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Originally Posted by OldManOnFire
Financial illiteracy...how about general education illiteracy????
The US education system is a drop-out factory!
Average high school graduation rate is 72%. Some states are actually in the 50-percentiles--how can this be??!!
I have no problem assuming that another 20% of high school kids probably should not have graduated, and if so, this means that on average, in our grand public education system, where No Child Left Behind is the entire thrust, that about one-half (this is 1/2) of the kids going through K-12 are learning little to nothing.
Listen to the presidential candidates as they talk about all the horrific issues that face us today, yet where is the public education debate??
K-12 is administered by hordes of people with doctorate and masters degrees yet collectively they're too stupid to do better than the numbers shown above??
And please no one give me any crap about all the excellent educators that are out there laying it on the line. I know this, but as with any industry, the best and the finest are far-outweighed by others. And when will the American public step up to the plate and do two things; demand better results and provide the necessary funding??
The US public education system should be a benchmark for the world, but with utmost respect for those educators who are doing their best with the system and the tools they have been given, until the US understands that 72% is unacceptable, and that 82% is unacceptable, and starts thinking about 95%, I will continue to refer to the public education system as a drop-out factory...
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You make an excellent point. I think though that education starts at home and how you will respond to authority (i.e. teachers/ professors etc) has a lot to do with your relationship with your parents. On the other hand, education has moved away from being rigid and emphasizing the "3rs" to this flitty creative BS. If a child cannot write a sentence what good is creative writing? My son is in 3rd grade and I have on several occasions called his instructor on a number of issues. Including the school trashing it's electives like art, drama, music, the staple classes that we all remember as kids. Even more concerning is that they are not being taught grammar or spelling in the way that I was, by rout.
Anyways, it doesn't take a PhD or a masters in education to realize that public schools are simply failing in their task. Regarding the article, in High School consumer education should be mandatory and so should a little bit of accounting in math. Basic stuff like, what is a credit card? What are interest rates? How to make a budget and how to open a checking account, how to balance a check book.