American Education

American education... Education, I do believe, isn't the correct term. I believe that our schools are failing the students, thus failing themselves and this country. The teachers, are doing their best, and they are working with what is given to them. Albeit, there are those teachers who just can't teach and are failing ever so hard. This is what I had experienced while in the public education system. A lack of discipline, which I fell prey to, a lack of motivation, and a lack of actual information worthy of peoples time.

As for the lack of information, I believe this to be the source of the problem. It isn't so much the lack of information, but the horribly slow rate at which the the information progresses. What was once standard, is now considered advance. This is a HUGE problem. This shows that we as a nation are not keeping up with other progressive nations of the world, so we will lose our super power status in a few ways if this does not change.

As for the teachers, they are truly trying to better the nations future leaders and workers, however, they can't do this simply because of the limits provided to them by these school boards and government agencies. We have forgone a simple rule of nature, survival of the fittest. This used to be portrayed in a more modern way through schools. We used to have those who could keep up with the progression of the world be doing alright, those who were unable were falling behind. This kept us ahead of everyone else. Now everyone is all touchy-feelie, which is fine to some extent. However, we can't do only this coddling stuff, because then we teach those who really couldn't keep up with the world that they are as good as those who are truly advanced. This is not okay, as much as people don't agree with this. We should help those who aren't as intelligent as others succeed in someway, but we can't change the whole system just to make them feel good. That is a serious problem.

As for the lack of motivation, this stems from the problem of the progression of information as well. This was the main problem for me. I consider myself to be somewhat of an intelligent individual, and I was sitting in these classes thinking to myself, “Why the hell am I learning this stuff? I should be further then this by now. This is just way to easy...” This caused me to be a major slacker and not do any homework, the source of my bad grades. However, on the tests, I half, HALF, applied myself and

I passed those tests with flying colors.

My point is that the education system is failing, and failing hard. We need to change it drastically and soon if we are to keep up as a nation. This will be leading into my next post, so I'll stop here. I do understand this isn't the best written, but the way these work for me is as follows: I get inspired, I open up word, I type my thoughts as they come to me. I feel this allows me to get out what I'm thinking along with the emotion that comes with it. Next one shall be related to the government.