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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do other countries deal with the same issues or is it an American thing?[/quote]

I'm sure they do not.

You have to understand a number of things to realize why US public education sucks.  And by the way, a lot of the really good grad schools are no longer in US - we recruit out of London School of Economics v. Princeton/Ivies for finance now.  So it's no longer public K-12 but the colleges now in the US aren't as strong as it makes sense - nationally, we are feeding weaker educated kids through the system.  The reasons include:

-US is a huge country.  All the states work somewhat independently and add to that individual school boards/counties/etc.  It's hard to make anything work the same/right - it's going to be somewhat of a chaotic mess.  The southern GOP want religion, CA wants to do things their way, NE want their way, etc and etc..  I don't know truly how we make it all work and what solutions to this help make schools across the board provide a high quality K-12 education.
-US is all about capitalism and independence.  Culturally, it's all about doing your own thing.  Thus, we have different standards when it comes to schools.  If you're rich, you'll get certain teachers/schools and if you're poor...  it's all about money here!  I think that's just a given and won't ever change whereas in other countries, they work differently.  Certain priorities like healthcare, education, taking care of your citizens by way of unemployment and a safety net for homeless people - that's all figured into their national identity.  We just don't prioritize education at all.
-There is no prioritization on families and children in the US from a cultural perspective.  Note that all we have is FMLA and it's pretty weak.  Compare our policies for parents v. many top performing educational systems globally.  In Japan, W Europe, Scandinavia you see how they treat moms, families, etc?  Do you understand what I'm saying?  As a society, we got other considerations aka money!
-Every single (or nearly every single) one of our federal departments is messed up.  You really think US Dept of Education knows what they are doing?  In other countries, they approach things a different way.  Our protocols for how we run governmental agencies is totally wrecked.  We just can't get it together to have a federal organization perform at top levels.  Leadership and red tape, political lobbying and how big things are, it's all contributed to breakdowns at every fed organization incl education.

OF COURSE homeschooling 1:1 is going to be more effective than going to a school with 1+ students in a class!  That's not something a test result needs to tell me.  Anyone who doesn't understand why is a dumbass.  Of course public schools where there are like 30+ kids in a class per teacher will have students that probably will do poorly.  That's not something a test score needs to tell me either.  Isn't this all just common sense???  Even if you go to private/Catholic schools, each school may have their own brand of problems.  Nobody wants to be a teacher anymore.  Not even the good ones :( [/quote]

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