test scores, funding, etc. I'm sorry I have to ask questions like this. I really am, and I go to a damn middle school. But for God sakes, what the heck is going on in the United States Public School Educational System?!

There is one thing I have to say: Canada's at Number 7 on test scores. Korea is at number 2. Finland at Number 1. America's at number 25. The Canadians are beating the hell out of us. Belgium's test scores are at 76%, we're at 47%. Then again the test was taken in Jersey, so, BAZING!!!!! Just kidding. Jersey is a good state. Kinda.

If you've been in a classroom anywhere in the public schools, it's actually hard to learn ANYTHING. All the interruptions, "jokes" and watching kids being dragged out of class only to comeback on Ritalin with a lobotomy with a pentagram laser drawn on their forehead. But why does it have to come to drugging? Why is there an interruption? Because the teachers are boring and have no control because they can't scold kids anywhere...

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Partly parents don't make the kids mind, we would rather spend our money watching sports than putting into schools, to many parents on drugs or working two jobs. America is in real trouble, and in more ways than one!!! The government knows that uneducated people are less likely to vote or pay attention to what is going on, so they can rape the country and nobody will know or if they do, they won't do anything about it!!

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Because social status means more to kids than education in school.

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The problem is that people don't want to do what works anymore for whatever reason. You need order in the classroom. That means that the students have to respect their teacher, be quiet, do their work, etc. Kids aren't going to do that on their own, so you have to discipline them. Not go psycho-nuts abusive on them, just use normal discipline techniques.

But discipline and rules and all that go against our default lazy, indulgence culture. So many people in education think that setting any kind of rules or structures of order qualifies as barbaric, outrageous, oppressive, etc. They have no practical sense, just their trendy theories. So, the trend for failure will continue.

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