America's Education System

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One problem is people talk about America's Education System."

It is state by state. I teach in NY-Upstate, fairly affluent school district. Our state standards are tougher than most and our school's standards are very high (socio-economics determine that).

States with lower standards (Texas, Florida, Alabama, stc) should be forced to come into line with states like NY.

My school fired a teacher because she was not a good teacher. She moved to Florida and practically runs the school. She tells us what a joke the standards are.

Should there be national standards? Should they mimic a state like NY? Should NY ease up?

Our regents are EASY. We have 90+% pass every exam. Other schools are in the 80's% some even lower.

I think national standards should be higher-even NY's.

I'm an inner city HS math teacher in the N east and I can tell you that things arent getting any better.

Social promotion is a huge problem to begin with. We get kids coming to 9th gr. who can barely read write or do basic math. They are passed on from year to year for 8 years. , or don't know anything so cause trouble. How are the ever expected to enter the job market and compete with kids from the burbs? They have already been screwed by the system, the administrators who keep moving them up and their clueless and inept parents.

Once in HS they couldn't care less and either don't show up to class or don't care what they get when they are there. Again this has been bred into them as the way it works to make it thru school, so why would they do anything more?

Whats even more ridiculous is that the worse the kid is the more money is spent on them. Pregnant kids, kids who fight and are kicked out etc are given the extra privilege of having a home tutor show up at their home to work with them. Only in America....

There are clearly TWO kinds of public education in the US. Most kids getting a public education in the more affluent districts are capable of making it thru 4 year college.

In the inner cities, you might as well be in the Third World. Parents are ignorant and so have no voice. Teachers are burnt out dealing with non academic issues. Administrators are number crunchers who couldn't care about kids, they just want to get them to graduate.

At the school I work at, the kids who simply refuse to come to school, are picked up put into "special" classes, or asked to come to afternoon school for an hour, and given bogus credits to get them thru school. I'm not surprised at all by the military study...most of my kids would fit right in.

We are creating a system where we accept and promote laziness. It seems that the entire system is meant to make them fail later in life. We are sadly losing huge numbers of very capable kids who could easily be saved and benefit the country. Instead we create the next generation of Burger King workers or pushers.

My high school was 70 % black and here is my theory. Its all comes down to the black problem, as long as blacks keep acting the way they do , kids having kids, always looking for entitlement programs and the easy way, our nation will suffer.

When black America turns itself around America will turn around. No amount of programs or money will change things until blacks ACT their way out of the problem. Black churches totally failed their people by not holding their people to higher standards. Our nation like most nations did better when it was a homogenous society. The black way of life has slipped into mainstream America and it shows. Flame away.

No Moula wrote:

School systems are going bankrupt from pension loads to retired teachers. Tax revenues are low due to the W. Bush Recession. There's no money to pay existing teachers any more money and no money to pay for music, PE and art classes.

You mean the recession of the 2006 Democratic Congress which became the Great Obama Depression. Hope and Change, you asked for it, bitches.

There's no excuse for Obama's genocide of White Muslims in Palestine and the Middle East and Obama will certainly burn in hell for eternity for his crimes against humanity. But in all fairness Obama did inherit the Crusades and the trashed US economy from the worst president in U.S. history, George Wimp Bush.

I certainly agree with you on the minority issue. Not just black but hispanic as well. their culture has to appreciate education and see it as a way out of poverty.

I don't see a big effort in their communities to address the facts that their young are dropping out in big numbers and amounting to nothing.

If the focus is on high school sport in so many of these failing schools, then the priorities are messed up too. And so is the use of money. These sports cost huge amounts of money that can be better utilized in extending the school day and paying teachers a better salary to retain the good ones.

district segregation has replaced skin-color segregation of the 60s and prior. cities break up neighborhoods by skin-color into separate school districts to skirt court ordered busing. separate but equal is the order of the day. ap classes and the funds to hire qualified teachers to get children to pass ap classes, are the indicator of racial apartheid in schools. the result is minority school districts spend 1/4 to 1/6th per pupil as anglo-white districts. federal civil rights laws have not been amended to curtail district segregation. as a result, today in 2010 the united states of america has the most racist education system in recorded history of the human race.

You are so full of crap I don't know where to begin. Wake County in North Carolina still has busing to make sure blacks go to school with whites and minority's still fail much more then whites. Whites succeed and blacks fail in the same schools.

Before you can take an AP class you have to know general math and to know general math you have to go to class and want to learn. Are you so naive that you think the govt needs to pass more laws and that will save blacks ?

your nuts !

As I said earlier I went to majority black high school and can tell you its not because of bad teachers or a lack of funding , its because education is not valued in the home. A true education cannot be given it must be earned. When Kishia is a mother at 16 and Dontrell has two kids by the time he is 17 education is not a priority.

You are so right. My school has very few minorities, but the overwhelming majority of them fail. The problem is, they don't even try. We do everything we can to encourage and help them, still they don't care.

We also have a problem with rural kids who think they have to live up to a redneck image and it's a joke.

It does seem that more money is spent on "problem" kids. People who camplain about pwnsions and teacher salaries are ingnorant of the real problem and of where the money is wasted. Government programs like No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top are a complete waste of time and money.

Let educators reform education. Base the reform on a system that works (like NY) then refuse to accept failure. But, first, educate the parents.

Go Crawl Off And Die wrote:

No Moula wrote:

School systems are going bankrupt from pension loads to retired teachers. Tax revenues are low due to the W. Bush Recession. There's no money to pay existing teachers any more money and no money to pay for music, PE and art classes.

You mean the recession of the 2006 Democratic Congress which became the Great Obama Depression. Hope and Change, you asked for it, bitches.

Actually, I'm pretty sure he's referring to the recession that started in the late 90's, exasperated by the 9/11 attack and ensuing war on terror, and the destruction caused by natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina, which is all leading up to the next big economic crises when all the governments finally get hit HARD not just by the resulting lower tax revenue but by the states and municipalities all going bankrupt and looking to the federal government for help (or, worse, simply collapsing).

You are right, though... Bush's tax cuts has very little to do with the economic situation we are in today, or the situation that lies just on the horizon.

Az a techer i tack quiet an ofenze as two how techer's are loked at in this country. we art profesionals and we tech the futour. kids need to staye in schol and lisen to there instutors so tehy can lern.

more laws need to be passed as evil people manuever around old laws. it happens all the time. look at drunk laws, child abuse laws, and internet privacy laws. legislators are always adding new laws to keep up with the crooks.

district segregation is nothing new. it started it the at the turn of the last century as a tactic to create apartheid in education. many papers have been written and published. look up the one done on alum rock circa 60s which i studied in college in the 80s, 30 years ago. the alum rock district still exists today and has 1/4 the funds of the richest district within the same city limits.

If you want to save blacks you should go to the hood and adopt black kids and raise them in a way that benefit them. Stop asking for the almighty govt to do that people need to do to raise themselves up.

the govt of the people decide what it can do for the people. so far apartheid is very legal and is the dominant characteristic of the us education system and us society as a whole. smaller cities were incorporated out of large cities mainly for the purposes of skin color segregation.

today as often as ever before white racists use the shell game splitting city limits and splitting school district boundaries to keep minorites out. many countries do the same. some countries have made it illegal to split out minorities using these tactics.

the city of east palo alto is a classic case studied nationwide. interesting because the city that segregated epa out is a foo foo liberal white city and not a sterotypical KKK town of the Old South.

i don't think it is practical stop apartheid towns and apartheid school districts. however, it is very practical to pass new laws that mandate equal funding of schools. this has not been done at all. many countries have national laws mandating equal classroom facilities, equal pay, equal curicullum, and equal standards for school from border to border. in the usa, civil rights advancement came to a screeching halt when mlk was assassinated in 1968 and when Nixon was elected in 1971, who was an ardent KKK follower.

Ok dist.seg., most of what you write is utter garbage, but I will still humor you.

If schools are segregated, does "The Man" still come into those classrooms and tell the kids to do no work? Does someone come in and tell them to stay home, cause chaos in schools and eventually drop out?

You see, you can blame society for all the ills, but at the end of the day, you have got to WANT to get an education. No one can beg you to learn, and that is whats happening in the inner city.

Call it apartheid etc, but the realty is everyone in the US can get a great education if they really wanted one.

in countries with equal facilities and funding, everyone DOES get a great education since skin-color apartheid is illegal. in the US the roads and interstate highway system does not have skin-color apartheid. in brooklyn, south side, oakland, the freeway signs are the same size, the roads are in manageable shape, the freeways are full of big rigs. you never rarely see a police stn, fire stn, post office building in crummy condition even in bad neigborhods. so america does know how to create equality in institutions. but america has racist housing, racist cities, racist towns, racist school districts, and racist schools. you live here and can take pictures and document it yourself so you know it's true. white racists have set up barriers to education for minorities and the trend has not been arrested since MLK was killed in 1968.

The Hard Truth wrote:

If you want to save blacks you should go to the hood and adopt black kids and raise them in a way that benefit them. Stop asking for the almighty govt to do that people need to do to raise themselves up.

I don't want to save them, I want them to save themselves.

Get and stay married, raise your kids with morals. If you don't stay married be a positive part of your child's life and support your ex-spouse. PRETEND you like and repsect each other.

You have completely avoided answering my questions.

Heres a few more:

What does racism have to do with a personal decision to gain an education? Does "the man" tell them to be lazy too? And if he did, wouldn't it be a good fight to improve oneself DESPITE the racism?

Stop making excuses. You are creating the next generation of losers.