What would you change about the American public school system?

[vorlon13]

Give teachers some say when parents of kids they've already schooled file for another breeding permit.

[Minimalist]

Yeah...teachers don't need unions, do they?

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/3/...=emaildkre

Kentucky Teachers Shut Down Schools after GOP Slips through Bill that Robs Teacher Pensions

In what teachers are calling a Sewage bill (a bill that originally was for sewage services), late Thursday, Kentucky Republicans snuck through a bill through which robs teachers of their pensions.

Thursday night, as the pension bill passed, many continued to voice their outrage, stunned and furious by lawmakers' quick unveiling and voting on the measure. They chanted objections throughout, like "Shame on you.”

[The Grand Nudger]

We're on spring break.  Good timing for a strike. Fun fact, friday got called @ 5am because there weren't enough subs to cover the strike -and- the outbreak of whooping cough.
(you heard me right...fucking whooping cough, because that..along with tb..is a thing again.)

[Minimalist]

Thank the anti-vaxxer crowd!

[Cecelia]

I hate to say this, Cecilia, but you are in fact enabling the districts who choose to fuck over their students.  Make the voters (parents) buy their own school supplies and the superintendent will be getting an earful.

That might work if the voters actually cared enough about education.  But if they did, we'd already be getting enough funding.

[The Valkyrie]

The people involved...

[rskovride]

@OP I am learning that I would have very much benefited from a logic 101 course in high school. Also, I wish someone would have told me that I could make my own expectations of life and didn't need to accept the goals that was told I should have.

Has anyone mentioned the shitty square pizza the cafeteria served most days? That needs to be changed.

[dyresand]

I really wish I would have learned earlier in life how to identify logical fallacies. It may be helpful for some type of philosophy course be required for High School students. What about you? What would you change?

Throw it away and make a brand new system based an updated system that the rest of the world uses.
BEcause honestly, long school days don't work either does homework. Lower amount of time at school, better hands-on education.
elimination of homework, more arts and even recreational activities, and school lunches that are more healthy and not supplied by the same companies
that supply prisons(not joking about that it does happen prison lunch and school lunch pretty much the same).

[Sal]

In my country, Christianity is written into the constitution and we get Christianity classes for as young kids as 9 year old. It's blatant indoctrination, in schools no less. I'd like to see comparative religion courses when the kids reach at least the age of 14-15 instead.

And logic class as someone else mentioned near the beginning of the thread, early on.

[CapnAwesome]

I really wish I would have learned earlier in life how to identify logical fallacies. It may be helpful for some type of philosophy course be required for High School students. What about you? What would you change?

Oh god, nobody cares about that but people who debate a lot on the internet. College philosophy class isn't about logical fallacies at all.

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In my country, Christianity is written into the constitution and we get Christianity classes for as young kids as 9 year old. It's blatant indoctrination, in schools no less. I'd like to see comparative religion courses when the kids reach at least the age of 14-15 instead.

And logic class as someone else mentioned near the beginning of the thread, early on.

What country?