Education Reform & Discussion - Discuss Problems w/ Various Forms of Education & Propose Solutions

[Jarch6]

As with basically ever other societal issue it's worthless to start discussing it if we don't acknowledge the elephant in the room (the biological/genetic basis of intelligence and academic performance therein). Most of the national academic decline observed in recent years can be accounted for by demographic changes alone (Also, if one controls for racial composition one finds that the American education system actually performs quite well in comparison to other countries). With that said it's obviously not perfect; in particular, recent changes by the retarded education "specialists" have actually done appreciable damage. The common core system which Obama forced upon the states like a handsy date rapist has been an abject failure showing a marked secular decline in academic performance. Sporadic efforts to replace phonics with "whole word" teaching have always been utterly disastrous (if you see a gen alpha or zoomer who can barely read and just seems to guess the word based on its general shape, now you know why). Similarly DEI efforts to get rid of AP and Honors classes achieve, to some extent, their intended effect of slowing down the "overachievers". These horrid ideas are generally pushed by bureaucrats rather than teachers themselves. Conversely, the common sense policy of holding back students that don't meet education milestones has shown great promise (in Mississippi if memory serves me right).

 

[Soso]

one thing I've noticed is the higher amount of shitty parents that seem to exist nowadays.

Lots of teachers said the shitty parents use the same excuse "I can't watch my child all the time! I'm too busy! I can't check my child's grades!" Especially when you can check the grades on an app. They don't give their children consequences even when they lie to get the teacher in trouble. A group of students this year, I believe fifth graders, during the state testing got mad at their teacher and decided to lie that she was on her phone during state testing and giving answers to the students. Teacher reasonably was pissed off and quit. There was another lying incident this year where the parent encouraged it (and this parent is well known for doing this), but the details are more vague on it. Administrators are scared of shitty parents raging on social media and to their faces, shitty parents know it so they can act out, the kids get the hint they can do anything, and other parents and students get inspired to act that way.

 

[Old King Koaleamos]

giving answers to the students

this is so fucking funny because, the only way I'd believe this would be for it to be the most niggerish negress to exist.

Administrators are scared of shitty parents raging on social media and to their faces, shitty parents know it so they can act out, the kids get the hint they can do anything, and other parents and students get inspired to act that way.

Yep. While there's shit teachers, I feel sympathy for a lot of them stuck in the current world. It's just awful.

I know one where the parents got mad at a teacher for failing their kid, turns out he was absent all the time.

 

[Basic Blond Boy]

This is a MAJOR problem. I think a lot of people are socially isolated and I have noticed the younger generations being really bad at social interaction. I don't think it is simply genetic autism either. I think children aren't learning how to basically interact with each other socially.

Smartphones/ipads are partially to blame for this.

Going to chime in on this, I would argue that the polarization of current America has more affects on children's socialization than the internet does. So many of the classes I took throughout highschool and college felt like you had to have a mask on at all times due to some super lefty teacher looking for any reason to set their students up for failure. You can't even disengage on the politics as every fucking assignment is some dipshit-tier, why are you and white people awful essay. The lesson to take from these classes is just to keep your head down and not go off the beaten path as any dissonance is either met with points deducted or the teacher putting you on blast for such a bad answer.

Honestly, for as much shit as Zoomers and Alpha can get, the older gens really cannot help themselves these day but to spew all their political beliefs from CNN or FOX even if it isn't relevant. As a result, the younger gens becomes a hotbed of the various tard politics that manifest into extreme defense/offense, making interactions feel like walking on eggshells.

 

[Sweetpeaa]

It apparently goes back to the Reagan era. I'm not a blame Reagan for everything person but you can do some reading on how the school system in the U.S was very different before his cuts. Special education didn't even exist because retarded kids didn't go to public school. They had special schools for them. They had well funded programs for gifted children. Even the nigger area schools weren't as much of a mess.

Schools were half way decent and orderly places where a children had to have an average IQ and good behavior to even attend. Even during my school years (which began in the 90's) bad kids were expelled.

Now? It's not so.

A reform of education would require reversing these pitiful cuts. Which would be impossible but some headway can be made.