u/peace_andcarrots

Our culture does not value learning, parents aren’t invested in their children’s education, and those in charge only care about numbers and funding. Anybody who has taught high school can tell you that a large number of our students are graduating without having learned much of anything. The current system just pushes kids through, regardless of mastery, sheltering them from consequences. Naturally, literacy and numeracy levels in the US are abysmal. We have, rightly or wrongly, rejected college as an aspiration, or means of a better future. This all combines and presents as apathy in our students.

It seems to me, that there’s going to be a natural progression away from academics towards “real life skills”. High achieving college-bound students will continue follow the current model, but the rest of the population will received a much more watered down version of the core classes, and instead will be required to do some sort of vocational/practical training. I realize these types of programs already exist, but I imagine them becoming required and more integrated into high schools. I feel like the idea that if they’re not learning math, and can’t read at a high school level, they might as well work on something”useful” will gain traction.

It’s truly sad that education has devolved into what it is today, but I don’t think we can bring it back to what it was. Does anyone else have predictions about the future of education? Any more hopeful takes?