Is Public Education Failing?
“The United States educates everyone. Most other countries do not.”
This quote instantly shows that our US public school system is not failing. For one, the US offers education to everyone, even kids in poor neighborhoods. When taking into account the international tests that are used to compare the educational systems, the US includes EVERYONE while other countries include students who are offered education which is students in the city, not in rural areas. In addition, our curriculum is more widened. We don’t just focus on STEM but offer liberal arts as well. All in all, the public school system is not failing at all but ensuring everyone gets educated no matter the difference and offering a wide diverse of subjects for students to learn. I chose this quote because it shuts down the idea that the public school system is failing us. It is not, I went to a public school and I am doing better than kids who went to private schools. I went from a student in a small public school to a student at the University of Rochester, a private-elite school.
This quote instantly shows that our US public school system is not failing. For one, the US offers education to everyone, even kids in poor neighborhoods. When taking into account the international tests that are used to compare the educational systems, the US includes EVERYONE while other countries include students who are offered education which is students in the city, not in rural areas. In addition, our curriculum is more widened. We don’t just focus on STEM but offer liberal arts as well. All in all, the public school system is not failing at all but ensuring everyone gets educated no matter the difference and offering a wide diverse of subjects for students to learn. I chose this quote because it shuts down the idea that the public school system is failing us. It is not, I went to a public school and I am doing better than kids who went to private schools. I went from a student in a small public school to a student at the University of Rochester, a private-elite school.
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ReplyDeleteMore importantly, the narrative about America's 'failing public schools' has to do with the push for privatization in ways that would only ensure that the rich in society gets the better education and the less fortunate fall through the cracks in the learning process. Brown v. Board of Education was a landmark decision that eventually led to the desegregation in schools and, subsequently, less disparity between the education that white students and minority disadvantaged students get.
Programs like Head Start, that has become the model by which other countries operate, was a first pertinent step in ensuring that in their formative years, disadvantaged students are afforded a decent start in the education process. Currently, with no evidence that governmental support of public education has harmed any group of students and with the marked failure of Charter Schools, then programs like Head Start should be the standard by which education in the United State adheres to ensure a, somewhat, egalitarian educational system.