A lot of unqualified/biased teachers.
But that can be true anywhere.

also way underfunded.

In the south its run by christfags.

This.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/evangelicals-rewrite-texan-curriculum-20100518-vcax.html

It's not a system made to educate.

>>969263
>>969265
These.

Also, individual states and counties/districts have VASTLY varying policies and funding.

Okay, how about more less biased places. Like.... California or Washington?

American colleges are fantastic...

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Teaching topics at too late an age, so it doesn't fully sink in. Calculus at 17/18? Good luck.

Also bullshit mandatory subjects like English - but only the English courses where you read Shakespeare and wank over literature, not the good grammar/writing courses.

>>969279
California's schools have no budget whatsoever.
They have to cut more teachers, classes, and programs every year.
All because of No Child Left Behind.

>>969263 also way underfunded.

Why are the Japanese kicking USA's ass then?

>>969279
still federally underfunded.
There is no reason why our defense budget should be higher than our education budget in the 21st century. For the most part we have no one we need to defend against.

>>969303
Because Japan's method of schooling is terrifying.

>>969303
Everyone south of the mason-dixon still line counts in our average...

>>969287

I know this is true. I learned how to spell and do grammar ALL from reading and debates on the internet.

>>969268
>>969265
The fuck...?
>>969287
But Calculus is complicated, I doubt little kids would get it. Well, once again, I'm not in Calculus.

In my personal opinion, is that Teacher's are biased as well.

>>969303
And that says Higher Education, which is not what we are talking about.

>>969305
It's not supposed to be the federal government's responsibility. It's a state responsibility.

>>969318
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Child_Left_Behind_Act

shitty teachers
not that all are bad, but the ones that are are difficult to get rid of

>>969303
Japan isn't kicking our ass in HIGHER EDUCATION.

>>969303
because our funding goes to buying texan textbooks and shitty computers and to teachers who don't do shit

>Department of Defense
>481.406 Billion

>Department of Education
>55.995 Billion

>>969378

Isn't that only for preschool through 6th grade?

>>969285
This and also the fact that we don't take education seriously. Each year schools are getting worse and worse and with a bunch of people failing or not doing shit at all, the administrators just lower the standards so they could make it easier for students to graduate and so they could make it look like their schools are doing good, plus the teachers are shitty and are hard to get rid of and also the fact that the students also don't take it seriously at all AND also the most of the teachers give mediocre, AND I really mean MEDIOCRE, assignments/tests/anything so any dumbfuck can pass the class, yet still fuckin' retards still fail and end up dropping out of high school...

>>969326
The Act requires states to develop assessments in basic skills to be given to all students in certain grades, if those states are to receive federal funding for schools. The Act does not assert a national achievement standard; standards are set by each individual state.

Wait, so if a school is teaching badly, we fund it less..?

>>969383
>>969383
that was 3-2 years ago
we should get an updated version of that one tho

Oh boy......
When I took art class, my teacher said "turn off your right brain and draw with your left" (referring to the "lesson" in the art textbook).

I saw an elective that seemed awesome, but the teacher was a douche and the class wasn't as awesome as it seemed. Basically, she said to kiss up to teachers to get a better grade and assigned other random crap.

In middle school, the language arts teacher had an idiotic way of calculating an overall grade. She averaged the averages of classwork, homework, and projects. Also she said that heavier things fall faster than lighter things.

alot of teachers are idiots and impossible to fire due to unions, it's basically a daycare with a shitload of busy work, no intellectual discussion or stimulation ever happens because it might offend somebody, most of the teachers i knew didn't really care that much, it's underfunded, the kids are idiots, the food is shit. no-one wants to be there and for good reason.

>>969287
>Calculus at 17/18? Good luck.
You mean like 99% of the people who learn calculus on the US?

>>969454
And the funny part: since america is a democracy, the education of the public is one of the most important things.

Everyone getting more retarded, and a national debt of 12T. America is gonna be fucked to hell in 20 years if it doesn't get its act together

American public schools exist only because of child labor laws. Children aren't allowed to work alongside their parents anymore, so they have to do something during the time that their parents are working. Since all the bad things that happen in the world are generally done by the youth with too much time, then the youth have to be somewhere during the day.

When a particular child shows some real interest and intellect, then they are "moved up the ladder" a bit.

>>969427
and this one time I was doing homework in the afterschool program, someone needed help with basic algebra that involved a fraction. My language arts teacher who was supervising did it on the whiteboard wrong.

Atleast in my previous schools, the teachers weren't the best.

>>969603
What state?

>>969612
...California...

>>969427

Yeah, I heard the "TURN OFF ONE SIDE OF YOUR BRAIN" thing so many times.

And the kiss up, omfg. This girl I know has a 4.0 and she's a complete idiot.