• Obama: U.S. must reform "No Child Left Behind"
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Cough. Hard to do with the 900 million dollar budget cut here in Wiscosnin. Fuck you, Scott Walker.
No child left behind... unless you're a problem kid who possesses drugs or cuts classes, then we're expelling your ass. Anyway, the problem with the educational system is a simple one, it's standard, it's boring and nobody gives a fuck. The people who do well under our current system do so simply because they were raised to submit themselves to this abomination known as public schooling and even they admit it's boring, non-challenging repetitive slop.
[QUOTE=s0beit;28611211]No child left behind... unless you're a problem kid who possesses drugs or cuts classes, then we're expelling your ass. Anyway, the problem with the educational system is a simple one, it's standard, it's boring and nobody gives a fuck. The people who do well under our current system do so simply because they were raised to submit themselves to this abomination known as public schooling and even they admit it's boring, non-challenging repetitive slop.[/QUOTE] Yeah, this system needs to improve. In school you just go through the motions all day for 12 years so you can finally get a low level job. Then in college it's slightly better, because you can pick what you want to do, but then there's the general education requirements that are still kind of bad. I recognize there are important things such as English and some mathematics, but really now, there has to be something better.
[QUOTE=lum1naire;28607435]yo yo im from harlem and we ball hard all day our test scores suk so ye dis is good for us ballers down in ny tryin to do it big[/QUOTE] It's not good enough representation if I can understand it
Can we aim at getting better teachers? Cutting their jobs doesn't really help either short or long-term.
Education needs less funding and more thinking.
I doubt it's even the teacher's faults in most cases, yeah in a lot of cases they suck but they're pretty much compelled to teach in a sucky way. It isn't their fault. It's the standardized school system. Second, there is virtually no reward system. There is no incentive to succeed in early grades beyond "you won't be punished if you do X" or "It will help you in 10 years" which to a lot of kids doesn't mean anything at all. Finally, why is schooling public anyway? I mean, let's say you want to provide schooling to people on public funds. Fine, fair enough - why aren't people getting some kind of credit system so you can choose where you want to go to school. Why are the schools owned by the state? Why do schools get students based on geographical location? The state could pay for each kid's schooling and they could choose where they want to go (or parents, actually) and each school would still have to compete against one another for those credits (which can be converted to funds by the government, the more students you have the more money you get). I think that would fix the standardization problems and the problem that schools are actually rewarded based on how much they fail often times.
There are a shitload of teachers who come in on these month long programs. Basically someone from another job decides to become a teacher, they get a crash course in teaching any given subject, then immediately thrown into a job. The success rate of them actually being good at it is extremely low. This year we got some Asian from MIT to teach us calculus, and he used to be a chemist of some sort. We were fucked. I still don't get why they keep cutting funds to schools more and more. We can afford to pay someone millions of dollars for a TV show or to play a sport, but we can't give more money to education? I mean seriously, at my school we've had to cut out class periods and lay off an increasingly large amount of teachers per year, only for them to realize they laid off one they needed and have to hire more in their place. It's getting ridiculous.
[QUOTE=Jund;28611368]It's not good enough representation if I can understand it[/QUOTE] are you trying to say you can't understand black people? ban racism ban
I have an idea, how about not cutting education budgets to pay for stupid wars on terrorism and drugs.
The No Child Left Behind program needs a reform. Right now it is fucking ridiculous.
Reform on Capitol Hill is already replacing 'Removal'. They reform the shit out of everything to the point where it doesn't even resemble the bill that was originally introduced.
[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;28612720]Reform on Capitol Hill is already replacing 'Removal'. They reform the shit out of everything to the point where it doesn't even resemble the bill that was originally introduced.[/QUOTE] So what? Get with the times.
Oh God help me, I agree with Obama!
I must be insane, because I agree with him on this too. I just hope he doesn't make it worse.
Holy shit, the end is neigh. Glaber agreed with Obama.
NCLB isn't going to help education reform, just remove it completely
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLRQvK2-iqQ[/media] [editline]15th March 2011[/editline] 7:05
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