Originally Posted by revolutionrocker

problems with education is not just about the system. a good majority of issues have to do with social status, and parental involvement.

parents now work long hours leaving less time to spend with their kids, and less involvement with their kids. they are basically giving their children the option to succeed or fail, and leave it to the child to be responsible if they fail, or succeed. not only that, but there are many parents that are not even capable of helping their child with homework. so maybe offer free tutors at schools to help those working poor parents, or poor. i would like to see some kind of incentives for parental involvement, and perhaps educated the uneducated parent. completely do away with the no child left behind act. teachers are not able to be creative and actually hve to be too focused on test taking, to make sure students pass all their exams. they do not have the time for example to take kids on trips and such and show them the interesting careers and jobs in the real world. focus more on alternative schools/charter schools. wisconsin is the only state that allows a child to go to a charter school out of the childs school district and the state funds the charter school the parent pays nothing, and from what i understand this has been a success in wisconsin. i feel a parent or student should have more options regarding which school they want to go to. in my opinion the key ingredient to successful education is parental involvement.

if anyone says that class and social status does not effect education i would suggest that someone read unequal childhoods by annette lareau.