Because Conservatives want to push creationism into our children's brains, which prevent them from progressing in a fast-paced, high-tech world.
Answered By: Scrappy Doo - 2/17/2009 |
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Because it was designed and being run by failures.
Answered By: RLP - 2/17/2009 |
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Because Republicans fear and underfund education.
Answered By: sterilize_the_cons - 2/17/2009 |
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Because its run by the government. private schools have MUCH smarter kids. Thats not an opinion, thats a fact.
yes, the school system is responsible for ignorant Americans because they are all run by far left Liberals, from kindergarten thru college.
Answered By: me - 2/17/2009 |
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Teachers Union
Department of Education
Teechin' Ebonics
Liberal Thought Controls
Teaching students in foreign languages, when they need to learn English to succeed in life.
Answered By: Ron Bing - 2/17/2009 |
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Because we are spoiled and we don't HAVE to get good grades. Even our poor people own cars and cell phones and eat regularly. I understand your point, but it is fact that we don't have to do anything if we don't want to.
Answered By: Erika - 2/17/2009 |
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Because when teachers unionized, education ceased to be a profession and became a trade.
Answered By: Track P - 2/17/2009 |
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The nea! the poor kids are getting screwed!
Answered By: neuroticwilly - 2/17/2009 |
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Because people like Obama, William Ayers and like-minded whack jobs have their grubby little paws in it.
Answered By: Kwanzaa Baby - 2/17/2009 |
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Because the government put a lot of flaws into the school system
The education has nothing to do with ignorance, they teach the teachers to not show opinions and only the facts
Answered By: Brains... - 2/17/2009 |
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No kid left behind.
The powerful knows knowledge is powerful, so they let kids just slide along and give them good grades when they do not deserve it............so THEY CAN STAY IN POWER!
I also had a personal experience when a teacher came to a chapter in a math book and she said she would skip it "because she did not know how to teach it".
Answered By: just me - 2/17/2009 |
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It isn't.
Its the people who go there and the families/environment surrounding them.
Some of it has to do with access, most of it has to do with a lack of emphasis put on schooling at the home.
Ignorance is an acquired trait. You have to refuse to learn to be ignorant.
Answered By: Phil M - 2/17/2009 |
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Lazy students, and lazier personnel in schools. American children have never had to work as hard as children in other countries. Things come too easy here, and this push toward socialism will make this problem worse, in my opinion. Children in the third world HAVE to work, and work hard, because if they don't they will starve as adults. The lowest, poorest people in America live better than the best off people in most third world countries. Take a look at India, that's why they are running all over us in economic growth, those people are hungry, and willing to work to win. Look at China, they are coming of age because of our laziness.. Think about it, education is the key, but new buildings and stronger teachers unions aren't gonna fix it, dedication to excellence will.
Answered By: Ben H - 2/17/2009 |
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Parents not keeping their children disciplined, and children not believing that they need to apply themselves.
Answered By: Mr. Oneliner - 2/17/2009 |
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Because we are "taught" to fill a social role and not to actually learn and better ourselves. In short, we are taught to be "human capital" and nothing more.
People point the blame at one party or another, but the problem is fundamentally intrinsic to our system and way of thought.
How often to we pick up a book to learn for the sake of learning? Rarely.
I'm fascinated with learning, my personal library has hundreds of books, including Psychology, Sociology, Theology, Military History, Military Strategy, Martial Arts, Philosophy and History.
I don't study to get a new job, I'm content with what I have now-I'm an overnight stocker at Wal-Mart. It pays my bills and I'm content with that.
People often quit actively learning after school and college and mentally stagnate.
Almost everything I know now I learned for my own reasons at my own pace and at my own discretion, outside of school and college.
We in the United States are taught to effectively stop learning when it has no social or economic value.
That's why we are so far behind in education.
Answered By: Travis Anderson - 2/17/2009 |
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Because nobody cares anymore. The kids themselves don't care they think it's cool to be uneducated and disrespectful. Parent's need to start slapping some sense into thier kids because the parent's are also to blame.
Answered By: AwesomePossum - 2/17/2009 |
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It spends way too much time teaching immigrants from south of the border in their native tongue, instead it should be teaching them in English. This kills two birds with one stone, and at a time in their lives when their brains are like sponges.
Is the policy "no child left behind" any different than other policies under other names, but with essentially the same objective, any more successful? To me, it's just another political black hole. Some kids are too damaged for school and all they succeed in doing is disrupting the kids who want to learn.
It's time these Phd's and politicians got off their idealistic band wagon and started applying common sense.
Take the brain dead out of the equation and you'll see those numbers surge. Put the under achievers some where or in a program that doesn't drag down academia. It's not reasonable that their negative numbers should effect the over all scores in the way they do !
Answered By: mikea109 - 2/17/2009 |
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The education system is only half the problem.
case in point. If I live in a "Good" zip code in Nebraska, my school will receive more money per student. If I live in the ghetto, my books will be older and my opportunities are Limited.
Also, parents who have the money to send their children to private school are usually better educated and as such are better equipped to teach their children better learning skills.
Parents of low-income families are often unable ot unwilling to invest the time it takes to motivate their children to do well,
When I was a child, my mother went over my homework with me and when she couldn't ( like algebra or ca lulus) , she found an older kid and payed them to help me.
My mother is also college educated and had the resources to do that for us.
Answered By: Jessie R - 2/17/2009 |
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This is wrong in the state of California some kids are so tech smart they are going to be million's before they are 15 yrs that who is going to get us out of this mess our smart kids and their Tax's Dollars!
Answered By: Jack S - 2/17/2009 |
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Because School Superintendents make 400K/year in Illinois and the Governor only makes 170K.
All of the money that is repeatedly spent on Education gets used up by Administrators and Unions to steal the funds from the children who need needs the funds for their education. Private schools HAVE to perform better to survive, so that plus the children that go to private schools generally want to be there leads to there having a better education. Public Schools don't have to perform to survive, so there is no incentive to do better than "just enough".
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Answered By: williamh10 - 2/17/2009 |
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