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So obesity in the US is expected to hit 42 percent in the future. It's already at 34 percent, which honestly is just disgusting. That's not even counting all the people who are just considered fat. I believe one of the biggest reasons for this is government. This includes the culture of no responsibility perpetuated in public schools, the lack of a strict and demanding physical education, and the very fact that US public schools are basically nothing more than day care systems.
If you demand less from someone, and then tell them it's ok when they fail and that it's not their fault, then you aren't going to get anything out of them. We've had for years teachers pushing this idea that students should work at their own pace and that the curriculum is too demanding. After all, teachers are just there to "facilitate" the learning experience. This breeds a culture of mediocrity at best. Is there really any wonder here why our math and science, not to mention writing, is continually getting worse in this country? At my university, I literally had people in my group for projects that could not write complete sentences. I had to tell them not to do anything and just let them float along as dead weight. We've become a country where no one fails.
A significant reason for this is the teacher's union. I'm amazed that unions are even allowed to exist in the first place since they are basically nothing more than organized crime. How can you possibly reform the education system when you can't even fire teachers and when you're raping the taxpayers to pay extravagant amounts to useless idiots? For some reason we have this culture in this country where even the very mention of the word teacher induces a halo effect. These people are part of the root cause of many of our problems in this country. Of course much of the responsibility lies on the parents as well, but do we really need to compound the issue by pairing useless teachers with useless parents?
We could save a lot of money in this country if we significantly reformed the education system. We should employ a military drill sergeant at each school for physical fitness, and failing physical fitness means failing to graduate. We have to change the culture in this country where no one fails and no one is ever at fault. We have to demand more, and we have to get more. Furthermore, get rid of all the useless bull****. My god, High school here is such a joke. The only focus in high school should be math and writing, PERIOD. The only extra courses should be science courses, and there should be required reading outside of school hours for US government and history.
Change the curriculum to a 7 hour day with 2 hours for math, 2 hours for writing, and 2 hours for science with 1 hour every single day dedicated to hardcore physical exercise. Then assign required reading for the semester to cover history and whatever extracurricular stuff you want. Anyone who fails to meet physical education fails to graduate, it's that simple. Also, get rid of the god damn candy machines and soda machines. I'd love to meet the genius who came up with that one. Make calculus the norm, and then make it so students can push into higher level maths like differential equations while still in high school. There's no reason you can't expedite the learning process. There's no ****ing reason I can possibly think of why it would take an entire year to go through Calculus or trig. DEMAND MORE GET MORE, IT'S THAT SIMPLE.
If you demand less from someone, and then tell them it's ok when they fail and that it's not their fault, then you aren't going to get anything out of them. We've had for years teachers pushing this idea that students should work at their own pace and that the curriculum is too demanding. After all, teachers are just there to "facilitate" the learning experience. This breeds a culture of mediocrity at best. Is there really any wonder here why our math and science, not to mention writing, is continually getting worse in this country? At my university, I literally had people in my group for projects that could not write complete sentences. I had to tell them not to do anything and just let them float along as dead weight. We've become a country where no one fails.
A significant reason for this is the teacher's union. I'm amazed that unions are even allowed to exist in the first place since they are basically nothing more than organized crime. How can you possibly reform the education system when you can't even fire teachers and when you're raping the taxpayers to pay extravagant amounts to useless idiots? For some reason we have this culture in this country where even the very mention of the word teacher induces a halo effect. These people are part of the root cause of many of our problems in this country. Of course much of the responsibility lies on the parents as well, but do we really need to compound the issue by pairing useless teachers with useless parents?
We could save a lot of money in this country if we significantly reformed the education system. We should employ a military drill sergeant at each school for physical fitness, and failing physical fitness means failing to graduate. We have to change the culture in this country where no one fails and no one is ever at fault. We have to demand more, and we have to get more. Furthermore, get rid of all the useless bull****. My god, High school here is such a joke. The only focus in high school should be math and writing, PERIOD. The only extra courses should be science courses, and there should be required reading outside of school hours for US government and history.
Change the curriculum to a 7 hour day with 2 hours for math, 2 hours for writing, and 2 hours for science with 1 hour every single day dedicated to hardcore physical exercise. Then assign required reading for the semester to cover history and whatever extracurricular stuff you want. Anyone who fails to meet physical education fails to graduate, it's that simple. Also, get rid of the god damn candy machines and soda machines. I'd love to meet the genius who came up with that one. Make calculus the norm, and then make it so students can push into higher level maths like differential equations while still in high school. There's no reason you can't expedite the learning process. There's no ****ing reason I can possibly think of why it would take an entire year to go through Calculus or trig. DEMAND MORE GET MORE, IT'S THAT SIMPLE.
Awesome.
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