Why The Education System Is Failing America | CNBC Marathon
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- Опубликовано: 28 апр 2024
- CNBC Marathon explores if why the education system in the U.S. is struggling by taking a hard look at the Common Core, teacher’s salaries and sex education.
First implemented in 2009, Common Core was an ambitious initiative to revolutionize the American education system. National leaders from Bill Gates to President Obama supported the idea and it cost an estimated $15.8 billion to implement. Years later, research showed the new curriculum had minimal impact on student performance. So why did Common Core fail? Can a common curriculum be successful for all students?
At the same time, teachers earn nearly 20% less than other professionals with similar education and experience, according to the Economic Policy Institute. In many states, their wages are below the living wage, forcing teachers to seek secondary jobs to supplement their income or leave the profession all together. So why are teachers paid so little and how can the U.S. fix that?
And the majority of U.S. students report they've had sex before graduation, which means the type of sex education they receive can be a big deal, for themselves personally and for the economy. The federal government doesn't have any official regulations for what schools must include in sex education curriculum, which has lead to inconsistent lessons across the country. Watch the video above to learn why sex education is so crucial for the economy and what happens when some students are left behind.
CNBC Marathon brings together the best of CNBC’s education coverage on RUclips.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:31 How Common Core Broke U.S. Schools (Published Aug. 2021)
14:30 Why Teachers Are Paid So Little In The U.S. (Published Dec. 2020)
25:51 Why Sex Education Is So Bad In The U.S. (Published Dec. 2021)
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Why The Education System Is Failing America | CNBC Marathon
I think we can all agree the schools need to incorporate financial education all throughout high school.
That has been omitted on purpose.
Has everyone even been hit by A school bus when it's going backward.
I think we can ALL agree that these kinds of suggestions will amount to nothing in the end. And by nothing, I mean that it's NEVER going to be taught/happen. Teaching kids 'bout finances so that there's more competition? There's a reason why the rich elites are sitting comfortably at the top 1%, and would rather keep it that way.
You cant even do algibra right.............
We need more scientists, not financial advisors. China is eating us for lunch.
As a teacher (not the American curriculum) I'd like to say that we shouldn't be sending children homework that they can't do by themselves! If students are unable to understand what is coming home with them there are huge problems with the programmes/teaching!
Well said! But even when the student is made to understand they do not do the exercises necessary to gain competence and then be able apply the principles.
I believe homework isn’t good. Kids are in school 7 hours a day and they have to homework again. They’re should be more reading in my opinion.
@@777sweet yes! Yes!! Yes!!! I so agree.
@@peterbradshaw8018 the comment below, concerning getting kids to read books in some ways addresses your excellent comment.
Agreed. Growing up I never had parents supporoting my homework. Aprart from art class where mum had done some of my paintings.
I read a story of an Indian IT guy who spent five years working in the USA. He had a daughter aged 10 who was proficient in math when she left India. She did well in math in her America school. When she returned to India aged 15 she was given a placement exam at her new school to see which grade she should placed in. She came home crying to her parents as she was two years behind in math compared to the other 15 year old girls!
So , What are you trying to say ? Bro
Aren't most other countries more rigorous in education regardless?
I remember kids from Asia and South America laughing at how our senior level education was stuff they learned two or three years ago.
@@carlokrish1779 indias math standards are higher than USAs
Kids don't need more than algebra to do well in life. Advanced math is a specialization for those who has the mind for it. You can tell stories about how Indian or Asian are better at math, but look at where innovations are at. Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google. All US companies. It's so stupid to compare which country kids know more about math.
@@HevaNaisdey because they hire indians and asians with H1B visas because americans cant do math. They would rather outsource to cheap immigrants than invest in their own people
I find it interesting that student behavior is not being addressed here. Teachers are expected to teach much more than subject content today. Emotional, social curriculum are a large part of the day. Addressing student violence in the classroom is the largest part of teacher/student intetaction. Teachers must be therapists and policemen to get through the day.
I wrote about that at the top of the thread. You're right. It all starts at home.
Agree. The big problem that is not being talked about. Why?
Lies again? High School Humiliating Singapore
The students are woke because the school system is woke.
@@gorilladisco9108Can you stop with the woke stuff it’s not funny anymore
What most people don't understand is that basic education is 80% culture. You can't just write a list of things to learn, you need to design an engaging environment for people to receive information and play out tests. You also need to include the parents of children to make them understand and play in key of the curriculum.
So true
You don't "need to design" anything. People are exposed to their own culture _by existing._
What you say is true. However, there is a set of things every student needs to know in order to function in the work force -- and as a citizen. To start, everyone needs basic math. They need to be able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide. Maybe there are different ways to learn those skills -- but learning them is essential.
@@Globovoyeur What's your point? You say that as if OP (or someone, anyone) is not saying it (quote: "However")
@@smorrow I think you are wrong, you do need to design the world we live in. Children spend the majority of their time with school and they need some form of culture to identify with. Sitting at a desk and solving equations is not culture or a way of life. At least it shouldn't be.
Lady in video is correct. Teachers literally have the future in front of them every day, yet only see themselves as over glorified babysitters and parents see them the same way. Raising well educated humans starts with the parents:)
Yeah that starts with not seeing 4 year olds plus as babies. Especially when they reach 7 lol. If your kid can't clean after themselves or know basic multiplication by age the parent/teacher failed them.
But all hope js not lost. That kid is still capable of catching up
Don't make babies, make robots with A.I. that way U.S people will all have a common core, pushing kids past their limits will only cause rise in suicide cases and depression in young cases.
But teachers are not well paid. The children are very spoiled. LGTB, feminism, BLM, woke culture. The students go like vampire, gothic.
@@b.b.s7545 the parents have failed not the teachers.
Good Parents r currently OverWorked, Underpaid , exhausted and overly stressed in America
I'm from Japan. I used to get moral classes for 12 years from elementary school to high school. I realised American schools never teach children how to take care of things around them. There are trash all over the place, there are people saying hash words to others, and they never feel guilty about it. I was shocked. This is due to education. Recently activists like transgenders, black, feminism, fat embrace, really stands out as a representation of this country. I have seen videos where they are even abusing children through their own "opinions". I apologise if I offend anyone in advance, but I'm taking current western situations as the result of lack of fundamental education. Just having creative opinions and having opinions with the fundamental educational knowledge is never the same. People can be creative but resulting bad influence to others. The education knowledge has been passed down through people. People here does not have perspective of respecting towards things that have been passed down. Schools are not only just for taking math, language, science, politics and history. Creative thinking classes are great, but without morals and manners, people not only fail to take care of themselves but also others, resulting conflicts. The most important thing as a human being is to continue improving ourselves for the best life, continue supporting each others for their best life, and to make the world better place. This is not the fault of these activists. This is the fault of country's education system. When the education fails, the country corrupts.
Wish we had the Japanese culture to teach women their place in the home and that other races shouldn’t live amongst us. Ask the people of China and Korea about the manners of the Japanese.
Very good take on the problems on the American education system. I think lacking of respect on knowledge and education is quite common in the schools. If you don’t respect education to begin with, then you won’t be successful in education.
That is an interesting observation and difference between the Japanese and United States culture. Part of that is becuase in the United States we have a two party political system that are very vocally morally different which leads to parents not wanting teachers to teach subjects like what you have suggested. That's also why many classes have left the curriculum in the US such as civics, financial literary, homemaking (classes that teach basic cooking, how to balance your check book, pay bills ext).
I'm a second year teacher in Las Vegas. That first year I worked harder than I had at any point in my entire previous career. I used to be a programmer for 30 years making 6 figures for most of that time. I quit after saving up a retirement nest egg and started teaching because I had always wanted to give kids the advice and wisdom of my experience that I wish I had had when I was in high school. I'm going to keep at it for another couple of years and hope it gets easier.
OMG, amazing career change! Congratulations on your successes and good luck ahead! 😀
Shift that mindset from "hoping it gets easier" toward "believing that you will be able handle it better."
Las Vegas is one of the last cities to take education serious because the whole city revolves around the gaming industry so it’s all service jobs. It’s really about who u know not what u know which is y even the parents don’t really care a lot of the times.
That’s very brave. Focus on the kids and you’ll make a positive change!
@@MrTrapaholic33 My daughter is in 5th grade. Most of her class is below average for reading and math. The teachers told me many are at 2nd grade level. Horrible. I had my daughter in a private school for several years; the amount of homework AND classwork sent home was disgusting. The teachers in those private schools have absolutely no time to teach. Every one of those teachers never stayed. They would leave in the middle of the school year. I wonder why? I am thinking about homeschooling my child starting in 6th grade. Systems are broken; they serve an agenda rather than actual education. I am in Las Vegas by the way. Yay for us.
As someone who grew up doing Common Core-
It just took time away from learning things that were actually useful in class, it frustrated the teachers attempting to teach it, and it cost the school a lot of money to get all the printed math books and other Common Core materials for essentially no benefit to the students.
I can’t recall a single time Common Core was spoken of positively by the teachers or the other students.
Capitalism
Costed ain't a word bruh. 🤭
you have to pic up elites from the crowed , by how? ofcause based on IQ, or in your opinoin, what should be done? just compare th capital members nowadays with 60s, they looks stupid nowadays.......
It’s training students grow backwards
yes I remember teachers themselves complaining about its value
I've taught the A-levels (UK) and the Florida/Michigan curriculum at international schools. The US has a lot less focus than the UK. Americans are confused about what "raising standards" really entails. Foreign curriculum pushes students to master a smaller set of skills with smaller textbooks and more essay writing whereas the US focuses on a wider range of concepts with superficial multiple choice polling. Often this leads to foreign students having mastery and being well spoken about foundational concepts while American students win trivia night but can't really explain why the know something.
As I watched the video I was wondering about that. I follow this topic but have never seen anything about actual curriculum comparisons. When I retired as an engineer our local school district called and asked me to teach high school algebra because they were short a couple teachers. It was a pretty terrible experience; the stress for me wasn't the students it was the extremely rigid curriculum and testing schedule. The curriculum covered things in 10th grade geometry I'd never seen in college, let alone high school- same with algebra. I'm pretty sure I never used more than the first half of any American text book in classes I took as a youngster. The book that got me through first year calculus was the size of a paperback novel written by a British teacher in 1920's. Is there any information comparing European and American curriculums?
There are videos on Utube that show students at Harvard have no grasp of common knowledge that students from around the world take for granted.
Nailed it!
True. Have a look at the PISA test. It measures reading, science and math performance by having 15-year-olds solve practical problems. It provides a basis for comparing school effectiveness around the world.
@@LadyMiner100 what kind of engineer were you?
I'm an engineer and that first example of common core is similar to how I do math in my head. Some people actually understand math and others just plug in equations or follow procedures. There are times for both methods, not everyone goes into STEM and really it is about results. Keep what works and use what works best for you.
EXACTLY! Back in the day they didn't allow us to use mental math, because we had to show our work. Too many teachers are still expecting students to show the work that they are doing in their heads, which was meant to actually be the process going on in their heads. I think once a kid proves that they can do it and show their work on paper successfully, they shouldn't have to keep showing all the different steps. That's how I taught it in 2nd grade anyway. The point was for them to find the way that worked for them.
Same. I am an engineer also and the very first example I automatically counted up to 100 then added
I’m 38 and learning pre-algebra and algebra to help my nephew. I’ve never passed a math class in my life. I always got pity passed, all the way up until graduation. But I’m loving math now.
IMO, the issue is that learning isn’t fun in America. It’s too stressful, rigid, and structured to cater to a small percent of the population.
School is prison. You don’t go there to learn and grow. You go to sit down, shut up, and follow along. Give these kids some conversions with their language in it. Convert if you have 50 hp left, 3 men to cover, and 93 bullets…who dies first. Kids are pretty relatable. They are always trying to tell us what they love. I have never understood why adults don’t speak youth.
I was a university supervisor for student teachers for 22 years. I taught (beginning in secondary school and then moving to college and university levels) for 53 years. Huge changes in education. Expectations were lowered to meet the bottom of the barrel learners. Cooperative learning teamed the brightest with the weakest----and both groups were the losers. Behavioral and disciplinary problems abound. When the support personnel---social workers, psychologists, aides, nurses, etc.----outnumber the teaching staff, then something is wrong. It's all about the HOME LIFE!!! When parents take an interest and are actively involved in their children's education, that message of "We care" is received by children. When parents don't care if the children even attend school, know how to hold a pencil (by age 5), know basic colors/numbers/the alphabet, then that child is already behind the learning curve. It's also a matter of values----so many people don't care about education; rather, it's drugs, alcohol, designer clothing, blingy jewelry, and hair and nail appointments that are far more important than schooling. Standards keep being lowered; everything must be geared to social justice and equity----well, it's a proven fact that no matter how much money is poured into education the results continue to decline at a dramatic pace. All the money in the world isn't going to fix a society that doesn't value education. All the money in the world isn't going to fix broken homes or homes where baby daddies are the norm. All the money in the world isn't going to fix parental apathy and neglect. All the money in the world isn't going to change the social promotion reality that sees students reading on the 5th grade level and graduating from high school. Sweeping changes are needed in America's schools----and not dumbing down of the curriculum and the including of every fad and trend that administrators endorse. Our educational system
has been failing for years, and right now it's on life support. I don't see things getting any better anytime soon. Common sense and standards went out the window long ago.
That's why the smart money is removing children from public schools and placing them in a learning environment where they are expected to be active learners and not passive occupants of seats.
The problem is also bigots.
I grew up in sub saharan Africa but my kids were born in the US. I tried to help my son with home work and was shocked at what they were learning. It does not match up with the grades. I had to ask my family to send me textbooks from back home to help my son. Now he is excelling in math. I plan to do the same for physics and Chemistry when he gets to middle school. They already actually do a really good job in biology/science and IT.
@@jusplay7309 it’s not the teachers not wanting to uphold standards and enforce quality academics. It’s the people on the top making the decisions of how the American public school system operates, the policies and procedures to follow. Teachers just follow whether it’s the right or wrong way.
That was written beautifully- you should run for president and fix it for us all ❤️
Very articulated comment, thanks for sharing your thoughts
I was an an honor student with an A+ in calculus. I had such a difficult time helping my kid with her common core math homework. I only confused her more because I tried teaching her the traditional way but she was required to show her work the common core way. It was frustrating. I took her out of public school and now she is thriving in homeschool.
3 years ago I learned common core system from one education video when my first kids turned 4. I am educated in China. After all these confusing trash, I am very suspicious about US education. Later on I start homeschooling on all my kids. They are doing great, especially on Math.
my granddaughter too and im so glad
I’m a speech-language pathologist and I had a terrible time figuring out my child’s homework. I looked up the lesson online and helped him learn it they way it was taught but also taught him the way I learned it.
Good for you. If I find out that they are still teaching common core in my child's school, I'm just gonna take her out. I want my child to go to school, but I want her to actually learn.
Only way to success
One thing I also noticed during my time in HS was that all the counselors and most teacher PUSHED going to college. I never got asked what I wanted in life or how I was doing or if I liked my classes it was always “this class is eligible for college credit” “this class won’t get you ready for college” “what college you want to go to?” “Community college?! NO! 4 year colleges are much better”.
Not everyone has thr aptitude to go to a 4 year, even if they are qualified
The aptitude? The derogatory tone you used is a great example on the existence of the belief that college educated people are somehow smarter than blue collar workers. Well, i can tell you some of the smartest and richest people i know are business owners, plumbers, electricians, contractors, landscapers, etc. Meanwhile i see college grads working at Starbucks and have no life skills.
Yea I have no idea what I’m goin to do with my future but I thought there ain’t no money to be made with just my highschool diploma so I gotta go to school and get a skill
I’m lucky, my school was less focused on sending students to college, and just getting them across the board, for example, we had a career center that students were sent to Junior and Senior year.
College and University didn’t used to be just a money maker for the central banks. It used to be a part of being a well rounded and groomed person. It was American culture when intellectualism wasn’t seen as being a bad thing. Now people get mad at you if you present fact instead of adhering to the “court of popular opinion and tropes.” It makes them feel bad about themselves. It still is good to be educated, I have no regrets, but the jobs are gone. Unions were pushed out of states by republicans, starting with Reagan. And global economy was sold to us as something that would benefit our country. Instead, the shareholders and banks price gouged the cost of college and shipped the jobs overseas or opted to pay less money to six month visa holders. They worked for far less money. Corporations sold us out and our government is run by the donor class of corporations. Vote on November 8th. Vote out the people who voted to let Freddie Mac and Fanny Mae hold us in debt slavery to serve their hedge-fund managers. Vote against those who voted “no” to stopping the petroleum companies for price gouging gasoline, food, and other things. The Party of “individual ruggedness for the worker and corporate welfare for the rich.” It’s obvious who they are if you look at how they vote.
The problem has never been the method, it’s the anti-intellectual attitudes, the horrible relationship to failure, the socioeconomic discrepancies that impact learning, the conflation of rigor and private education, horrendous educator salaries, property taxes and “good schools,” gaslighting, gatekeeping, and the politicization, commodification, and censorship of curricula.
Look at the curricula and you'll see what passes as education. It is not (as it was in my day) the 3 R's. It is "citizenship." White - bad, black - good. Male - bad, female - good. Straight - bad, LGBTLMNOP - good. Our system indoctrinates FAR MORE than it educates. Why - because parents can't be trusted to go along with woke nonsense.
The best summary here
@@admiralfirelam 😊
Tried to force as many big words in there that you can in an attempt to sound smart huh? Smart people talk in a way that everyone can understand. They don’t just throw around the largest buzz words Google will give them. The issues are, 1. They no longer teach facts. They just force feelings above all else. And 2. School became a for profit institution instead of a center for education. No one has a “horrible relationship with failure” lol. That construction of words screams “PLEASE BELIEVE IM SMART!!!!!!!!!” Like seriously, what 6 year old in 1st grade has “socioeconomic discrepancies”? That’s just silly. Not to mention “the conflation of rigor”. LOL
How is the curriculum commodified?
Many reasons why:
1. Politician changes in every state, cutting funds and programs affect students. 2. Administration and Teachers shortages. 3. Lack of Emotional and Mental support in schools (again shortages or limitations in school guidance counselors and school psychologist 4. No fun educational field trips and fun learning activities (again lack of fundings). 5. Overcrowded schools unbalanced student: teacher ratio. 6. Routinely rigorous work and no time or space for creativity (again overcrowded schools). 7. No proper or disciplinary action taken (ineffective detention and no sense of giving students responsibility).8.Schools and teachers too busy to even recognize students achievements.
9. Society is set up where mainly both parents need to work to get by. Reducing time with raising children and placing more reliance on the school system to do the education.
Now the incoming lady in Baltimore County, she's cutting $2.7 million from schools in Maryland which is devastating and firing teachers not helping, there's children who wander the hallways and starting fights for attention.
My greatest concern is how to recover from all these economic and global troubles and stay afloat especially with the political power tussle going on in the America..
@@andrewstephens7096
"bigger risk, bigger reward" says the gambler at the roulette table where all the numbers on the wheel and the casino itself are all stacked against them.
There are times when one must cut one's losses and ties to the money pit and stop throwing good money after bad.
What needs to happen in the US is people need to come together and work with each other to solve and find solutions to the countries problems. The US is so divided. People can’t agree with each other. Good example is Republicans versus Democrats. It’s the culture of how Americans are and how they are brought up, (bully mentality), everyone wants to be right, and not be told how to do things, otherwise your wrong, can’t work together. Until people can work with each other, the problems of the US will continue to pile up and the country will continue to decline. Not IMO, but as mentioned by many well known university professors and economic experts. The US empire will continue to decline and eventually collapse. It’s a sad reality to accept, but that’s the truth.
I can't believe you guys haven't caught on to the fact that since Kentucky legalized marriage to 13 year old children (who by the way most were begging NOT to be married to GROWN men who the majority of which were in their 30s and 40s!!) Actually had no choice because the PARENTS said it was ok (Parent concent only means that the parent can agree to marry off the child regardless of what the child wants), is causing massive drop outside in school as is forcing children to give birth to children. Which directly affects why American schools are doing so poorly in having our kids succeed!
Ignoring that fact is as stupid as ignoring people complaining about the cost of things going up but at the same time demanding higher wages! They are too ignorant to realize that if companies raise wages they HAVE to raise the cost of things just to pay those wages!!
More babies being born means the cost of things HAVE TO GO UP TO PRODUCE MORE TO COVER FOR THOSE NEE BABIES FORCED ON TO CHILDREN.
It is really simple why our schools are failing. It is a fact that no one wants to admit! Which only shows how wrong it is to force children to be mothers!!
@natalieanderson842
I recommend forging ahead and keeping your eyes peeled for events that can help you with your situation. There's not really a shortcut through life.
As my Mom always said:
Can't go under it,
Can't go over it,
Can't go around it;
Gotta go through it.
The culture needs to change, but that won’t happen because people don’t want it to change. They hold on to the belief, to the culture which made America and what is it is all about. Many people in America hold on to the belief they are always right, and no one tells them what to do, thus not obeying or following authorities directions, they will instead tell you what to do. People can’t work together. That’s the whole culture of many in Americans and seem to be viewed by others like bullies. Until that culture and way of life changes, it will remain divided and nothing will recover or progress be made in anything.
I’ll never forget when one of my teachers was subtly discussing the pay teachers get years ago, and she mumbled “I’m basically working for free”. Kinda broke me at the moment not goin lie.
as an adult, she had choices and one of them it was not to discuss his labor status issues with children. she was talking to the wrong people!!!!! ask for a salary rise or leave, period.
In CA the state pays about $25k per student per year. In NY it's higher. Where is the $$$ going?
@@perugino25 screw your “don’t tell children teachers are underpaid” opinion. Very dumb and prideful opinion. What is this? Depression era parents being ashamed to tell their kids they are poor?
@@perugino25 really? My teachers were awesome and respected in the 90s. It's the system. You want quality education for your kids? Fix the gun problem so kids feel safe, increase wages and improve benefits, make schools pay for their own damn supplies, and freaking reduce the inflated price of educating new teachers. You all want want want and don't want to pay up. At will doesn't mean no rights.
@@perugino25 Individual action is not the solution to a systemic problem.
What I found most incredible was that they developed the curriculum, and then rolled it out immediately. They didn't bother to do trial runs to see how it would fly. No surprise that it crashed. Reminds me of New Math in the 60's and No Child Left Behind in the 2000's. You want better student outcomes, you need to have continuous research in what works best, and then actually teach it to the teachers. Raising output expectations (standards) isn't going to automatically raise output results.
Standards can raise expectations but locals are responsible for effective classwork!
Standards are lists of skills to learn BUT LOCALS still control how to teach, testing & teacher training! Amazing that people expect standards or NCLB, to raise results when LOCALS still control classwork!!
States had 3 decades to test standards BEFORE Common Core while locals & textbooks before & STILL control currlicula (classwork).
NAEP (nation report card) shows top performing & most improved states use CC!
Why not discuss why CC is MUCH better than 90% of previous standards (why were standards so poor before CC) but STILL suffer from ineffective classwork????
Teachers, INCLUDING early childhood teachers, are not paid according to their worth and fully supported by administrators. Can’t support a classroom full of children without fully a supported teacher!
I agree, but one does not become a teacher to be rich. Considering teachers only work 9 months a year with all holidays off, they should expect a lower pay check.
I’m Japanese and grow up in Japan went to US high school for a year as an international exchange student. It’s hard to understand English first but content of text was very easy for me. Japanese school teacher teach much more content so students have to study long hours.
So I felt US students were lucky not to feel any pressure to study. They seemed they could focus on sport, hobbies, party, and vacations. Lol
Think of it like this, Kids in the US are treated Special as their parents are Rich and influential. Let me explain - School fees cost 'very high' in the US if you compare it with any other country. So basically only really super rich people mostly can afford to send their kids to a decent school. So education is really not the only survival tool for such individuals + extracurricular activities and sports have more cultural value than in Asian countries.. In short, I feel in a country of the rich trying to become the Super rich everyone is a winner and treated like 'Royalty!' who cares how educated or skilled you are in the job market when your parents have enough money to go around?
excesses are also bad
@@manukun1187 you know in France the school day is from 8:30 to 5:00 and they also have school on Saturday. That’s what we call excess.
As a Japanese, I always feel kind of embarrassed when I read a comment starting “I’m Japanese blah blah blah….”
@@varunemani schooling is free in America what do u mean
The main issue with the education system is that students are no longer being taught on HOW to find the answer. Instead they are being taught to using one technique and if they use any other method then they're wrong. My math teacher literally gave me a 70% just because I used a different method to get the answer. It's like they're telling us that there are no other ways except one way and that's not even true. For example, 2+2=4 my method of getting 4 is by adding 2 and 2 together. But my teacher does 2+x=4 and subtracts 4-2 and that equals 2 so that means her answer is true. If i choose any other method even if my method ends up bringing me to the correct answer, I still get it wrong because it wasn't her method. Terrible system
@@gurtygee how does my example not make sense? 2+2=4 there are multiple ways of getting 4 as the answer. The issue is that I got the answer wrong because I didn’t do 2+x=4.
@@FarosYT I think she wanted to to find the value of x. That’s algebra 101, not arithmetic which is adding, subtracting etc. algebra is a whole different ball game
@@lis819 no she didn’t, she never told us that we had to solve the equation a specific way. The question said solve the equation and thats it. It didn’t say solve for x
@libenstocks8219 Solving 2+2=4 is easy, and anyone can do that. But if you want to find out 56,215+ ? =71,938, you need to use your teacher's method. I believe your teacher is correct. She did not want you to know the answer only rather she wanted you to understand the technique so you can use it to slove for any numbers.
@@3332003 it was an example. There are multiple ways of getting an answer. She shouldn’t limit any of her students capabilities just because they didn’t solve an equation her way. That’s stupid
I didn't plan it this way at all, but having kids later in life turned out to be beneficial. When I finally met my husband, we were both established in our careers which meant we could afford private school for our kids. The wait was worth it. The public school system sounds like a nightmare.
It's not, if you want to learn. Many people don't care. But you get out of education what you put into it. Teachers can tell.
@@DebNKY Kid don't wan to learn you have to force them . That problem in American system , you guy all think kid smart enough to make long term decision all by themselves without parent guide and discipline
@@goblincomic4522 Kid's want and love to learn just like adults. It's about how to intrigued the curiosity and creating passion.
Every teacher deserves to have support. More teacher assistants and paraprofessionals are needed in the classrooms.
Education starts at home...Maybe there needs to be a culture to nurture and appreciate Education in general
Thank you i
America definitely isn't that culture
Many parents don't teach their kids to care about education... and they just blame the teacher for failing their kids.
Never let school get in the way of your education
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I went to school in a “3rd world country” but when I moved to the US, I was ahead of everyone im my grade they wanted me to skip a grade but my dad said no because he wanted me to learn English. I was shocked when I came to the US. At 8, I was doing two digit multiplication and division back home and when I came to the US, they were just starting multiplication. At just 8 yrs old, I had one hour of homework and also had poetry class where we had to memorize poems and recite them in class. The only thing I like about US education system is that they encourage critical thinking. Back home I felt like a robot. I was suppose to read the book and regurgitate everything back to the teacher word for word, even on tests and quizzes.
That is the same with me. It is too robotic
What country
@@starsworld6016 Haiti. She’s right. I had the same experience
Lies. I’m from Europe and the school isn’t good in Europe either. No one knows algebra or common sciences or any other subject. Most people around the world are dropouts. Not just the USA.
Third world education I doubt that, as education mostly deals with the intelligence levels of students.
I dont think the education system is bad until you get to high school. We need to be teaching real world skills like money management all throughout hign school.
The school system failed me years ago.I’m struggling till this day😢
education is used to separate and maintain the social classes in the States. Rich only chooses the private to avoid public broken system
This.
no, now they put energy on lgbt stuff,thats why the elite is stupid now compared with 60s, you hate math, thats the problem..........
Pretty sure it’s used to educate people and make them aware of common facts???
Yeah the public School is used to keep the poor low while the private school is to raise up the elites.
Fortunately the elites cannot control all the Medecine the Sciences and the Math system.
There are 2 types of people in the world, those who solve problems and those who explain why the fail. Your comment is an explanation of failure.
My kid could do 3 digit adding and subtracting problems before kindergarten, and they handed her tenframe blocks. She had multiplication down by first grade, and they were separating numbers. They never would teach her at her level, so I finally got fed up and left. Teaching everyone the same system regardless of where they're actually at both leaves kids behind and pushes kids back.
completely agree, that's why classes should be divided into the needs of the kids, the problem is funding, there will not be enough funding, specially for middle to low class neighborhoods. The average size is 30 were a live, but wealthier schools have an average of 12 kids per class.
Problem is our educational system has become a factory. How can a teacher teach each individual student with a class of 20 to 30 kids. In my case, I had severe autism so I was put in a classroom with other people with autism. In the special Ed system I was under challenged and often did coloring books with simple mathematical problems while regular ed classes because it was mostly instruction, I zoned out. Then my parents got stuck reteaching me the material when I got home. You go to school to learn but then there isn't enough time in the classroom so you are stuck with doing homework. A 7 hour school day becomes a 12 hour day which is a lot for any student. The best learning environment would be smaller classrooms or smaller ratios but who has more money? Property taxes which helps to fund for schools is already through the roof for a lot of people.
Well, we’re taught to differentiate. So, if a student is ahead of other peers, we’d give that student more challenging work. We can’t teach what we want because we have a curriculum to follow and can get a negative rating if we deviate from that curriculum. And the school system is rigid on how to teach concepts like math. It’s gotten worst. When I was in kindergarten, I knew stuff that kids learn in 2nd grade now. Lastly, because laws mandate sped students to be in classes with non-sped students, it does kinda slow down other students who grasp concepts quickly or already know it. Overall, I agree with your comment.
Who cares about US education. Other countries laugh at us for our lack of good public education while we laugh at them for having crappy militaries and alway under threat from China or Russia. We laugh at then for not having a space agency or the ability to be self sufficient and feed their population from domestic agriculture. We laugh at them for not having a mining industry or a GPS system they own. We are better than the world and the only people who point out our weaknesses are people who are jealous of what we have. Our strengths cover our weaknesses as schools do not create entrepreneurs and the US has the most of them.
@@funveeable a lot of those could be related to the U.S. economically tampering with other countries to prevent them from developing their own. If we were such a flawless nation we would focus on our societal problems and create a more resilient economy from increasing quality of life competitively with other countries. But out of control corporations make us more money so...
When I was in elementary school I said to myself " the American education system is a joke" and I was like 9 years old when I realized this
As a Mexican I didn’t know us education system was so bad because you are a “developed” country.
Thanks for this piece. It would be helpful if we make a clear distinction between the "standards" at the policy level and the actual curriculum and instruction students receive. Those can be very different things. That's why you have so many parents saying things like, "Well, I have very high academic attainment (or I consider myself very smart) and the homework didn't align with how I was taught (or how I approach learning), so it must be trash." First, it was clear that published curriculum material claiming to be CCSS-ready and some teacher-made assignments were just crappy, regardless of how aligned it was with the CCSS. Second, the CCSS did not just emerge out of thin air. It was basically an integration of the science of learning math and English language arts. For instance, the science of learning math shows that actually using tools like a number line approach to understanding the underlying concepts of math helps students prepare better for the more advanced math ahead as compared to just memorizing procedures. It might also be helpful to mention the reason so many States hopped onto CCSS was not just to raise standards to compete on the world's stage -- which for some States was not really much of a motivation -- but also to save money on standardized testing.
America's public school students cannot compete with students educated in Japan, South Korea, China, and Finland. This needs to be remedied.
First the American culture needs to change in order for that to happen. To make education a priority. For parents, public and the government to see the importance of education. To respect the profession. Sadly that will never happen.
You are correct. Teachers should not be paid more money until they improve their performance.
For real. Education is a booming part of Asian culture especially and some tutors are even treated like celebrities. Trade off could possibly be mental health, so there needs to be a balance.
@@Kuro-zn7ph not in the US. Teachers are treated like dirt. And you
may wonder why most CEOS of large companies in America are from foreign countries
@@jjc6530 Precisely why only serious teachers should be hired - teachers who will be putting the academic needs of their students first and foremost. Liberal Agendas(TM) simply do not belong in taxpayer funded public schools.
I don't know what is not broken in America. Education is broken, College is too expensive, medical is crazy expensive, rent is expensive, what good is America
If everything is broken, then why are people still going to college, Starting businesses, inventing products, etc. why does everyone in the world come here for higher education. Why does everyone want to immigrate here.
Because we are not broken. We are the best damn country in the world!
@@douglastovey2685 I don’t understand how you look around and watch videos like this then still declare that there is nothing wrong with America
@@akea2957 didn’t say that nothing was broken. I did say best country in the world.
We have a choice. Hop on the complainer band wagon and rationalize why my life sucks. Or take care of myself and quit blaming everyone else for my misfortune.
@@akea2957 idk why people pretend everything is broken. Thats the responders point. America works, people come here. Some things are broken, others not.
@@douglastovey2685 Bro you don't even have proper Grammar. How can anyone that's educated take you seriously? 😂😂😂
Teachers receive little to no respect, low pay, long hours, many mandates and demands, never consulting the veteran teachers’ to lead based on experience. Three decades in and I am still treated and paid as if I just showed up.
It cost $16 billion to teach kids how to divide numbers differently. 🙄 our government is beyond out of control
Apologies for not watching the whole video. As a former student and a parent of students, I know the system was broken long before common core. I remember in college, my English 1 teacher had to give me a grammar guide, because I was so deficient on the basics--though I did well in English all through school. I had to take remedial math, because my high school didn't prepare me for college courses--though I graduated with the required credits.
Things have gone down since I was a student, and my kids had schools with very high standards, but very low expectations. That means there were a lot of advanced classes offered--like calculus--but so many ways to accept failure. They had to take history and social studies, but only had to PASS one! The policy of "No Child Left Behind" was an additional failure, as it meant no one failed or was held back, even though they wouldn't graduate on time. Kids were just left in education limbo until they earned enough credits to be ousted.
Too much government involvement means teachers aren't allowed to TEACH! We have some phenomenal teachers, who are underpaid, with far too much non-teaching responsibility heaped on them. Schools aren't just expected to educate students. Now, they've got to feed them, clothe them, teach them manners and how to get along, look out for abuse, deal with all their special needs, (and accompanying IEPs,) head off bullying, deal with allergies and medical conditions, worry about gender identity and sexuality, discipline fairly, deal with "helicopter parents," check the boxes for college prep, and deal with the ever-present worry over school shootings.
With all we're expecting from schools and teachers, it's a wonder anyone goes into this profession, or stays once they see the outlook.
Common core, like No Child Left Behind, is a great idea on paper, that fails in implementation. My kids went to school at a time when the policy was to insure teachers were well-educated. There was a push to make them go back to college for additional courses, and they were tested themselves on what they were teaching their students. It meant even more testing for students--to judge whether their teachers were up to the task. At the same time, they removed a lot of incentive for teachers to do better--like tenure. They promoted the best teachers out of the classroom. They took away teaching assistants due to the costs. They increased class sizes. And they started charter schools--which were experimental programs.
Imagine if all those billions spent on common core, were used to pay teachers more--and get out of their way.
Absolutely true
I agree that education is over regulated. It’s the reason why I went into teaching in the private sector.
Exactly!
That's a long read... Citizens are idiots and reject everything. No Child Left Behind was a helping hand. It didn't dictate anything. All schools must have exit exams like the rest of the world. Further, Charter Schools are Public schools.
@@hus390 Uh....as a parent who saw these things, let's just say my experiences were not your experiences. No Child Left Behind, didn't DO anything. There was no helping hand.
Charter schools are public schools--with experimental structure, goals, and focus. My experience is that those with means, and affluence were better able to take advantage of a charter school, and they were elitist.
"Citizens are idiots and reject everything." Really? That's not what my "long read" said. Most parents want what's best for their families. That's not "rejecting everything," its trying what's offered, and deciding if it works--or not.
For arguments sake, I went and read about what NCLB was supposed to do, and how. Funny, in NC, NONE of that was ever explained to parents. What we got out of it was a LOT of standardized testing, and a lowering of standards. They tested on the minimum, and didn't teach beyond it. It's probably why my kids only had to pass social studies OR history, since NCLB focus was on math and reading.
I'll stand by my assertion that government needs to get out of schools, let teachers teach, and PAY them!
I dropped out of high school when i was held back in 11th grade, and got my GED at 2 weeks before my 19th birthday, the GED tests were way easier than end of the year tests in regular school
The GED is a lot hard now. It changed back in the mid 2000's.
@El Mero Mero True, but university degrees are worthless these days. Work experience is the most important factor. You'd better be a welder with 10 years of experience vs. an unemployed or underemployed engineering fresh graduate
University degree is not worthless. You can argue university education could be worthless depending on the study, but not the degree.
@@pinetworkminer8377 My niece is a physician assistant. Tell her that her medical degree is worthless.
@@pinetworkminer8377 I think what you mean is that most (not all) college degrees are worthless. A college degree is only worth it when you want to be anything in the medical field or higher placed jobs
As an educator the biggest indicator of student success is motivation. Parents have by far the greatest impact on a child's motivation to learn. If the parents care about education so do their kids. If the parents send kids to school for free daycare the kids do not engage in learning, they are there for socializing. If a student shows up without a pencil every day, that student does not intend to learn. Stop putting the blame on the system and educators. With todays technology anyone who WANTS to learn anything can. "All generalizations are false: including this one."
My friend who worked at a lower income school district said the worst part was seeing the lack of involvement/effort that the parents were putting into their kids education. He taught at the high school level and saw multiple kids who had to drop out to start working full time. I don't think it's 100% the system or the parents. I think both need to step up. Because when they talked about the implementation of common core even the teachers thought it was ridiculous, but the individual teachers don't have much power to make changes, even the ones that would benefit their students.
And the internet is a double-edged sword, there's a lot of fantastic information out there that can be really helpful, but there's also a lot of misinformation out there too. And I thing navigating learning in this time of technology is an area where both schools and parents are falling behind in. You can't just give them a piece of technology and tell them to go learn stuff, younger kids need guidance while they're using technology.
I was a public school teacher in the 2009-2010 period referenced in this piece and the economy was poor so states made a decision to go with common core to get the federal dollars, not to improve education. Very glad to see this reported here as I feel this is often overlooked or unknown.
I was shocked when I moved to Germany and I was in the hospital and my nurse was literally only 17 years old putting a iv in n my arm. It was at this time I knew America's school system had a lot of work to do
Gah Dam 😂
To be fair, I'm a doctor and an IV cannula is something the average person could learn in like a week?
@@theorangecandle I emphatically disagree with you. Your statement indicated the contempt with which you view the nurses and CMA's that actually do this work and have attended college classes to attain this knowledge. What if someone said that anyone could easily learn what you know? I used to be a Registered Veterinary Technician and I know how difficult it can sometimes be, to place an IV, and the amount of care required to prevent an infection at the site.
You can not be a nurse at 17. You need a degree in any European country.
Common core didn't show improvement because the circumstances students learn in didn't change. The standards didn't take into consideration what environment is needed for students to improve, such as smaller class sizes, socioeconomic background, disability, language barriers, parental support, etc, etc
Thank you!!!
From an outside, looking in, I agreed that Common Core ignored student circumstances but I think the high hope toward any education system is the main reason for their failing. Majority of people and children don' t care about learning and that should be accepted. The education system are created to avoid having the problem of too much illiteracy and crime. If a student don' t bother to learn, a teacher can' t make him. They may try different ways and one of them may encourage him but ultimately it came to the student not the teacher or the textbooks. Throughout history and many countries, the main responsibility of teaching children to become capable adults falls toward the parent. The school systems are there to teach what the parents can' t.
Also, I don' t think class size matter as much to student as the motivation of the peers. Asian classes in developing countries range from 40 to 120. The best students are put in the same room and that the main reasons for their academic successes. Having the students teaching each other.
Common Core was a horrible curriculum, especially the math part. It taught very unnecessary and often confusing steps to solving a math problem.
You failed to include the major reason why common core failed, poor teaching ability. It is not credible that the multitude of nations who educate more effectively than the USA do not have socioeconomic background, disability, language barriers, parental support, etc.
@@AdrienLegendre All country complained about their education systems. Common core is a typical lousy top-down curriculum developed by intellectual-yet-idoit consultants/think-tanks, in the same veins as many others typical failed top-down reforms. I would said the reason why other nations educate more effectively is largely due to more Americans respected independent and rebellious heroes more than authorative teachers. Anti-intellectualism to put it more negatively, anti-authority to put it more positive.
Here in Tokyo over 25 years, I've seen the education system in action, from K-12. The high school students who homestay in the US are consistent in their description of their US math and science classes. They can literally sleep through them. Japanese kids who visited me in the States during the summers got up in the morning and first thing, with their parents helping, did their voluminous summer homework assignments. Every day, without fail.
I spent a year as an exchange studen at a US high school and even back then, the educational standard was ridiculously low, esp. in more challenging subjects like math, Physics, Chemistr and Biology.
From what country are you ?
So many parents don't want their children learning about things in the world that the children end up not learning much of anything.
Id say its the opposite.
Yup
@@Jaxboy86 your wrong,most parents are stupid
Putting a primary focus on fake pseudoscience like gender identity as well as SEL "social and emotional learning" constantly obsessing over social issues made the kids STUPID. They are pushed out the door while they can barely read. They have been making activists for over a decade. You can blame progressives, brainwashed people, and cowards for this.
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Homeschooler here. I use two curriculums; one includes common core. I think common core is ok, but sometimes, in math, it complicated things unnecessarily when kids just needed to focus on learning the concepts. So, there were times I did not use it. Our schools are failing because they are violent places, teachers are underpaid, there are too many kids in each class and students don't have hope! Kids need to have hope that what they are doing can get them out of their circumstances, they need all kinds of support, like food, trips out of their neighborhoods, exposure to finer things. Give a kid hope, a safe and dynamic environment, real food and words of encouragement and watch them go!
While I agree with you that there are too many kids in the classroom to be effective, I look at old school photos of the 1940’s and 1950’s there were 40-50 kids in an average Catholic school class. (People had a lot of kids back then). They seemed to make it work. It’s strange.
@@Mitzi73 Education in the 1940's and 1950's vs the 1980's (when I started school, 1980) was vastly different. School from 1995 when I graduated H.S. to now is vastly different. What students needed to know from 1940 until now has vastly changed. School back then was about making good factory workers. That's it
@@Mitzi73 The expectations are much higher now. I teach kindergarten and they are learning 3 times what I learned in kindergarten. They also use to beat the kids in those days, which of course I do not believe in.
I remember a teacher at my *private school* openly mocked the concept of homeschooling.
It's like, I get it, some homeschooling is bogus BS for lazy/bad parents, but for most part it's parents being concerned for their kids' education and safety. Public education sucks right now and is getting worse for the average person. It's becoming increasingly unsafe, more underfunded, and poorer in quality and support.
The elementary school in my neighborhood. The average size of the classroom is forty two students.
As a teacher it is very frustrating the curriculum. The whole thing of why fix something that was never broke is mind blowing. As well everyone now basically has a learning disability or emotional disadvantages and needs accommodations. The curriculum is very vague, as well formal testing is frowned upon until high school. Students are far from ready for post secondary education, given very little responsibility, no accountability and mainly given positive reinforcement no matter how wrong they are.
Sometimes you have to fail to succeed, Most times it amazes me greatly how I moved from an average lifestyle to earning over $63k per month, Utter shock is the word. I have understood a lot in the past few years that there are lots of opportunities in the financial market. The only thing is to know where to invest.
I agree with you and I believe that the secret to financial stability is having the right investment ideas to enable you earn more money, I don’t know who agrees with me but either way I recommend either real estate or bitcoin and stocks.
I keep wondering how people earn money in financial markets, i tried trading bitcoin on my own made a huge loss and now I'm scared of investing more...
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@@bjoe631 You allow people to trade for you? that's interesting, I would love to learn, hope it’s safe?
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The biggest problem with “raising standards” followed by standardized testing is that in the US we prop up the students to make sure the test scores are good. Additionally, math standards do not correlate with child brain development. They try to cram all these different math concepts at the elementary school level. Instead of focusing on basic whole number addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in prek-5, they also throw in decimals, fractions, negative numbers, early algebra, etc. Focus on whole numbers before moving on to fractions, negative numbers, and decimals and forget 6th grade algebra…..99 percent of children age 11 are not capable of grasping algebra. They can follow the algorithm for solving an algebra problem but they do not understand what they are doing. Trust me, it all catches up with them in higher level math.
what you say might sound good in theory but not so if implemented if math concepts are taught late their would be a huge burden of topics to cover in universities and one might have to spend years actually learning things instead of earning money which will put them in much more dept. imagine still studying in your 30's instead of taking responsibility and what about money? what you say might be good for rich kid with no responsibilities what so ever not for an average student
@@Titan-mq8bx I get what you are saying but math requires a lot of abstract thinking that can not be rushed. If you don’t completely understand the basics (+, - , x , division), you will have a hard time understanding the reasoning over something as basic as dividing fractions, correlation behind place value in decimals and fractions, etc. As an example, they start touching on adding fractions in 3rd grade when a lot of the kids still haven’t mastered adding/multiplying 3 digit whole numbers or subtracting a 3 digit whole number from a 2 digit whole number. How can a child be expected to grasp a fraction when they are still shaky with whole numbers. Why waste precious time talking about fractions when they need a little extra time on whole numbers. It is not a race. If a kid can grasp these concepts early, by all means move them further along in math. But by rushing them they only understand the “rules/algorithm” which will help them pass a test but blows up in their faces in algebra 2 and pre-calc. I taught general and special Ed and saw this over and over. Every single math teacher complained about how these kids with “high test scores” really did even have the basics down. They were good at memorizing rules but did not understand the the logic behind the “rules.” I have seen kids who had potential in math get completely side tracked because they were rushed along.
This is SO true. There are a few students ready to learn abstract concepts but many do not have the brain development yet. They memorize the formula but don’t understand the concept (yet). I believe a lot of math anxiety (“I’m bad at math”) starts around 5th grade when we try to teach concepts children aren’t ready to learn. They get frustrated and feel dumb. That feeling follows them into adulthood. Of course, there are exceptions which is why teachers differentiate instruction.
@@lizhoward9754 i agree on the point the syllabus system is so stupid like we were first taught quadratic equations in grade 9 and learn about the formula in grade 10 and in grade 11 they taught us about complex numbers and then what happens when b^2-4ac
@@lizhoward9754 I felt a lot of heat in grade 10 11 like i was never used to learning so many new concepts in short period of time cuz in previous years they just continued teaching volumes and triangle which weren't really different or odd from other concepts learned in previous classes. I guess there are downsides no matter what
The 17:30 mark is spot on, you can't say it any better. Teachers have to do and be: therapists, counselors, mediators, first responders for school shootings and meet all kinds of different standards all while being grossly underpaid. No other profession is held to more of a higher standard with less resources than the American teacher. Our entire nation is doing things ass backwards, we need a complete overhaul of the following systems: political, economic, educational, social, Criminal Justice, medical and transportation. America is like a car with the check engine light on, 20 pieces of tape holding everything together and dozens of unpaid traffic violations, no worries because at least we are a beat up 1990 Rolls Royce. We need a complete overhaul of the American system, it is not the best, it's below average everywhere in American society, we as Americans are supposed to be the greatest nation, YEAH RIGHT!!
very true and now we've added one more band aid by forgiving $10,000 of student loans for mostly upper middle class kids, and transferred the debt to the working class and poor. But that's what career politicians do (joe biden), breaking stuff that's not broken and not taking any personal responsibility for failure.
What would you replace everything with?
@@spacelinx
The opposite of what white supremacists have done. I would never allow kids to have subpar schooling, that is pathetic. America is setup to tend to people in certain areas before they tend to others in different areas, that is sick. I want to have a say in who patrols my neighborhood as well as teaches kids that look like me. Everything in America is an abject failure, even the way that we treat our military veterans when they return home. You can't name 1 thing in America that works for ALL people, the school system is just one of many failed institutions in America!! Everything in America is bad, the only way forward is to let the people that have been adversely affected to have control of the wheel, the white supremacists that had the wheel have ran things into a ditch, they can never drive again, they must walk.
Hey but it was a million dollar car like 40 years ago
Well it's tough because the people who want to do well can't really seem to do well I mean there is so much pulling people down and making powerless their effort and others who just coast through and have everything done basically for them family business, car, house, marriage, etc. So there is a huge disparity I mean yeah basically if by some miracle you make it there is always a barrier put in front depending on your family they made it so even amongst their own they cut off for minor things people can't control in the chaotic cities.
The problem isn’t how you get the answer. The problem is if the teacher can elaborate on each detail/step so that later on you can build on those techniques. Most teachers can’t teach and that’s the problem
As a Mexican I didn’t know that usa and Mexico had things in common.
I discovered this when I entered university. I realized I was taught minimally. The main reason why it’s failing is due to the lack of proper mentorship and teaching approach. We teach kids CRAP, overtly complicated math or solutions that make no sense in the real world…or we lack to touch on important subjects such as proper history and ethics. We also shove political agendas down their throats further confusing them by either adding none sense or deleting history all together. I remember being 16 and thinking I new the world….I also remember being 17 and stepping into university and realizing there was more to life than what my HS education tonight me. They don’t teach you to learn, the pump you out and you’re on your own. Perhaps I would have excelled more if I had parents who cared and helicopter parented me a bit more, I didn’t. I did it all myself. Perhaps that’s the reason. 🤷🏻♂️
Either way, I went from understanding zero math to taking Calc 5 and differential equations and getting an A in college. Turns out the “core” math they shoved down my throat was horrendous. I also went from hating literature to loving reading. I honestly felt like college was a renaissance time in my life. But college isn’t all. Would I’ve known better, I’d probably would have started hustling in freshman year and put in my bid to attend one of the 3 military officer academies…that would have made graduating from college into an actual job during a recession ALOT better. they don’t teach you about finances or job security in HS or college either.
It’s meant to create dumb workers. How else is America gonna get its low cost slavery?
Of course we get taught crap we ain’t ever gonna use. You don’t need to use calc or essay skills when you get reduced to a disposable employee ID.
Common core was developed by university mathematics professors. It is a good idea. It was designed to improve student performance in math when arriving in universities.
If you really had taken Calc5 and excelled in it, like you said, you would have appreciated or at least would have had a better understanding of the Common Core.
A few years back I met a bunch of American students from NYC and they were actually from the richer neighbourhoods yet their understanding of their own history, government (never mind that of other countries) was so poor I was shocked. I patiently explained to a bunch of kids who were starting college how their voting system and checks and balances worked and they felt very, very sober and a bit humiliated too. Yes, the US education system is very broken.
Breaking public education been a project decades in the making by certain lobbies.
Populism needs to happen again to fix all of thid
It's really easy to blame porous parenting and glorifying ghetto culture on "the education system", isn't it?
No one gives a f about how our government works. We are capitalists
I think parents involvement is extremely important. I'm actively involved in my kid's learning. I don't just rely on the teacher to teach her Math. I use math as an example. I taught her on the side too but not formal teaching. We do it through play. We practice math every day mentally when we walk. I don't just practice by adding numbers only but also applying them using real money and coins. We then go and do real shopping, and ask her if there is enough money to buy, if not how much more they need. Because of introducing from concrete to abstract to real life situations, my kid learns math so fast. She is in Kindergarten, but she is already doing 2nd grade math using app, she can do them mentally or on paper with ease and can explain to me how she got the answer too because I demand her to do that whenever she gets the answers. That "how you get the answer" to me is critical. If they can explain to you how, then they truly get it.
She is not gifted or anything, just a normal kid. However, my active involvement somehow helps her understand math so much quicker than just relying on the teachers. It truly made a difference with parent's involvement.
Also, growth mindset or attitude toward school is very important too. When she is young, I told not to say it is too hard, I can not do it. I ask her to rephrase by saying "it is a bit challenge but let me try", this attitude allow her to give herself a try instead of not trying at all.
But when both parents work all the time…🤷🏾♂️🇺🇸
Bingo!!!! THIS is why education is failing at its core. Parents just aren’t involved with their kids anymore
@@dougfoster445 Maybe this is what happens when Politicians tell them "it takes a village" or they "arent just your kids". Education is failing because for one reason or another, Teachers started teaching values (which it's none of their business to do) and Parents went from Helicopter Parenting to Free range, both of which are inherently damaging to children. Hard to say which one came first, it's like a the whole "chicken or the egg" scenario. The solution is pretty clear, Parents need to do better in their duties, and teachers need to stick to their duties, and not expand the scope.
In the early years that's all fine and good, but most people don't have a degree in calculus. My wife and I did the same with our kids, my 11 year old is in advanced math (struggling a bit), but I haven't had to ask her to homework in years, and she performs well above the national, state and district levels. My kindergartner can read, write, and do up to multiplication in math. That being said the time where I can be involved in helping my oldest with her math will be coming to an end soon. It's simply unrealistic for me to "be involved" in her learning math in the same manner for much longer. This is the teacher's responsibility to teach her, mine is to recognize when she needs help and tell her it's okay to struggle, she's learning, and it's okay to ask the teacher for help, following that, if she still needs it after that then tutors are always available. So yes, parents have a responsibility to be involved and be PARENTS, teachers have a responsibility to teach. That is literally their job, their only job.
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Born in the Middle East, lived in Europe before immigrating to the US to complete high school, undergraduate, graduate and now professional school. I've studied abroad in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Our biggest problem in the US is anti-intellectualism. In other countries kids are HUNGRY to learn. In the US our kids are just tuning out and most don't have a passion for learning. In the 1960s there was huge passion for science b/c of the space race. Now people think they can learn the truth based on their own "research" from the internet. We need a cultural attitude adjustment. That is the most important thing we need to do to improve our education system.
I’m from Europe and went to school in both Europe and the USA. Anti intellectualism is all over Europe also. Most of my relatives dropped out of high school.
@@richardwildlife88-wj6kl Wow really?? I wonder what accounts for all this. Maybe the internet is having an overall negative effect on the world...
@@MatChocoDog psh this was before the internet was a big thing. Most of my relatives dropped out in the early 2000s. This is everywhere these days.
@@richardwildlife88-wj6kl Oh dear that's so unfortunate!! 😔
@@richardwildlife88-wj6klSo your family isn't interested in education, it seems.
I teach post secondary in a trade school. I teach electrical. You need a trig level of math. I have students (high schoolers and some young adults) who have a 3rd grade math level and the same reading level. Public schools need to stop just pushing these kids along just for the sake of reputation and funding. Start failing students and holding them back. People don’t realize how bad it really is!
Back in the 1980s when I was in college, my sister knew a guy who landed a job tutoring an athlete in math. This athlete didn't even know multiplication tables and he was in college! It was just crazy. The kind of issues we hear about in the schools today are nothing new, but there are people gaining by manipulating us to thinking they are!
Two sides. The first is that education begins at home. I cannot tell you how many parents I know who can’t help their kids with homework past middle school. They don’t create a quiet, nurturing home environment for children to study and practice. It’s noisy, busy, and just so chaotic. They don’t even check in regularly with the teachers to track their child’s progress. The other side is that too often for “budget reasons “ they say, important courses are removed from the schools especially in urban areas. Financial education, basic coding, several languages, basic engineering, mechanic shop, career building and networking, etc… should be either required or strongly encouraged.
I have been teaching for 16 years and l wanna say that my wage has been always very low. I have 2 masters degree, almost 40 certificates and l am still living paycheck to paycheck
So sorry... We pay millions to a few people who play sports.....and pittance to teachers. Nothing wrong with sports....but that disparity highlights the values Americans hold most dear & is reflected in our many poorly educated graduates who lack the skills to manage their own lives & finances or to join in more interesting, engaging & llucrative career fields .
I homeschool my kids and I realized that how they teach kids is pretty confusing so I took action and I personally taught my kids and told them to disregard their teachers if my method is easier for them thanks to that my kids grades and test scores have gotten so much better.
I think much of this is affected by a child’s personality and native intelligence. Tho growing up lower middle class on a trailer park, my home was chockablock filled with books and music. I was also quite bright and ate it all up, and because I was extremely introverted it all fed my active brain. What saved me was supportive parents and a good family life, as well as some awesome teachers along the way.
The idea is to inspire students rather than teach. Get them interested, get them to understand why something is relevant to their lives first and then the learning will naturally follow.
Another issue is that many students can’t learn when they are stressed, tired, hungry and overstimulated (overstimulated =in loud classrooms, or from consuming too much sugar; stress= exams, deadlines, bullies) And most kids in schools are stressed, tired, hungry and overstimulated. Honestly it is a wonder kids manage to learn anything in school. It is almost like schools are trying to prevent learning.
Stress is part of life. And many need to adapt and find ways to work with it Bosses will not lessen the amount of work put on you knowing your stressed and will make mistakes because your overly tasked. In fact many times they will write you up if the mistakes are severe even though your stressed and overwork.
@@jjc6530 Stress is a part of a life, but that doesn't mean we should not try to lessen it. That's what progress is for, helping people live more content and fulfilling lives.
@@musclestruts5032 you can tell that to your boss and next thing you know, they will tell you if you don’t like it quit.
expecting teachers to be entertainers is wrong though, school has to be hard because it's supposed to prepare you for life which is NOT easy!
It's all part of the plan to "starve the beast". Intentionally set up public schools for failure so they can tout the efficiency of private schools to justify increasingly privatizing our education system.
I have provided extra support for my kids when the pandemic forced them onto remote instruction. I was taught the old way, but I wouldn't totally crap on Common Core. For example, some of the Common Core Math concepts make a lot of sense (explains the "why"), but some of the stuff seem like it's broken down into too many parts (feels like information overload).
I remember being in school when they started telling us to show work, as a kid it was frustrating and only pushed me away from enjoying math like I do today
I can't believe you guys haven't caught on to the fact that since Kentucky legalized marriage to 13 year old children (who by the way most were begging NOT to be married to GROWN men who the majority of which were in their 30s and 40s!!) Actually had no choice because the PARENTS said it was ok (Parent concent only means that the parent can agree to marry off the child regardless of what the child wants), is causing massive drop outside in school as is forcing children to give birth to children. Which directly affects why American schools are doing so poorly in having our kids succeed!
Ignoring that fact is as stupid as ignoring people complaining about the cost of things going up but at the same time demanding higher wages! They are too ignorant to realize that if companies raise wages they HAVE to raise the cost of things just to pay those wages!!
More babies being born means the cost of things HAVE TO GO UP TO PRODUCE MORE TO COVER FOR THOSE NEE BABIES FORCED ON TO CHILDREN.
It is really simple why our schools are failing. It is a fact that no one wants to admit! Which only shows how wrong it is to force children to be mothers!!
Also why do we have to do common core? Why not use a different method to teach kids math. Let the kids learn a different way, each kid is different.
Lies again? Lazy Students
And don’t forget the way kids act…know several teachers and they have told me that the kids and parents have gotten worse with the behavior and disrespect…and the new way to do math and is so complicated for no reason
The education system in the United States has gone down hill for the past 50 years. My daughter was behind at the end of third grade. My wife and I pulled her out of public school. She finished 5th grade with a 9th grade level in math. She exceeded 5th grade level on all subjects. Public schools are producing functionality illiterate students. My daughter will never be back in public school.
Im an immigrant and I experienced both bad teachers and good teachers in the schools I went to. Some teachers didnt care and allowed us to behave badly and mistreat each other, and other teachers held us to higher standards. Its the latter teachers who helped me grow into a successful adult. I found these high standards teachers in a charter school. Public schools are too hit or miss, it feels like the standards for education are so low that they dont care if we leave the public education system not knowing how to do math.
the chill teachers are the best, the ones who take their job seroiusly have no life
Immigrants from which country, immigrants from Mexico or Latin America don't actually do nothing for education in this country or don't contribute to science, technology or education. The only contribution I see from Mexican Americans and Mexicans are in the drug trade or the continue gang violence. Especially in the African Americans communities, the glorification of rap music, baby mamas,pimps, whose the realist n1gga.It's no wonder the United States is falling behind academically. I rather have east Asian immigrants in this country who continue to contribute largely to the technological innovations, science and economy to this country.
Actually it's the opposite to many privilege, Hispanic and blacks in high school with the thug mentality. Where they disrespect teachers and talk back to teachers even disrespecting them. Bullies are allowed in U.S schools to much freedom no importance in education or the future of the children career path.
How mathematics should be more focused on practicality:
Mathematics is a subject that is often viewed as dry, abstract, and disconnected from real life. This is in part due to the way it is often taught, with a focus on memorization and solving abstract problems that have little bearing on everyday life. As a result, many students end up hating math and seeing it as a pointless subject.
However, mathematics is actually a very practical and useful subject, with applications in a wide range of fields, from science and engineering to finance and economics. By focusing more on the practical applications of math and less on abstract problem-solving, we can help students to see the value and relevance of this subject and to develop a deeper understanding and appreciation of it.
One way to make math more practical is to focus on real-world problems and examples. This can help students to see how math is used in everyday life and to develop a sense of purpose and motivation for learning it. For example, instead of assigning students a list of abstract algebra problems, teachers could give them problems that involve calculating the cost of goods, determining the best investment strategy, or solving other real-world problems that require math skills.
Another way to make math more practical is to teach it in the context of other subjects.
Wow this the best comment about education i have ever seen
@rayvanraamsdonk I see where you're coming from, but this is a common viewpoint that misses the mark IMO. No student of math has ever fallen in love with the subject because someone explained to them how we can use a differential equation to solve an engineering problem. That information is better disseminated in subjects such as physics, chemistry, etc where there is already a wealth of domain-specific knowledge being studied. Speaking as someone who majored in mathematics in undergrad, the reason I became interested in it is because there is an inherent beauty that comes with understanding, and I mean really understanding, the logic and constructions that underly the foundations of modern mathematics. No person has ever asked an art student why they enjoy it or where the practical application of their work is. Students are not stupid, if you provide them with engaging lessons that focus on making them ask "wait, what?", it will get many of them interested. There is an excellent talk by the RUclipsr "3Blue1Brown" about this: ruclips.net/video/s_L-fp8gDzY/видео.html
You must be an educator. Teaching content in context is usually more interesting and engaging for students.
@@ChewitGurl I am a graduate student studying computational science. I got plenty of "content in context" in physics class. My favorite math teachers were ones that were able to weave a good story for things like the derivation of integration, Euler's identity, or Fourier decomposition. There are many parts of math that are fascinating in their own right. Any subject is bland if just taught as if reading off a list of information.
Nice essay dude, but math is not a literatura. It is a philosophy, literally it stems from Logic, so true math teaches you how to think in a certain way about abstract problems, which are essentially templates to real problems. So, instead, of torturing students with useless "practical" exercises, schools should start teaching children from a natural beginning -- arithmetics, then geometry and algebra, and later basic mathematical logic and the application of theory of algorithms in computer science. If small children ask why they are learning arithmetics, a teacher should simply say that this is a science language, and that you can't go to uni or find a job without even a basic understanding of it. However, in my personal opinion there is no need to teach most of the children till grade 7 anything more complex than reading, writing and arithmetics, perhaps a foreign language. The good upbringing is much more important at that period. Things like calculus should be scrapped from a school program at all, it is better to replace ot with an introduction to real analysis instead. This class should optional though. Others may do smth else, without self discipline and dedication of students it is hard to teach math, and I don't believe that teachers should encourage students more than by informing why this course might be useful for them in the future (also, by showing progression tree of subjects, and what subjects are required in particular fields). If there is no study progress, then a kid should seek a psychological counseling.
I will never understand why in many countries in the world, the teaching profession is paid so low. Teachers are the second group after the family home that should inspire people to discover this world and do something valuable with their lives. But that's hard to expect from teachers who barely survive end of the month plus has limited academic resources + need to face unrealistic expectations from parents.
It's a strange world where you can earn a fortune for showing a piece of your body on the Internet and pennies for raising children (future of our world).
I was never a teacher, but had some close friends who were. Basically part of the reason teachers are paid less is because they make teacher contracts in terms of days. It varies based on what type of teacher they are and stuff, but I want to say the average teacher contract was for about 180 days of work. If you put the average salary ($62K) and divide it, by 180 and then by 8 for hours, that's $43hr. Which isn't actually a horrible hourly rate. Where teachers get hurt, is that if their contract is for 180 days, that is only 36 weeks out of the year.
If you took somebody who makes $43/hour in a private industry job, they're only assuming they get 2-3 weeks of vacation every year. But even if you're super generous and say they get 4 weeks after holidays and sick days and whatnot, those individuals would then be working 48 weeks out of the year. If you multiply that out, it would be something around $82K a year.
Now, I don't say all of this to say teachers don't deserve to be paid more. I know they put in more hours outside of their 8 hours a day, and maybe even more days outside of their contract. I say this to say that part of where the pay gap comes from is the way they write the contracts, and the number of contract hours/weeks/days that they're written for. Because even if you looked at a super generous 4 weeks of time off, that's still 12 more weeks/year than some teachers' contracts.
And, I do agree they ask teachers to play way too many roles, and are provided less support from higher-ups. Heard this from my friend too, apparently they actually pay you less for working at the "better" schools, because it's basically assumed that you would do less babysitting and disciplining of the better behaved students at those schools. Which is probably why there's a higher percentage of private school teachers with a second job.
And I have no idea how they're going to get all of these students who are so behind to catch up, because it's pretty bad from what I've heard teachers saying.
I just barely missed having to learn with common core, but I remember tutoring someone and having to use the common core (math) method and while it *worked*, the method was hella convoluted and excessively broken down. Like, it's a method of teaching/learning, but not THE method that they should be making everyone do.
I also looked into my local school system's teaching manual to maybe get into teaching but what's expected of you is insane. Especially for that pay.
Reminds me of the New Math that I suffered through in the 1970’s. My parents had NO CLUE how to help me at home. I remember my 6th grade teacher was a first year teacher and the principal had to come in to help him teach the New Math. As a former teacher, any new program should be vetted and piloted before implementing. It almost never is sadly.
Prescription drugs cannot be sold in the USA until their effectiveness is proven by a well designed experiment. The same principal should apply to educational methods; instructional methods should be subject to experimental proof of effectiveness.
@@AdrienLegendre "Prescription drugs cannot be sold in the USA until their effectiveness is proven by a well designed experiment"...lol in theory, in practice that's a completely different story. :P
LOL for me it was.... idk I just remember the book "hawaii algebra" when I was in 8th grade. I remember sitting with my dad and BOTH OF US GOT THE WRONG ANSWER. it was so frustrating.
I went through New Math for the first time, in seventh grade. I became convinced that I couldn't do math. I was 42 years old, before I learned to do more than adding, subtracting, multiplication, and division.
Schools are broken because families and communities are broken. We’re not working as a team anymore. Most people are so selfish and full of pride and ignorance.
Ironically, narcissism is on the rise as well
Hopefully though the King will put a stop to this nonsense the empire is in need of better talented workers the Anglos they’re just so lazy you need a person with good German work ethic to bring in the best technology for the people. It’s not over though if you think you’re trapped in a miserable body and a small box well it’s not the case we are reincarnated to a better body in the next realm we all are just put in the VR headset and go night night.
The anti marriage laws divorce favouring women robbing men from their wealth
@@cheesybits834 narcissism is what creates our history
Two thing I have learned, you can't teach people who don't want to learn and, when motivated, you can teach yourself far faster than you learn in a classroom.
If the wages are too poor and the children don't understand why they are learning something then there's always going to be problems and disconnects
So we found that the problem wasn’t the education system per se but the circumstances that children grew up in. And rather than even entertain the possibility that an inequitable socioeconomic foundation was to blame, it was easier to say “kids aren’t learning because there’s something wrong with the books, teachers, and schools.” I love how simple it is to explain so many crappy circumstances through the lens of cognitive dissonance. Now we’ve graduated to blaming lack of homeownership on people being too indebted as opposed to a dearth of housing options in the places where people actually want to live (or more accurately a dearth of places with housing where people actually want to live.)
Boogeyman CRT is banned,
but even that aside:
Hatepreacher-Looneys meddle with Education, while known-to-be-great
Teachers like Forest Valkai are not utilizide. ASide from that, theres the School-Issues that 'Some More News' pointed out, if your interested in Details and how to fix the Mess.
Really, so why is it that the majority of the wealthy send their kids to private school even though they live in areas where they have the "best" public schools? Let's not delude ourselves. Public schools are failing period...
There's no such term as _per say._
The term is _per se._
It's Latin for "in itself," "by itself," "through itself," or "by means of itself."
@@ChrisZ70 noted
"an inequitable socioeconomic foundation was to blame"
So, we are going to get better result only when we have an "equitable socioeconomic foundation" whatever it means?
These days the school/public education system seems just not care about teaching.
I miss being a teacher. I am proud to say I have impacted a lot of youth. I'll miss the profession, but I love my new career as an electrician now.
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Taught English for 10 years. Now an engineer
@@mattguastella3018 ayyy my dad was a CARPENTER(REST IN PEACE) LU 713
@@gangsterboy3664 what's funny?
@@jamalcole1985 Dude, It wasn't meant as funny. But it does seem funny Leaving a teaching positition for a electrician job does seem way better of a choice while showing respect towards your previous job.
Basic skills are common core but preparing students for future work requires learning skills directly related to future work. Also job mismatch should be addressed.
as a high schooler, up to a quarter of people in school end up getting addicted to vapes and thc carts and i know bc nearly everyone i see does it, it’s sad bc as kids we have such high aspirations for our future and most of us can say as a kid we would tell ourselves we would never smoke, and to be so overwhelmed by information everyday and having to memorize sometimes 6 or more classes that were studied throughout a 5 month period just to take a big test on everything you learned, just to be given a number on your intelligence, pages and pages of homework that sometimes take days to complete just for none of it to be used in tests or any real life situations. All this stress makes people look for a way out, a way to ease the stress and when someone goes up to them asking if they want to try a drug, they sometimes reply with a yes, and there goes the cycle, IMPROVE THE SCHOOL SYSTEMS.
Why do we have American politicians making healthcare and education decisions when they have no knowledge for either? Let the people who know those things make decisions of those things.
@@iridium8341 can you explain how those would help?
@@biggydrink By not forcing students to go to crappy schools?
@@biggydrink Because this is a video about America's system apparently being uniquely crap. And every country except America has school choice. It isn't a stretch to think the two are related.
To put it in perspective, in the UK school choice is neither 'an issue', nor a partisan issue, nor even _a term_ in the language, exactly as 'university choice' is not. That's how taken-for-granted it is.
Maybe people don’t know it either. After all people elect those politicians, how does that work out?
@@Snowalker12 People are rationally ignorant of politics. They aren't rationally ignorant of things they directly pay for and which directly affect them.
I taught ESL for numerous years. I studied for extra classes to get a certificate to help me do a better job. It was very rewarding to see how quickly my students from Japan, the Phillipines, Vietnam, and Mexico learned basic English. They later learned more academic vocabulary as they moved through separate subjects like literature, math, science, and social studies.
Lies again? Lazy Students
Teaching International students definitely is rewarding because they actually want to learn American students just don't have the incentive which is stems from the Family household American parents just don't really see the value of education and just see it as the place to drop their kids off for 8 hours
Parents or guardians are mostly responsible for our decline in student readiness. Less time spent on children, homework or home learning and more on phones, tv, working 40+ hours, and just being depressed. Taxing the wealthy would take a hell of a lot of pressure off families.
it's not an institution that will give you something, it's you yourself
Education in this country is top heavy. Teacher have way too many people above them making rules that make learning and teaching impossible
Definitely. They aren't allowed to run their own classrooms.
Americans have no critical thinking
They can't tell that they are being fed propaganda day after day by Fox News/ABC/NYT/WaPo etc
Including politicians.
@Buck Rothschild not true
Teacher here, it absolutely is. I have a certification from the state that says I know how to do my job. Why can't they just leave it at that and stay the hell out of my way so I can do it. Administration should be there to support teachers, not micromanage them.
Here is a shower thought:
Sometimes, school is basically just a daycare service because your parents do not want the extra responsibility of taking care of you further. The daycare lasts until you're in grade 12.
Lol or maybe there is an affordable child care problem in the US lol
@@ssjrose9641 or maybe there’s a lack of parents who actually wanna do the parenting and treat daycare like it’s supposed to be the norm
@@padlily2485 both statement are true.
Lol facts. Shouldn’t take you 16-17 years to learn the basics
@@hulkster4374 do you have any post secondary education?
Students come in at different levels. As a long time elementary teacher I was lacking resources to help as much as I could have. A well equipped classroom for different levels is expensive. Practice what you learn is very important. Parents as an example would take children to sports practice for two hours. The reading practice materials I sent home was sometimes not read at all.
As someone who works at a school I can say parents are failing the educational system. Curriculum and content are very good. Teachers can only do so much. Parents expect us to do everything and they complain about anything. I have some fantastic parents but most just want an A for their kid
Little doubt in my mind that you're correct. The majority of the mothers would probably struggle with the curriculum.
There was nothing wrong with the education I received when I went to school '79-'92. We learned phonics based spelling/pronunciation, memorized basic math facts, long division, fractions, tracked classrooms so we learned on our own levels instead of getting lost because we couldn't keep up or lost because we were bored. Our behaviors had consequences. Really bad apples were tossed out without apology. We memorized all 50 states and their capitals (even though most of us forgot a lot of them- capitals that is). Heck, I even know over 80% of African countries and their general locations because we studied and memorized maps. In high school, we learned more abstract ideas, but elementary school was dedicated to the basics. We learned the ropes before we climbed mountains.
And most of all- we listened and showed respect to our elders (teachers, aides, other parents, librarians, etc).
I would suggest that are you not average American student if you know 80% of the African countries as the Americans generally are fairly bad at geography. We have a saying in Australia war was invented to teach Americans geography lol
@@jamied8678 😁 it was 7th grade, Mr. Lupin's class. We needed to memorize the map of Africa and fill in a blank map as our test. I might have had an advantage over other kids because I am an artist and very visual, but the main thing is that we were FORCED to memorize things. In fact we had to do a report on an African country, too. Mine was Sierra Leone, a small loosely circular country on the southern western coast.
Kids these days barely know their times tables with any proficiency. Memorization is laughed at as being boring to the students and doesn't foster higher order thinking skills. Well, being illiterate and unable to do multi digit multiplication doesn't particularly foster higher order thinking skills neither.
I'm so over my country today. I should make a spoof sequel to No Country for Old Men and title it No Country for Normal People. You got Evangelical fake Jesus hellbilly deluxe on one side vs lofty ivory tower SJW lib-tards on the other, and somewhere in between are the lost soul average people who get drowned out by the noise of the culture wars but can't vote for normal (uncorrupt) politicians because our bipartisan system doesn't really allow for that.... whew! Posting comments is better and cheaper than therapy.
Best of the day to ya!😊
That’s cool and all, but can you find the derivative of x in sqrt(5x−8)+cos(x^2)
@@finsflexin the mathematicians were better too. you didnt need to be autistic to understand math back in the day.
@@finsflexin if he was taught how to do it he will know how. Nowadays American kids don’t even bother wanting to learn anything. Public schools are just a place to socialize and hang out until their parents comes to pick them up.
I think a lot of the issues also lie in how we treat students in school. They aren’t treated like humans, they are just machines. “Sit down and do as I say!” is terrible. “Just do it” isn’t always the best motto. I work at a school and see it everyday.
You're right.....
@Merican Modi exactly lmfaoo... jeez people are so sensative nowadays like grow a spine, not all of life is going to be fun/fair
They don't need to be treated "like humans" whatever that means since most parents and workers are treated the exact same way...Kids here are treated way too soft and it shows. It's why we need trigger warnings on everything now and they all feel offended and victimized and demand others change their behavior to fit their soft "needs"..Sit down shut up and listen to what the person with life experience and an education is telling you.
@@Never_knownyeh I'll tell you that when you're going through a tough time lmao😂
They need creativity in the classroom. Music, art, poetry, creative writing, human psychology, even more sports. That needs to be as important as math and English.
“Education is cheap; experience is expensive.”- Robert Kiyosaki
After me and my friends graduated high school, one of them in our group chat said “What the hell do we do now?”
Exactly,and someone ought to have thought of that when plannjng the system......
When the system is through with you... you are now someone else's problem.
Find a trade
Starting with the basics : when your kids are young , talk to them, read to them 10-15 mins , expose them to letters and numbers , and do incidental learning during the day or nite eg count your socks in the drawer , let them use the measuring cup when cooking . Ask them to go get 2 eggs. You don’t need to wealthy to do it , keep it simple ./ Education is like any other institution , it needs to be upgraded to match todays changing world . Lastly on one positive note : when schools moved to distance learning in 2020 , many students learned technical skills , which can truly help to prepare them for the future ! ( this was true for homes that were given chrome books or laptops and had good consistent internet access or were given mini/ hot spot devices)
Well said
@Kaydee that’s great , good on ya . Public schools vary greatly from state to state and even county to county
@@Tamar-sz8ox yeah I feel like not enough people realize how different ever school district
@Kaydee no one's a prodigy, you aren't born with with knowledge and a higher understanding, your taught.
One thing that bothered my college classmates was though getting STEM degrees, "Common Core" was so odd something that made many view it as illogical and couldn't do it.
That is so true. I look at my sons homework and I use to be like what is this. Im going to show you how I was taught. My son would be like but thats not how they showed me. There was no way I can help him.
I think what most people (including teachers) don't understand is common core is just supposed to give students alternative ways to solve math problems. That's the way I understand and teach it. Each student chooses the strategy that works best for him/her.
it's not just math it's literacy skills too like expecting 5 year old in kindergarten to be able to read and write(not cursive) fluent by the end of the year when according to child development studies(which teachers have to study) that 5 year olds are not developmentally ready even six year olds though 6 year olds can start to read. i know i learned reading in 1st and 2nd grade well mostly 1st i remember in second grade we had journals to write in each morning and even pen pals. i was bit behind lot of things so i was 8 when i was in second grade. i hear some schools got rid of recess like k-5th. they need active play. kinders esp need indoor free play time which used to be focus but now it doesn't seem like toys in classrooms or even block times of play even just one block in a day would be great esp if they pushing the common core down. kindergarten classrooms are supposed to be full of noise and movement. i see videos of children forced sit "indian style" with hands on lap during circle times. wth?! i am not saying they should not start learning times need for quite sit still, but it being the focus. i agree with you though on student choice of solving method as long as they show their work to get to answer(what i had to do as kid/teen) and get the right answer, that is what should count. in college i was taught the same way of solving math problems as i had in grammar school. i was in college 2001 to 2003.
@@tinabastarache2674 You're right. I hate when these "experts" talk about raising the standards when so many kids these days can't do the minimum standards.When students are unable to do an academic task, you have to give an easier task, not a harder one. I think it's part of the plan to further dumb down the population.
@@truther001 it has to be and of course the children and their parents are the ones that have to suffer through it all.my nephew just started getting homework which he doesn't want to do no one does but hard see him how feels because i def don't recall getting homework in kindergarten and my sis is younger than me even in first grade didn't get much also if on days we did had only take 10 minutes. they need playtime at some point still not enough in schools so home is. but kids come home exhausted and wound up at same time and list of things have fill in time playtime should be key,a good hour or 2 each night play with other kids in a neighborhood. having to sit in kinder most of time all day is so hard. i honestly think school boards and government(not teachers) that even if they took a course in child development and ECE curriculum class, that they would still keep those standards. i think they want kids to be private schooled or homeschooled and not everyone can do that if they are gonna keep common core they need to end mandatory education which is not good but idk. oh back to the list child needs time to eat dinner be read to, have tubbies. and chill to be able to go sleep to be nice fresh next day and my sis and him need more bonding time to play together too . home work should not be bonding time esp when child needs help and or cires like parents are exhausted too.it's crazy
I'm currently a Math and English tutor for a 5th grader and a 2nd grader, and grew up having learned US traditional math- my students often come back and complain that their teacher refuses to let them do anything different from Common Core math, which is something they don't even seem to understand. When I ask them to explain how to add numbers, for example, they invariably get it wrong because they don't really understand how to add the numbers properly (think improper number placement), Common Core or not. I had to work really hard to create a sense of discipline in them in correcting their work, of studying math concepts, and of being comfortable learning new concepts. This is absolutely NOT something that is covered in Common Core.
@@tinabastarache2674 Parent involvement is important. My son is turning 2 and can count to 20 in English and Spanish and know his ABCs. He loves to scribble so we are working on writing A B C. Parents have to be involved. I’m a working mom but I try my best to be involved. It is definitely possible for a 5 year old to know how to read a few words.
My child in kindergarten is now sitting there doing 6 hours of paperwork...our children are being expected to do things some adults struggle with. This is way bigger of an issue of common core. There are so many issues with public education, and none are being addressed. We have a huge deficit of skilled trades workers now. The public education system is not teaching kids the skills they need for the jobs we have open.
6 hours is crazy, what drugs are the teachers on?
@@TurkishEmpire2023I remember those extended days there were tortured
Are you subtracting out time for recess and things like that from an 8 hour school day? Or is it that the kids are at the school for 6 hours? Just curious
It doesn’t help students don’t feel like they are gaining anything anymore. They feel like their time is wasted and then are forced to do more work at home. You’re forced to do things one way and if you don’t do it that way you fail even if you come to the same conclusion and understand the concepts.
It is outrageous that Oklahoma hired a drag queen to be the principal of one of their elementary schools. Concerned parents can stop this by running for and getting elected to their child's school board. The school boards control everything in public education. They can hire and fire principals and superintendents! They control the books and what is taught in the schools. The teacher's unions have known this for decades. That why they solicit family members and friends foe school board positions then vote them in so they have complete control. You can still complain but it is time to take action and take control of the public education of your children. Think outside the box!
I started teaching in 2003, I was one of the last who learned to teach before Common Core. I did not see an improvement, they poured all that money into corporate pockets and purchased materials and programs year after year and constantly forcing us into new training to learn these new programs. We were drowning in data and had and still have to record copious amounts of data on kids. The testing companies were the big winners and Charter Schools who also wanted a c hunk of that money. The State testing data doesn't help us improve instruction. The data comes months later.
A private school can pick and choose their students. Problem students are asked to leave and return to the public school. Public education is a legal requirement so regardless of behavior, and you can not imagine the worst, each student has to attend so teachers expend an inordinate amount of energy on kids who don't want to be there. Make public education free and appropriate but not mandatory. If a student can't behave as well as the average house dog, ask them to leave and try again next semester. Believe it or not, most kids want to be there.
Nah. So the cool thing about kids, even the ones who act up. Is that they are still growing ☝️😌🤷♂️ some of the kids in my classes spend more time with me and my colleagues than their own parents 👀🙈
Many of those kids also have disabilities and need extra help. But with enough support from teachers and other adjacent staff, those kids can grow and change and be totally fine by the time they graduate high-school.
Some kids should have the option to pursue independent study in a public school setting and overall, they need more experience based learning, shop/ home eco., and feild trips to future jobs and local history 👀☝️.
Anything less is failing the kids imo. They didn't ask to be born and didn't pick who raised them and its important to try for them too. For every kid who drops out and starts a business, there's gotta be 50 more who went to jail or live in poverty now 🙃
Signed,
A P.E. teacher and team sports coach
@@kamilareeder1493 You do realize that you are describing kids who are trying, and for those kids the school has many programs to help them succeed, from remediation to behavior therapy to accommodations, and most teachers are willing to help any kid attempting even small successes. Those are not the very few students I'm talking about and even those students who are removed will be welcomed back with open arms once they decide to start trying. It's easy to tell when they are trying. Even the other students can recognize effort.
@@barryb83110 valid ☝️ its tough to unpack but you are on to something Barry
I think in America our culture doesn't value education. It's free and expected. In other countries.. it's not free and thus it's a privilege. My parents didn't nearly have the sports options nor extracurricular activities that are currently present. After school, kids were expected to work on the farm. Public education should only provide a meal and the basics- English l, Math, Gym, Social Studies, and etc. Art, Music, and Sports parents should pay out of pocket. You need transportation that should be paid for by parents.
The problem is that all students grow up and then vote. This is why we elect demented people or TV personalities for president.
Things I learned in school: Pythagorean theorem and that the mitochondria is the power house of the cell. Have I used this knowledge? Nope! Not once lol.
Things I did NOT know how to do by the time I finished school (and I've used them all, often regularly): prepare for a job interview/have good interview skills, pay bills, balance a checkbook, file taxes, change a tire, how to mail something, about different types of insurance, how to register to vote, basic cpr and first aid skills, basic outdoor survival skills.
There’s no way to fix what the government has broken:( I’m a teacher who has homeschooled my children from the beginning and it’s way better than what any public school offers.