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Kids education is harder now?
Well...i was looking in workbooks today that had 1-5 math and 6th grade math in it. I found out that 6th grade math is harder now then when i had it.
Do you believe what they teach kids now is harder and better than what they taught us? |
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yes they are teaching collage courses in high school
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Government school has always been dumbed down. It's hard to learn anything there anyways.
I think we need more private schools. |
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General school..K-12 isn't bad at all and never will be unless they start inducing manual labor xD |
If you look back about 40 years and beyond... That's when you actually had to be smart to get an A... The school grading system is out of whack, but certain classes are harder now because of more discoveries and different methods.
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i agree the grading system is out of control sometimes i used to get alot of As and others i would only get Fs they just give u wat they want based upon you not your work.
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Well in my school I had like 4 different math courses to take before i graduated. A; A2; B1; B2; and that was hard enough believe me >_< However right when I finished that they made this new math course, called Integrated Math!??!?!! Wtf, its supposedly all of this crap in one, its much harder and better for kids now???? No the stuff I learned was freaking hard as hell!! Its too much...
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it's really harder now x.x
I'm 9th grader now and my when my mom see my school book she said "is this what middle school student should learn?? I learn in in about 10 or 11 grade for the thing like this" hahaha yeah funny -____- |
umm... my middle school, which was Mount Washington(k-8), when your in 7th grade, you have to do the eighth grade work, then in eighth grade you have to take Alegra 1. Then when you get into high school, (which alot of kids want to go to Walnut Hills or Dater) you have to take alegra 2 in your freshman year.
Does this make sense to people? |
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I've seen some "average" kids around the age of 14 and such which don't even know the difference between "their", "there" and "they're". Things like that. It is shocking. English skills in the middle class is definatly falling. Also, history... well, need I say more? Most schools barely even cover it until you're about 16 or 17, and then it's usually by option. My father never attended school beyond the age of 16, yet he's got a better knowledge of history than most university graduates. He learned it when he was about 10. Also, discipline is almost non existant now. It means the kids who don't have self motivation cannot have motivation forced upon them, pretty much gaurenteing they'll have a shit future. |
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But one thing I can agree on is the English skills. Because my mom always tells me how they absolutly MADE her write in cursive when she was in school. NOw they don't care because you can always just type it and then spell check it. Lazy if I do say so myself. |
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Yea discipline is horrible now. Alot of people get arrested at my school for fights or drugs all the time. |
Maybe there is a difference between Australia and America.
We learned almost no history. Here I am, 22, and having to self educate myself through documentries because school was a waste of time. |
I would guess so then? bcuz trust me, if school was a waste of time, I would have dropped out already. =P
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At the end of high school, when you're 18, you do your HSC (high school certificate). Very important exams, but the only ones. After that, you'll either go to a technical college; TAFE. Or an academic University. There is no College in Australia, where you go stay at the school and have sex with sluts. |
oh my... to lose the school yrs from ages 14 to 18? that would basically be high school.... if your were in america... You would lose a lot of education from doing that
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In most countries in the world, history isn't considered as important as subjects like Math, English (or whatever the official language of that country is) and Sciences.
At high school (10 - 16), here in England, I had around 13 subjects... There isn't enough time to get any of these subjects taught properly. For history, I think I had 1 or 2 hours a week! Back to difficulty of subjects... I think in the West, it kinda sucks until you get to education after 16. I remember in Algeria, the Math I covered in the first year of Primary school wasn't covered for another 3 years in England. I was top of my classes in Math without understanding a single word of English... |
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I think it was grade 3 (age 8 - 9) we learned long multiplication. At the state school, they made me do it not until grade 6 (age 11 - 12). |
I would say not. O.K. I'm just 18 and I learn nearly the same things as my little sister an grade 6 but if I see what my father had to learn 30years ago they stuff today is much easier, especially in math cause there are new ways to solve equations^^ But what has gotten harder is that even elementary school students have to learn english and other stuff I learned 3 years later in 5th grade.
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IMO, school isn't getting harder...it's being dumbed down so that everyone can pass. With NCLB, it's no surprise.
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The school im enrolled in right now is so easy I get bored and fail :/, but other schools I have been too, are ten times harder so yeah I would say education is harder.
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I've been enrolled in six schools and I still maintain that education is not what it used to be.
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All they've done is make kids have more math and shit. They started that before I got out of high school. And here in Illinois they're planning to make school year round (like Japan has). Which I think is good, but I wish they did that before I got out of high school. Kids don't need three months off, they don't have anything to do! Where I went to school, in my classes they spent the whole first month reviewing everything we did the year before! It was frustrating as hell.
Though they're chainging things education definitly isn't harder, it just seems that way. |
If you are talking about the U.S., no. The standards for graduating high school have gone down and not up in most States.
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in my school the standards in order to pass exams has gotten higher. however the manner in which they teach us has dumbed down. i seriously dont understand how they could do that and hope for our district grades to rise. perhaps they want to see individual determination? they want to see who takes initiative to advance in my school? who knows,but i think thats bull.
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It really depends where. I feel that students are being bombarded with more and more info but most students are like sponges and can absorb it. Still, it should be about quality and not quantity.
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