland can kick our ass up and down the street.
Even after accounting for differences in population, we are still spending more per person on education than Finland yet we aren't placing even second in the various fields.
Where is our money going?
Apparently it's not to the schools. Where teachers take pay cuts, furloughs, and in general stay poor and in debt for a dam long time and where the class sizes just keep increasing.
Hell, just today I read about how a teacher had to make paper protractors since she no longer could require students to buy them for the class.
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Where're the state examinations?
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6 RepliesThe best teachers in your life are your parents. Now look at the black community with a 73% out of wedlock birth rate and figure it out. And frankly the dumb rural whites who believe in Jebus the almighty don't help either. Education begins with parents that care and who hold their children accountable. Again, look at the black community and figure it out. The people in Finland just care more, same with most other advanced countries. They are civilized, and we have large communities that are not and would rather run around with guns playing gangsta.
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DAMN FINLAND, U CRAZY
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2 RepliesFor all the arguing over things like standards and unions, the solution to our problems are fairly straightforward. -Train good teachers - Support and develop all teachers - Instill a value of education
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2 RepliesNot sure if relevant.
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4 RepliesTeachers are obviously the problem. Teachers don't care, they only work 8-3, get paid too much, and get 3 months off in the summer. Maybe if they cared about their jobs then students would get a better education.
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3 RepliesStandardized testing is broken Funding is broken Teacher unions are broken Curriculum is broken America ranks #1 in confidence, though! Nothing like a nation of over-confident, under-educated people being leaders of the free world... *eyeroll*
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Many people looking at the problem have pointed out that our standards are too demanding, so much that it is actually hurting our grades, even though we spend more and have more classroom hours than countries that are beating us. Finland and Japan introduce less subjects per year and spend more time covering them in depth. As for cost per student, the US is at a disadvantage to more densely populated countries. They don't have to have as many facilities and overhead in transportation. That is a big cost. It's the same reason some nations can have Fiber run to every house, but we can't here. A bit too spread out to be economical.
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4 RepliesWell... We are probably paying for someone buying hookers and blow.
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5 RepliesBecause we force our children to go to school when it sucks. school isnt for everyone.
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Started going down the drain when the No Child Left Behind bill was added in. Basically that law in a nutshell: People who are struggling will be able to move on to the next grade if they "try". From my perspective, even when I was a senior in high school, there were people in my AP English class who had so much difficulty pronouncing words and even spelling them out. Same with my Physics and AP Bio classes. I was surprised by how many people did NOT know the difference between a Proton, Neutron and Electron right away.
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2 RepliesPokemon
