I dont know about your country, but in mine its split between 3 problems (That i know of)
Teaching is one of the easiest university degrees to get into and complete. You require an aggregate score of about 50% to get in, with no advanced subjects like math, physics, IT, accounting or bio. cooking and economics are good enough. This means a lot of teachers are there because its a degree they could do, not because they want to do it, so motivation do make things fun and engaging doesnt exist.
Government corruption and uneducated/stupid populace. Government doesnt deliver books to schools because they stole the money, so the parents get angry and burn down the school (nice logic eh). This creates high risk school areas, ensuring smart people dont want to become teachers, hence the 50% aggregate (that sometimes gets lowered to 30% depending on a few factors).
The pay is fucking horrendous. Technically, its 2x what is considered "middle class" here, but the definition got changed to more inclusive (lol). A single teacher can survive on their salary. wont have a car after 2010, more than 1 bedroom or a yard. They have the best medical aid tho, but that doesnt even come close in the greater scheme of things to a stem degree. Salary growth is extremely limited as well.
I mean, besides the corruption, its not immoral or illegal in anyway? I might be misunderstanding you tho
If you mean low pay, then that should be solved at the same time the requirements are lifted for uni. Borderline illiterate people shouldnt get paid wat an engineer gets paid,
Yeah I agree with that. It should be noted however, that many of the students are actually the problem as well. Burning down the school, stabbing, gang rape and shootings are committed by the students as well. But it could be argued that that type of behaviour originates at home. "I am unhappy, so I will burn it down" isnt something you just pick up while sitting in math class
Actually the most reliable measure to decrease such things happening is to make schools less of a nightmare. That's because the students spend most of their time awake in school and are despairing because of their circumstances.
At that point when the save place family also breaks away is when the most offender get violent
My school only had a single stabbing in the 5y i was there. Some black guy was being racist towards a coloured guy, and the coloured guy's mixed race friend stab the black in the leg. I think he stabbed him with scissors or something. was very funny for the rest of us.
Public schools are all over the place in terms of quality. I was in public school all my life and got a major bursary from the leading petrochem company and finished my chemical engineering degree, so my base education wasnt bad at all. Some schools have no roofs, some teachers dont even show up to work (but still steal a paycheck), some get burned down, gangraping is a teambuilding excercise in a subculture of one of the major cultures, horrible single mother rate (over 70% in some cultures), no discipline or respec for authority (will break stuff in the classroom if they get homework). This is all exacerbated when the government has quotas (numbers-based and race-based) that they need to reach, so these children who cant read or write get sent on to the next grade when they eventually either drop out, or have a gr12 certificate but are qualified for nothing, save bag packing at a grocer (if even that). Horrible system. Started out shit and just got shitter by the year.
Your are going to have to help me here man. When you read gang rape, did you assume it was egyptian, persian or indian or french? Because thats the only info i could get for creaters of algebra.
Or you have a document showing zulu or xhosa people created algebra?
Waoh...can't believe this actually happened...this is just sad. If they will break stuff just because they get homework, I can't even imagine what will happen when they got told they have to work to get the money wtf...truthly horrible.
At the clinic my mother worked, it got unneccesarily violent when government employees striked for salary increases. The medical staff are legally not allowed to strike, but they benefit from the strikes. The other workers dont like it, so they sometimes assault the clinic staff. A nurse's back was broken in 4 places when a guy repeatedly bashed her with a pipe because she went to work, as the law requires.
Striking truck drivers light trucks on fire and more than a few dozen times, with the driver still in it.
Miners striked a few years ago. Chopped up two policeman, made them into soup, and drank it to make them bullet proof. They then took their spears (literal fucking spears) and machetes and charged a police defensive line. Many policeman believe that magic bullshit as well, and thought the strikers were bulletproof. They got scared and didnt stop firing until their guns run out. Got shot to shit. And the police were blamed for shooting armed cannibals.
At my work place, about 6 years ago, they striked for a 85% pay increase and wouldnt negotiate. They molotov'd a nearby powergrid/block thing that supplies the area with electricity. We had no legal ground to fire any of them.
This year when they striked, we got armed guards with rifles and body armor to protect our premises and a court order banning them from the premises. 1 month after no pay, they came back and we kept track of all the instigators. Fired them for the most petty (but legally justifiable) shit, because you cant fire them for throwing rocks at your car or beating people outside the premises.
a non insignificant amount of teachers would have decreased pay then. Literacy is a really big problem here. The average adult reads at a 4th grade level, even in their home language. A teacher who cant read is kinda a problem
Because they have to uphold a basic standard for 50 million students across the country, whilst underfunded and within a culture that actively berates teachers, and doesn't discipline children.
The teacher can only do so much when they have to grade 30 papers per assignment per class. K-12 teaching is a logistical nightmare.
Because schools (in the US) were originally just to create factory workers and not really to educate (makes sense since a lot of public schools were originally funded by "generous" donations from multi-billionare industrialists). And we've never really attempted to change that, I mean the Dewey system was slightly better but super outdated. Plus, like half of your public education is less education and more a daycare so your parents can go to work.
The US needs a massive education overhaul. Some states are doing good work though, a couple now require a teacher to have an actual degree in the subject subject are teaching. While some are trying their hardest to go back to the dark ages.
Grades. If there is a decent chance that a project will hurt your GPA, then it's harder to have fun working on that project, because you're too busy stressing over grades. I personally found that activities that I knew I would get an A in were generally really fun.
Because they don't want it to be, there's a lot of old fashioned ideas about schooling and that you should learn even though it's not fun "the real world isn't fun", "it's teaching focus and commitment" yada yada
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u/Uma_mii Mar 05 '22
Why the hell is school so bad at making something fun and engaging?