Things to love/hate about America

runningncircles1
Sun, 19 Feb 2006 22:11:20 +0000

^I’d have to disagree with the argument of education being underfunded. We spend more on education than any other country in the world (both per pupil and in total), we’ve upped total funding on education in real dollars AND inflated dollars, yet countries which spend less than us get better results. The reason is because we spend too much money on crap out of class, especially administrators (do they need 70K per yr while the teacher is payed 35-50K per yr?). We should teach teachers how to keep discipline in their classes, not hire someone to give misbehaving students to.

Also, the only curriculum available in most places is “College Prep,” even though many students don’t want to go to college. We should focus on building more “specialty schools” which cater to certain students (i.e. vocational schools for those who don’t plan on attending college, ESOL schools to help those who don’t speak English both learn English and learn basic subject matter, college prep academies, foreign language schools, science/math schools, and as you said, art magnet schools). Unfortunately, this is a good idea that the people would probably like so it will never pass in any state.