Comments on: Education in America – Are we Dumber than the Rest? http://threeworldwars.com/blog/posts/25 Tracking the Progress of the planned third World War Mon, 04 Jan 2010 04:37:42 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Katharine http://threeworldwars.com/blog/posts/25/comment-page-1#comment-1207 Katharine Sun, 18 Mar 2007 15:30:55 +0000 http://threeworldwars.com/blog/posts/25#comment-1207 The U S education system is not the only one in the toilet, in the UK the system is failing, kids are dumber than ever. The exam system is manipulated, making the exams easier and easier each year just to keep up the appearence of the sysyem doing it´s job. Last year a newspaper tested 3 maths A level students, who had recently achieved high pass grades, they asked them to sit a maths paper from some time ago ( I forget if it was 10 or 15 years) and not one of them scored enough to pass. Maths is maths the methods don´t change, how come the students today can´t pass the level of questions that we had to pass in our day. I home school my 3 kids and use the national cirriculum as a base, the stuff is so easy, my 11 year old is 1/4 through his maths course and on track to complete it by the end of this year.( this is the course that you follow until age 16 in school), and knows more science than you can shake a stick at, he is a walking, talking book. We don´t do anything special, just provide reources and support. Schools with all that is available to them should be able to produce comparable results but they don´t. Are our kids supposed to come through the system so poorly equiped, do those that run our lives want a dumb citizenry? A recent poll of teachers in Spain tells us that the majority of them think that the education system in that country is worse now than 30 years ago. Spain was emerging from a dictatorship at the time and the people were poor, yet the system is worse now! I don´t know the details of other countries but the US and UK are in a mess. The U S education system is not the only one in the toilet, in the UK the system is failing, kids are dumber than ever. The exam system is manipulated, making the exams easier and easier each year just to keep up the appearence of the sysyem doing it´s job. Last year a newspaper tested 3 maths A level students, who had recently achieved high pass grades, they asked them to sit a maths paper from some time ago ( I forget if it was 10 or 15 years) and not one of them scored enough to pass. Maths is maths the methods don´t change, how come the students today can´t pass the level of questions that we had to pass in our day.

I home school my 3 kids and use the national cirriculum as a base, the stuff is so easy, my 11 year old is 1/4 through his maths course and on track to complete it by the end of this year.( this is the course that you follow until age 16 in school), and knows more science than you can shake a stick at, he is a walking, talking book. We don´t do anything special, just provide reources and support. Schools with all that is available to them should be able to produce comparable results but they don´t. Are our kids supposed to come through the system so poorly equiped, do those that run our lives want a dumb citizenry?

A recent poll of teachers in Spain tells us that the majority of them think that the education system in that country is worse now than 30 years ago. Spain was emerging from a dictatorship at the time and the people were poor, yet the system is worse now!

I don´t know the details of other countries but the US and UK are in a mess.

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