Broken American School Systems and Poor Teaching

I don’t mean to be cruel to teachers who try to teach properly. I understand the problems teachers are facing in our school systems today, which someone committed on in my article, ”Kids Are Not Being Taught To Think.”  I acknowledge this problem in the last sentence of the second paragraph of that article. I agree that there are many teachers who can do the job properly, but are shackled by the modern-day dictates, demands and failures of our broken school systems, but I stand by my statement that the lack of learning in our schools can be attributed to poor teaching. I understand that teachers are handicapped by a broken school system and cannot teach properly, but that’s exactly the problem, intentionally or not, today’s teaching is poor.

I lay the blame for poor teaching on both teachers and parents. Regardless of the problems of our school systems, teachers must teach simple, basic math and English to help these children survive when they hit the streets. I know many good teachers who say, “They have to teach kids to take tests,” and that they are forced to go with the flow, or they either believe they have no options or cannot do anything about any of it.

Many parents seem to be oblivious of the poor teaching in our schools. I often think they have very little knowledge about what kids should be learning, or they just don’t care. Many parents don’t even know their kids are dumb and have wasted their time in school. If they have not learned anything to help them to survive and compete in society, then they have wasted their time in school.

Granted, kids are gravitating to the slaughtering of the English language by using all the technological devises and modern methods of communication of today (calculators, cell phones, text messaging, and such), but this is a problem that both teachers and parents must fix. If people are capable of learning multiple languages, then why can’t this learning problem, in our school systems be fixed?

Look, no matter how shackled teachers are, I absolutely find it absurd that graduating kids cannot even do the simplest of math. Yes, they use calculators and text messaging, and such, but they are not intellectually thinking. This is evident when they enter obviously wrong answers on tests. As an example, let’s say they are asked to divide 10 by 2 and they use a calculator, and somehow get a result of 647. Instead of seeing how wrong the result is, they slam it down on their test – that is the result of the lack of thinking! Teaching is all about helping and training people to think. There is no doubt in my mind that the biggest problem today is kids are not being forced, or taught to think.