You realize that the teacher is not the only important factor in getting a good education, correct? Yes, the public school system sucks and barely teaches you anything. It glosses over facts and most people would learn more if they just studies topics themselves. However people these days having awful grammar, spelling and reading skills boils down to two things. First of all, technology. Most people are relying on spell checker and their brains are becoming lazy. Second, lack of interest or motivation. Most people I know despise reading, are bored by homework and therefore refuse to pay attention or listen because they just don't care. You have to actually apply yourself, focus and learn to get good results. Sure, there are some horrible teachers out there but I would say the amount of horrible students outweighs the amount of horrible teachers by a longshot.
People learn better on their own because schools gloss over a lot of facts. You can learn more in your public library or through the internet. Schools are digging deep enough or teaching about important things. It's a "put in school, get them out" process. Do you realize how many people in my American Literature class have never heard of Frida Kahlo? Our education system needs some serious revamping. If schools actually taught us more than they were teaching us already, then school would be useful and not useless.
However I still think the amount of unintelligence in our world today is an attitude problem. A lot of people could care less about actually learning about new things. Most people in my history class refuse to pay attention because history is "boring". I still think you have the wrong idea about education. While I do agree with you that we need quality and not quantity,I still feel people would be ignore or fail classes because the amount of F's people have have more to do with them not giving a shit and handing their work in then them being failed by their teachers. You can't forget about that. Teachers matter, but so does personal responsibility, which most high schoolers lack.
That is my point. It should not be "get in and out" it should be "We want to teach you". So why force us to go when they are making 90% of the kids going just very dumb. Why not let some kids learn at home with out charging them all this money they save going to public school?
I think the main reason is that a lot of parents don't want the responsibility of teaching their children, people believe schools provide structure, ect. ect. Also a lot of children wouldn't learn a thing if they had the option to learn at home because they'd be too lazy to learn. I personally think education should be a choice and not a law, but that's just me.
Is it normal that is pisses me off that schools waste money?
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So having a class of kids who can not read is an example of a good teacher?
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Firing teachers doesn't fix this, training teachers would fix this.
You realize that the teacher is not the only important factor in getting a good education, correct? Yes, the public school system sucks and barely teaches you anything. It glosses over facts and most people would learn more if they just studies topics themselves. However people these days having awful grammar, spelling and reading skills boils down to two things. First of all, technology. Most people are relying on spell checker and their brains are becoming lazy. Second, lack of interest or motivation. Most people I know despise reading, are bored by homework and therefore refuse to pay attention or listen because they just don't care. You have to actually apply yourself, focus and learn to get good results. Sure, there are some horrible teachers out there but I would say the amount of horrible students outweighs the amount of horrible teachers by a longshot.
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Exactly and we are forced to go. If people learn better on own why are they going to be forced to go to school to learn less? How unhelpful is that?
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People learn better on their own because schools gloss over a lot of facts. You can learn more in your public library or through the internet. Schools are digging deep enough or teaching about important things. It's a "put in school, get them out" process. Do you realize how many people in my American Literature class have never heard of Frida Kahlo? Our education system needs some serious revamping. If schools actually taught us more than they were teaching us already, then school would be useful and not useless.
However I still think the amount of unintelligence in our world today is an attitude problem. A lot of people could care less about actually learning about new things. Most people in my history class refuse to pay attention because history is "boring". I still think you have the wrong idea about education. While I do agree with you that we need quality and not quantity,I still feel people would be ignore or fail classes because the amount of F's people have have more to do with them not giving a shit and handing their work in then them being failed by their teachers. You can't forget about that. Teachers matter, but so does personal responsibility, which most high schoolers lack.
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That is my point. It should not be "get in and out" it should be "We want to teach you". So why force us to go when they are making 90% of the kids going just very dumb. Why not let some kids learn at home with out charging them all this money they save going to public school?
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I think the main reason is that a lot of parents don't want the responsibility of teaching their children, people believe schools provide structure, ect. ect. Also a lot of children wouldn't learn a thing if they had the option to learn at home because they'd be too lazy to learn. I personally think education should be a choice and not a law, but that's just me.
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I think so too.