Why is our education system so fvcked up? If you spend the most in the world, shouldn’t you rank at least in the top 10?
I don’t think our education system has improved even a bit in the last 8 years. The media sure doesn’t want to report the truth about education… why it would hurt their cause.[/quote]
I don’t think or education being effed is the only problem. I think a lot of it has to do with mentality of what kids are taught should/shouldn’t do. A lot of this probably comes from the focus and/or influence from their parents. For example, out of 280 kids, guess how many of them wanted to do FLL Robotics?.. About 10%…Out of that, guess how many of them are girls that wanted to do this? 25% of that. And money isn’t the problem. Granted an EV3 is $500 each, the school has a few of them from donations. The teacher that is volunteering to run this is a good STEMs teacher. And there’s plenty of parent volunteers that are involved, roughly 8, to coaching/teaching isn’t the problem. And its not for a grade or has a lot of busywork homework. It’s meant for kids to have fun and learn something in the process. And yet, only 10% are interested. Now why is that?
My gut feeling is that a lot of parents aren’t comfortable with certain subjects when they were in school, avoided it, and now that their kids are going through the same subject(s) there’s lack of realization of how these things are relevant or important. I see a lot of kids spend a lot of time practicing sports, dance, art, etc, because parents care about their kids being good at those things.. And that’s great. Now, how many parents spend as much time encouraging their kids to practice math or science or writing?…. No wait, that’s “homework and studying”. That’s different. We shouldn’t burden the kid with too much homework and studying……forget about just like everything else, the only way people really get capable at something is via practice.
Now, if this sort of thing happens even in a school district in which parents tend to care more about their kid’s education and future, (afterall they are willing to pay a premium for the school district) I’m just curious how it would be elsewhere.
