As of 2010, more than 50% of graduating college students cannot find jobs other than those they could have qualified for with merely a high school education. Most college degrees no longer equate to higher incomes or wider employment opportunities. So why does the government encourage our youth to incur devastating debt by subsidizing student loans? Is it truly to help students succeed today or to keep obsolete government enterprise and government employees working?
Reality: The government run educations system from K to 16 in this country is obsolete and being outperformed by nearly every other developed nation, and saddling too many young Americans in debt early in their lives.
There are simple ways to greatly improve the US education system, while also greatly reducing its cost per child: Just a short note on why the US education system is so ineffective and inefficient. If you do not think it is, you probably have not open-mindedly given alot of thought to it. Consider this:
- We entrust our children from around age 5 to 18 years old to a public designed and run education system …
- High school graduates in the US generally have no more income earning capacity than an uneducated illegal immigrant
- High school graduates rarely have sufficient skills to support themselves above poverty levels
- High school graduate generally have no clue what career or job industry they would feel fulfilled pursuing
Sadly you can in most cases tack on another 4 years at great expense of time and money (both family and government subsidy) to the above statements as they apply to most college graduates as well in the US.
So why is this our reality? It really is VERY simple. Consider these facts:
- It is not that more money is needed to improve education – quite the opposite – not only does state and federal government spend way too much on an obsolete education system, nearly every building you look at in the US from apartments, to homes, to condos, to retail storefronts, to offices – all of them – every DOOR YOU SEE – contribute $50 to $100 monthly to local education systems heavily funded by property tax levies (which makes little sense and works against the government objectives of affordable housing and competitive businesses and lower costs of living)
- School curriculum was “adopted” from the lesson plans of royalty and the wealthy whose children never truly had to enter the work force against competition … education until recently was only for the privileged … they had the luxury of learning interesting things to “expand one’s mind and character” with complete disregard to having to compete to support oneself.
- This curriculum, designed for anything but average working class american family, is frankly stupid and a huge waste of public money let alone forcing the private sector to subsidize with property and other taxes – especially with the Internet and a global encyclopedia available 24/7 to nearly everyone on all these “discretionary” topics of interest from english literature to sociology to you name it.
- The easy fixes are many. The basic ingredients are the same, the combination of them very discretionary, not unlike cooking. Start with 25 great healthy ingredients – whole raw foods primarily and spices – and you can create a large number of amazing meals/dishes. The same applies to education curriculum and schools (on and offline) should have just as wide a discretion to create curriculum and have it meet all states education requirements verses the “dumbed down education box” we have long found ourselves in that primarily protects public servant education sector jobs that are not helping the US economy or standards of living any longer. Likely the opposite.
So what are some of these ingredients? I would prefer you think about it verses me telling you. If you spent as much time one week thinking about this as you likely do about sports or some stupid reality show or sitcom or other addictive media series, you would likely start figuring this out on your own and have ideas I have not yet thought of.
So I will hold off listing the main ingredients for a spell and maybe remember to come back here and add a comment or something with them. In the meantime I want to see if anyone “out there” finds this post and takes the initiative to speculate on what they might be.
Thank you.
Tom
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Posted on January 16, 2011
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