Nothing in the world is perfect and America's education is just another one of those things. You cannot expect it to be perfect. Not with so many schools, with even more teachers and even more students. On top of overcrowded schools, styles of teaching and the contents of the lessons are constantly changing and adapting. With each generation, they are being taught things sooner than the year before and possibly faster. Teachers, in my opinion, are not evaluated often enough which allows a lot to fly under the radar. In a lot of areas of the U.S., education is a broken system and our country just does not have the money or resources to mend it. I believe our system of education works. People just expect too much of it.
In my high school experience we had 30 plus students per classroom with just one teacher. As you can imagine that makes it so the teacher can only get time with a fraction of the class and that is just the ones that ask for help. I never really needed help so I offered it to others as much as possible, but I have to believe that there were students that did not ask. That suffered because they flew under the radar. That is not necessarily the teachers fault or the schools fault. I am just saying that it is a large fault in the idea of public schools. Classrooms become too large and students do not get the help necessary and just barely scrape by.
My younger sister just left elementary school and the kind of material she was learning was way beyond what I had learned back then and it is even more so when I talked to my mother about what she learned. It is pretty crazy what kids now a day are learning, but it looks like they have the ability to do it. Which means it is working, teachers are adapting their lessons and accelerating the rate at which our students learn and that is great. If we can pump more knowledge into our future generations then that boosts the rate at which everything else will advance in the future.
Teachers need to get their emotions in check and be better equipped to deal with particular types of students. A lot of teachers let their emotions steer their classes and students really rely on teachers to be neutral and simulative. It is hard to see from both sides of the coin. Obviously, teacher’s lives have an effect on their ability to teach, but they need to be equipped with techniques to leave all that out of the classroom and be the moderators and role-models they are supposed to be.
As you can see there are positives and negatives to education in America and those are just a quick few examples. Education works for the most part or else we would be seeing a massive restoration of it. I just completed my public education and it worked for me. Sure, it does not for everyone but what can you do, not everyone is cut out for it. Education here has points where it shines and places where it is flawed. You cannot just look at one side; you have to see the balance of it all. The country does its best with what it has to work with and the administrations keep it going and it all works. If the student has the will to learn then in the end it all works. It worked for me because I wanted it to. If you do not want something then you cannot expect it to happen.
