You hear it all the time, that our education system is broken, that these students are learning things that they will never use. If you don’t know that our education system is flawed, and if you seriously don’t, you are one lucky duck.

"If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

You can already tell this is just one of those many videos that slams the education system. It makes my blood boil when you see people post these types of videos, claiming that “the system is broken.”

Let’s play a game, let’s see how many elected officials have a background in education… think you have your number? Well throw that away because the two hours I spent looking for that information, I came up with nothing! (Have you ever seen the fifth page of google? It’s a dark, scary place.) By putting two and two together, if politicians don’t have any classroom experience how can they make the laws that are to be used in classrooms across the nation? To fix this problem, there needs to be a change in who approves the curriculum.

Actual educators should be on these boards that decide on what is considered “gaining an education,” considering that private organizations are buying schools and treating children like cogs in a machine. When schools systems become privatized, minority’s needs are overseen. A child with special needs doesn’t get the intervention that they need. Race becomes irrelevant, which erases a student’s identity.

Programs like Teach for America are only harming the education system. What Teach for America does is basically train someone for six weeks to be a teacher, six weeks. Then those “teachers” are then placed in high burn out areas, and are expected to get high marks on the state standardized tests. It's not fair to those people, or the students that they are placed with.

People say that teachers should get payed more, but yet programs are being slashed left and right. Where do you think we get the money to pay teachers from? Also, as an education major, how do you actually expect that to happen? Taxes, taxes pay for teacher’s salaries and some of their needs for a classroom. So what happens in an urban area where taxes aren’t payed? Teachers make little to nothing.

We all know that the education system is flawed beyond belief, so stop posting about the same problems that everyone else is always bitching and moaning about, instead, start giving ways to help fix the problems. On a sinking boat you aren’t just going to point at the hole that’s letting water right?