U.S. EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
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The American educational system is in bad need of remodeling and overhauling an antiquated system of public schools, dating back to the original idea of Thomas Jefferson. We use the stick of education to provide the carrot of a ôbetter job and higher salaryö for those who are more educated. Note, one says ômoreö rather than ôbetterö. If there is a plus to American education is that, unlike many other nations of the world, more children go to school longer. If there is a negative side- and there are many critics with fistfuls of complaints, it is that forcible attendance is different than learning; many classrooms are overcrowded; teacher capabilities are greatly varied; inner-city schools tend to have a worse impact on learning and retaining that suburban schools; African-Americans complain that most college admissions tests are created by and for a white majority. Perhaps the most recent frustrating indictment is that a good education, even a college degree, no longer assures one of permanence in a downsizing economy. We are facing a budgetary crisis in our educational system. Teachers needing more pay, structures needing replacement or repair, new technological equipment not being on the School Board's budget. We also cannot overlook another sad commentary on school-age American children. It is a sad fact of life that our young people are seriously delinquent not only in their educational prowess (when compared even to other nati
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hildren benefit by improving grades and study habits, and the schools benefit by having interested and active family involvement to supplement teachers. These are, unfortunately, only pilot programs. They should be nationwide.
There is another problem, which really pervades middle schools, even high schools as well: the problem of bilingual education. Part of the problem both with bilingual education and English-as-a-second-language instruction in the United States lies in our unwillingness to treat English for non-speakers as an academic subject. Schools often treat (limited-English-proficient) students as aàgroup of helpless individuals, in need of a warm, fuzzy environment created by caring or undemanding teachers.
Strengths include, of course, a law that children MUST attend school until the age of 16 in the United States. Elementary schools also provide a haven for some children with one-parent or even no-parent families, and meals provided at noon may be the only nutritious meal some children get all day.
Luckily, there is now a movement afoot for elementary schools in this country to follow the example of European schools, which begin teaching foreign languages at a very early age. Of course, computer use (wh
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