Poll: Does the current school system actually work?

[luckshot]

schools are becoming over concerned about self esteem, zero tolerance laws (kid had a box cutter in his car -for work- and got expelled), and meeting misjudged and ill advised federal government standards.

these problems lead to little actual useful information being learned and leaves those college bound unprepared, at least in Minnesota

 

[Tattaglia]

The best way to fix the school system is quite simple
GET THE PARENTS TO F*CKING PRESSURE THE KIDS
thats why asians always seem to do better, their parents pressure the children into doing better. Not everyone can go to harvard andget a PhD, but ever kid in the USA could graduate from high school with a gpa above 3.5, the way they have lowered the difficulty in this country's school system

Fail. I shouldn't have to go into this ignorant post, and I won't.

 

[countrysteaksauce]

Complain all you want now; it won't change a thing.
Besides, when you get to the university, high school will seem very trivial.

Also, quit complaining about essays and actually get good at writing them. You will be writing those until the end of your education.

 

[TxMxRonin]

I think we school only have to go to core classes like math, science, english, and history. Everything else is just a waste of time. And if we only had four classes to actually go to then school would be like 3-4 hours instead of 7-8 like most.

 

[Scarecrow38]

As an Australian I know next to nothing about the education system in the United States other than that the public schools are way underfunded and sport seems to be more important that academic success ( very ironic).

So I'm going to respond to the talk that we shouldn't learn subjects that aren't applicable directly to our life and dream job.

It's all about developing your capacity to think and to consider different ideas and processes, as well as building your general knowledge about the world you live in. It might even help you choose what subjects to study later in your schooling.

From what I've heard and seen though, Americans should be learning geography and history as much as they can. Seems like if I asked some Americans to point to my home country (Australia) on a globe, there'd by alot of people trying to find that small country near Germany where Beethoven lived.