Depends where you’re from but do you believe that curriculums are geared more towards developing critical thinkers or cogs in a machine? There are societies that have 100% subsidized post-secondary education but in most countries, it’s not feasible for the average kid unless they get a good athletic/academic scholarship or going into a sizeable amount of debt. Schools are businesses at the end of the day.
Can elaborate on how the education system is corrupt? I’m a public school teacher and I would like to get in on the grift.
TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
It sounds like your beef with post-secondary education.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
The grift is professional development meetings and standardized testing. It’s a bit silly to suggest it’s all corrupt though.
Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Yeah, we could do with less PD and Pearson certainly doesn’t need all of our money, especially in a budget deficit year.
3abas@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Part of the problem is most teachers don’t have an higher education and a lot don’t even have an education degree. They aren’t taught proper pedagogy, they’re just taught to present materials and monitor standardized tests.
From their point of view, they’re doing what they’ve been told is heroic work from underappreciated and underpaid public servants, which is true; but they miss the part where the curriculum they’ve been handed down doesn’t serve the students in learning how to think and solve challenging problems in life, instead leading them down a specific specialization route to be a good little office drones.
We’ve failed teachers as much as students, and there aren’t enough education colleges preparing quality teachers and too many schools hiring unqualified people as teachers.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
I’m sorry, most teachers don’t have higher education? Is that referring to college? I assure you most teachers have been to college.