EDU Reform Vol. 4- Goals and Structure

This one covers a great deal of content in a relatively short amount of time, even though this video is longer than what is typical of mine. Here's another lengthy one on this subject from a student's perspective:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USMjBD6rxKU

Category:

Education

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• GrapplingIgnroance
• EDU
• reform
• education
• tracking
• structure
• goals
• high
• school
• secondary

[AdonTimasu]

G.I., pack your bags and get your ass to Virginia. I need you as my governor.

[GrapplingIgnorance]

@AdonTimasu I'm sorry, but I'm too honest to be a politician. I'd never survive in that line of work.

[christo930]

We are already spending too much money on education, we just aren't spending the money wisely. Go down to you local DOE building at look at all the bureaucrats! 6 figure salaried employees that do absolutely NOTHING to educate children. Buying new books that aren't needed every year. Why in the world would you buy new basic math books every year? Why can the archdioceses education children for 1/3 of the cost and do a better job? Reason, they have far, far, far fewer administrators.

[GrapplingIgnorance]

@christo930 Spending money on things that don't educate kids is NOT giving money to education. I have never seen a public school that buys new text books on any subject matter on an annual basis. I've never even heard of such a thing.

[AnnaMayEyes]

G.I. I hope you are in contact with local, state, and federal officials, and getting this message to those who have the power to make the necessary changes. Telling US is great, but most of us can't do anything about it. I would love to see these changes you speak of, but I don't have the gift you have, and could never get across in words (verbally or on paper) what you so eloquently describe. I wouldn't even know how to begin. I wish I were persuasive and had connections, but I'm not I don't.

[GrapplingIgnorance]

@AnnaMayEyes Your votes still speak just as loudly as everyone else's- so keep that in mind if you want to see change!

[ZachValkyrie]

Case and Point: In high school, I was loaded down with extra science and math courses, when I could have been taking honors chorus, which eventually caused me to loose almost all my vocal abilities from simple neglect.

Now I'm 21; by now, I could have been an operatic heldentenor, singing Siegfried at the Metropolitan Opera; but instead I'm slogging through an engineering degree for no adequately described reason.

CUNTS!!!

[PestoPosta]

You know I was going to say that I agree, but and then you went and addressed it.

Sir you may just be my hero.

[christo930]

@christo930 Don't think for 1 minute that there aren't kickbacks going on in the purchasing departments. Public schools often overpay for many things. Private schools do it cheaper because it's all the parents can afford and they make it work. Everyone knows that particularly the catholic school system is better than the public school systems in all of the major cities and cost about 1/3 of the horror that is the public school system.

[christo930]

@GrapplingIgnorance The every year thing is a little hyperbole, but basic books who's content hasn't changed in decades have been replaced quite often and in some cases (albeit isolated) yearly. This is also very common in higher education where the professor writes a book and puts out a new edition every year, over prices it and destroys the used value. But still, why can the archdioceses educate children for 1/3 of the cost? Take a look at your local BOE and look at the waste.

[TheOJDrinker]

@TheHobgoblyn I haven't seen them. Taking the worst examples does not show if something is better than "everything" that exists, I don't see that at all. Trying to make others look bad doesn't make shakes look any better, and I won't defend those that are actually bad. How about this, give me an example of his 'revolutionary' work that helps us understand the humanities that we simply could not get without him. Not a reference to a whole story, be specific.

[ACANOFSODA]

@ACANOFSODA Replying to myself.. It should be "The exact thing, in fact." Although.. Not like it really matters. Think of it like a standardized test in grammar. Haha

[ACANOFSODA]

Haha, Funny how I was talking to my friend in 5th Grade about this stuff... Long ago. The exact things in fact, because I found it stunted me more. Also, being afraid to mess up in classes based on the terrible education system promotes passing a class more than learning. Personally, I find mathematics, logic, philosophy, and some other studies important to a society even somewhat democratic, but draining the desire? Not good. School comes from the Greek word for leisure, so why?