What's Wrong With America?

[TheRacistsMustDie]

It doesn't make sense to put Belgium in it as a country, the Flemish & Walloon system are completely separate.

[arcjdm23]

Challenging!!!! Simple as that, we let our kids just slide through schools all the way out of high school if we punished kids for not doing well and didnt allow them to drop out we as a country would be in good shape. Exsample look at china they force there children not to be hard but because they love them and want them to do better if we inforced "tuff love" to our kids they would be more likely to flurish into anything they want to be.

[2879leilei]

Children are taught by the media not to care about grades because then people will like you less. You know, that phrase, "No one likes a smarty pants"? yeah, that sinks in. What would probably help is teaching behaviors....and also being allowed to punish children who act out and disturb class using something more efficient than the time out chair=/

[Ecocide112]

Absolutly correct.

[taverned]

wron, wrong, wrong! We fix education by repairing our culture. Return to values like respecting elders and honoring mom and dad. Also, turn the boob tubes off.. throw them in the garbage along with the "big 3" networks. We've got a youth culture where intelligent kids are squares and nerds.. throwing money at schools without changing these cultural issues is a waste.

[sardonicbynature]

this video fails to look at other factors.

while it is the job of schools to educate, it is the "at home" activities that set the tone for children's learning. without proving that there are other factors involved, it would be very hard to believe what this video is trying to prove.

[kaneyoushie]

Each student in the south Bronx (13k-32k income bracket) receives $8K per student in the Suburban schools (45k-100k income bracket) less then 30minutes away receives $11K and and further out the Public schools for the so called "Elite Public Schools" (Income Bracket 175K+) neighborhood receives $18K per head. I wonder whats wrong with this picture

[Jononutoob]

Perhaps the education system is fine. Maybe the students are lazy or dont care.

[TheKaieshi]

I live in finland and i know our education system is not perfect...but we have here high standards for one to become teacher and our textbooks concentrate on looking at the whole picture. Exams require vast and deep analysis from subject which we are learning.

For example in a test from physics you have to write at least one essey + plus all normal equations excercises.

One of the first things we are taught in school is where to find knowledge and how to use it properly.

[Bellybeard]

Hello from Sweden!

Ill tell you of one of the biggest problem with American Education

Your educational books used in schools are so full of what we in Sweden call "Word-pooping"

Almost half of the text in a normal school book is simply "words-of-shit" to fill out the pages

Witch makes them unbelievably uninteresting, hard to read and very difficult to find the actual important information

The second language of Sweden is English

Yet we have difficulties with books from US-A

A reform is needed

[MrJastin]

How could you possibly have problems reading it? Are you sure you actually even know english good enough? It seems pretty simple to me.

[ominuka]

I think the correct question is, what isn't?

[ntse91]

no u idiot. if we look at what isn't wrong with america we will never solve problems dumbass.

[watnameisnttaken]

Wow you are a fucking moron.

[ntse91]

how about you reread my comment again and again until you actually say it correctly and agree with it in your super fucking ignorant mind.

[watnameisnttaken]

I think you need to read his comment again.

(What isn't wrong with America implies that a lot is wrong. You became infuriated at that for some reason.)

[ntse91]

Shit i'm leaving a trail on the internet... time for a new user...