- Fri Jan 10, 2014 9:56 am
#34871
Actually, indoctrination to produce minimally capable, disposable, factory drones. To squash individuality and talents. To skim the most advantaged into the top levels of management and engineering with the least effort, education, and training of the bulk. About day care for teens.
Our problem is not with private of public schools. It is with the whole system of education that treats mostly the least common denominator and separates the wealth class from the rest. Also, there is a problem, currently, with racists and bigots trying to separate their children from the rest by making false assertions about public schools and failing to address the real problems with our education system. Charter schools, on average, have now proved to be slightly less capable of educating students than public schools. Yes, there are some exceptions, but they occur in both venues. Money is clearly a significant factor. But, goals are equally important.
For example, irrational goals hurt everyone. NYS now requires all HS graduates to be Regent Scholars. What bullshit. In reality they just made the designation meaningless and forced incapable and uninterested people into programs they don't want and can't handle. Throwing money at irrational programs is a waste. Let's work on getting the goals correct. Let's deal with the reality that not all students have the same interests, capabilities, or talents. That not all students want to work hard. That not all jobs are appropriately available to all people. That age level passing people is a fraud. That curricula need to be designed for talents, interests, work ethic, and job availability. That people need many differentiated opportunities. That we need to place people based on interest, capability, and work ethic. That they need to have multiple opportunities to advance in their chosen area, but that they also need to be guided away from repeated failure. That not all need or should have a HS degree, let alone a college degree. That sports and arts are not a general career opportunity, but that they a usually for personal development or a healthy rounded individual and thus should be encouraged and available to all but should not be required or graded for most. That they should be professional opportunities for the talented and extremely highly motivated. That history and civics classes should not be about patriotism, but about actual real history, unvarnished and not idealized. About real struggles and conflicts. Like, the Boston tea party was not about tea, or tea taxes, but about tyranny and more about booze than tea. Tea was easily boycotted, not so booze.
Set the goals incorrectly and underfund and you get the results we get.
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