Response to Education Posts

on behalf of Sectori by the Young Sentinel

I also have to add that, while there is a significant amount of energy put into discussions of science education, I think that there are other areas of education that need some serious attention, including, but not limited to, the teaching of foreign languages.

The other thing that I have noticed is an increasing lack of even the most basic awareness of current events and international relations in students at, for example, my school. While it's all well and good to teach students about the ancient Greeks and Egyptians, what good will that knowledge do them in life if they have never heard of the European Union and can't find Iraq on a map?
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I suppose if they are planning to go into Classics, but that's a different story, and something that few people do these days.

As to the issue of public schools, it turns out that YoungSentinel already said what I was going to say (thank goodness for Preview), namely that funding should be going to the schools that have demonstrated an inability to keep up with the education needs of their students, not just by way of financial support, but also in the area of teacher training, benefits, and upkeep (i.e. making sure teachers come back).

I'm going to make another controversial statement related to the above: I think it says a sad thing about our country when a professional athlete is payed millions of dollars, while a teacher who may have devoted most of his or her life to educating the future of this country is payed only a small fraction of that amount.