The Dangers of Public School, Part Four: Dropping Education Standards

In addition to everything we've discussed this month, there's something else important that needs to be brought up.

And that's the academic standards of our public schools.

They've lowered throughout the years, and continue to lower now. When compared with other students from different countries, those students significantly outperform our own.

Why is that?

Well, that's because the test scores for the different determining tests have been watered down so our students from public schools can still achieve high scores.

Every teacher in a public school has dozens of children they have to teach. This makes it difficult, if not impossible for students who don't understand immediately to get the assistance they need to succeed.

I know this because I was one of those students.

My worst subject was math, like many others out there. I hated it. And I hated it because I didn't understand. And I didn't understand because the teachers couldn't help me. There were too many other children that needed their help.

I was frustrated all the time, because I didn't 'get' it, and I wanted to, but no one could explain it to me in a way that I understood. Because the teachers were busy. They were good teachers, they just didn't have time to help me. I was making a passing grade, so that was all that was necessary.

I hated math until I was fifteen or sixteen years old because of this. Hating math is counterproductive. And it's counterproductive because math is such an integral part of everyday life.

And, to make things even more interesting, US students are trailing behind foreign students in math and science. Why is this? I'm not sure. But there are ways to combat this, and we'll be going over at least one later in the series.