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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] The faults of the US education system can be traced to several sources: 1. Social Engineering - That is, the supposition that schools ought to teach 'morals,' 'values,' and 'self-esteem', rather than reading, science, math, geography, art, literature, etc. 2. Non-teachers in leadership positions (which is the main cause of #1.) You will find that the higest posts among the folks who determine our education curricula are almost NEVER career teachers. Rather, they tend to be sociologists, union leaders, psychologists, politicians, and other people whose jobs have very very little to do with what teachers in the classroom actually face. They are out-of-touch. 3. Parental / student apathy. It is next to impossible to teach someone who isn't interested in learning... beyond when the next N'Sync album is coming out, who's gonna be the WWF champion, or what Pokemon card is hot today. Similarly, long experience has shown that parental participation in a child's education (from making sure they do their homework, to helping them with it, to actually GOING to parent-teacher conference day) is essential to their growth. Most parents who 'get involved' today are either denying something that their child did wrong "my Bobby would NEVER do that" (despite evidence to the contrary) or doing something idiotic like trying to get the Harry Potter books taken out of the school library. 4. "Mainstreaming." I'm all for 'fairness,' but let's face it. All kids are NOT equal. Teach to the top, and the middle and bottom kids get left behind. Teach to the middle, and the kids on top lose interest and the kids on the bottom get left behind. Teach to the bottom, and the middle kids lose interest and the top kids... forget them, they're gone. It doesn't help their self-esteem to be mashed together like that. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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