Hey Pandas, If You Could Change One Thing About The School System, What Would It Be? (Closed)

Funding. Every public school ( US) would get all the funding needed to pay the teachers living wages. To feed the poorest kids a Healthy meal(s)
To teach foreign language, arts, and music starting in grade school. As well as the math, science, literature, etc. Curriculum.
The US was supposed to be the great melting pot. But how do you blend with a monolingual education? Our educational system is the laughing stock of the world.

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1. Smaller class sizes. This means hiring more teachers, which means paying them better and treating them better. Many studies have shown how much better smaller class sizes are for everybody: less stress for teachers, more individual attention for students, and the teacher has time and energy to understand individual students' needs.

2. Equalize the amount of money the schools get for students. My first-year college students were always appalled when I explained to them that in the US, it's local property taxes that pay for local schools, meaning that poorer areas with lower property values get significantly less money for their students. My first-years always asked why the US didn't pool the tax money federally and then dole it out equally per student. I told them I had no idea, because that is definitely what we should be doing! The current system feeds into vicious cycles of poverty.

Probably won’t be a fan-favorite, but making political history education stronger. Understanding the history of politics is what creates thoughtful voters.

Stop the no-tolerance nonsense and allow for flex-tolerance judicial protocols. This protocol should allow both students & parents/guardians to submit an appeal to cases. Learning how to appeal to cases is important to development, judicial experience, and form processes.

Later start times and please, PLEASE, better sex education. My school literally asked us if we knew how sex worked, and when the class raised their hands to say they did, the teacher just showed an animated video of the life of a sperm cell. I didn’t know how any of it worked, I had been looking forward to the class to have my questions answered. But I was too embarrassed to speak up, everyone else seemed to know already. Also, lgbtq inclusive sex ed! I’m an 18 year old lesbian now and only just properly learned about the hymen and that “breaking it” is a myth. That’s not right.

I'm a former military B.R.A.T., born and raised. Because of this my siblings and I were able to experience other cultures and their education systems. I have to honestly say the USA education system completely sucks. In Japan kids are in school from 6am to 6pm. No one changes classrooms except the teachers. Lunch is at your desk and free. Vacation breaks are non-existent. In Germany and most European schools you are taught a trade at fifteen years of age and your entire education is FREE and not paid for through property taxes, enabling everyone to be taught fairly. Childcare is usually unnecessary as most of these educational systems require children to be in school before their parents leave for work and end after most parents are home. As in the US military, if there's a problem with your child in school, the parents supervisor/boss is notified. And the parent has to report back to said supervisor on how the issue was resolved. This tends to severely cut down on behavioral issues and child abuse. Exposure to other cultures assists in allowing us to see past differences, see other people are just as human as we are with similar hopes and dreams and enlarges our minds to consider other opinions and future possibilities. The US educational system is archaic and corrupt. Most countries know more about our true history than we do. These are several of the reasons the US rarely ranks higher than 24 on the list for the best educational system worldwide. There are several "3rd world" countries that remain ranked higher than us every single year. US textbooks, syllabus, exams and educational requirements are NOT controlled or created by educators. There is a small corporate group with its own agenda dictating these things by offering textbooks and much needed supplies for free. Most US teachers detest all of the above but are not allowed any other alternative without risking termination. This how we got here, this toxic environment of today. Isn't it time for a major change?

Way less focus on sports. Especially football. I don’t see the appeal in watching a bunch of idiots slam into each other, and the football guys always have massive egos. I’m American btw, and I think our country would be better off if we actually focused on learning important stuff.

Naptimes I think school should have Naptime students are expected to be 100% ready at all time but we have to wake up early and (sometimes) go to bed late like for studying and are expected to do good on all assignments/tests given I think naptimes are necessary for school

We have a system in the UK where successive governments have tried to hide the impact of generation upon generation of funding reductions by making the syllabus' and exams easier. I remember my daughter doing her school leaver exams and me asking her questions and her answers other than basics were 'that's not on the syllabus'... or 'we don't have to know that'. I know a number of university academics who say that it used to be in a degree course that the 1st year was revisiting basic stuff just to make sure all the students were on the same page, now it's the first two years doing it.

All so some twat of a politician who got a private education off mummy and daddy can say 'see? Grades have gone up... so we're doing a good job.'

Kids are not getting thicker or more stupid, but they are getting a raw deal by being turned out thinking they're well-educated when they're not compared with previous generations.

as much as i believe in being progressive in most things, when it comes to our school/educational system i feel we need to stop trying to be progressive and take a step back. instead of using textbooks which can be used over several years teachers now use a lot of copied handouts. subjects such as math don't change so why should a book be considered obsolete? also, english grammar books could be replaced with a simplistic version of the harbrace handbook for elementary students which is pretty cut and dry in how to write effectively. ALL parts of history should be taught and, again, the use of textbooks would be essential to this. it would make the students have to read and digest the information rather than have a handout with simple target points that don't show how something that happened 100 yrs ago is currently effecting our societies. i know that many would not agree with me and that's okay but i believe that getting an education means you have to put some effort into it. school does not have to be dry and boring if teachers are allowed to be creative and inventive in their methods. and, for heaven's sakes, a real change needs to be made by parents - something that is not within the parameters of the schools - but they need to be involved in their children's education at least to the point in that they know what the kids are studying. most parents don't like homework and think it is too much but it is one of the first lessons that kids learn in time management. so, in that vein, the teachers collectively need to make sure that the students aren't being loaded down with homework for four subjects on a single night. yes, changing the system would be complicated but i think the benefits that would be available for the kids would be worth it.

Websites. UNBLOCKED.

Qualified teachers in classrooms teaching, not teaching assistants. TA’s assisting teachers, not teaching whole classes. TA’s are no longer mums washing paint pots! TA’s should be used for intervention, small groups, classroom prep and 1to1 assistance not covering teachers because schools can’t or won’t spend money on paying for supply cover. Even more so since academies pay thousands for CEOs, executives and leaders & various other heads of this that & the other. An old saying- too many chiefs & not enough Indians.
Could go on but won’t. I’m having a rant! 🙈😂

Kids with abuse or tramatic backgrounds should not be in the class with the rest when ; Scary videos, scenitive ones, judement videos, yelling or screaming, loud noises, and speaking of fostercare and DHS in front of us and doing things that scare people? Like I can handle most of it, but sometimes its too real! I will defend myself and I will fight for what needs to be done!

The methode of watering down the education to get as many kids through as possible. I honestly think that it's more benefitial to let them work to pass rather than lowering the requirements over time just t o have pretty numbers.

We in Germany have 4 seperate kinds of "High School" for kids with different potentials, so the effect of the smart kids being weighted down has a buffer. (Some idealists want to change that to not "discriminate" the slower kids though...)

Teach adulting. No school systems adults would not work in. No homework.

Way less bureaucracy and busy body paperwork for the teachers.

Smaller schools. Administrators need to be familiar with all the kids and be able to treat/help them on an individual basis rather than single policy/across the board/one size fits all policies.

Actually paying teachers💁

I have somethings I would change (sorry if I copied someone's answer I could only skim over some answers because my battery is at 9%)

Better food. Please don't feed kids mystery meat and "mashed potatoes" then go on and talk about how to eat healthy.

Pay Teachers more. They are bringing knowledge to the next generation and they get paid 10-20 dollars an hour? Who actually wants to be a teacher after hearing you have to deal with kids and some have attitude and get paid hardly enough.

8% my battery is dying still.

Maybe be a bit lighter on homework, if you are complaining about you working after hours what about the kids doing school after school hours. At least make some of it optional.

Being able to enforce stuff. Don't just watch your kids get stoned and swap drugs. Please at least stand up for someone being bullied. You think that the short kid is gonna do something?

I wish i could do more but it is 5%