Stupid in America Part 2 of 6

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If a monopoly is not good for industries like oil, retail, etc, then why is it good for K-12 education. John Stossel examines how lack of competition in education is hurting our kids, and areas where education is competing and helping. This video presentation will be discussed in the June 28, 2010 edition of Common Sense Capitalism.

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[flamingbolt5]

there stupid with money too? woow man.

Move to Canada or Aisa somewhere ! Words form Canada. Peace

[n1234ick]

woo australia was number 6 on that chart thing

[Kjernekar]

one thing that could help is teaching logicall thinking, which helps ALOT when you start on a new subject, and makes it easier to get into it.

For eksample, whe I was in england (from scandinavia:P) for 4 mothns I attended school there (not bashing england), and the first subject I had was algebra. Now, they had learned this for about two weeks, and I had barely herd of it. yet after 1 class I was almost ahead most of them nad has grasped the basics better,by using logic to figure out thesystem

[karlababii909]

@FutureCACPA Yes my education is my responsibility as an adult, but as a child your are forced to go to school, and the teacher as well as the student need to put in their equal share of work. And I don't think it my fault that the education system in this country is so bad. Your probably a teacher...one of the bad ones too....

[FutureCACPA]

@karlababii909

This is your own fault. Your education is your responsibility no society's.

[evanom2]

I'm interested in knowing who makes decisions of helping the educational system by spending billions of dollars in olympic pools, state of the art gyms and the likes.

[caglebarb]

Money makes the world go round, but it can't fix our schools. As a FORMER teacher for a dropout prevention class I got $0 dollars. No books, not curriculum, nothing even though government programs supposedly gave extra funds to the school for this class. Behind my classroom were stacks of NEW books that were slated for disposal. Thousands of dollars of books. Don't believe what the government is telling you. It is not money. It is not the teachers. It is the leaders that are killing our school

[idis1abad]

18 on a 4th grade reading level?!? o_O umm, you can't blame the school system for that one. It's the parents' responsibility to teach their children to read. That's like one of the most basic things you learn, reading.

[DJsissypool]

@66XANDER66 if you look at the PISA results they do every three years you'll see which school system is working best... and that would be Shanghai, China who got the #1 spot in all three categories, not to mention a perfect score in math! the US's best rank is 17th in reading... now thats terrible! lol :)

[66XANDER66]

to me japan has the perfect school system, the hours, the way students clean up classrooms and are involved in sports and extra classes. Japanese students get out of school and study more in after school courses.

[SteelSpur]

Now I'm from Barbados now I live in America believe American colleges level out their education problem at a certain age I still laughed at Americans kids while I was in class with them. I breezed through their tertiary system but they get better with age. The UK system of education really helped my country.

[doctordoctordocism]

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