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QUOTE=Rigged;159319 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.
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Personal behavior is learned first in the home then from outside influences. Every kid is different so it's tough to expect the classroom to be filled with eager students. But at least get them to school with some food in their stomachs, a good nights rest, and enough respect for the system and the teachers to put forth an effort to learn. Then it's up to the education system and the teachers to motivate them to learn. Sounds easy doesn't it...but I'm sure with all the wonderful moments a teacher might experience, many more times they also believe it's a thankless job.
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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.
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In basic math kids should be learning the decimal system and percentages...no excuses for them not understanding money and interest rates. Balancing a checkbook, other than record keeping practices, requires addition and subtraction--can't get any more basic than this.