Education

I was watching the news one day and this superintendent for a school system was talking about how his school system was going to improve and how it was going to help improve high school students so they will be better able to find a job when they graduate. And yes I know that most high schools have a joint agreement with technical colleges so they can dual enroll. I agree with that dual enrollment so they can start earning college credits before they graduate. But here is what I have the biggest issues with when it comes to education in general.

The student population as whole does not have enough textbooks or computers for the entire class due to budget cuts, but school systems do not cut the budgets in other areas like high school sports, especially football, the yearly salary of the school system's coaches (most school systems are more focused on if they can get a winning coach). More and more school systems are cutting out the vocational classes, the art classes, basically the important things a high school needs to decide what they want to do in their future. As a result students are dropping out, bullying others, or simply being a problem student. I know that schools are now having a more hands off approach to discipline and that the parents are supposed to be more involved, but lets be honest that does not work in most cases or the school just wants you to get them some medicines and the teachers have a classroom full of zombies. The government wants education to catch up with other countries that is simply a pipe dream. Class sizes are getting bigger and teachers are simply not getting paid enough or their is not enough due to fear of the students becoming violent. If school systems would cut the budgets of non educational items, quit giving raises to administrators or school board members and put that money where it belongs that would help. A new gym/football field/band room/choir room is not an educational item that is a non educational item. Only a few gets a sports scholarship, music scholarship, etc. I feel just a superintendent alone can run a school system, most board of education members are NOT even educators.

Education has changed alot since I graduated high school and I really feel for the students who are getting neglected by a very broken system or a very broken family. This society reflects that. It was just recently reported that only 1 out of every 4 Americans know that the earth revolves around the sun. More and more school systems are trying to quit teaching Evolution and the Big Bang Theory and replace it with theories on Creationism (God did that) in Science classes. Learning to write cursive is slowly dying out in schools.

*Sigh*

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