What are some of the best and worst aspect of the educational system?
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Bad: People want their students to get premium educations - but no one wants to pay for it.\n\nGood: Some students thrive and excel in the current system... and others... are scary.\n\nGood:  We strive towards the ideal that all people are created equally and are equally capable of succeeding in accomplishing their dreams.\n\nBad:  We deem failure when we don't meet the IDEAL... which is completely impractical anyway.\n\nBad: State testing... always wants to raise the bottom 50 percent to the top 50 percent.  Whoah... who taught the politicians their math? There will ALWAYS be a bottom 50 percent.
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Pros: \njob security (special education teachers are needed)\n\nworking for school districts provide you with good pension and benefits\n\nYou can specialize:  learning support for learning disabled kids, autistic support, life skills, medically handicapped, resource room, early intervention, high school, middle school, elementary school.\n\nRewarding job that can be tough most of the time, but well worth the effort when you look into your student's faces.\n\nCons:  \n\nTONS and TONS and TONS of paperwork!  Check into the IDEIA law.\n\nEducation reform law: No child left behind (it's leaving a lot of kids behind) and making teacher certification harder to get and maintain\n\nSpecial education teachers tend to burn out very easily.  \n\nYou must earn your masters degree or 36+ post bachelor credits to earn permanent certification (this could be a plus or a minus depending on how you look at it.\n\nI recommend that you get dual or triple certification (special ed.. regular ed., secondary ed., or early childhood) that would give you a possiblity of changing positions if you would want.  Multiple certifications would make you more marketable.  If you want to learn more about special education go to the Council of Exceptional Children.  It's a national organization for special education teachers and support professionals.\n\nI work in special education and I can't imagine working in another job.  It is truly my way of following my bliss.  See if you can do some observations in a local school...you might love what you see....Good luck!!
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It is very very bad....Your communication skills. You need every second in school that is possible or you may remain an idiot forever.
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The American education system requires that students complete 12 years of primary and secondary education prior to attending university or college. This may be accomplished either at public (or government-operated) schools, or at private schools. These 12 years of schooling (or their equivalent) may also be completed outside the USA, thus giving foreign students the opportunity to pursue the benefits of the American education system and obtain a quality American education. Perhaps one of the most impressive facts is the large number of presidents, prime ministers and leaders from other countries who have experienced the American education system and graduated from a university or school in the USA. In many fields and industries, the American education system offers the most cutting-edge, sought-after programs at the world's best schools. That is why graduating from an accredited American school and being exposed to the rigors of the American education system is an investment in your future.\n\n \n\nWhether you want to study at a top USA university, a top USA college, or at a USA  ESL, vocational or high school, a thorough understanding of how the American education system works is essential. Without a clear grasp of the American education system, an international student will find it difficult to make the right academic choices. The information provided in the Overview of the American education system section will help you develop that understanding. You can also search our list of top universities, colleges, community colleges, graduate schools, and boarding schools in the American education system. It is no surprise that the American education system and the American school system hosts more international students than any other country in the world!\n\n \n\nYou can learn more about specific areas of the American education system and the American school system (high school, access to college, the USA unit system, school accreditation, liberal arts education, associate degrees, bachelor's degrees, master's and PhD degrees) by clicking on the links on the left of this page. The American education system offers students the widest study options in the world!
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the school system itself is bad. they hate it when you make mistakes and they do not allow you to ask your friends for help during test.
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Everybody goes to school, all types of education, all types of schools. best education system in the universe.
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Having it is the worst!\nThis web site should answer any questions you have
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That's not a dumb question at all.  Yes, the spelling and grammar that I see online frightens me too.  I understand things like saying u instead of you or stuff like lol, because it's just to shorten things a bit.  But some of it is just plain lack of education, and that scares me.  Obviously, our country's education system just plain sucks.  Illiteracy is dangerous- without information, people do stupid things.  Without proper language skills, people have trouble getting jobs or functioning in life.  That illiteracy is so widespread today is sickening.  Even our President's grammar is horrible.  For example, "is our children learning?"  Evidently not.  This truly is the age of "every child left behind."
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Better education - education that focuses not on how well you do on a standardized test, but in thinking and reasoning through a problem you are presented with.  Education should also include a firm grounding in other cultures and on a variety of religions in order to counter the insularity and intolerance that has led to the current international situation.  We've got a lot to be proud of and our own unique heritage, but we've also got a superiority complex that isn't entirely deserved and which leads to a lot of conflict.\n\nBetter health care - I know that a lot of people think that it's socialism to provide universal health care, but if you think about it, who's benefiting by the current system?  Hospitals are going bankrupt because poor people can't pay thousands in medical bills.  People are dying or needing expensive long-term care for conditions easily treatable in their early stages - but that were not detected because the patients had no insurance and therefore could not get the checkups that could have saved their lives.  Their families are going bankrupt trying to pay for the medical care to save their lives.  Businesses are losing millions because of workers who are either missing or working sick.  The only ones making money are the pharmaceutical companies, and they're making a killing while taking us for all we're worth and then some.\n\nHigher minimum wage.  A person who works hard for 40 hours a week should not have to be on welfare to feed their family, and should be able to take their children to the doctor for their school shots without having to wonder how they're going to pay for food for the next week.\n\nThat's just the top three.  But take care of those, and you've taken care of a whole lot of the problems that are plaguing our country.
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I have taught in three private schools, so here's my two cents.\n\n1. What is your educational philosophy?  In other words, explain your views on how students learn, what they ought to learn, and  how curriculum should meet their needs.\n\n2. What are the most important tools of learning?\n\n3.  What do you believe about individual learning styles?  How should teachers implement them in their classroom, in order to better meet the needs of each student?\n\n4. What is the role of a teacher?  What is the role of parents in their children's education?  \n\n5.  What is the role of administration?  \n\n6.  If there is a complaint against a teacher, what is the director's role in aiding reconciliation?  (In other words, do they first back up the teacher, requesting that the parent take their complaint directly to the teacher first, before seeking help?  While that's uncomfortable, it is the best and most respectful way to bring about positive change.)\n\n7.  Why do you love education?\n\n8.  What are your goals for this institution?  What impact would you hope to make?  What legacy would you hope to leave?\n\n9.  What are your strengths?  What are your weaknesses?  How do you work with your weaknesses to bring about something good?\n\n10.  How would you approach conflict?  (This one is an important one.  Conflict always happens.  It's how we deal with it that makes or breaks us.)
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A very good system, but like any teaching it is the individual teacher that counts, some are good some are bad. I changed my class coz I wasn't happy with the first teacher.
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- Good health\n -Nicer overall look on school and district\n- Students, teachers and visitors wil feel a lot more comfortable.\n- Safer\n- Better environment around school\n- A good clean environment helps promote good learing!
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to be honest i dont have a site to give you or a specific list.  but the type of primary education that you think is best is based on your opinion of what is necessary for the early years of learning, how do you want that foundation built?  do you want a very structured environment that focuses on math, science, and language structure? or do you want an open environment where opportunities for exploration and creation are provided while teaching a solid foundation of skill and knowledge?  i think it is best to look at the different options there are in primary education and deciding what is best for your child.
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The public school system is designed not to educate but to control and to produce a complacent non-individualist populace.  Read the book Dumbing Us Down (written by a teacher, no less).
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You have made some very valid points, most particularly re the system of education. Don't think that unaffordable education isn't becoming a problem in all countries though because it is. It's very sad that the Catholic run schools are not administering to and be made available to the poorer people of society. That was for so long their purpose and objective. To administer to the down trodden.. I guess even religion isn't above financial gain and corruption...and I'm a christian,so i think god would be saddened over that.
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Pros: good education, little peer pressure, goes at the student's pace, good teacher attention.\n\nCons: contrary to popular belief, socialization is NOT one of them.  There are co-ops and church is always an awesome way to meet kids his/her age.  One con would be the cost...the books do cost a bit.
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well the school is 'forced' to a great degree\nthe learning is still up to the student\nIn the US there are very few lucrative opportunities for people who cannot read very well, or do math, or follow directions\nin a crude way 'stupid people are a burden to society'\neducation, one of the goals of school, is not the key to wealth but stupidity is certainly a straight shot to poverty