Yes, it sucks that schools teach you to pass, more than other things.
What's also bad is the way it's distributed. It doesn't work. I live in a low income area. We have uneducated people teaching our kids, because nobody wants to teach here. The pay is bad and the standards are low. There's no money for after school clubs, science fairs, even pencils! If a kid's pencil needs sharpening, kid better carry a back up. No fucken gawd damned sharpeners! I personally know many teachers here who didn't finish school, but teaching was better than chopping lettuce out of the ground. Wealth in your neighborhood determines the quality of the education your kids get. So, sons and daughters of poor lettuce pickers are destined to drop out and pick lettuce to help out. Round and round we go. Drive a little, turn the corner, rich folks have better schools, programs for the gifted and failing, better sports fields and coaches, actual games and fairs, even educated teachers! Of course, they too have standardized testing, but still. Our education system is bull.
What's also bad is the way it's distributed. It doesn't work. I live in a low income area. We have uneducated people teaching our kids, because nobody wants to teach here. The pay is bad and the standards are low. There's no money for after school clubs, science fairs, even pencils! If a kid's pencil needs sharpening, kid better carry a back up. No fucken gawd damned sharpeners! I personally know many teachers here who didn't finish school, but teaching was better than chopping lettuce out of the ground. Wealth in your neighborhood determines the quality of the education your kids get. So, sons and daughters of poor lettuce pickers are destined to drop out and pick lettuce to help out. Round and round we go. Drive a little, turn the corner, rich folks have better schools, programs for the gifted and failing, better sports fields and coaches, actual games and fairs, even educated teachers! Of course, they too have standardized testing, but still. Our education system is bull.
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