the remaining 70% is stuff like mothertongue. You don't really need to know what a noun is or what tempus form you have to use when talking about what you did yesterday, do you? Teachers always answer "it's useful when learning foreign languages". Bullshit, i've got a 10 (highest possible grade) in english but i never even think of nouns or tempus forms.
Damn. You guys have it easy. My education system's completely based around memorizing stuff (except for maths and physics). Memorize a synonym of the wrong word and you get 0 marks. Kinda why girls do so damn good in high school and so damn horrible in universities. Then those bitches blame it on sexism.
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There's not enough grading in australian schools due to the 'no child left behind' rule, which means that the smart kids get stuck doing boring work and they lose interest.
When i went to public school it was much like it's been described already.
I got to a long term education now (i'm gonna be a computer thingy).
It consists of 3 parts:
1) Basic stuff
The basic course is an introduction thing that makes sure you know what you should when you begin the education itself. You're given a book, and you then have to study stuff and take continous small exams. This way you only have to concentrate about 1 thing at a time which is great. There's no oldschool schooling (ie the teachers are there for you when you need them and dont just stand next to a blackboard and blabber, you can do things at your own pace).
2 & 3) Internship and Teaching
After this, the education consists of internship, then a month of regular schooling, then back again, until you're done.
While being an intern, you're obviously placed in a computer company (if you can get an internship, otherwise you're in a department of school that emulates internship). You decide yourself what you wanna write reports on, though it's best to do things related to part 3 of the education.
Besides the fact that everyone in my area's public school are blind sheep who have no brain of their own once so ever? Basicly, the system is just flawed. They just installed a new highschool with desks that erase themselves; you need a KEY CARD TO GO TO THE FREAKIN' BATHROOM! If you loose it, you're on your own. (I'm not joking about this): They have bars on some of the windows (it's about lawsuites and stuff). The doors lock on you during school hours. This cost our town millions of dollars, and yet the teachers and the circulum still suck. And then you have SATS: they don't do anything for you. They just prove that you can take a test. It shows how much you can remember.
The school system is #$%ed up.
*breaths*
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The local government is making large budget cuts in the education department every year. The old people here don't care if idiots are going to run the country in 20 years.
Your school got that? Wow, that sucks... but we'd be lucky to get new headphones in our music department. (3 years and counting)
We got SATs from you guys. Personally, I think we should've given them back a long time ago (nobody in school wants them, except for anyone in any kind of authority i.e. school governors and those in Government)
On the subjects of exams, they're getting more and more meaningless. For example, last year's Maths GCSE (taken at 16) required 60% for an A... B at 40%, etc. and more and more people get higher grades in the important exams. It doesn't help the brighter pupils. Whatever university I apply to next year is almost certain to get hundreds more with 2 'A's and a 'B'; it's hard to differentiate, and it does become meaningless to some extent.
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The American Public School system is extreamly flawed. They think they can save our fragil little minds by adding 'white boards' (chalk boards that are actually COMPUTERS that erase themselves), adding securty cameras (big brother style) by giving us keycards to access the bathroom/gym room/and so on; if we scan in our cards, it will identify us by NUMBER. This is like a freaking Brave New World school. And through it all, we still are so screwed up, and a lot of the kids here need a brain of their own. We need better Curriculums, not high-tech crap.
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I'm at a "Specially Designated Computing and Mathematics College" apparantly - but I can still never find a spare computer during my free periods, and finding a working printer (with paper) is nigh impossible.
wow Laz, what RI school systm are you in? In the providence District we were still using math books from the seventies. And the cranston system isn't much better.
@Lazarus: I believe the word curriculum is pronounced curricula in plural. Either I am wrong or you were just stating an example of your faulty educationsystem.
The problem with our schoolsystem, according to my mathteacher, is the "compulsary school" (age 7- 16). Our neighbour Finland is the second smartest country out of 30, whilst Sweden is the 15:th. That is not a coincidence. Under 9 years our future economics is tortured with lessons in handicraft and future steelworkers with math.
Furthermore, I believe children in countries wich has english as first language either has it easier or have more useful education then children who don't have. Ussually a pupil needs to read his mothertounge, a foreigin language and english, but for an english kid; mothertounge and english is the same thing.
"Stating an example of your faulty education system."
Don't blame the school system for your own stupidity, people take school for granted, that’s why they don't learn anything. If you give your best, you will get the best. Public education is self serving, teachers are more than happy to explain things after class.
Hawaii's GLO's (General Learner Outcome's)
GLO #1: Self-Directed Learner - The ability to be responsible for one's own learning.
Everything Laz described are problems created by the students. Bars on windows to prevent break-ins, self erasing computers to prevent viruses and the shit kids download. Key cards are to prevent graffiti, smoking in the bathroom or whatever else there is to do in there besides what is intended. Cameras are for your security, if you get beat up, they will know who did it, if something gets stolen, they will know who did it. Tell me how this is a bad thing.
I don't believe that they lock the doors, it is against the USA's STRICT fire-code that all exit doors must remain unlocked during operating hours.
I happen to be enjoying a very good education; our school has AP classes, so I'm never bored. As for the SAT's it's required if you want to go to any good college, so get used to it. I'm happy because I got a 740 on English and a 680 on Math. 1200 is where scholarships start. The SATs aren’t even a test of what you know; it's a common sense test. It's like a sport, all you have to do is practice.
Anyway I think people should stop blaming their failures on public school.
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