7 Reasons the U.S. Education System Is Failing! Recently, today actually, I saw a post of a video on Facebook that detailed simple questions posed to university students regarding BASIC social and historic facts, events, and the people who govern our country. The results were astounding, to say the least! Abject failure and an inability to name or identify ANY of the people, places, and events. Let me repeat... NONE

1. Fatal System Errors in the US
Education System
7 Reasons the U.S. Education System Is Failing!
Recently, today actually, I saw a post of a video on Facebook that
detailed simple questions posed to university students regarding
BASIC social and historic facts, events, and the people who
govern our country. The results were astounding, to say the least!
Abject failure and an inability to name or identify ANY of the
people, places, and events. Let me repeat... NONE.
The formal education system in the U.S. was designed to meet
the demands of the industrial revolution by providing basic
education to the masses. Pretty simple right? So why is it that we
fail to recognize or refuse to acknowledge that the demands are
different today? There has not been a calculable redefinition or
evolution of the educational system since. This is scary as it will
define the failure of our country step by step and bit by bit until we
are reduced to a social collection of ignorance.
Let's examine the cause and solutions.
1. Closed for Business!
Schools find their existence tied to community standards and
financial restraints based on the community support... or lack of.
The result is that schools are closing at an alarming rate across
the country. The decision to close a school rarely reflects the

2. needs of a community or, more importantly, the needs of the
students!
There seems to be less concern for the needs of the community's
children's education than the economic demands of the location
of the school or the resources available. Where is the federal
government when this happens? Well, they are partially to blame.
The government rhetoric details the need for affordable, quality
education while they demand that school systems adhere to
specific federal mandates that tie the school administration's
hands to comply with political wants. So much for federal support.
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4. 2. Two-Gallons of milk in a one-gallon jug!
So, how many kids can you cram into a classroom and still teach
effectively? That depends on whether you are looking to teach the
children or be a daycare service. I know, pretty harsh but look at
the function of schools today. They take your children and house
them and feed them for about 6-7 hours a day. Mostly providing
them with basic discipline and food that they rarely get at home!
Oh yes, admin it. Teachers are required to discipline their children
in a crowded atmosphere where safety is no longer guaranteed
and education takes a back seat to provide basic needs that
parents are unwilling to, uneducated to or unable to provide. Wait,
what about education? Well, there is so little time that caring for
them takes priority over teaching them.
Secondarily, because of the constraints of federally-mandated
guidelines, the children are taught in a cookie-cutter style
standard of personality-limiting, creative-minimizing, and
individually-restrictive processes to get them to their adulthood.
Basic education with basic performance aligns children to basic
standards that align with everyone else's basic needs. Sad
because it is done in crowded classrooms where teachers are
forced to "teach" more children than one person could attend to.
How effective is that?
3. If You Do What You've Always Done... You'll Get
What You've Always Gotten!

5. How can we expect our children to excel when their parents are
minimally educated? One must understand that this cycle of poor
education will produce more poorly educated children who will
produce more poorly-educated children and so on and so on.
Parents are so busy struggling to make a living today because of
a poor economy or a lack of opportunity that there is little time to
attend to their children's education at home let alone at school.
Involvement is also critical especially when the parents are
minimally educated because they lack the foresight and
experience to guide a young person to the right path. The result is
a continually-repeated system that fails students and undermines
this country's future. It matters not whether you are poor and
struggling to make a living that doesn't allow for time to teach your
kids at home OR whether you are well off and struggle to maintain
a career that doesn't allow for time to attend to your kids at home.
Either way, education suffers.
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6. 4. Once Stated Always Abated!
I was once told that I was stupid. I was told that I could never
learn because I lacked the basic ability to understand or
comprehend anything that a normal person was expected to
know. Can you imagine? Well, today I am in pursuit of a doctorate
in education. Highly educated hold several degrees and am
formally recognized for my teaching abilities and performance as
an educator. So there, take that!
If a child is to be challenged then the child has to recognize their
worth and value as an individual. EVERY child is talented and
gifted in something and should be recognized for it immediately
and consistently. Oh yes, failure happens but that is part of the
lesson as well. Individualized learning platforms and initiatives are
crucial to the support and future of educational success. The
talented and gifted programs require that a child be recognized
and advanced because of their special gift instead of the initiative
being available to ALL students. I believe that EVERY child has
the opportunity to reveal their gift if given the opportunity to allow
it to reveal itself. Why limit other children's opportunities to excel
because someone didn't recognize their talents? Beyond me.
This lack of diversity in basic education is driven by personal
prejudices and the nuances of social conformity and economic
availability in a school district. Shameful that every student
doesn't have the same opportunity to be recognized for their
inevitable contribution to society.

7. 5. There's a Step to the Prep!
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S.
Education Department, 80% of all high school students graduate
and student graduation rates are at an all-time high. This sounds
great, doesn't it? Well, no it doesn't because about 80% of high
school seniors cannot pass basic proficiency exams or read at a
basic level. The fundamental and core foundation for a successful
future lies in their ability to read and comprehend and it is failing
miserably. Because of a politically-correct mindset and an
unwillingness to admit that we are failing we are passing kids
without prejudice. What is the dynamic here? Money,
acknowledgment, standards, social constraint?
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8. With fewer than 40% of graduating students able to perform basic
reading and math skills, what will their future look like? Poor at
best because they are set up for failure and aren't educated
enough to know it. They are not prepared for any part of life let
alone future education without the basic skills to learn. It seems a
path to socialism.
6. Teacher to Preacher!
With the lack of people who are willing to sacrifice their future for
low-paying academic careers, there is little to choose from in the
way of well-educated teachers. Enter teachers. As student
education becomes more technology-supported so must teacher
innovation education. A once-proud career, teachers are opting
for more industrial careers using their basic educational
achievements because it pays more and is less restricting. A lack
of qualified teachers translates to a lack of quality education from
underqualified teachers. The cultural shift in classrooms demands
an academic shift in recognizing and utilizing qualified teachers
who must meet higher-level standards before being allowed to
teach.
Alas, distance-learning takes the personalization from the
process, and individualism from the practice and allows for
lesser-educated teachers to perform office-like academics instead
of teaching-like practices. Poorly educated teachers who are not
held to the highest standards will produce poorly-educated
students who will perpetuate the same. Pay teachers better and

9. demand more from them and we will produce quality educated
people. There is something askew when ball players make
millions and teachers make nothing! Time to rethink this one.
7. Girls Will Be Girls and Boys Will Be Boys!
Or will they? There is a huge nationwide divide in the gender
makeup of the student population today in schools. The STEM
program is experiencing a narrowing range of student diversity as
to recent examinations of student diversity in education. Formerly
male student-dominated academics and careers are changing to
a more female-dominated academic showing. Women are now
able to perform as well or better than their male counterparts in
science, technology engineering, and math... previously neglected
and they have always had the ability but were unrecognized or
acknowledged.
A globally competitive market demands equal and qualified
individuals to perform and defend the right of opportunity
regardless of gender, race, creed, or social standing. As we
develop our more-diverse communities, so should we develop our
academically-driven future with better-educated people... no
matter what!
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