Harmonic's Reviews of Real Life and Beyond Episode 1: U.S. Education System
Today I'm going to talk about the U.S. educational system, and if I get extremely lucky or the feds mess up I might even not go missing tomorrow for insulting the government's way of operating!
First, let's start with the obvious, I'd just like to point out that as far as High School goes, and other law required schooling goes, it doesn't work. Kids don't take learning seriously, I'd know, believe it or not, I was once a kid in High school too, and it was only, give or take, a year or so ago that I actually graduated.
Kids generally don't care all too much about their education. This wasn't a problem, back in the good old days, when school actually required effort.
It turns out now, though, that instead of placing the blame on a failing kid on the kid themselves, the blame is placed on the teachers. Not only this, but the whole "core assessment" thing they added for each state is kind of pointless, it wastes most of the kids' schooling careers preparing for tests that do absolutely nothing for them. Back in the day the blame was on the kid, if they passed, they passed, if they failed, they failed. Yet somehow, even though the scores needed to pass are getting higher, so is the average score for the same quality of work, so it narrows itself out.
Because clearly, I cannot see how rigging the school system in the favor of lazy kids can ever come back to haunt us.
I am very sure that this has a lot to do with the US being so far behind in education compared to many other nations. So making failing kids more likely to go into colleges, where it's also becoming easier to pass (But a whole lot more expensive) and then them getting jobs is absolutely the best way to make the US look good.
It's like stamping the FDA seal of approval on garbage to make it look like the US has varied tastes.
Also, it's not really that we're lowering our standards, in a way, our standards have always been low. As has been said in the comments, arts and such are always the first to go with budget cuts. Which is funny, because in the most education oriented civilizations in the world like Rome and Greece, art was always a really big deal.
They don't want the US kids to be educated. They want them to be adequate sheep. They want you be smart enough to "Push this button" but don't want you to be intellectual enough to ask "why?".
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