Your thoughts on the american school system

[BanginJimmy]

what kind of life skills do you think are missing?

Wood shop, car mechanics, MATH WITHOUT A FUCKING CALCULATOR, spelling being enforced without spell check. The proper use of grammar and punctuation. I could go on and on and on with this one. Kids, especially the ones in Ga's garbage schools barely even ready for remedial college level courses right out of HS because they alck these basic skills. A kid I work with needed the count the farking marks on a scale to find the halfway point of 1 7/8". He didnt understand the basic math needed to figure it out otherwise.

all im sayin....there needs to be more physical education and less history. Preventing the the future from being full of fat helpless people > knowing events in the past that one can't change.

You are an idiot. At least a basic understanding of history is needed. Just like the understanding of govt, health, biology, chemistry, and geometry is needed.

Without a knowledge of history, you are doomed to repeat mistakes that could have been easily avoided.

One of my favorite quotes of all time. Also one of the most true statements I have ever read.

its turned into more of a daycare system than an education system.

I agree completely. Teachers know that their jobs have nothing to do with the quality of their work so they simply go through the motions. Even though I didnt appreciate it at the time, there is no way I could thank one of my HS teachers for all the extra time she spent with me trying to get me to apply myself. BTW, this was a class I was doing very well in as far as learning the material, but failing (again) because I didnt do the work.

I see kids who went to private schools and they are so detached from the reality of things. When they get out they've been sheltered in their little bubble so long that when they're exposed to the drugs, the minorities(because privates schools are mostly white), sex, alcohol, and other things that one learns to cope with in public school at a young age they don't fare so well.

My niece and nephew are like this, but in my experiences it has nothing to do with the school, it has to do with the parents. Most parents that send their kids to your average private schools are overly protective and not as worried about the overall quality of the school. These are the same parents that severely limit their kid's exposure to any one or thing outside their very limited comfort zone.

This day and age an undergraduate degree is the equivalent of a high school diploma. A masters is equal to having some college. Education is a joke these days yet we are brainwashed into thinking we need all this college to get ahead in life. Then most colleges will put you so far into debt that you either won't be able to finish or you will be paying that shit off for the rest of your life. It doesn't even mean that you will get paid more these days it just means you may get the job ahead of your peers. The system is broken.


Roadhouse

I learned a long time ago that a piece of paper (diploma) might be required to check a certain box on a form, but it isnt what employers really want. They want people that have experience in the job they are applying for. It is very expensive to train someone to do a complex job and companies are looking for any way to cut overhead that they can.