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Originally Posted by Rigged
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.
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Historically, people enrolled their kids in places that stressed whichever curriculum the parents preferred. As the population has burdened public schools, this is no longer feasable. As such, the school's over-all success suffers. But look at the sheer volume as opposed to just percentages. We graduate more kids numerically.
I have an 8 yr old (2nd grade). I love his school, tho I know it's probably not representative of schools nation-wide. I have had conversation with teachers on items that were incorrect and found them receptive and got results. Mostly, however, I use the public school for the basics of teaching and as a litmus on how my son is doing nationally. In areas he lags in my view, I make up for. In areas the curriculum lags, I do the same.
The public school system has done very well. If we wish improvements, we must remember that we get what we pay for. The local funding is the heart and soul of the quality of the school. Getting the Feds involved gains you NCLB, a disaster of a program that is currently inflicting damage upon our educational system.