The OP is completely right and I think that for 16 he is very astute. I guess the main problem seems to be money and a corrupted buddy system. I do think that kids are forced through a revolving door type education before many of them are given a chance to decide if they even want to go to school. At least for me, as I female I never had a chance when I walked in the door becuase of stalkers, harassment, and constantly having to put up with them instead of being able to focus on an education. So for me, I can't see a solution. People including women and staff and students were just too willing to be corrupt. The issue for me seems to be that most of them don't care about education at all. I guess one possible solution in the US as I see it would be to enforce a federal system for protecting the rights of students that is enforced nationally, to prevent bueracratic coruption.
"Too willing to be corrupt"? "Rights of the student"? "Bueracratic coruption"? Are you kidding me? You should learn how to spell before you go on talking about issues as vague and complicated as corruption.
If you're going to make a specific point or claim, then please MAKE ONE. Cause right now you're just whining, moaning and regurgitating shit you probably heard from your parents, the tv,youtube..... but don't actually know a thing about. What do you even know about a Bureaucracy? You want to "enforce a federal system"? Do you even know what you're saying? You're saying you want to federalize education. And encase you didn't know, the feds ALREADY TRIED doing that. Where do you think the NCLB act came from? It didn't come from bureaucrats it came from your "federal system". Which is broke as shit right now and doesn't have enough money to properly fund the act.
Federalized education is the worse possible thing we can do. Keep the feds out of it. Let states deal with schools like they've been doing.
Once again, the problem is NOT the education system. And the feds have a well documented history of shitting on everything they touch. The problem is >> MONEY. MULA. DINERO. It's the ECONOMY. We don't have enough money to pay good enough teachers, to fund the right type of programs, unemployment is not getting better, people are out of jobs, we are 17 **TRILLION** dollars in debt. America was BUILT ON DEBT. And you can try anything you want to "fix" the education system. But as long as American's wanna keep bitching about school & education, as long as they wanna keep not working..... shit ain't getting any better. So I really suggest you get use to it or just leave the country.
Finally. This goes for people saying "you don't understand the OP yada yada". Just because people are disagreeing with certain things he said, doesn't mean we're saying "16 year olds can't have opinions" or "we disagree with everything he said". The fact is, even if he left his age out of this discussion would have ended up in the same exact place. We are not really talking about schools here afterall, we're really talking about politics which is a taboo subject on BHW.
But the kid said and I quote...
Modern education discourages independent thought and things like entrepreneurship.
That's bullshit. He is painting the entire education system with one massive brush. Have any of you kids ever heard of Harvard Business School? Or Columbia Business School? Cornell Business School? Rutgers Business School? etc etc.
WHAT do you kids thing business majors do? You think they sit around all day with their fingers up their ass playing video games? NO. They are pushed like f##k to think independently and like an entrepreneur.
The university I went to ENCOURAGED independent thought and entrepreneurship. In fact, if I did not go to college, I would NOT have started my own business. NO NO NO. I'd still be working at Petsmart like I did in college. And I would not have many of the skills I have today if it wasn't for my education. You kids can complain all you want but until you actually FINISH SCHOOL, and start living your life.... nobody is going to value your opinion the same way we'd value the opinion of someone who actually finished school. We will respect your opinions, but don't expect people to honor them like we'd honor the likes of Ben Shapiro.
And NO, you don't need to go to Harvard Business School to start your own business. You don't even need to go to college. But I'll tell you what, some of the smartest mfkrs running this country graduated from Harvard Business School or Harvard School Of Law or Columbia or Cornell. Education matters.
-BB
