Education

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People always complain about how the schools in this country suck. They think that it’s a problem that schools aren’t actually educating their kids in any way. There have been countless newspaper articles published about how each graduating class has progressively worse skills in even simple things such as math and reading, and people, upon reading these facts, produce the response that they have programed into themselves for hearing such facts. I don’t think most of them care as much as they’d like to believe they do, but it’s understood that these statistics and what-not are something we should be saddened by, so they make sure they’re sad when they hear them. They have lots of different ideas about what specifically is wrong with the educational system, and they even have ideas about how to reform it. However, the root of their complaints lies in the fact that the schools aren’t teaching the students.
The reason for this is that the schools aren’t really meant to teach children. They’re meant to keep unemployment rates down. In my opinion (and the opinion of many credible psychologists), people are ready to be adults a lot sooner than society lets us be. This is the cause of much teenage rebellion and like things.
People say that schools need more funding. I even heard this about St. Charles High School when I went there. St. Charles is relatively wealthy town. Maybe more of our taxes are supposed to go to schools rather than special interests. That makes sense. However, if schools had more money, what would they do? They would buy better teaching equipment, like textbooks. They would hire better teachers, who would teach better for higher salaries.
I don’t think any of this would work. If the schools got more funding and whatever else they’re supposed to need to teach better, the students still would not be inspired to learn. Every five-year old anxiously awaits beginning their years of schooling. Aft...