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The Problem With American Education
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- Опубликовано: 18 мар 2021
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Americans from across the political spectrum tend to agree that our education system is failing our students. In this episode we'll take a look at three of the biggest problems the system faces, and consider some possible solutions.
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Hey friends! I hope you all enjoy this week's video. Not sure what's going on with the comments section. It keeps getting disabled, despite me using the same upload default (all comments allowed) as always. RUclips up to their usual nonsense 😒 Anyway, if you're looking for ways to help support the channel, please consider checking out CuriosityStream! It's a great streaming service and you'll also get free access to Nebula.
If it only happened on this video, then it’s probably because it’s about kids and theres too much stock footage of kids in it, but if you were able to turn them on I’m pretty sure RUclips automatically turns off your comments section because the whole anti-capitalism thing.
Lol, you were so on point with this one that RUclips themselves got triggered and shut down the comments lmao. ( but seriously, amazing job on this video. I’ve been trying to start researching the issues with the school system and how to improve on them, and this is a great start. )
Whenever Second thought has a new video there’s going to be some deep topics covered
Thank you for the enlightening! The Home Economics statement hit home with a number of us. You’re right about not being prepared for the real world.
#JunoAlex, America’s Private and Public Eduction are [both] much worse than in other countries.
Conservitards have ruined this country....
What people also need to realize: Parents are the first educators for their children. But with how wages haven't kept up with inflation, some parents have to work 2 jobs just to keep the roof over their heads. They're exhausted and expect an education system to do all the teaching and in some cases, discipline.
Exactly why I’m afraid of being a parent, because I don’t think I’ll ever be a good teacher
Yes. Working in an after-school tutoring program a long time ago, I learned that many kids cannot learn without help from their parents at home, no matter how good the teacher is.
Not to mention orphans, the foster care system, abusive parents, addicted parents, incarcerated parents, etc.
Well Said. 👍
Yeah most do. We used to have free daycare or at least family/grandparents, but we are isolated and overworked now. Ideal would be part time stay at home parent or trusted community schooling
I hated school, got good grades, liked my friends, but it was so brain-numbing. I learned how to fall asleep at a desk and my drawing skills were pretty good because I literally drew on everything- all my tests, hw, etc. If you're not an excelled learner, you fall behind, if you excel, you'll be bored, there's really no winning.
Agreed.
Im an excelled learner but im so bored that i cba to excel anymore. Some1 help
Same here I literally was drawing everytime I was bored
My husband has adhd, he fell asleep in almost every class cause he was a night owl and a gamer, however he hated homework but had a B average in high school, and he does love learning so he got good grades even by falling asleep in class and skipping homework, this is proof that no one learns the same way
@@antonyandrewson5803 Learn to do what you want, money is irrelevant when your happiness is at sake. You need money to buy food, you need food to survive; don't ever go in debt without a necessity. Eat well, sleep 8 hours at least everyday. Don't impress society and only buy what you need. Make friends and accept anyone no matter your beliefs. Just be a good person and good people will be there with you. School has always been both a waste of time and necessary to learn; find the line and play around with it. Life is about enjoyment and survival. Don't focus on your financial rewards but do not be upset with making money. There are always people who need help and anyone is more than capable of helping, no matter how unprepared you feel. Be a good person... and troll the haves as a have-not 🙂
Meeting Americans goes one of two ways: Either they're really well educated but they're waaay too confident, OR stunned by how under-educated they are. The extremes are shocking.
OR, they know they’re under-educated and have no confidence
As an American I can say I found awareness of our poor care for citizens when I dropped religion. I'm sad all the time now.
☹️ As a part of the latter, this hurts for how true it is. I dropped out in my *second* year of 9th grade. Got my GED at 16, but never really had the opportunity to use it. ☹️
(Things are fine for me currently btw, I left the US the first chance I got. Married an Indian man & now live in India, lol. ❤ But I got extremely lucky. So many are still stuck in Appalachia where I'm from/the US. 😞 I hope everyone has the opportunity or luck to get out!)
I mean, if you surround the most educated people in the world with the least, overconfidence is basically inevitable.
It is, and this is coming from a native.
"Students forgetting everything they crammed into their heads immediately after taking a test"
The worst part of that is when the teachers make you take a test at the end of the year of "all the things you learned that year" and you have to cram everything back into your brain and you forget it again by summer.
@@LewtableTo their defense, students don't really have any incentive to truly learn things. They are graded at one moment alone on some arbitrarily chosen subjects which are usually not visited again thereafter. So this method of not actually trying to learn but for one single occasion very much is the appropriate method.
It doesn't help that 90% of the stuff they teach is useless trash that serves no purpose in the real world. It also doesn't help that you are conditioned to repress the things you're actually interested in. Personally as someone who is more interested in history, politics and literature school was useless for me, I had to study those things on my own and even though I wanted a career in one of those fields I still had to go to school every day and waste my time learning useless garbage that I still cant remember four years later
@@TheDillidl > students don't really have any incentive to truly learn things.
They never do. The part that is seemed "fun enough", most of the times, is really basic. Like, "you can do homework in 5 minutes before the class" type of basic.
"No kids left behind" and "education must be fun" are the greatest banes on the quality of the education: with former, couple idiots slow down whole class. With later, you don't teach pupils patience and delayed gratification and you dumb shit down to the level of pop-science for it to even be fun in the first place, and it's cringy most of the times.
@@toddthegod2196 >90% of the stuff they teach is useless trash that serves no purpose in the real world.
To teach maths and physics that apply in the real world, teachers would have to cram fucking calculus and vector algebra into students. I, as CompSci student, had a TRIVIAL task in the exam of analytics geometry. (A Trivial real-life one, that is), and I utterly failed it because it required extensive knowledge of integration - something that I struggled with.
Also
>literature, history, and politics
With such choice the school really is a waste of time. You can learn how to take my order in Starbucks without all of that LMAO.
my midterms are tomorrow and im trying to relearn algebra
"Students forgetting everything they crammed into their heads immediatelly after taking a test"
Gee man didn't need to call me out like that
Its not just you
Its all of us
They surely didn’t do any secret indoctrination at my school-Robert E. Lee high school-in West Texas. On second thought, maybe the whole school itself was an indoctrination. They had me playing “Dixie” on the trumpet every time our Rebels football team scored, as men dressed in white ran across the field waving a large Confederate flag. I can still hear that song now-“Look away, look away... Dixie Land!” (I wonder what that means?).
I forget a lot of things I learn after a regular class lesson.
I remember a little bit of the Spanish we were forced to take... not enough to be fluent though
in school, you learn to test, not learn to learn.
Public school only taught me how to do the bare minimum to scrape by and showed me that I have a great disdain for authority.
Why not. That's exactly how public school teachers behave.
public school made me fear authority lol
It only taught me that titles mean nothing
@@j.c.2240 Public school taught me, that it doesn't matter how you succeed - only success itself matters. And that your only mistake would be getting caught.
Good, I mean look at what and who the authority is, if you didnt have a disdain something would be wrong.
One of the underlying problems that keeps American education from changing, is lack of comprehension or understanding by parents. Parents have been conditioned by culture, and pushed by economic forces, to look at public school as free child care. The most important thing it does for them isn't prepare their children for the future - rather its real value is getting the kids out of their hair, or watching them while the parents work.
I've known several people who work in public education and the story is always the same. Too many parents just don't care as long as the school locks their kid up for 8 hours a day. Because parents don't care about the school, they are uninvolved in local politics. They don't even know who is on their school boards. They won't back people who want to increase funding for schools and reform policies.
"All politics is local" is never truer than with public education. For all the top-down forces poisoning the well, parents themselves deserve a significant chunk of the blame.
Thank you as a current substitute teacher looking for full time teaching this is a point I've been making for years. A lot of parents dont care about their kids education and when something doesn't go their way they often blame the teachers. Parents have a responsibility to work with their school and make sure that what they are teaching and reinforcing at home is at the same level as the school. Sure a school and a parent won't agree on everything but the stark diffs I see in students who have parents who care and are active in their children's education compared to parents who either don't care or are actively telling their kids things that go against a school is baffling. I've been blamed multiple times for things I felt the parent was just against me on or for things I felt were out of my control but of course a school doesn't want to incur the wrath of the parents so they put all the blame on us teachers.
Sometimes I do think there can be a lack of understanding on the part of teachers too. I grew up poor and I feel like a lot of middle class people don't understand how different their lives are and they make up the marjory of teachers and parent organizers in my experience.
I considered my teachers rich people when I was younger because they had way more money and no noticable understanding of class. Things like a teacher telling the class we should be grateful we can all afford to eat breakfast. Didn't even consider that there might be a student dealing with food insecurity. If they knew I was dealing with food insecurity, their solution wouldn't be some charitable fundraiser either, it would be calling CPS. They called them on me because I had bad grades and my teacher decided "the problem is at home". They also called the cops one day to meet us driving home from lunch. It was all unfounded. That's not even mentioning my only parent would work up to 70+ hours a week doing manual labor + at one point dealing with cancer, while making the time for multiple hour long meetings almost every other week where the blame was solely placed on him. By people who I know enjoy a much better quality of life, but don't have enough self awareness to realize it. If they do realize it then they usually think you deserve to be poor bc we live in "meritocracy".
The education system is still a place that upholds white supremacy, classism, etc. and looks out for it's own. I'm white so you can imagine these situations are only worse for people who aren't, especially when it comes to CPS and police involvement. But still, the blame is put on us when we don't engage with systems and organizations that usually hostile to spesific groups of people. We're just supposed to tough it out for the greater good I guess.
That's not even half of what happened during my time in school, I'm just hoping that someone considers a perspective that's often overlooked by people within the system.
Judging by the useless stuff they teach, plus a biased view of history (wasn't until high school that my american history teacher gave us an unvarnished version, teaching directly, not from a book), it's the goal for sure to just keep us away until 18.
@@jazzycat1 my mother seemed to be concerned for my education...until i turned 18 and she wanted to kick me to the curb
@@sprockkets as a Mexican I didn’t know that usa school system had so many flaws like Mexico school system.
It's amazing how going to school can end up ruining your life. Perhaps the worst realization we have is not knowing how excellent we could have been; how we could have reached our maximum potential at a much younger age if school and college weren't there to spoil it.
I agree 100%
When I can proudly say RUclips has taught me more then all my years of school, you know something's wrong.
Trueeeee
Didnt that one German RUclipsr "Markus" rant in 2014 in a random recording Session for Pokemon about German Education that books from the local library saved his ass for keeping up with his final year of High School in 2005 cause his teachers didnt teach him shit? Shits fucked up everywhere man...
Schools are only good for the diploma/credentials. You don’t learn critical thinking cause they don’t want you to think outside the box.
@@dennisp8520 yes but after that, teachers will being forced to teach useless things instead of sparking curiosity to students and this leads them to loosing interest
So trueeee
High School -> Wake up - Go to classes - Go home - Do homework/projects - Repeat
College -> Same thing only that you have to payout year to year.
The curriculum and learning method have gone untouched for decades that it's almost not worth it anymore.
Really? I graduate this year I plan on going to community college but idk. I literally dread school at this point
@@TheLightShines Nah the good thing about college is that you can make it into almost anything you want. Take the time to really look over your school's catalog, and understand what your goals are and what the requirements are for them. If you get a little bit creative with it, you can have a great time in college. For me, it was way better than HS.
I think you did college wrong.
Public Education is an illegal but totally necessary Monopoly. A country full of critical thinkers isn't good for national defense unfortunately.
@@vincegonzalez2171 Yeah, they didn't take enough Shrooms to actually enjoy it.
My kids were traumatized by public school when they were little.
1. Our oldest got a concussion and also needed a hernia surgery when he was 6 due to being hit by a ball too hard in his groin. That was just the beginning. School got worse for him.
2. Our second son has an annual delay and is on the autistic spectrum and in second grade, he told us he is stupid because everyone else gets their work done before him. (He is actually highly intelligent!)
3. Our daughter grew up in a rough group of peers. There were so many classroom disruptions, bullies, and trauma (desks, chairs, and scissors flying across the room, etc.) that by grade 3 she ended up making herself throw up so we would have no choice but to take her home when the school called. She still refuses to go to school to this day, 4 years later.
Needless to say, we school on-line at home.
I'm sorry about your kids
Don't people get sentenced to prison for doing bad things. Since when is being yet educated, bad? If being born without an education is such a crime, people need to do their kids a favor and either educate them BEFORE they are born or don't bother having getting them a "prison sentence".
@@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398 yea I feel you an prison system is fucked up too smh our whole system needs to start over
@@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398It's not the lack of education that's the bad thing. It's the actions people without education do.
(Some examples that just came to mind: Crime, No using condom, Not caring enough, Not making the best decisions when raising their kids, Not being able to solve everyday problems with as much ease as someone with 2 years of schooling etc)
You can excel at home if you learn more about something you love.
That's the adult leading by example
I think my perspective on this might be interesting. I was a teacher in Idaho, the second worst state in the US for education. I worked for 5 months, unpaid, as a teacher before I was allowed to take the license test. Idaho has a high poverty rate and that requirement already knocked out most people who couldn't afford it. Then I worked full time in an elementary school. I was paid $11.25 an hour. The school librarian (a good friend of mine) made $9 an hour. I was working two jobs and I had almost 30 kids with no assistants. Admin told me to put up with it or quit. I loved my kids, with all my heart, but I was being taken advantage of and knew it, and knew that I would become a bad teacher if I stayed. These problems are why you likely had dismissive and unhelpful teachers growing up in the US, we were just stretched too thin. I left the field and now I can leave my work at work, not having it control every thought and decision I make. On that note, I'm gay, and my friends at the school district were scared for us to be seen at Pride because there was a good chance we would be fired if a parent saw us
I'm a teacher (trying to get out) the system sucks and I see a lot of comments from people putting the blame on their teachers. When the reality is that teachers are just as much fucked and hate the system and are constantly at odds with it.
That sounds so awfull, we cannot demand better clases until we pay our teachers what they deserve, but like everything in a capitalism business,teachers are just another lost of money,not the ones that will create the future of our country.
lol when was this a century ago? only qualification you need to be a teacher these days is claiming a letter in their cult.. theyre always looking for pawns to indoctrinate kids and brainwash them into thinking theyre another sex.
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
― Plutarch
Essentially learn how to think, not what to think
This is @fire of learning
But when your education falls even with filling vessels, then you know you truly fucked up
If they want to me to learn
They're gonna have to inject straight into my brain
@@HelloOnepiece Any attempt to 'fill a vessel' necessarily fails at almost everything but obedience because children will automatically learn things from the world outside school.
“...gone are the days when people understood Jesus to be a brown communist from the Middle East, who railed against the rich and preached inclusion, decency and the value of living humbly...” was my favorite part. 🙌🏾💯
Jesus was a brown commie.. that fact really leaves a lot of conservatives triggered af..
Lol. The irony
It's not right to place a worldly label on our Savior.
@@sammyg.8532 😅
@@sammyg.8532 isn’t “savior” a worldly label?
"Home Economics and Basic first aid should be taught in school"
They were taught in my high school, we even got to pretend to invest in the stock market! All thanks to my awesome Principal.
Same here in Finland, except we googled companies stock prices and "bought" them using "3000€" of money days before Christmas break (I was in hospital so I didn't participate, and I was the most interested in stock market) and days before grade 9 ended, we checked the stock prices and looked what profits we "made"
I did this in middle school. But I do live in a high income area with a high property tax that funds our schools. Some teachers make 6 figures or are ex employees at some major tech companies. I also went to an experimental middle school.
We have Home Economics here but it's still trash 🗑️. Both the curriculum and the teachers' competency
schools teach people to become workers....not innovators or investors..no lessons in finance or how credit works or how the tax code REALLY works....
No offense but that is a clear example of white privilege I’m just gonna go out on a whim and say your school is not located in an “urban” area
Don't even mention being in the actual school: getting up at times earlier than our parents, literally not talking all day, being fed food that makes people sick, and more
The system fails its students. I'm currently stuck in the middle of it. It's ridiculous how broken the system is and how it focuses on competition for memorization rather than cooperation for a greater understanding. Recently, I've noticed that teachers have begun to notice this and they've taken change into their own hands. I want to thank every teacher of mine who's fought the system to better teach their students for real life problems.
yeah those are the teacher that care ive been out of school for about 20 years now and i noticed that those teacher are rare and that tried to fight the system get put into put into place where they cant really do much like a math teacher i once had she was one of those the like to make class fun and didnt teach from the book but she got moved to being a librarian in the school
People are slowly starting to wake up in this country.
I’m one of the quicker students and I agree that the system sucks. Good teachers certainly help but the system needs to change. My friend in a computer genius and once in our computer class I got stuck on this problem and I noticed he was done. When I asked him for help he showed me both where I was going wrong and how to get out of it. After the teacher rewarded him for helping a classmate rather than just sitting at his table doing nothing. Some of my other teachers would’ve punished us both for talking
It replaces the natural childlike curiosity we have with the motivation of grades and eventual money .... it's so sad. And then there's the subtle condemnation of that curiosity that pervades the handling of things like questions and 'remedial' studies.....
Simple Fact : American schools have made students very very poor at basic world GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY etc. over the past century.
I guess the "school feels like a prison" is a literal fact.
It is bascially student prison
And just like prison, it makes you worse
Not better
School is a prison indeed.
Schools also have violent individuals and gangs, just like prisons. Snitching is frowned upon, just like in prison.
It feels like a prison but far from it
Teachers feel that too.
My freshman year of highschool (which I finished a few weeks ago) was so mind-numbing and boring. I almost became depressed again because the environment was so depressing and the work pointless. So much of my time in my classes was spent reviewing over and over again for tests that served no good purpose. My school's standards are so low, I was considered an "excellent student" because almost everything was easy for me and I almost always did well on my tests. I've been tempted to homeschool because I'm learning basically nothing. I likely won't, though, because I'd probably lose my social life.
UPDATE [3/19/23]:
I'm now homeschooled and taking CLEP courses to test out of some classes for college. I did in fact nearly take my own life in sophomore year because of the stress, and that is why I am now homeschooled. I have no friends anymore, but at least I don't want to die. Hopefully I'll make some friends in college. :/
😂
@@victorbaird8220 ??
You should go for it man. Take the leap of faith.
@@borombab4816 I did.
@@lars1588hey man, I know it can be hard, but you will get through your depression someday. Don't worry, it's okay :)
I moved 15 years ago to Finland and I am been a teacher for most of that time. The solutions suggested in this video are all addressed with the Finnish education. Not everything is perfect here but education is free, equal and with quality.
Do they employ the cooperative model in Finland, as suggested in the video?
It’s not free.
School in Finland is totally FREE! I mean, I do pay taxes, but I don't pay for any school things.@@agricolaregs
I’m a high school science teacher in upstate New York. During grad school, we were taught how to use active learning techniques to create engaging and relevant lessons. The reality is that if you don’t teach to the test, it negatively impacts your evaluation. If the students don’t pass the right tests, they can’t graduate. This means that a bunch of test writers, who have likely never taught, decide what is important for students to learn.
exactly, the curriculum is the problem
But what is written on those tests has a basis in G, ie fluid intelligence, its a very sterile method but one that has results.
Honestly, seeking out books, RUclips documentaries, and google scholar articles taught me more in 1 year (quarantine year sldfkjd) than my 12 years of public education
@MX 3 Yeah, I was also on the debate team in high school; that was a big part of my getting interested in economics and politics, but unfortunately, it has incredibly low funding, despite it's obvious value. I mean ... the actual event was full of pretentious white centrists, but the practice teaches valuable skills. The saddest thing was our high school football team having the money for 6 coaches and our music and theater departments and all their various events and classes being run by two guys and the occasional community volunteer...
pro tip is to look up course literature for a university course and reading up, if you can't get in for whatever reason. or if you want to focus on work.
90% of college is reading books anyway, so it's a good tip for those who don't have access but still have an interest.
Simple Fact : American schools have made students very very poor at basic world GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY etc. over the past century.
Seeking out books and youtube documentaries might have taught you more but you where seeking specific info that you value more. the 12 years spent in public education taught you everything from writing to math and science that are the foundation of everything else you built upon. In the us the high school requirement for math stops at pre calculus which is just algebra and early exposure to derivatives anything beyond that is electives. For science the student barely do much science with an intro course to biology, chemistry, and barebones basic physics course (if required by the district) with more "advanced" AP courses offered if the student wants. Even History is barely taught with it usually revolving around US history for 2 of the 3 years that students take History. English is the only required class for 4 years usually. After that students do a bunch of electives like art, sport, woodworking, programming, business if offered. the point of high school is to et you to a level for whatever you are interested in pursuing as well as make you a more knowledgeable student. Most teens don't even know exactly what they want to pursue when in college cause guess what the job market afterwards is so diverse and application specific no matter the field but you need to understand certain basics with most of them to advance to be taught in High school and below.
People who want to pursue science do pursue it but they would never have known what they liked had they not gotten early exposure to it. humans should be taught a diverse amount of every subject to be better at understanding and communicating to one another as well as what is going on around them. Otherwise if every one is born to do one thing and specialize in that since young childhood then we are robots with no free will that are slave to a domain. Our wants and will change drastically over the first 20 years of our human life and continue to do so till our death.
the education system he was talking about in the video is with pertinence to High school and below with some marginal application to college. When i was a kid all the way till early high school i wanted was to be an archeologist but then i found i loved science more and wanted to be a biologist, then in undergrad i noticed that no what i wanted to be was a nanoscale engineer to which I'm getting a phd in that domain. You can try to self teach this domain but without the proper structure and basis you cant self teach yourself easily nor can you assess weather or not you actually learned the stuff and understand it to build off of it. Its a lot easier to learn from books and academics paper when you are 25 and have some basic understanding of the subject then trying to learn the complex interaction between waves and particles when 15 with no basis of what waves are at that scale.
I completely agree.
I plan on this year when I graduate studying to become a chemist or biochemistry or something of the sort.
I’ve always felt held back from what I want to do through the system and have for a few years gone through wikipedia rabbit holes but only now I’ve tried to read labs/abstracts but they are somewhat complex.
I’ve been looking to find online resources for basic college level science or otherwise places like Khan Academy and books which are helping me.
I'm in the UK and my gf is in the US and the difference between our schooling is insane. My school was not focused on academics, it was for people with minor learning difficulties with no huge focus on acadmic brilliance, and we definitely did not spend every waking hour doing work. They did however at my gf's school, she said she regularly got 6-7 hours of homework and started school at 7:30 am. I just finished my first 3 years at Oxford studying maths with a high 2:1, and she has anxiety from her school experience, a very different attitude to problem solving, and doesn't even have a huge breadth of knowledge to show for it (she's very clever as well, one of the top chemists at her uni, so it's not like she's stupid)
It's like US schools are INTIMIDATED by intelligent students and work to CRUSH their spirits. Individualism and curiosity are also discouraged. Shame.
yup US schooling in a nut shell, no actually learning, but loads of trauma
Im in the US and never did 6-7 hours of homework. That's not representative of "the US." She either went to a very unusual school, or she was just extremely slow at doing homework. If she's at a university now, then she's at an age where there was actually a shift away from assigning any homework, during the years she went to school. What she's describing isn't normal.
No it is normal i have 8 hours pf school not included extra activities @Preservestlandry
@@KaylaMorgan-vm4pkthat’s a normal school day but outside of school doing 8 hours worth of homework is unrealistic and crazy for most people
Here in finland the schooling is actually kinda fun and also effective and most important of all is its free until like the age of 20, but mentally and physically disabled are given free schooling for most of their lives.
Correction: We like to pride ourselves at CLAIMING we are the best at things.
"We" because online Americans speak English and use RUclips 😅
@@Tom-vt4pw well, yeah. That too
exactly
I am the best president
@@icebreaker9995 Get out, Abe. 😝
What wasn't mentioned was the time spent being indoctrinated with: "America is the best country in the world, you're so lucky to be born here".
I remember so many teachers telling me this but luckily I decided to step back and really look closely 😬
My problem is that the school system is that in history everything is presented in black and white. There are never shades of grey, it also focuses too much on a single nation rather than exploring other nations and their individual histories. We learn very little about Rome, Greece, Persia, China, and other ancient civilization which is the reason I think more and more people think people didn't build the pyramids, and it's getting worse. We know little of the great minds nor do we ever see a book they wrote. Worst yet we are usually taught that the little nation is always eaten by the bigger one a mentality that I believe carries over into our politics causing people who argue for things like this channel does seem impossible as the Big fish dictate what is passed and what is not so people don't even try. We learn little of the small nations who fought, kicked, and raged just to exist.
Whenever I critique America in anyway whatsoever a load of people just type this "America is the best" right at me.
As someone who isn't American it scares me how much propaganda and indoctrination is going on in your country.
@Roman Dodia Yeah cuz indoctrination is found in every country for their own agendas?? Does the US education teach you that George Washington was a slave owner who prided himself at that? You can't say yes definitely cuz literally everyone uses different curriculum to teach. See, it happens with most countries. What you're asking for as education is very rare, maybe countries like Germany are honest about their education but not every country is the same. Ironically the US is the worst example for this.(I literally can't point it out with the staggering amount of indoctrination in the education system)I can say as someone who studied in both countries too that the US education is absolutely dogshit. Maybe if you said like the rote memorization found in Indian education of maybe 20 years ago, atleast it would hold water. Not anymore though, the landscape is changing quickly. I mean you can see yourself at people who say "USA #1", when except for wealth, literally the entire country is not even comparable to other developed nations, how bad the indoctrination is.
All my Cousins in Canada own homes, theyre YEARS younger than me, no college degree and here in the US Im 30 still living at home. This country is a joke, its hollow and lifeless
I spent a day in a German school and learned more in 20 min than in an American hour 40 block
Where in Germany because in the south Education is better
Care to elaborate? I would like to hear more about this
Please elaborate. Germany probably has something to teach this thread. How were the lessons in the German school structured?
I spent a year at an American school as a German and learnt absolutely nothing. They even had to put me up from 10th to 12th grade. Even English classes are harder in Germany. Tough the extracurricular activities in the US were kinda nice. We don’t really have these in Germany.
@@sophieblabla4888 Ja, Sophie: amerikanische Schulen sind sehr minderwertig.
I love learning but school made me hate it, i miss being able to sit down and read through novels in a single setting or just open a book and be able to read without feeling so burnt out
i miss it lol :')
That's why I always said there's a difference between school and education
@@SportsFan-vq9kk Education transforms.
Fun fact: my local high school is literally a former women's correctional facility.
It's probably the same thing now but for kids, schools are like a prison system
I live in Shanghai and my school used to be a Japanese concentration camp
Plot twist…. It still is!!
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Mine used to be a hospital.
There was no better day in life when I got to walk out of those doors and realize I’m never going back there.
@@techtutorvideos oh no. Life is 1000 times better. I don’t have to be around a bunch of dumb ass kids. I don’t have someone telling me what to do for free. Hearing depressed single mom teachers that can’t keep a man try and teach me things. No matter how bad adult life gets, it will always be better than the time I spent in school.
Lucky, I'm still in high school😅
I dropped out of high school years ago. The taste of freedom was so sweet. I loathed that place.
On god
thatll be me in a year
I went back to college in my 40's...I finished my Bachelor's in history and a education Master's. I got 30k in debt, and sighed on to teach at an inner city school. So, my lesson plans were at least 30 hours a week, for 2 subjects. Then I spent hundreds of dollars for supplies, had weekly staff meetings, a lot of professional development. That doesn't include morning duty for bag searches, and x ray machines. Oh yes, grading papers (especially papers!). I was always working at home! Kids didn't care about standardized tests, administrators were putting kids in my Sociology, college lvl class, even though many kids weren't at that lvl. I left the next year, after we started remote learning... which again increased the workload! Sheesh!
My highschool did teach a class on using money in the real world like filing taxes and how to buy a car called quant lit. Problem was that no one gave a shit.
I think thats the unfortunate part. A teacher could really care and know a lot about a topic but you can't force a teenager to learn. You can't force them to be excited about the subject. Teachers try really hard (hopefully) but not all kids are going to take the bait. And that's true of teenagers in every country.
The problem is the traditional school environment, there are two schools where they teach one teacher to one student all of the time brightmont and fusion academy where the students feel so much better going to school and could give the U.S. the competitive edge it needs to outcompete and lead the world
What do I remember from school? The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
Yeah I’ve learned that since 7th grade.
I don't remember learning anything tbh.
And the classroom is the actual cell
And even that fact is not exactly right
2+2=4-1 that's quick math-oh wait.
As someone who has struggled with ADHD for my entire life and had the privilege of attending a montessori school at a young age, It's hard for me to explain how much I appreciate seeing this. Transitioning from montessori elementary education to public middle school when my family moved was one of the toughest experiences of my life as a kid. Suddenly I was forced to be active and attentive at all times with no help from any of my classmates, who were all in the same boat and competing with me for grades and immediately fell drastically behind. I developed a massive inferiority complex about having to work twice as hard just to get by and I never really shook it. The kinds of questions I used to build entire chunks of my education around landed me in detention over and over again. Public school actively punishes you for thinking and doesn't accommodate anyone's learning styles.
Stay at home
I would hope that you would continue to spread the message that publicly funded one-size-fits-all education is a blight on the minds of our future generations.
This is exactly how I felt although I left montessori school at 5. I really like word problems because it helps me visualize how things work in real life. Which clearly relies on having a connection to how I can use it in real life. The question of "When would I use this in real life?" for some reason is apparently rude or something, and that ruined a lot of opportunities for me.
Get rid of school
They wanna make you forget
School, especially public school, in the U.S. SUCKS. I graduated from high school in the U.S. a bit over a year ago and let me tell you, that left me with mental scars so obvious I feel like Zuko. I started out loving school. For all of Elementary school I felt happy and smart. Once I got to middle school, everything changed. More... EVERYTHING. More students, teachers, things to learn, tests to take, assignments to do, homework to complete, academic and social pressure, stress, sleep deprivation, mental health struggles, and more advanced and confusing lessons. It was too much all at once and where I was once proud and one of the smartest students in my classes, my grades plummeted with my self esteem. I couldn't keep up anymore. Turns out I had (and have) undiagnosed ADHD and autism which the school system never cot (can't remember how to spell it, English spelling is confusing). I had to figure it out all on my own and suffer through all of my school years with no help or accommodations, feeling like a burden and a pathetic failure. Really it was the school system that failed me, and so many others. So many useless classes forcing information down our throats that we will never use after graduation. Insane amounts of homework, stupid end of year tests, the attempted step-by-step squashing of individuality, creativity, and independent thinking. Zero tolerance bullying policies that punish the victims. Sexist school dress codes. Biases towards teaching Christian and republican beliefs rather than plain facts. Getting mad at students for being tired or falling asleep in class even though the school is the reason they are tired because they made them get up so early even though many studies have shown that teenagers naturally have circadian rhythms that are shifted later. Forcing teens to get up so early even makes it more dangerous and irresponsible to give them no choice but to drive to school. Being car centric is wrong in SO many ways. And so many other things. I graduated extremely burnt out, barely passing, depressed, anxious, traumatized, and with my identity and love for learning and curiosity barely intact. The school system needs to be burned to the ground and rebuilt from scratch because THIS, is not working. No one should have to go through this cruel and unusual torture they call education. I only liked ONE of my high school classes, Financial Literature, because it was the only one that I felt like would actually be useful after I graduated. That class was the only reason I could get myself to go to school many days.
I didn’t walk across the stage when I graduated because I was so excited to leave and never go back the day I finished my final test back in 2017
you just describe 1984
George Orwell didnt just predict Totalitarianism but predicted the US School System being a literal idiotic power abusing system
As someone who went to a Montessori elementary school as well as S.T.E.A.M Middle and highschools, I can 100% vouch for more open learning styles. Often found myself more well-adjusted when it comes to my College learning style in contrast to most of my peers. I found myself being a lot more competent at different fields of interest across the board. Because of the way that those schools teach I feel that my propensity for knowledge was expanded as a child making me find interest in the most niche of topics. Is a person who likes to help people I find that it's a lot easier to do that being raised in the system with a greater educational diversity.
Im glad Im not the only one who was somewhat happy in school. My high school was three schools in one (PCEP), and it is very lenient and has a lot more of the open learning styles you said
American schools serve as "free" daycares as well. A lot of working parents can't afford care during traditional business hours, and schools pick up that slack
Yeah, that's a large part of the reason many schools were so stupidly reopened ... the sooner the kids were back in school, the sooner the corporations could make profit again....
Aside from this. Many American parents aren't educators. You can not teach what you don't know and not knowing how to teach can cause more harm than good in the long run.
@@nikolasslead6582 Orrr hear me out, the sooner families could actually stay afloat
@@nikolasslead6582 bad take, kids need to socialize for mental health
@@saturatedneowax They need to quarantine to keep themselves and their families alive.
I think you hit the nail on the head. The ruling class does not want a world filled with well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They want less educated peons to do the menial tasks that the corporations need to get goods to market. Also, the harder worked people are the less time they will have to question the system or their place in it much less do something about it.
That might have made some sense 200 years ago in 1821, but it's clearly a terrible plan now. We live in a world that's more high tech, where you need more quality education and critical thinking skills to fill the jobs of the present and future. If a society doesn't see that and realize the importance of a good education they will fall behind. Still wonder why China is moving up in the world?
Exactly what I was thinking!
It’s specifically the American education system which unfortunately failed you because the US is Not the world. There are like these whole other countries that exist that are Not the US and in many of these other countries, education is excellent.
@@Abitibidoug actually... that is how medieval/feudalist society was!
why do you think Shakespeare said the life was a stage, because that what it was, you born a farmer you die a farmer even if you had great ideas there was now way to be something else...
They are gonna go down in flames for their vanity. It will come to bite them in the ass.
I was homeschooled. I have mixed feelings since I was very, very isolated and I did come from a religious family. Despite that, I was able to cultivate my creativity and because I was alone with my thoughts, I could reflect on myself and I’m self critical, but in the good sense. It’s honestly shocking to me how many people aren’t self aware or have any empathy. I honestly feel like it’s because our society is built around always being distracted.
Sounds like you were fortunate. Isolation is exactly what most children need in these modern days. Social assimilation in childhood is overrated, especially if there are a slew of negative influences.
@@cliftonharmon2403 I’m sorry but you have no idea what you’re talking about and it shows. My life as an adult is very hard because of this. You can’t know what that’s like since you obviously didn’t experience it.
Yea that sucks especially the isolation like when COVID 19 started.I couldn't get used to the isolation either because I wasn't really taught how to study and the homework was overwhelming. I lost my math and writing skills due to COVID 19 that in my homeschooling college so far it's been torture that I have to go to library for the entire day (1pm to 6pm)in order to focus on getting the work done, to actually learn something,and catching up to make up for the failure of COVID 19
Hey Latin isn’t entirely useless! It creates a better awareness of the interworkings of language, opens up a whole new world of literature, encourages perseverance (cuz Cicero is hard), and helps kids understand how translation works. My best high school class was Latin.
Hear, hear!
I agree with you. One comment that sure missed the mark in this video was the implication that Latin is regularly taught in our high schools. This creator's newspaper subscription must have expired in 1970. It hasn't been easy to find a Latin class for decades! My daughter went to a top-notch Catholic high school, and Latin was nowhere in the curriculum. That alone should tell you something. As a substitute, I sometimes mentioned Latin word roots to the kids, and they were fascinated.
School failed me. Not repremanding bullies, yelling at creativity, stepping out of line, or constructive arguements about topics not touched on during the class. Ive almost completely lost my creativity and will to stand out, this is completely because of middleschool and the beginning of highschool
School totally fails to teach life and social skills, and even relevant academic skills :/ I'm sorry ....
Try your best to find a group of like minded, good friends to be around. That will boost your self confidence, make you more happy and maybe give you the energy to look into topics you're actually interested in learning about.
I feel the same. I feel so empty on the inside
Now endure that since preschool. We rank high on both smarts and depression for a reason as a country(estonia)
I didn't fail school
School failed me
As the son of a middle school teacher, a particularly egregious practice in my opinion is making teachers purchase their own classroom supplies. Public school teachers already make so little money, taking a cut out of the income you're paying them in order for them to do their job is a whole other level of income inequality for a job the usually requires an expensive, high level of education meaning disgusting student loans.
And if you don't, your kids will fall behind all the other teacher's kids. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
As an Australian, I find that shocking and ridiculous!
@@dannash358 fuck socialism
@@andrealshalsh3269 fuck capitalism
@@andrealshalsh3269 yeee
My parents were debating moving to America when I was a child, we went on holiday there and knew a teacher so I got to spend a day in school.
Even at 11 years old the kids were waaaaaay behind in education. Even the best in class would have been rock bottom in a UK classroom.
There are a lot of things I've grown tired of over the course of my school life. The only classes that ever actually intrigued me were a few electives in high school, like Culinary class, the unfortunately sparse TV/Video Production, or Creative Writing. All of the things taught in the core classes left me completely emotionally exhausted when I was more interested in other things.
I'm sick of hearing about World War 2 when I want to learn more about various mythologies from around the world.
I'm sick of reading Shakespeare and other works from centuries ago when I want to read more of authors from genres I enjoy.
I'm sick of hearing about the inner workings of cells and atoms when I want to learn more about actual animals and species that have same-sex relationships.
I'm sick of complex math equations and "explaining my answers" or "showing my work" when the answer itself does not and SHOULD not require such a thing.
Sorry, folks like you will not help this country.
Which animals have same sex relationships I’m pretty sure there are only sexual reproduction male and female and a sexual reproduction one creature has both male and female body parts
@@joshwhite5730 That's the thing. Penguins, lions, albatrosses, walruses, swans, giraffes, koalas, even other primates all have shown many instances of same-sex relationships. There's even a species of lizard that's all-female and reproduces by a process that's more like cloning. And that's just to name a few.
Same, but I wanna learn about the world wars/old politics of the America's (or just old crappy politics so I can laugh at thier face), creative writing (bc Shakespeare's doodoo), and literally anything creative!
I'm a high school teacher in Ontario. We are in the early days of fighting these kinds of attacks on education. And still people want to teach. Ontario public education scores in the top 10 of every international testing and yet, we are attacked, defunded, and have our resources given away in tax credits to the private system.
Most of the younger generation - atleast everyone I talked to - believe education to be very important. Better education means a smarter and more driven population, leads to innovation, advancement in technology, economic growth, a happier population etc. The more you invest into the general public the more you get back in return. This would mean people would be more knowledgeable on who to vote. It's crazy to me how little the government cares about education. As an ontario university student, I am shocked. It's gotten to the point where OSAP doesnt even cover the entire cost of enrolling for class. I had to pay money out of pocket. I dont know how much aid I'll get, so coming up with 100s of dollars to fill the gap is difficult.
I’m a high school math teacher and I am SO proud of my school because we will be offering “geometry in construction” which literally teaches students geometry by teaching them how to build a house. I am really hoping to see a lot more changes, especially in math, over the years.
that sounds awesome. is it a new thing?
@@sch4891 Relatively new, yeah, probably less than 10 years old. Definitely new to my district.
That would make learning it so much easier and interesting. Here, were just in a classroom all day. It's like that with every math class..
@@persephone9307 yeah, and with most math classes. That’s why math education is trying to change to a more discussion-based class, but it’s going to take some years to actually build up students’ math and productive discussion abilities to get to a good point for that.
This is how pepole actually learn
In other words, the American educational system is working AS INTENDED.
I think the teaching methods is part of the problem. I live in Finland and for a while we had a teacher from the US in my school, but she was fired shortly after due to "questionable teaching methods".
The pandemic has taught us that the most important function of public schools is free babysitting
That's against capatilism
It also taught us that half of American parents were willing to sacrifice the life of their kid to make a political statement, will scream about CRT but cannot begin to tell you what it is, and want to make sure only the WHITE history of the US is taught.
In America, yes
Wrong. Babysitting at taxpayers expense. Don't 'cha know there is not such thing as a free lunch? Hee Hee.
I moved from Jamaica to NYC and I got dumber. I am still a top student as I was in Jamaica but I have no challenges. They dont even teach grammar here, so I pass my English class with ease while the American raised students struggle with it if they don't have a natural gift
I was almost stunned when I learnt Americans cannot even write in cursive.
I immigrated as an adult here. Looking back, I noticed as well that my 13 year old average self can keep up with kids here that people consider "elite". I also hear people look down at my education because Im from a 3rd world country. 🤔
@@CyclingMartialartswithMusic same, they refuse to believe that since I am from a 3rd world country that my education system is actually better than the U.S. Some Americans need to learn that some of us are economic refugees, our education system isn't lacking, we just don't get job opportunities after
Over the years they have been teaching less and less content beside Math and certain ELA concepts in NY. Most schools are focused on teaching to the NYSESLAT. I learned learned how to write in script, tell time on an analog clock, and count money. I find that most of the children I see now are not proficient in these things.
@@satyakisil4289 That...isn't something that matters...
My mother was a Montessori teacher for preschool-aged kids for around 30 years and I attended a Montessori school up to 2nd grade, myself. They're pretty much superior by every conceivable metric. When I had to transfer into a public school I just kept doing shit the way I did back in Montessori. I asked the teachers for all the reading and assignments at the beginning of the week or month and then just ignored all the lecturing and did the assignments during class time. Once I was finished I'd just read whatever the Hell I felt like that I brought with me. By the time I went to high school I just stopped showing up for most classes more than a few times a term to turn in assignments and ace the tests.
Because of the strict rules and general learning Whenever I have a creative project I have no idea what I'm doing
As someone that is watching this during class, its sad to see that the system cares more about memorization then you actually learning life skills.
And even then, the system only cares about memorization in order to pass judgement. If a student hasn't memorized enough, it's not like they're given resources to help them commit more stuff to memory. Nah, they're just punished and then class moves on.
@@guy-sl3kr This was me, if I understood it the first time *click* it's there. If I didn't understand it we were onto the next thing. I'd miss that too trying to comprehend the first thing. You can see how it doesn't help when it's all regimented and standardized to an obsolete system.
That's the difference between public and private schools, private schools prioritize life skills over everything else.
I went to a private, Christian school. In 8th grade, everyone I was friends with in public school was planning their 8th grade class trip to Disneyland. Me and my classmates were prepping for two weeks of camping in the Sierra mountains. Private school has a different, and in my view, better, educational focus.
@@SuperSupersoda Private schools don't have an old educational standard and an opposition force trying to disenfranchise it
The irony of listening to this while I prepare lessons for my students is not lost on me. Very, very true. It’s so hard to work within the boundaries of school for even good teachers, it’s very messed up...
It always bothered me so much that I have had this huge passion for physics and math since I was a child and I rarely got the opportunity to truly delve into it at school. When I went to university it was taught in a way where I was only getting average grades in physics even though I loved it and studied really hard.
I wanted more than anything to pursue a career in physics but I'm now intimidated by the teaching structure. I feel like school mostly works to my weaknesses and rarely my strengths. I can't memorize lists of facts, numbers and equations, but I consider myself good at reasoning and critical thinking.
You should try proving the equations by yourself (not reading the proof) to get those in your head. Asking someone to check the proof and give you some hints might be a good addition.
The common denominator is you. You don't like when you aren't allowed to study math. Then you don't like when you are.
@@Preservestlandrylmao did you ignore the entire video
Loving a subject and studying really hard won't always equal success, especially in a subject like physics. You have to have a a good bit of natural aptitude for it as well. My husband is a MIT PhD physicist, so I got to know a lot of physicists. They were all naturally immensely gifted in mathematics and the ability to remember complex equations and laws of science. If you can't memorize the basics, you can't use reasoning on them.
The thing about private schools that I don't usually see come up is the damage it does to its students. Since they have barely any oversight, they can include or exclude anything from their curriculum as long as they fit within the basic education standard. Because of this, there were things that I was never taught, and had to learn about from outside sources (which were difficult to come by, since I barely had any contact with the world outside of a religious setting growing up). For a long time, I had no idea being gay even existed, even though I was (and am) gay. I was never taught about what was done to the Native Americans in the US. The teaching of slavery was a bare minimum, and any concept of racism disappeared after the Civil War for us. We weren't taught about evolution in any sense, and if it was mentioned in the textbook we were using, it was skipped over. There was zero discussions about mental health, to the point that when I became depressed and s**cidal, I was scared to tell anyone about it because I thought I was going crazy. The schools lacked any mental support, and the teachers didn't know how to address it other than to tell us to tell our parents. We were never taught sex ed, and the most we got was covering the basic anatomy of genitals, with the teachers always telling us to talk to our parents if we wanted to know more. Of course, my parents never told me anything about it either. And we were also taught misinformation, too. We were forced to watch an anti-abortion video that featured a graphic abortion, and told that abortion was always harmful and that it always caused regret. Even outside of the gaps in education, these schools can be incredibly harmful. There were no resources for anyone with learning disabilities, so I didn't get diagnosed with ADHD until I was an adult and went to get myself tested. I struggled through the whole of my schooling (more so in the later years) with no accomodations and no medication, and my grades suffered because of it. My parents always blamed it on my lack of trying. My high school was also extremely homophobic and transphobic, to the point that they threatened to expel any people who were/supported LGBTQ+ people. I learned about this 6 months into the 4 years I spent there, and I spent the rest of it terrified I would be found out. I never made any friends there, and my mental health suffered even more, to the point I started s*lf h*rm. I begged my parents several times to send me to a public school, but they refused, saying that my lack of friends was because I just needed to open up more. Private schools as an idea aren't bad inherently, but as they are now, they enable extreme levels of abuse and indoctrination that leave their students scarred and don't prepare them for the real world.
Im sorry you had to go through that.Some of the worst arguments at home involve scholastic and academic issues.The school is never wrong and the student is never right. I hate the stale old fart cloud accusation of not paying attention or asked accusingly if I do pay attention..Im gay myself. Hang in there!!!!
@@jeffreycone7504 Thank you so much, I appreciate it a lot. I hope your situation gets better soon.
Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall comes to mind when looking at current education systems. The U.S. and the rest of the world need to modernise education systems.
Why "the U.S. *and the rest of the world* "? Do you think we here in Europe are stupid enough to let our education systems go down the toilet, too? Speak only for yourself, please.
Well, i think Finland is all good. We have one of the best education system in the world. America is the one that needs to work on their education.
@@hape3862 here in the uk there is a lot wrong with our education system, but the uk is a mini America anyway
@@hape3862 While European countries as a whole are not as bad as the system in the USA there is still room for improvement.
@@hape3862 Why are you pretending Europe is a homogenous cluster of countries?! Not all of Europe has the syme type or level of quality between their educational systems.
I go to a small progressive school that doesn't have all the usual depressing shit, like we don't need to ask to go to the toilet etc. I love it
Asking to go to the toilet is truly the most evil of control. Seriously, is the kid supposed to shit or pee their pants if you say no? Just let them go to the bathroom instead of flexing your ego. And then the kid gets mocked for it, just cause the teacher wants to flex their immense authority.
Wish that were me... my high school had a system where you had to get back from the bathroom in 2 minutes or you got a 'strike' and you were given lunch detention after 3 strikes...... It was hellish.
@@nikolasslead6582 Schools expect a kid to crap in two minutes? These schools are ridiculous
@@PremierCCGuyMMXVI when teacher say you have three minutes to use the restroom and only like 3 bathroom passes for the semester
@@PremierCCGuyMMXVI Yeah .... and the bathrooms were a floor away from most classes.
Kind of surprised they didn’t mention anything about the terrifying frequency of school shootings in the US…
"The problem with American education" Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?
Ur not wrong; even I went “you only found one problem with the American school system?”
Albert Einstein once said, "If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, then it will live its entire life believing that its stupid."
Very few quotes attributed to Einstein were actually said by him. He certainly never said this.
"Don't believe everything you read on the internet"
-Albert Einstein
@@TheRenegade...@O C Then where did this quote come from? I would like to know.
@@TheRenegade... well Einstein did say this but likely heard it somewhere before him and is accidentally credited for it.
"Stop quoting me."
-Einstein
In our country we don't really have to ask permission to use the restroom, we just use hand signals to tell the teacher that we're going out because it's a courteous thing to do.
Which? (Sorry for being indiscrete)
In my country we do that as well. You make a "T" sign with your hands and go. May I ask which country you are from?
That is nice for the students and you are not being rude.
In my country that shit can get you sent home.
In my country you just tell the teacher you have to go. They can't really withhold permission.
My daughter is neurodivergent and school has completely traumatized her. We are pulling her out and going to homeschool her. I never thought it would come to this but even with an IEP the public school system can not meet the needs of my child. Our systems are crumbling.
I now appreciate that my history teacher introduced me into socialism and taught a bit that capitalism doesn't work
"Knowing the answers will help you in school, but knowing how to question will help you in life."
-- Warren Berger
@Egg T why are you spamming the replies?
I'm currently studying to become a teacher and in our current course, there was a particular question that stood out to me. It asked:
"Would you rather your students graduate with a new set of TRUE beliefs, or a new set of JUSTIFIED beliefs?"
I personally chose "justified", because even if they're wrong, someone with rational or logical beliefs can be reasoned with, whereas someone who only believes whatever happens to be "true" will be stuck in their ways.
A lot of my classmates agreed and had similar ideas, so there's at least this small group of uni students that value critical thinking. I guess I just wanted to share that.
That's a great quote!
"Quoting someone doesn't make you smart, it makes you look stupid most of the time."
- Rest of the world
@@NaimHrustanovic I guess a true belief is good if you are some kind of creationist nut.
My kid was put on an IEP in second grade because his handwriting and math skills weren't up to standards, he was slow to test, and would get distracted and was diagnosed with ADD. You know what he would do for fun at home? Calculus and Trig on Khan Academy in elementary and middle school, coding and history in high school. He's a very smart cookie but because he doesn't conform to the education system he was always left behind and now he's a second-year senior in high school who is short two classes- Health and History. It's been painful to watch and even more frustrating to be ignored as a parent too.
Same although I'm a student
I love computers anything about them is interesting and I also love all kinds of science and other stuff
But school is all about Urdu which I don't even understand after basic
(That's very embarrassing as it's my mother tongue)
And islamiat had to be in Urdu
and it's a choice between Urdu and English interms of books
Yet our ""English"" school chose Urdu
And guess which subjects are thought in the bare basics or not even at all
I don’t know if you’ll see this because you posted a long time ago. but I wonder if you would have any advice for elementary teachers? what do you wish your child’s teachers would have done better?
dude you can't just flame my boy latin classes, I know it might not be the most modern subject but it id really usefull in some professions and knowing a foreign language is generally really good, especially latin since so many languages come from it and it helps you understand lots of weird terms, words and structures in language, even in non some Romance languages. So I think knowing latin can be a really usefull skill in life. Languages generally are super usefull and good to learn.
Be that as it may, it's still less useful than Home Ec. Or other less obscure interests.
I agree completely. Home ec is so stupid in today’s global digital world. Education is about learning how to think not how to budget for groceries 🙄
I'm glad I was born in Finland. I don't think it's a coincidence that we are the happiest country for the 4th consecutive year since we have one of the best education and social security systems in the world.
As an American I disagree with this video. The charter schools in America get less money and have higher test scores. Private school enrollment has been declining year after year. Things like SAT tutoring, Khan academy, and other educational resources really do help kids.
I remember my senior year vividly. There was an awkward exchange student who had straight As. Told her that if she did my homework. My crew would buy her tacobell every day for lunch and beat up dudes that she didn’t want bothering her. I graduated with a 3.6 GPA.
I remember too. I remember when the public school lost me. I was 11 years old. My mom was such a strong mix of furious and worried sick that a meeting was called for the very next day. I wasn't allowed to go, but I'm told that she tore the principal and secretaries several new ones. I was transferred somewhere much smaller the next year, a tiny charter school with a heavy emphasis on special education and music. I still struggled for other reasons, but I don't think I would have survived in the public school.
Heres a funny story and I think I'm not the only one.
I learn more about History (Wars, Events, Cultures, Countries) watching RUclips History Videos and listening to Sabaton than in a classroom
Ahh, a person of culture I see
Same
Yup
I know little at all about my home country England before the 16th century from school. And they wonder why they say we have no culture here.
Imo, you'd be better off supplementing youtube with books rented from a library, way better than school
Schools (in my experience in the UK) implicitly/explicitly teach you...
1) that scraping the barrel is acceptable
2) that the majority is always right...
3) ...unless it's against the establishment
4) that one size fits all
5) to be like everyone else
6) to be unable to make meaningful connections/bonds with people
7) to delay your maturity
8) to be cognitively dissonant on the state of the school system (and in general)
9) to be intellectually dishonest about the state of the school system (and in general)
10) to be unable to reason properly/use logic
11) improper ways to argue (logical fallacies, etc)
12) to be an unnecessarily slow learner
13) to overlook the obvious
14) to be unintelligent
15) to be shallow-minded
16) to be simple-minded
17) to be a low-resolution thinker
18) to be a short-sighted person who has no vision
19) to be unable to plan your future
20) to only go for short-term gratification over long-term rewards
21) pathological academia
22) to be one-track-minded (by extension of the previous point)
23) to be unable to adapt to change
24) to not question people with degrees in their field of study
25) to lack emotional intelligence
26) to be an irresponsible consumer
27) to be unable to use social media properly
28) to be unable to recognize mental illness
29) to be unable to do research
30) to lack the intuition to differentiate between facts and fiction
31) to be financially illiterate
32) to be business illiterate
33) to be scientifically illiterate
34) to be technologically illiterate
35) to be historically illiterate
36) to lack basic skills in statistics/statistical analysis
37) to be not well-read in general
38) to be afraid of public speaking
39) that you are a powerless individual/how to be powerless
40) that defending yourself is wrong (you get in trouble for defending against someone attacking YOU)
41) to be a slave/how to be enslaved
42) that working for no pay is acceptable
43) that being abused is OK
44) that intrusion into your personal life is acceptable
45) that authoritarianism/totalitarianism isn't a bad thing
46) that if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear
47) that the teacher is always right
48) to blame the victim
49) that life is unfair (even though the teachers and/or staff make it like that)
50) to be overly dependent on someone else, especially authority
51) to trust businesses/institutions/government/authority without questioning them
52) to be blindly obedient to authority
53) that you are guilty until proven innocent
54) to think less of children
55) that you, as a child/minor, don't matter
56) to be institutionalized/have an institutionalized mindset
57) to be nihilistic (perhaps because you feel powerless)
58) how to be disrespected and, by extension, disrespectful
59) that respect & politeness are the same
60) that respect & obedience are the same
61) that lack of obedience to unnecessary, pointless & petulant commands shows a lack of respect
62) how to be manipulated and, by extension, manipulative
63) that if you can't be bothered in class, it's because you don't care about your future
64) that not knowing a lot after finishing school is a matter of "you didn't pay attention in class"
65) to feel guilty over the lack of "education" poorer countries receive when you complain about school
66) that school is synonymous with education
67) that school exists to benefit you
68) that subjects taught at school are the same as the names given to them
69) that your worth is defined by grades
70) that your intelligence is determined by grades
71) that intelligence is the same as/linked with knowledge
72) that future prospects/success is determined by grades
73) that you are defined by your academic ability (top/bottom sets, etc)
74) that grades have any kind of significance
75) that people are the same today as yesterday
76) that a university degree is a prerequisite for getting a good job
77) to be a vain person
78) to be an entitled person
79) to be lazy (with respect to school if you are ahead of the class)
80) to fear failure
81) to be unable to write a basic description of something (maybe because you fear failure)
82) to avoid doing hard things (because you fear failure)
83) to fear the unknown
84) to fear asking questions
85) to punish what you want to have happen
86) that losers win and winners lose
87) to put the cart before the horse
88) to work hard (without showing you how to work smart)
89) to focus on your weaknesses (when you should be focussing on your strengths)
90) to be unable to set clear objectives/goals for yourself
91) to be unable to stick to a particular mode of working (start something, then drop off after a while)
92) how *NOT* to use your time wisely
93) that life is a zero-sum game
94) to be against others in certain situations unnecessarily
95) to have a vengeful mindset
96) to have a petulant mindset when working with kids
97) that people with money are to be automatically respected/money is respect
98) that you can't have fun while "learning" or playing
99) that learning is a chore
100) that reading is a chore
101) improper ways to learn how to read as a child
102) that basic maths is hard
103) that there is something wrong with you if you are an introvert
104) that there is something wrong with you if you are a "loner"
105) that social circles should be determined by age to an unnecessary extent
106) computer programs you'll never use outside of school
107) other useless things you'll never use outside of school
108) to not work on your own style of art/to focus on copying someone else's
109) that sleep isn't important
110) that your mental health isn't important
111) to be sedentary (stationary for long periods of time)
112) that exercise isn't important (by extension of the previous point)
113) to lack training in basic first aid
114) to lack basic survival skills (including self-defence)
115) to be unable to survive a crisis/apocalypse (by extension of a lack of basic survival skills)
116) to be unable to live outside your parents home
117) to not be job-hunting savvy
118) to lack the ability to communicate effectively
119) improper ways of using certain styles of assessment (GCSEs, A-levels, homework, etc)
120) to focus on things that don't matter
121) to put your exploitable skill(s) behind your schooling
122) that learning Shakespearean material is important
123) that learning poetry is important
and finally...
124) to be unable to recognize what school has done to you
Notes:
Some of these lessons/subliminal messages sent are a product of individual teachers/staff and schools. Others are baked into the way the school system is set up. Even though this is my experience in the UK, I'm sure there is at least some overlap with the American school system.
For the purposes of this list a lesson not taught by school is the same as that lesson taught in negation - since for an institution that claims you come to school to "learn", failure to prepare = preparation to fail. e.g. Schools don't teach you to be financially literate = schools teach you to be financially illiterate.
Schools in turkey basicly teach you why you should leave your country.
86 is a loop
No wonder I remember school as a form of jail.....
My middle/high school (they were the same) had no idea how to deal with neuroatypical people. In 7th grade, I made an attempt on my life, and made the mistake of thinking that the school counselor would help me cope with my feelings. Instead, a police officer was called. She handcuffed me, put me in a cop car, and took me to a mental hospital where I was involuntarily hospitalized for nine days. They did it again when I was in 9th grade. I'm almost graduated out of college, and I'm still trying to cope with the trauma that these events gave me. Our 'education system' is just a pipeline to mental illness and prison-- I am convinced that if I was Black, that police officer would have had an entirely different reaction to my distress.
My school put me in a lot of 'counselling programs' in elementary school, which basically meant being isolated from my friends for hours a day, and while nothing that extreme happened to me, the school systems why of dealing with neurodivergent children is god awful.
These experiences is why I'm afraid to reach out, even though I desperately need it..
That's not "no idea". Thats them not caring.
And mental hospitals are expensive... I still have the guilt how much my parents have to pay, ever since that I’m afraid to ask help
During one year on Khan Academy I learned more maths concepts than in 11 years in school (even though I had B+). And it was completely free. And doing this I significantly lifted up my English.
Oh yeah, definitely. I've been using it to supplement my education since like 5th grade, and my senior year I used it for my APUSH class because they gave us a textbook that was basically American exceptionalist propaganda and Khan Academy is just so much less biased.
Free market capitalists like Khan are working hard to chip away the one-size-fits-all public education standard.
That's amazing! I've used Khan Academy to get through my calculus classes. They were much better teachers than my university professors lol
@@justifiably_stupid4998 they only have a place in the market because public education is appalling, thanks to the free market who won't allow a decent public education system because it's bad for business.
@@josecipriano3048 the pretzel you are twisting is fearsome indeed. Nationalized education was never given a chance. How are public schools supposed to improve with parents shopping around for the best education for thier children that they can afford? Nothing can be certain, except that capitalists are always the problem.
RUclips is what made me smart for free
This is why I have homeschooled my child!
Not for religious purposes.
But so he could learn what a modern person needs to make it through life. Be creative for himself, to allow him to be a kid and have fun.
Good job
You know, if everything wasn't controlled by some corporations, then MAYBE we'd all be living in a way better world
I hope so
@@EB-du3vh But they can't! Or else they'll miss out on that sweet sweet corporate lobbying
@@EB-du3vh Eh, good point. I should really be blaming these guys who take legal bribes
Corporations should die off. They do no good whatsoever.
@@EB-du3vh You saying that the problem is not the corporations, it's the government, is as if you said that the problem with the car accident that you just had was not because of the 12 beers you drank just before driving, it was because there was a forest "in your way"...
Only the OGs remember when the comment section was turned off on this video.
Haha still love your videos as they inspired me to start my own channel on social and political issues!
Wait really? Why
Yes
Yeah not sure why that happened. This one was scheduled like all the others 🤔
yeah
@@SecondThought well at least they are on now lol! I was worried you had switched to being one of those political channels that turns the comments off haha
I vote for providing Montessori style education to EVERY child. My son started in Montessori at age 3 and went until age 9. He is a VERY nice person and retired financially at age 45 following a very productive, rewarding, and interesting life. His early start in Montessori shaped his entire philosophy of life. I am so very thankful that as a single parent I happened upon Montessori schools.
Another idea that people say is good for students is gradeless schools. You know, when kids aren't given grades on their assignments, but instead have specific comments that say "this and that is a mistake" or something. Supposedly it's less stressful, doesn't suck the fun out of learning and helps actually learning a skill instead of mindlessly cramming for tests to please others with a good grade.
you wanna know something funny? I use this channel to send to my conservative family members, while being very careful about what videos' you post because socialism is still a very dirty word in my family. I am so glad I found this channel, because I used to be a conservative until I started watching three arrows. RUclips algorithm did its thing and before you know it I was sent here. Proud leftist now. You're doing some good things here keep it up.
That’s so great to hear!
Dictatorship of the proletariat! All workers unite!✊✊🏻✊🏿
I do this with my friends! Its actually pretty interesting how many ppl will agree with a lot of socialist values/goals but if they heard the same explanation but with the word socialism involved people suddenly close up to it and get mad. These videos are very low key and perfect to send to others to kinda plant the idea in their heads without being explicit about it
Hell yeah, you got the good version of the radicalizing pipeline
Hell yeah three arrows.
It's just a standard problem in America: there are big problems caused by privatization, but progress is slow, then it becomes a political issue and nothing gets done for 25 years due to political gridlock
The real problem is the traditional school enviornment, one to one education is proven to be the most effective form
@@beaus3911 But that is very expensive and there aren't enough teachers to do that in public schools. Not to mention that most one to one education is reserved for children with learning and/or violence disorders such as ADHD.
@@zjean3417 Go to the website and read about the results for yourself of how students perform in that school vs traditional schools
That school has the potential to revolutionize our education system when more people hear about the idea, the more in favor they are going to be as well
Something that wasn’t mentioned in this video is the social aspect of American schooling. For context, I’m a senior in a public American high school. I graduate this spring and have gone through my entire K-12 schooling career in public schools.
We spend most of our day at school as adolescents, and so that is where the majority of our social lives thrive. Except, students are pitted against each other and have to fight to be on top. The grading system, for one, is super damaging to students’ mental health. I know many people personally who have had panic attacks or breakdowns about their grades, and others whose parents will literally beat them should they not receive a certain score. There is also a ranking system: every student in a grade gets a number, and the number one spot is seen as the smartest student in the grade. Think about the “gifted” classes some students are put in in elementary/primary school, as well. You had to take a test to get into them, and if you qualified, you were separated from the other students for being “smarter than the average”. There’s also the existence of “Advanced” and “Honors” classes, where if your grades aren’t high enough, you don’t get in. You watch your fellow peers go into these classes and are told that they’re smarter than you, but in reality, it’s probably just that they’re able to work the system more. Students who learn differently are punished, and thus they can become resentful of those who are “smarter” or just grow not to care about school because they think they’ll never live up to that standard.
This is not to mention how the school system does nothing to promote unity, and so many schools have posses and cliques where people of similar mindsets and backgrounds group together, and some groups bully others. Nor does it go into how schools do nothing to help kids’ mental health and instead punish them for not sucking it up and dealing with it (for example, my own sibling wanted to get out of a class because they were stressed and came out of the class every day crying, but the school wouldn’t let them drop it and didn’t give a valid reason as to why. This was days after we had a school assembly about the importance of mental health awareness, btw). There’s also the problem of arts not being seen as “real” courses and are overshadowed and underfunded because of the emphasis on sports, the fact that schools have a blanket “no bullying tolerance” policy but do nothing to enforce it, and the inherent misogyny in a lot of schools, where the dress code is directed more at women than men and teenage boys do not get punished for sexual assault behavior.
Basically, there are a LOT of problems with the American Education System. It is my hope and goal to get things like this to change one day and to open people’s eyes to the dangers their children and peers are facing because of a system that is working against them.
Somewhat ironically... school is the only place I feel... capable. Able to cope.
During class I can goof off and do whatever I want. Doodle, write stories, daydream, nap, come up with clever ways to amuse myself without the teachers notice, read. I didn't really have to pay too much attention, I generally got the gist of the lessons from passive observation. I wasn't really inspired to talk to anyone else most of the time cause... they weren't my friends.
Between classes I could have some fun, do whatever I wanted... be it recess in elementary or brief jaunts between lesson in high school.
There was a cafeteria and library on site for snacks or diversions, computers available for me to do whatever I wanted, the chapel in highschool was always empty and had a great atmosphere to it, and I was on good terms with my guidance councellor, the school chaplain and a good portion of the faculty so there was mature conversation available if I wanted it.
Lessons were always changing subjects throughout the day, so if one class bored me maybe the next would be interesting. I was able to gradually expand my horizons through electives, or even just coversations about other kids classes.
After school, I didn't bother wth homework most of the time. I didn't need it to pass. I was passively intelligent enough, apparently, to pass my tests and on rare occasion I'd have to do some cram studying the night before. I generally scraped by my courses, which was enough to progress. By doing the absolute bare minimum.
Classes changing up routinely left me able to make new friends here and there, sometimes just for the year sometimes for longer.
There was no real consequence to anything, absolutely minimal responsibility, and whatever time I spent not sitting in a chair in some classroom was completely mine.
I was constantly told that school was meant to 'prepare me for later life' so I figured 'Well I'm passing, I'm told a lot how smart and intelligent I am, clearly I'm set.'.
Then real life happened. I'm an underperformer in every job I've ever had no matter how hard I push myself. Every job I've had except one I get let go 2 months in so they can cycle in someone with better performance. I'm so exhausted and stressed from work that most of my downtime is spent either anxious, self-depricating or literally just sleeping. I'm constantly given a standard to meet, then chastised when that's all I do. I'm constantly compared to everyone else as though I'm the worst employee, immediately after being used to shame other employees due to the one thing I did right. I'm scolded for using rights I'm provided as part of my employment, like the time the McDonalds I worked at literally changed 'store policy' regarding employee discounts after the manager realised I was capable of eating 20+ dollars of food in a single meal, something I did to celebrate my first month on the job. My personal time is expected to be 'available' should my employer at any point decide they'd rather I be working, with any refusal treated as betrayal. When I have nervous or emotional breakdowns from having it thrown in my face time and time again that nothing I ever do will be enough and I'm 3 seconds away from having my livelyhood ripped away from me... I'm told to just go get medicated. I'm frequently told if I don't like working the only jobs I can get, I should go somewhere else. I have a college diploma that is functionally useless because... guess what? I graduated a network engineering program without learning a god damn thing about IT or network engineering, cause I test well, and IT is a high-stress, high-productivity environment according to my teachers, and anyone I've spoken to in that field.
The school system raised me on a false view of adult expectations, and I'm told it's my mothers fault for not raising me right. The people who's responsibility it was to instill upon me, according to their own claims, a sense of work ethic and an understanding of the expectations of my future failed utterly to do either of these things, but it's the responsibility of those on the average week I spent less time with than school faculty for how I've turned out.
I got a really good sense of morals from my home life. Home life taught me how to be a person. School, apparently, was supposed to teach me how to be a worker. An employee. It failed utterly, but it's still the parents fault.
If given the choice, I'd spend my life in school.. because its the only environment I was raised to cope with, and it is a whole different beast than employment.
People who say it's because kids can't put their phones down for more than 30 seconds, no. It's because school utterly fails, in the vast majority of cases, to engage, educate or inform upon what their intended purpose, instead forcefeeding a bunch of rote knowledge down kids throats and praising the ones who can regurgitate it. If that's hard for you to do, you learn work ethic and still feel like a failure. If that's easy for you to do you learn nothing, and you wind up becoming a failure.
When a Bureaucrat or Businessman's feelings are more important, than actually getting results.
“Feelings”
When you were describing the similarities btw schools and prisons, I legit thought you were going for another similar institution: factories. Which, of course you got to later.
Factories come later in the video!
@@SecondThought haha, of course they do! Thanks for all the excellent food for thought!
fskdlfj same
Well, he kind of mention it, half way throught with the idea of obedient workers.
It's impossible to be a good teacher in a system set up for kids to fail. Teachers are human beings and most want to help kids. Unfortunately, good teachers can be literally traumatized by the job.
When I was in high school, I complained my English teacher was teaching me nothing and I was bored. So they put me in the hardest teacher’s class. He NEVER gave anyone and A except one person. Me. He even confirmed that years later that it was still only me.
Must be nice to realize that one of your bored students actually wants to learn.
Reminds me of a teacher who'd talk with us and still stick with the subject, the students actually paid attention that way.
@@Legenducky He had a tell. He would change the tone of his voice if it was going to be on the test. He probably didn’t realize it and neither did the other students. I would just jot that down and look at the notes 5 minutes before the test. Honestly the class was easy
@@kellykerr5225 I have a "tell", too. Two of them, in fact. First, whenever I talk about something that's going to be on the test, my mouth moves. Second, I have a tendency to loudly proclaim, "THIS IS GOING TO BE ON THE TEST."
Strangely, many students still don't seem to pick up on my subtle hints.
@@paulabukhalil3880 My father was a high school history teacher in a bad area while he was in law school. He wrote the questions and answers on the chalk board and they still did terribly. I think he didn’t try to make it interesting to them. He was a racist although he denied that when he was older.
I was just happy I got an A in what I thought was a very easy class.
i had a stronk reading this
I can FEEL my class consciousness rising!
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That's because the breadpill is working
Lolol I hate this pun but I also love it 😂😂
Im becoming more based by the minute
@@atticuscb There is a pun somewhere? I can't see it :/
Watching these kind of videos make me so grateful for having my childhood in Finland!
Moi
Lucky you 😭
Same
Lucky.
İf you Want to be more happy you can watch turkey educution system
Great video. I was homeschooled and definitely had a little bit of a developmental curve to get over. Though I was able to enlist to the military and got a degree and am now working as a web developer.
School isn't really designed for students to become knowledgeable. It teaches you how to interact with different cultures and unfortunately gets you on a schedule to be just another worker bee. Very few kids go on to a real college and become anything other than cogs in the machine. Somebody has to be the next generation of working class poor and public schools prepare you for this.
I remember the first time I stumbled into a prageru video. I thought it was some kind of joke, like an onion article. It's truly horrifying to hear that some students actually watch them in class.
Yeah hearing that they're used as actual educational videos in school and not just some morons on YT jarred me.
Oh my god I remember I watched a PragerU video once and I almost believed it! However, this was going against everything I thought I knew so I needed to confirm things. I very quickly realized what PragerU was and I immediately distanced myself completely form those videos. I just wish other people would check their facts before they completely dedicate themselves to something
It's just a big competition where you have your mental health ruined by grades, tests, etc.
School was traumatizing for me.
Want a fixed school education? Simple. Elementary: basic Math and reading. Middle: Add history, science, reinforce the previous two with a little bit more advanced cutting the algebra crap. Add safe beginner education for things a student is passionate about like cooking, wood work, etc. High School: reinforce the previous only now three classes are for experience. That cooking class you learned the basics for? Here's where that really starts. Wanna be a scientist? Here's the more advanced math/science. Wanna be a historian? Here's some history from around the world. Wanna fix cars heres an engine to rebuild. College: The classes for more specific fields like neurosurgery or pediatrician. Wanna major in Japanese history? Here's your class. Wanna be a chef? Which countries cuisine do you like the best? This would be a better system and its just a rework of whats taught.
A few Indian guys on RUclips helped me more than 11 years of school ever did.
honestly
@Akshay 18 the guys who build fuckin whole ass houses out of trees, dirt ect
Im curious what Indians and what was the subject about
@@shrek19yearsago78 Programming, if I were to take a wild guess. Many of the basic coding tutorials on RUclips are done by Indian guys for some reason.
Something I really appreciate in this video is the way it handles religion. Identifying the corruption of Christianity by Conservative and Capitalist ideas, while comparing it to a more biblical look at Christianity and not just straight up condemning religion itself.
A lot of leftist content comes across more interested in just condemning religion, especially Christianity, rather than looking at it as another part of life that unfettered Capitalism tries to turn towards its own advantage.
"Communism and Christianity are one and the same religion, it seems."
I don't know how many leftists friends of mine I have trolled with this catchphrase.
@@aplanosgc6963 Honestly if more outspoken Christians supported socialist ideals and values I might be less inclined to bash their supposed religion.
@@filipwolffs Just look at most christians outside the US. I'm not even sure you'd recognize them in Latin America / Europe.
I hope we have more content with regards to Religion and Socialism, I'm still waiting on Hakim to release his video on how he can be a practicing muslim and a Marxist-Leninist at the same time.
@@Tinky1rs
Yes and no. I am from Europe, and though a significant part of Christians are so-called "leftists Christians" trying to stand by ideals of sharing with and helping others, the majority still are pro-life anti-gay conservatives (that is a bit of a caricature, but not so much).
But then you have to take in account the part of Christians that are not churchgoers, and would not even declare themselves Christians, but still have Christian heritage and values (I am one of those). And accounting for these, the share of leftists are far higher.
But there is still this tendance : the more left you are, the less Christian you want to be, because Christianity is still linked to conservatism, which seems insane to me, but it is what it is.
Man I'm a senior classmen in my junior high and I can tell ya, the school is Bs. The bathrooms are just vandalized and full of piss n s***, the administration never even allowed me painkillers for my plantar fasciitis (condition where your heel muscle basically inflames for no reason, sometimes causing overwhelming pain), so I basically fell every time I try to walk, and I can't use crutches due to it being on BOTH feet. When I go to the nurse, the nurse is most of the time not in office so when I wait, I have to wait 30 minutes to 2 hours just to wait, and when she arrives she says: "why didn't you find an adult?" I'm like: "Bish do you even see me lying here in pain? I can't even stand without falling!!!". Basically, the nurses are undertrained. The homework was overwhelming and I had NO free time to create. Currently, my mind is filled with irrelevant skills, which I won't need for my storm chasing or meteorology career that I plan to take. I'm also one of the most targeted people in my school. Whenever I try to speak up, I just get slandered by the whole school. At least I haven't had any fights this year, *yet* . School is just hell.