Question #2 "Why aren't we changing our Public School System?"

Once, the U.S. was one of the top countries in the world in education, now we just keep slipping further and further down in the ladder in education. The only reason that we keep slipping is that our Pulic Education System will not change for the new world! We are keeping our Education System the same, while other leading countries like Japan, The U.K, France, Switzerland, etc. Their schools are changing with the world, while ours is staying exactly how it was 30 years ago.

Now we ask the question, why haven't we changed yet? We are clearly slipping, and clearly most people never got a quality education in the U.S., just because we aren't changing. If we don't make a change soon, then we will be in a hole that we won't be able to get out of.

I think that there two reasons that we aren't changing our School Systems. One: Money. That's why many parts of the U.S. is crappy right now, we don't have the money to change or fix it! It could cost millions of dollars to change all of our public schools, maybe even billions! And right now, we just don't have the money. N0w hopefully, with a new president, we may be able to erase some of the debt that our previous president created, so we have the money to make this large of a change.

The other reason why our schools aren't changing is because of traditions. We have an old governing body, let's just face it. You have to at least be thirty years of age to run, but hardly anyone even runs before the age of forty! And most are around retiring age! So as a result, we have a lot of old ideas, and they aren't helping anything out here.

Our country is centred around tradition. Turkey on thanksgiving, Fireworks on The Fourth of July, A Tree in the middle of a room for Christmas, and such. We all have daily routines, that most likely were instigated by our parents, or an older authority figure, and when we are asked to change, we don't of course! Now that needs to change.

So are we ever going to make a universal change? I think not, but little changes are happening all around. For example: There is a Colorado School District that has done something pretty crazy, but it might just work. They have eliminated Grades. They are now putting children in groups based on their intelligence, not their age. It's a recent change, so there aren't any results, but I have high hopes for it. Let's hope we can make a change before it's too late.