Teacher of 13 years here. I agree with many of the points in this video. I wish you would have touched upon student behavior a bit more. I get that its important for our schools to be well funded and resourced, but I also think that we do a bad job of holding kids and parents responsible...and that is an issue that permeates schools of every socio-economic class.
@@despacitoking237 Who told you to think that? Teachers are literally the only ones being held accountable at all. Literally everything falls on the shoulders of the teachers and your comment actually reinforces that. Teachers do everything already and you somehow still think they need to do more? People like you directly contribute to the teacher shortage.
The problem I have with some of my students is a lack of family and community support. A student came to talk to me about wanting to be a veterinarian because he wanted to heal animals and to provide some charity work for people having problems affording care for their pets. He was ready to quit college because everyone in his life was telling him that he was either thought he was better than them or that he was "trying to act like he was white". I will never understand why people want to drag someone down for following their dream.
It's a HUGE issue. I grew up in a glorified trailer park and was treated like I was "betraying" the people I grew up around by choosing to go to college. Granted, no one questioned what a random white dude at a university was doing there once I actually got in. But the resistance from friends and family was real.
I know plenty of money fixated veterinarians thanks to their life-changing student debt, and the profit fixation within this profession's industry. But, this student so needs to be genuinely mentored. He can get strong support from you. If he was ready to quit, he is asking for help. College is so corrupt now, full of liberal hypocrites. I doubt this student will get legit support. I want to be wrong here, but higher education is not a noble realm. Vet school is impossibly luxury priced. If this student can get mentors that influence him, he has a shot. People desperately need affordable vet care!
@scottdavis3571 my point was he had to change careers because becoming a teacher is a career only people with generational wealth can pursue at this point. Being an ag teacher is an important job that we need (if u ate today, that is because of agriculture, so continuing to teach the new generations is imperative to the future of humanity. Especially with challenges like soil erosion and climate change-- we need people to be learning about ag) but he couldn't afford to pursue it because our educational system is broken. I think you were trying to compare a teaching degree in agriculture to getting a degree in bible, but that makes so sense as agriculture is actually an important field. Beekeeping is also very important to agriculture, so he still found a good job with his degree, but we still need ag teachers. His story is not unique. Tons of ppl who wanted to go into teaching have to abandon that dream.
@@Jadeeee2323 I have nothing against Ag as a career focus nor do I have anything against Beekeeping. I think that Beekeeping is valuable. But professions, education, and trades are secular in nature. Nobody is going to hire you for how much you know about the bible; except for the clergy, maybe
@@Jadeeee2323historically teaching has typically been a career for people with generational wealth. I'd honestly rather someone from a wealthy background educate my children than someone from a poor background. All the better if they came from a poor or middle class background and made themselves wealthy independently... but 2nd to that I'd rather someone from generational wealth teach my children, because there's a better chance they'll teach my children the values that made their families generationally wealthy. 😊 its not difficult logic. I don't want my kids to be teachers. I want them to be engineers and doctors and electricians, etc, making good money maintaining and building up our infrastructure and civilization. If someone comes from generational wealth and decides to pursue a career in education, I'd rather they be my kids teachers. Too many teachers in elementary and Jr and high schools are naive and foolish with naive and foolish political views, who, if they had to pursue a career producing more easily measurable value, would likely struggle immensely because, while they may be good communicators, are far too often shallow and ineffectual thinkers.
Even if you're one of the "lucky" poors whose parents shoved them into private schools, you had entirely different issues to deal with. You stand out from your peers like a sore thumb buying used uniforms and never keeping with social trends or going on class trips. You also are forced to bear the financial burden of your parents decisions before you can even divide fractions.
If you're wanting to roll things back, then companies need to take on 'apprentices' and train people themselves, just like they did back before the 1980s. Yes, colleges and high schools aren't outputting youths that are capable of making companies money from day 1. But they never were. New starters were considered an investment in the future since they could expect that new starter to spend many years at that company, possibly their entire career, with regular pay and seniority increases as time went on. I'm NOT expecting that to happen, so we need to think about how to deal with the situation as it is rather than 'It was so great back then'.
I went to Brooklyn Tech High School and before it was a specialized high school, it was an all boys school that literally prepared students to work fresh out of high school. Highkey, I wouldn’t have wanted it to stay like that or I wouldn’t go but there was a time when it was set up to go from high school straight to work
Much of the curriculum repeats so could even get it to where the student graduates at 12 and apprentices at a company for occupational specific and company specific trainings and certifications. By the time he's 18, he'd have saved up enough money to buy a home and get married.
Colleges do not teach for the what the job market wants. You are lucky to get 1/4 of the content that applies to your job. Certifications have far more relevance towards the skill sets needed to actually work the job. Only benefit you get from college is improved reading comprehension, writing and studying habits. I understand that college is all about "learning how to learn" "If you wanted a job from college then go to trade school" "Its a pipeline to make more scientists" but 99% of people go to college for the future job prospects and colleges do not do a good job of teaching the content. My bachelors and masters in IT management had me do tons of writing which is great. But I ended up learning more by taking CompTIA's, A+, Network+, and Security+ then I ever did during my degrees. From those certifications I also learned more about management and how it applies to the business side of IT. Not to mention it helped my employability alot more because of it. Colleges would be far more worth it if it was Theory and Application in every class when in reality its mostly theory and very little application in class.
Because they're not supposed to. They're suppose to teach a raw set of knowledge, whereas the Job Market is supposed to take those raw set of knowledge and refine it into what they want/need. This isn't an education problem. It's a Corporations have gotten lazy and don't invest in workers problem.
@@thesciguy4823 Your comments are interesting because I agree with everything you're saying to people while also seeing a bunch of troll stuff from you added in (most of that got auto-filtered out). I might be a Job Market economist, but I'm also a college educator and a firm believer in education for education's sake. We seem to be on the same page here?
I got my degree at asu and it’s funny I would watch Hank green videos instead of lectures because they were better for basic general education classes.
I worked as an advisor at a university, and I constantly referred students who were failing to watch Crash Course as an alternative study method. I cannot tell you how much that helped a TON of students bring up their grades. So, this is a valid method.
It's a huge issue I've found that so many professors are not professors in the slightest. They are not interested in teaching just obligated to be there, at least for STEM. They would prefer to only do research if they could. Of course Crash Course will be better because they actually want to be good teachers.
I taught for 32 years as an English secondary educator. I loved it and rarely had any problems. I made 100k and retired with a nice DB pension. I guided 26 student teachers and just loved learning new techniques ,which I rarely ever used. Your video is quite accurate.😊😮
Any cynic could point out that schooling wasn’t really expected to work for everyone. That’s why the system originally made ample provision for measures such as bad boy’s schools, industrial academies, and outright expulsion.
@@Kaede-Sasaki If school were truly about educating people then all of the uneducable kids, or at least one third of them, would be found something else to do. But nothing else is found for them to do, because they’re already doing what they were sent there to do, which is to occupy space while breathing air and being baby-sat.
@5:10 People assume that funding alternative education is about helping the white and wealthy students because that is who is using the alternatives currently, which is a biased sample because these are the ones that have the time and energy to devote to educating them. If alternative education is funded properly, the biggest winners are inner city black kids.
That's an interesting perspective. Someone might argue that the winners of alternative education are the kids of parents who happen to care a lot about the quality of their education, which is a mixed bag across the population. But there's something to be said for looking closer at the demographics of alternative education results.
Simply incorrect. School voucher programs overwhelmingly transfer public dollars to wealthy families that are already sending their kids to private schools. In Arizona it's something like 80%. It actually guts public school funding and makes public schools worse for the families who, even with a voucher, can't afford private schools.
@@teachliberation1893 The state of Michigan begs to differ. There it is exactly as I've described. P.S. Arizona school choice users are 32% of the population and are 55% non-white. Hardly the wealthy and well to do.
Don't try and make this about using tax dollars to support faith based schools. All this school voucher nonsense is nothing more than skirting the 1st amendment of separation of Church and State.
I think a big part of why professors can't help students get jobs in industry is that professors don't really have time to make those industry contacts. That biochemistry prof won't be talking to industry- they're busy going to conferences and frantically looking for collaborators to write research proposals with so that they can keep their research funding and keep their lab going. I say this as a research engineer who talks to professors. Industry isn't as interested in research- they're interested in low risk highly proven gadgets and manufacturing processes that will turn a profit. Those professors are also being made to publish a certain number of papers each year. And they're being dragged into peer reviewing papers WITHOUT PAY. And they get dragged into editing and writing textbook chapters. Engineering textbooks today feel jumpy and incoherent compared to books from forty or fifty years ago. Because forty or fifty years ago, a professor would take a sabbatical to write a book. Today, some books have each chapter farmed out to different professors, and they race through it with a "eh, this is good enough!" attitude because they're researching and teaching classes, and publishing, and attending conferences, and and and.... you get the idea. A professor I know locally was told that in order to keep his full time status, he would have to teach four classes this semester in addition to doing research at a local government lab and publishing papers and attending conferences. And he's also attempting to be a non-absentee parent to his kids. Once upon a time, it may have made sense for professors teaching undergraduate students to also have to do research, but I think things would be a lot better if those roles could be split. And it would be good for those professors who specialize into the teaching role to NOT BE ADJUNCTS! They should have enough job security to go to local industry events and make useful connections for their undergraduate students. Professors teaching and advising students at the master's level and above should be researchers. To the folks asking how we afford that? Well, I transferred from a large university to a smaller one as an undergrad. The big school has a big multimillion dollar fitness center with squash courts and hot tubs and and smoothie bar, and you get the idea. The small school has a regular old gym with weights, treadmills, and a lap swimming pool. Yes, I used to work out in it and it was perfectly sufficient. Admin bloat is another issue. Schools seem to think that the fanciest dorms, gyms, restaurants, etc are how you attract "customers" [students] and forget that the whole purpose of going to school is for the education. It's like designing a fancy car with heated seats, bluetooth entertainment system, and a slick body... but no engine. Sure, the 10 year old Honda civic in the next parking spot over isn't as sexy, but at least it will actually get you to your destination!
This is an incredible read. As an upcoming college student, this does make me a little more aware of what my college professors may be going through, especially being inner city.
I'm a high school student in Florida and I love watching videos like this because most of my peers that are enrolled in public school right now know how bad the quality of education is. The thing is, it has been like this our entire academic careers (admittedly, it did get worse during and after COVID, but the oldest of us still in high school were in middle school during the worst of the pandemic), so we never really got the chance to learn that it could be better.
Education has and always will be a self motivated thing. Teachers and schools can certainly help but in the end its up to the individual if they want to learn or not. That goes for kids as well as adults. Its sort of like the old addage you can lead a horse to water but can't make it drink. I think the key to solving education therefore lies in psychology and behavior. If we spent as much time making learning fun and addictive as games, and fast food we would be in a much different situation imo.
the majority of American public schools teach a curriculum that is privately owned by two corporations.......but why? what I'm about to say is going to sound like a conspiracy thing, but its not. The Common Core curriculum and Standard Set, which has since been rebranded but is still around in the majority of states, was created by 6 guys in a lobbying firm who were all in their 20s and had no experience teaching. That lobbying firm was funded by the Bill Gates Foundation and Pearson, the testing company. The 'curriculum' created by this was taken to the Board of Education and lobbied to be approved for Federal grant money, like No Child Left Behind (etc). This meant that if a state decided to use this curriculum in their public schools, they would get additional funding from the Federal Govt. (The governor makes this decision). The lobbying firm (by the way, they legally OWN the curriculum they created) then lobbied the governors of all the states, "Hey you should use our curriculum". They managed to convince like 48/50 states, later that rolled back to 41, perhaps a few less now as my information is a few years old, but point is; the majority of American public schools teach a curriculum that is privately owned by two corporations.......but why? To make a long story short, the guy in this video said it himself around the 13:30 mark. The curriculum is controlled by the lobbying firm which is controlled by the two corporations. If the curriculum calls for a certain kind of test, the schools have to take, and thus pay for, that test. If the curriculum calls for technology in the classroom, say 'a reading tablet for every student', then that's exactly what the school system in that state has to go out and buy. Pearson is a testing company, and Bill Gates/Microsoft is obviously a technology a company. So as the percentage of the schools budget that gets spent on technology and testing increases, so does the amount of money these companies make. Just to make it clear; the curriculum can call for a specific test or a specific technology, one which only these two companies offer, all but guaranteeing their products are selected. Two companies are basically in charge of a very large chunk of America's public school's budgetary decisions, and surprise surprise, they are giving it all to themselves. Furthermore, who decides how long recess is (more or less time for testing)? and whether or not an art class gets funded (money, space and time, which could be spent elsewhere)? And whether the library in the school remains a library or gets gutted to make room for a computer testing center (true stories from the school where I worked, all of them)? The curriculum decides. Which is owned by the companies. Who are profiting from these decisions. If you hadn't considered it yet, what kind of impact do you think this is having on student's education? It's pretty heavy stuff. leave a comment if you want to know more I guess. been thinking about making a youtube video.
Well I went to a crappy public school system where I learned almost nothing and that was the late 90s early 2000s. In retrospect I think most of the learning comes at home. Like almost all of it so at the end of the day…it is what it is and I think it has been basically child care
Amazing review of the current state of education in the US, in my opinion its definitely an emerging bubble and will have to crash and self correct before anything gets better
College is a benefit for the lower income americans. However, people from a higher income home, college in many cases is a net loss. More people should rely on free resources available online.
I absolutely agree! But it's lower income Americans who are the most averse to attending college because they don't see the disproportionate return on investment from taking out student debt. I used college to escape poverty, so part of my "deal" on TH-cam is giving other people the tools and knowledge necessary to potential escape themselves. For many poorer Americans, additional schooling (regardless of what type of schooling it is) is still a ticket into better opportunities. Rich kids with daddy's money are more than welcome to go become self-taught crypto bros lol
@@UrgentlyFiring College should be free, funded by the tax payer. We don't need higher ed to become a luxury commodity. There are too many colleges/universities focusing more on being a five star hotel than the actual quality of the education. Personally, I prefer to be taught 1-1 rather than sitting in a 30 room classroom. I dropped out of college to do mentorship in 2D and 3D design, no regret. I currently owe $13k in student loans.
Why does no one talk about military service? My husband joined the Navy in 2000, he served for 13 years and was medically retired. In the civilian world, he was able to use his years of service to equal a bachelor's degree. He is now a quality and safety engineer.
@fireteamblue true. But it has always helped those individuals stop becoming poor (unless your a 11 bang bang) I used to also be poor but through the military it has allowed me to prosper and gains experience certs and education that helped my civilian life proceed with ease because I had all the benefits the military had to offer me. I'm now middle class and have a solid money base that keeps me well afloat and well traveled. I even visited the Bahamas recently this year.
@fireteamblue they wouldn't have to "take advantage of the poor" if more middle class and upper class people enlisted. My husband was the first in his family to graduate high school. He has visited most countries in the Pacific, lived in Hawaii and Guam. He now makes 6 figures with no student loan debt. Employees see his military service and he gets invited to interview for almost every position he applies for. And it's all because he took advantage of what the military offered him. Were solidly in the middle class, were not hampered by debt and our health care is affordable. How is that being taken advantage of?
Im glad this video came up in my feed. I just graduated with a social science degree, and i intend to become a professor/lecturer in academia. Knowing all this can better prepare me for what to expect in my career path and how to be a better educator and/or role model. Amazing video!
I am a strong believer in education, especially public and higher education. Tragically, the USA’s education system has been on the decline since I was child, and it’s only gotten worse since I graduated. I also firmly believe in and value a quality college/university education. However, colleges and universities have become more like loanshark enterprises than places of higher learning. I’ve yet to meet a teacher, professor, administrator, or student who isn’t grieved, frustrated, or outraged by how deficient the American education system is on all levels.
I honestly had to do a double take on this video. I got offended, but then i had to stop myself and ask. Why am i mad? Why does this offend me. And honestly it was just ego and somethings were against my beliefs. But after i sat through a listened whole heartedly. I can say thank you very much for this enlightening video.
Im doing home schooling when I have kids because frankly, the schools failed utterly at socialization. They are depressing prison like rooms where kids do not get individual attention and are forced to sit still and be quite. They are both held back and left behind by a standard of teaching, while remaining utterly clueless about mamy common sense things that are never taught. It has nothing to do with politics or religion, although I truely believe there would be no one better to teach my child on this then me, because I want my kids to make their own ideas and argue with me. I am not interested in sheep, and the school system is just for wild sheep to be domesticated. Not for my kids.
About the first topic. School choice seems to be a about who is responsible for a child; the government or parents. Personally I would say the government has a responsibility for the well-being of the individual. In the case of children "well-being" does mean having to go through some type of education, but it doesn't mean where. It seems that all the negativity towards school choice in that first section comes from mentioning people/groups which you might not like. Great video otherwise
I think that's a reasonable take! Honestly, I'm not anti-school choice at all. I benefitted from it as a kid and can think of all kinds of scenarios where it's helpful. I mostly criticize it in the video because the school choice movement is one of the big anxieties people have surrounding the future of education in America. I don't love the idea of tax dollars being funneled into organizations (like private schools) that aren't bound by government rules. But at this point I don't 100% oppose it either. I'm more of a "make positive change from the inside" kind of guy than a "fight the system" kind of guy. Lots of states already have school choice vouchers for private education alternatives, so this is going to be a reality of the future to some degree anyway. I just want to see people well-educated and well-prepared for the nuances of living in society and being part of the workforce.
There is indeed a problem with how tax dollars are used, the government should indeed have more of a say about the places it goes to. And gotta appreciate the perspective of striving to a well educated society
I've been teaching for two decades, and there really has been a constant shift to the left in public education. It has had horrible consequences on the system.
I hate school I wish I wash smart enough to realize back then I could just have immediately got my GED. so I could just have spent the entire time getting certified in everything at a tech school
The 2021 census recorded the average amount of money spent for each child for public school annually: $13,187 Alternative schools educate a similar to better level at a fraction of that cost. Could you imagine a parent getting paid $13K a year by the government to educate their child? So much would be possible
@@thesciguy4823 as opposed to public schooling now, which has next to no oversight? The standards of public schooling have consistently gone down year over year for a century. This is despite (or probably even because of) more money being pumped into public schools per student.
Having school districts where students are assigned seems as odd as having work districts where each person 18-65 must work unless they fill in a form for transfer due to work choice, charter work, or home-working (working in your own family business).
I taught in a rural HS for 30 years. During that time, we had a District Superintendent go to jail for embezzlement, a principal fired under VERY "shady" circumstances. In addition, there were several other district administrators who "resigned" under similar questionable circumstances. Yes, corruption is quite rampant.
I live in a booming area (the suburbs north of Dallas) and we're already seeing wealthy local districts closing or consolidating elementary schools because of a combination of smaller families and higher housing costs. Middle and high school enrollment is still doing okay for now, but will be facing similar issues in the next decade or so.
The education system, like our overall society, has always been flawed, it's just now it's getting to the point where something has to give, things have to change and will change.
Interesting video. There are other problems….. behaviour is one but honestly that starts at home. The kids who misbehave, and I don’t mean calling out or needing to move, I mean very serious violent and dangerous behaviour, these students come from a lot of trauma and they traumatize other students This issue is one teachers have been very very concerned about
Lots of early career people with kids get laid off during COVID and the senior workers prioritize their own well being. Our representatives in government are indeed representative, so as a society we dramatically prioritize the needs of the elderly (boomers) over the youth.
He’s being a centrist in this video. I mostly found it annoying at the end when he said that the left shouldn’t push their side because our side is just people different from you exist
Watching videos on this topic and others for the past few years and it’s so weird seeing how so many problems we have are interconnected and influencing one another. We have a system and culture at the moment that feels like it’s poison sometimes and we actively avoid trying to take medicine to fix it. This goes for education, health, entertainment, dating, relationships/community building, workforce, and politics/law…
Really good video, thanks for making it and I hope it gets widely seen! I wanna offer a counterpoint to your closing statements though... although these are massive problems, and you're correct that it's very difficult to make change in the U.S., there are also many groups and organizations that are working to solve most of these problems. Just want to put out there that instead of taking the approach of doing what's best for you or your kids, folks can engage with the structures as they are and improve them for the benefit of everyone. It's a steep mountain to climb, but it's not a lost cause -- a lot of progress is being made in lots of areas, and often the reason that people can take the option to do what's best for their individual kid is because a collective struggle was won before that.
Im glad you touched on men’s issues in this video. I also don’t want to sound like some redpilled chud, but as a man who struggles with mental health, who’s lack of academic success led him to serving 5 years in the army, and now feels behind in every aspect of life at the age of 26, it’s nice to know that someone cares and that these issues can be discussed without the speaker being Andrew Tate or having our issues shut down by people who don’t think that we matter
My parents are old school gen immigrants and they heavily subscribe to the “men must earn more income than their women in order for men to be successful in their relationship” ideology, which ends up with them telling me to leave the education field in pursuit of higher income jobs. I am a 6 year hs teacher, one of the few groups of men teaching in public education. We are all so fucked.
I told my husband that I would be homeschooling our grandchild one day so that my daughter can have a career. We're in the states where it's every single breathing human must work to survive. The only way that I don't, is his income. I'm gen X. And I feel like we're the last generation to get away with being stay at home moms. I hope it changes..
The main incentive for everything in American life is MONEY. It's not quality outcomes, community, people, health, happiness, safety, a future; it's profits. I don't see much happening without getting rid of our current economic system.
@@Ms.A422 We have all been conditioned since early childhood to embrace the notion that capitalism represents the pinnacle of societal organization. The United States has positioned itself as the foremost champion of capitalist democracy, positing that it functions as a rising tide that elevates all vessels, with businesses serving as engines of innovation, employment, and prosperity. In stark contrast, socialism and communism have been demonized; however, the current socio-economic landscape starkly contradicts this prevailing narrative. Throughout my life, I have witnessed a marked decline in our social safety nets, overall quality of life, and the affordability of even the most essential goods and services. The fundamental needs that underpin a dignified existence have been commodified and exploited by the elite for their own financial gain. There is a growing acceptance of overt corruption and bribery within our political institutions, accompanied by a pervasive absence of justice for marginalized communities. Our "keepers of the peace" have been exonerated by our Supreme Court from their obligations to safeguard the public, with their indifference to community welfare becoming glaringly evident on camera, facing no repercussions from the ruling powers. Our federal government maintains a close partnership with the military-industrial complex and foreign governments and organizations to perpetrate grievous atrocities and devastate both human life and the environment. Public officials often endorse such immoral actions, simultaneously vilifying the victims as aggressors. Fossil fuel corporations continue to undermine the stable climate essential for human existence, all in pursuit of relentless short-term profit, fully aware of the resultant harms, while systematically misleading the public. Technology magnates accrue wealth by ensnaring the populace in their social media platforms, utilizing the data they misappropriate to finance extravagant vanity projects, often aimed at replacing human labor with automation or constructing private sanctuaries far removed from the very communities they exploit. The fragile façade of social decorum is eroding, exposing the deep-seated decay and corruption that have long been festering beneath the surface. The undeniable reality is that the affluent corporatocratic elite have systematically infiltrated and extended their insatiable grasp into nearly all of our public systems. The remaining populace must coalesce, organize, and mount resistance against those who aspire to reduce us all to disposable servants, utilized and discarded at their convenience.
I don't know if you meant the "corruption to help the football team" line as a joke, but that is exactly what happened to a school in my district. It was the "rich" school on the other side of town that we were rivals with because we hated how they would throw money at any problem. Well, turns out, that included the football team. They paid a college football player to be their quarterback. The fallout when that came to light was epic. The coach, the principal, and all three vice principals were fired!
Y'all all rehash the same crap 💩. Anyone that has ever worked a corporate job knows that it doesn't require more than an 8th grade education. The real reason why higher education exists is to kull the herd. Easier for a company to pick a candidate with a bachelor's degree vs someone holding only a high school diploma. It's as simple as that with few exceptions. 🤓
Yes, but oftentimes a student is pushed to attend a school in their district, which is related to property zoning. Schools around expensive houses are better funded than schools around cheaper ones; it’s really difficult to near impossible to choose a school out of district.
The US was founded by rich men for rich men. Education is not enshrined in the US constitution for that reason and the whole thing was written to keep change as glacial as possible.
"Almost no one has tried to meet in the middle" (of religion and social issues) *me thinking, well I do. "Except the Episcopalians" Oh. I am Episcopalian. 😂😂😂
there are plenty of alternative certification paths that cut short the time a specialist may need to switch to teaching. Many districts will accept a test score and an agreement to continue certification after hiring. Its very very easy to switch to teaching a subject in which you have collegiate or professional experience.
How much would it cost to produce a K-12 National Recommended Reading List? The majority of books are mediocre to crap. So if school is mediocre teachers using mediocre books couldn't an excellent book list be better? *The Tyranny of Words* (1938) by Stuart Chase George Orwell mentioned Chase in an essay on politics. Chase published the book, *A New Deal* shortly before FDR's famous speech. He was a member of FDR's brain trust. There is lots of old sci-fi free on the Internet now: *Omnilingual* by H Beam Piper *The Fourth "R"* by George O. Smith *Space Prison* by Tom Godwin *Little Fuzzy* by H. Beam Piper *The Servant Problem* by Robert F. Young *Deathworld* by Harry Harrison *Black Man's Burden* & *Border, Breed nor Birth* by Mack Reynolds *The Status Civilization* by Robert Sheckley When I was in high school I was supposed to read boring crap. *Catcher in the Rye* *The Scarlet Letter* *The Mayor of Casterbridge* I refused to read Catcher. Read about a kid kicked out of high school while in high school.
I've had 3 major completely different experiences of school(and a few minor but i was too young to remember it well) Absolutely awful experience of normal town school in Ukraine with yelling teachers, uncomfortable groups, absolutely horrible way of learning where nobody cared and nobody tried to make us care. I hated it, i hate it, i genuinely think it made me a worse person. Then covid hit, partical virtual education was meh and my family decided to swich me to ukrainian e-school. At this point (8th grade) i already knew what direction i want to move in and i didn't have many irl connections. So i invested my time into learning art and passing online courses with mentorship and really enjoyed it. Looking back i see how lack of irl contact impacted me but at the same time ehhhhhhh it is alright i didn't feel lonely because of online friends and my area didn't have many people with similar interests Then i moved to Canada, 2022 happened, and went to canadian secondary school for gr11(also finishing ukr school at the same time) and gr12. And it was so awesome, so enjoyable, so welcoming and interesting! No physics or chemistry, no history, geography, all of that. I was learning what i was interested in with a few classes i had to take sprinkled in, but even they were pretty good! And most importantly - no mega-super-important exams that decide your life! Students, teachers and staff were incredible and i am super happy that this was my form of adaptation in new country and in society overall. I experienced real life friendship for the first time in 5-7 years and i am only 18! Now i am excited for the start of my university life and i hope it won't be a rip-off lol
I intend to homeschool my kids, i’m a biochemistry major and feel I’ll be qualified to teach them mathematics, chemistry, biology, and english. I will also teach them history of course, but I acknowledge i’d be less capable of teaching that subject. Regardless I intend to read more about history and have them read books about it. Any gaps in my knowledge will be filled. I intend on having standardized exams and review sessions especially for english and mathematics. Homeschooling should be regulated. Parents should have to have curriculums, and prove that their students are being educated. I know that homeschoolers are required to send some homework but it should be frequent and rigorous.
You are part of the problem. You feel you are good enough to teach, so you will. Teaching is not a profession anymore (no need to learn theories of physical and social development of children). There is no difference between you and the MAGA parents who decide they are qualified to teach students because they think they are "smart enough"
Its because the credibility has been watered down so much that conpanies no longer take it seriously without experience. Now companies like hiring college graduates because they know they are straped with debt and desperate for a position. The skills taught don't transition well into real work in the marketplace, which is another reason higher education is not worth it is because its outdated.
A lot of this feels kind of empty at this point, because we are heading towards a society where what you inherit matters more than what you can earn. It used to be that your job was able to provide you enough financial stability to have a family, a house, maybe a couple vacations every year. But that’s only probably true for maybe 20 to 30% of people today. Wages are so low compared to what we need to live I expect a larger share of men to completely drop out of the workforce. Working 40 hours a week doesn’t get you what it used to. So why try? So assuming all of that is correct, what role can education really play at that point?
People literally don't believe me when I say I was attacked by a 4 year old, but I was. I understand it sounds unbelievable, but some people have no idea the level of physical capability children have. To be clear though, they do it out of pure emotion, when they're unable to regulate themselves because obviously that part of their brain is still developing. But that's only one reason I quit teaching. Other reasons include the typical parent aggression, admin demands and neglect, assessments, lack of support for ied students, having to pay out of pocket for materials and being pressured to spend more, being underpaid in general, suffocating micromanaging coworkers, and too much focus on academic scores with little attention to social and emotional learning (as much as schools want to teach it, they can't with how high the stakes are for moving grade levels). That being said, I'm still an educator bc I value education itself and its importance. I'm just not a teacher. Teaching is one of the worst professions you can ever get into.
Speaking as a college grad who was approached to sub I did the math and Walmart pays better. As far as critical thinking... I was never impressed but now it's really bad. People tend to let emotions make their decisions.
You might not see this but could you give me a basic jest of what you think I should do in my current situation. I’m a 21 year old man, I work a regular 40 hour week, & I want to go to college because it will increase my chances of becoming wealthy. Luckily for me I’m not interested in to many things that historically pay terribly. I’d like to do something with business, I’ve looked into accounting & a few other positions that are “recession proof” The thing is I’m my sole supporter. I live on my own, I do not collect any benefits like food stamps. (I’ve been rejected even when I was being paid 11$ an hour😂) so I will 100% have to continue working while going through college. I’ll likely attend my cities community college, but one of your many points that caught my attention is when you mentioned how important the social dynamics are of attending college. I know I’d greatly benefit from them, I just do not know how to manage socializing with people, working full time & attending college. Going from work to school & making no friends only because of my lack of time would truly suck. & after reading this maybe I don’t need advice, I just wanted to rant.
Being as unbiased as possible should extend to music you choose to play when talking about the opposition. Lol The over dramatic music had laughing so hard. Good video though.
There are flaws in any approach and somehow we get the worst of both worlds. We should have more honest discussion without grifters or greedy benefactors mucking everything up to improve things overall.
Can anyone explain what is meant by “Pay is going up, especially for high school teachers,”? I have an idea that maybe HS teachers make more because of things like coaching, sponsoring clubs, university adjunct positions, or maybe because of more advanced degrees at the HS level. But those things don’t actually mean our wage is increasing faster than other teachers, all of those things are supplemental income along with our regular salary. Asking because I believe in my state, schools don’t differentiate pay based on grade level. Our entire district uses 1 pay-scale, and I believe that’s how it is in my entire state. So I’m hoping someone can help me understand how we can really say HS teachers wages are raising faster than lower grade levels, if they’re really just basically working a second job.
20 companies control 70% of global industrial output. They have turned universities into their HR departments. Now schools are generally controlled by limited corporate interests. Monopoly is the root of most evils. The rest seems to be envy, but that I'd much more individualistic.
You must be from Vegas. Even with living in Henderson and going to Coronado High School, I was not ready for a 4 year university. I was suffering from adhd and as a little black girl, none of my teachers told my mom that. It was like they just didn’t care. I graduated in 2003. I was the first graduating class. I didn’t figure out that I should’ve majored in business til I was in 12th grade. No one talked to me about my interests and what I needed to do to get there. All they knew was that I was not great in math. The education system is still bad. My mom graduated from UNLV. It’s not updated because she took one of the classes I am taking now. She graduated in 2001. Pay has to balance out between males and females. Those social issues will never go away. White people still dominate the population. They still increase costs on black kids to go to college. Read Principles of Economics. There’s a chapter in there about price discrimination. The longer people of color and black people are charged higher rates to go to college, it will not change.
There’s a lot of good points here but I will say cte programs always seemed like an amazing career starter and my boces had multiple events and connections with company’s to get hired before leaving school which like 60% of my class got jobs through these , learning a trade was the only reason I stayed in school.
I actually teach and work in CTE. I don't think I explained that in the video, so I probably came across as too dismissive in my critiques of the data. The trades helped me pay my way through college and they're a fantastic way to launch into adult life!
Teacher of 13 years here. I agree with many of the points in this video. I wish you would have touched upon student behavior a bit more. I get that its important for our schools to be well funded and resourced, but I also think that we do a bad job of holding kids and parents responsible...and that is an issue that permeates schools of every socio-economic class.
I think we don't hold teachers accountable at all
You cannot hold students, parents, teachers or administrators to a universal value in a composition that is multi valued.
"we can't hold certain groups accountable because we're artificially propping up interior people to the detriment of meritocracy.". FTFY
@@despacitoking237 Who told you to think that? Teachers are literally the only ones being held accountable at all. Literally everything falls on the shoulders of the teachers and your comment actually reinforces that. Teachers do everything already and you somehow still think they need to do more? People like you directly contribute to the teacher shortage.
@@ForkySeven let just say personally experience
The problem I have with some of my students is a lack of family and community support.
A student came to talk to me about wanting to be a veterinarian because he wanted to heal animals and to provide some charity work for people having problems affording care for their pets. He was ready to quit college because everyone in his life was telling him that he was either thought he was better than them or that he was "trying to act like he was white". I will never understand why people want to drag someone down for following their dream.
It's a HUGE issue. I grew up in a glorified trailer park and was treated like I was "betraying" the people I grew up around by choosing to go to college.
Granted, no one questioned what a random white dude at a university was doing there once I actually got in. But the resistance from friends and family was real.
Man, sounds exactly like the Rez.
A cycle of poverty perpetuated by the culture itself.
Crazy as subtle sabotage also exists.
Pretty much the poverty becomes a part of the culture and wanting out of it is seen as a rejection of the culture as a whole
I know plenty of money fixated veterinarians thanks to their life-changing student debt, and the profit fixation within this profession's industry. But, this student so needs to be genuinely mentored. He can get strong support from you. If he was ready to quit, he is asking for help. College is so corrupt now, full of liberal hypocrites. I doubt this student will get legit support. I want to be wrong here, but higher education is not a noble realm. Vet school is impossibly luxury priced. If this student can get mentors that influence him, he has a shot. People desperately need affordable vet care!
My bf wanted to be a highschool ag teacher, but couldnt afford to work for free for a year, so now he's a beekeeper
NICE
Beekeeping makes more money. Was that your point? Let kids try to get a job with a bible major.
@scottdavis3571 my point was he had to change careers because becoming a teacher is a career only people with generational wealth can pursue at this point. Being an ag teacher is an important job that we need (if u ate today, that is because of agriculture, so continuing to teach the new generations is imperative to the future of humanity. Especially with challenges like soil erosion and climate change-- we need people to be learning about ag) but he couldn't afford to pursue it because our educational system is broken. I think you were trying to compare a teaching degree in agriculture to getting a degree in bible, but that makes so sense as agriculture is actually an important field. Beekeeping is also very important to agriculture, so he still found a good job with his degree, but we still need ag teachers. His story is not unique. Tons of ppl who wanted to go into teaching have to abandon that dream.
@@Jadeeee2323 I have nothing against Ag as a career focus nor do I have anything against Beekeeping. I think that Beekeeping is valuable. But professions, education, and trades are secular in nature. Nobody is going to hire you for how much you know about the bible; except for the clergy, maybe
@@Jadeeee2323historically teaching has typically been a career for people with generational wealth. I'd honestly rather someone from a wealthy background educate my children than someone from a poor background. All the better if they came from a poor or middle class background and made themselves wealthy independently... but 2nd to that I'd rather someone from generational wealth teach my children, because there's a better chance they'll teach my children the values that made their families generationally wealthy. 😊 its not difficult logic. I don't want my kids to be teachers. I want them to be engineers and doctors and electricians, etc, making good money maintaining and building up our infrastructure and civilization. If someone comes from generational wealth and decides to pursue a career in education, I'd rather they be my kids teachers. Too many teachers in elementary and Jr and high schools are naive and foolish with naive and foolish political views, who, if they had to pursue a career producing more easily measurable value, would likely struggle immensely because, while they may be good communicators, are far too often shallow and ineffectual thinkers.
Even if you're one of the "lucky" poors whose parents shoved them into private schools, you had entirely different issues to deal with. You stand out from your peers like a sore thumb buying used uniforms and never keeping with social trends or going on class trips. You also are forced to bear the financial burden of your parents decisions before you can even divide fractions.
If you're wanting to roll things back, then companies need to take on 'apprentices' and train people themselves, just like they did back before the 1980s. Yes, colleges and high schools aren't outputting youths that are capable of making companies money from day 1. But they never were. New starters were considered an investment in the future since they could expect that new starter to spend many years at that company, possibly their entire career, with regular pay and seniority increases as time went on. I'm NOT expecting that to happen, so we need to think about how to deal with the situation as it is rather than 'It was so great back then'.
Education isn't just about preparing for a job.
I went to Brooklyn Tech High School and before it was a specialized high school, it was an all boys school that literally prepared students to work fresh out of high school. Highkey, I wouldn’t have wanted it to stay like that or I wouldn’t go but there was a time when it was set up to go from high school straight to work
Much of the curriculum repeats so could even get it to where the student graduates at 12 and apprentices at a company for occupational specific and company specific trainings and certifications. By the time he's 18, he'd have saved up enough money to buy a home and get married.
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Colleges do not teach for the what the job market wants. You are lucky to get 1/4 of the content that applies to your job. Certifications have far more relevance towards the skill sets needed to actually work the job. Only benefit you get from college is improved reading comprehension, writing and studying habits. I understand that college is all about "learning how to learn" "If you wanted a job from college then go to trade school" "Its a pipeline to make more scientists" but 99% of people go to college for the future job prospects and colleges do not do a good job of teaching the content. My bachelors and masters in IT management had me do tons of writing which is great. But I ended up learning more by taking CompTIA's, A+, Network+, and Security+ then I ever did during my degrees. From those certifications I also learned more about management and how it applies to the business side of IT. Not to mention it helped my employability alot more because of it. Colleges would be far more worth it if it was Theory and Application in every class when in reality its mostly theory and very little application in class.
Because they're not supposed to. They're suppose to teach a raw set of knowledge, whereas the Job Market is supposed to take those raw set of knowledge and refine it into what they want/need.
This isn't an education problem. It's a Corporations have gotten lazy and don't invest in workers problem.
@@thesciguy4823 Your comments are interesting because I agree with everything you're saying to people while also seeing a bunch of troll stuff from you added in (most of that got auto-filtered out). I might be a Job Market economist, but I'm also a college educator and a firm believer in education for education's sake. We seem to be on the same page here?
I got my degree at asu and it’s funny I would watch Hank green videos instead of lectures because they were better for basic general education classes.
I worked as an advisor at a university, and I constantly referred students who were failing to watch Crash Course as an alternative study method. I cannot tell you how much that helped a TON of students bring up their grades. So, this is a valid method.
It's a huge issue I've found that so many professors are not professors in the slightest. They are not interested in teaching just obligated to be there, at least for STEM. They would prefer to only do research if they could. Of course Crash Course will be better because they actually want to be good teachers.
I taught for 32 years as an English secondary educator. I loved it and rarely had any problems. I made 100k and retired with a nice DB pension. I guided 26 student teachers and just loved learning new techniques ,which I rarely ever used. Your video is quite accurate.😊😮
Any cynic could point out that schooling wasn’t really expected to work for everyone. That’s why the system originally made ample provision for measures such as bad boy’s schools, industrial academies, and outright expulsion.
Yes minister said it best:
"Whoever said education was about educating the children? It was to keep the youth out of employment." (Going off memory)
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@@Kaede-Sasaki If school were truly about educating people then all of the uneducable kids, or at least one third of them, would be found something else to do. But nothing else is found for them to do, because they’re already doing what they were sent there to do, which is to occupy space while breathing air and being baby-sat.
@5:10 People assume that funding alternative education is about helping the white and wealthy students because that is who is using the alternatives currently, which is a biased sample because these are the ones that have the time and energy to devote to educating them. If alternative education is funded properly, the biggest winners are inner city black kids.
That's an interesting perspective. Someone might argue that the winners of alternative education are the kids of parents who happen to care a lot about the quality of their education, which is a mixed bag across the population. But there's something to be said for looking closer at the demographics of alternative education results.
Simply incorrect. School voucher programs overwhelmingly transfer public dollars to wealthy families that are already sending their kids to private schools. In Arizona it's something like 80%. It actually guts public school funding and makes public schools worse for the families who, even with a voucher, can't afford private schools.
@@teachliberation1893 The state of Michigan begs to differ. There it is exactly as I've described.
P.S. Arizona school choice users are 32% of the population and are 55% non-white. Hardly the wealthy and well to do.
Tbf with how poorly done public education in the US in general is, I'd pull the plug on it.
Don't try and make this about using tax dollars to support faith based schools. All this school voucher nonsense is nothing more than skirting the 1st amendment of separation of Church and State.
I think a big part of why professors can't help students get jobs in industry is that professors don't really have time to make those industry contacts. That biochemistry prof won't be talking to industry- they're busy going to conferences and frantically looking for collaborators to write research proposals with so that they can keep their research funding and keep their lab going. I say this as a research engineer who talks to professors. Industry isn't as interested in research- they're interested in low risk highly proven gadgets and manufacturing processes that will turn a profit.
Those professors are also being made to publish a certain number of papers each year. And they're being dragged into peer reviewing papers WITHOUT PAY. And they get dragged into editing and writing textbook chapters. Engineering textbooks today feel jumpy and incoherent compared to books from forty or fifty years ago. Because forty or fifty years ago, a professor would take a sabbatical to write a book. Today, some books have each chapter farmed out to different professors, and they race through it with a "eh, this is good enough!" attitude because they're researching and teaching classes, and publishing, and attending conferences, and and and.... you get the idea. A professor I know locally was told that in order to keep his full time status, he would have to teach four classes this semester in addition to doing research at a local government lab and publishing papers and attending conferences. And he's also attempting to be a non-absentee parent to his kids.
Once upon a time, it may have made sense for professors teaching undergraduate students to also have to do research, but I think things would be a lot better if those roles could be split. And it would be good for those professors who specialize into the teaching role to NOT BE ADJUNCTS! They should have enough job security to go to local industry events and make useful connections for their undergraduate students. Professors teaching and advising students at the master's level and above should be researchers.
To the folks asking how we afford that? Well, I transferred from a large university to a smaller one as an undergrad. The big school has a big multimillion dollar fitness center with squash courts and hot tubs and and smoothie bar, and you get the idea. The small school has a regular old gym with weights, treadmills, and a lap swimming pool. Yes, I used to work out in it and it was perfectly sufficient. Admin bloat is another issue. Schools seem to think that the fanciest dorms, gyms, restaurants, etc are how you attract "customers" [students] and forget that the whole purpose of going to school is for the education. It's like designing a fancy car with heated seats, bluetooth entertainment system, and a slick body... but no engine. Sure, the 10 year old Honda civic in the next parking spot over isn't as sexy, but at least it will actually get you to your destination!
This is an incredible read. As an upcoming college student, this does make me a little more aware of what my college professors may be going through, especially being inner city.
This is BRILLIANT!!!!! You incidentally highlighted a major weakness too; the fear people have of standing up for themselves.
You are tragically underrated.
I'm a high school student in Florida and I love watching videos like this because most of my peers that are enrolled in public school right now know how bad the quality of education is. The thing is, it has been like this our entire academic careers (admittedly, it did get worse during and after COVID, but the oldest of us still in high school were in middle school during the worst of the pandemic), so we never really got the chance to learn that it could be better.
Just cause u know the problem doesnt make u qualify to says the solution.
@@aaad3552Why can’t they say the solution when people such as them and me are suffering from it!?
@@ngonimandizha7738 cause knowing the problem doesnt mean u know the solution. People tend to think that
Education has and always will be a self motivated thing. Teachers and schools can certainly help but in the end its up to the individual if they want to learn or not. That goes for kids as well as adults. Its sort of like the old addage you can lead a horse to water but can't make it drink. I think the key to solving education therefore lies in psychology and behavior. If we spent as much time making learning fun and addictive as games, and fast food we would be in a much different situation imo.
the majority of American public schools teach a curriculum that is privately owned by two corporations.......but why?
what I'm about to say is going to sound like a conspiracy thing, but its not. The Common Core curriculum and Standard Set, which has since been rebranded but is still around in the majority of states, was created by 6 guys in a lobbying firm who were all in their 20s and had no experience teaching. That lobbying firm was funded by the Bill Gates Foundation and Pearson, the testing company. The 'curriculum' created by this was taken to the Board of Education and lobbied to be approved for Federal grant money, like No Child Left Behind (etc). This meant that if a state decided to use this curriculum in their public schools, they would get additional funding from the Federal Govt. (The governor makes this decision). The lobbying firm (by the way, they legally OWN the curriculum they created) then lobbied the governors of all the states, "Hey you should use our curriculum". They managed to convince like 48/50 states, later that rolled back to 41, perhaps a few less now as my information is a few years old, but point is; the majority of American public schools teach a curriculum that is privately owned by two corporations.......but why?
To make a long story short, the guy in this video said it himself around the 13:30 mark. The curriculum is controlled by the lobbying firm which is controlled by the two corporations. If the curriculum calls for a certain kind of test, the schools have to take, and thus pay for, that test. If the curriculum calls for technology in the classroom, say 'a reading tablet for every student', then that's exactly what the school system in that state has to go out and buy. Pearson is a testing company, and Bill Gates/Microsoft is obviously a technology a company. So as the percentage of the schools budget that gets spent on technology and testing increases, so does the amount of money these companies make. Just to make it clear; the curriculum can call for a specific test or a specific technology, one which only these two companies offer, all but guaranteeing their products are selected. Two companies are basically in charge of a very large chunk of America's public school's budgetary decisions, and surprise surprise, they are giving it all to themselves. Furthermore, who decides how long recess is (more or less time for testing)? and whether or not an art class gets funded (money, space and time, which could be spent elsewhere)? And whether the library in the school remains a library or gets gutted to make room for a computer testing center (true stories from the school where I worked, all of them)? The curriculum decides. Which is owned by the companies. Who are profiting from these decisions.
If you hadn't considered it yet, what kind of impact do you think this is having on student's education?
It's pretty heavy stuff. leave a comment if you want to know more I guess. been thinking about making a youtube video.
Please make a TH-cam video
Well I went to a crappy public school system where I learned almost nothing and that was the late 90s early 2000s. In retrospect I think most of the learning comes at home. Like almost all of it so at the end of the day…it is what it is and I think it has been basically child care
can we mention how normalized it’s become for someone to drop out of schooling to become a Soundcloud rapper. not realizing it’s over saturated.
This video needs more attention !!
Teach for America, was the beginning of the end. That’s a rabbit hole you can actually follow.
Amazing review of the current state of education in the US, in my opinion its definitely an emerging bubble and will have to crash and self correct before anything gets better
Man, this was one of the most balanced videos I have ever seen. So good and fair. Most of all, it shows how we have all contributed to the mess
College is a benefit for the lower income americans. However, people from a higher income home, college in many cases is a net loss. More people should rely on free resources available online.
I absolutely agree! But it's lower income Americans who are the most averse to attending college because they don't see the disproportionate return on investment from taking out student debt. I used college to escape poverty, so part of my "deal" on TH-cam is giving other people the tools and knowledge necessary to potential escape themselves. For many poorer Americans, additional schooling (regardless of what type of schooling it is) is still a ticket into better opportunities. Rich kids with daddy's money are more than welcome to go become self-taught crypto bros lol
@@UrgentlyFiring College should be free, funded by the tax payer. We don't need higher ed to become a luxury commodity. There are too many colleges/universities focusing more on being a five star hotel than the actual quality of the education. Personally, I prefer to be taught 1-1 rather than sitting in a 30 room classroom. I dropped out of college to do mentorship in 2D and 3D design, no regret. I currently owe $13k in student loans.
I'd also add, the skill gap of acquiring a degree as opposed to landing an entry level position.
Why does no one talk about military service? My husband joined the Navy in 2000, he served for 13 years and was medically retired. In the civilian world, he was able to use his years of service to equal a bachelor's degree. He is now a quality and safety engineer.
Military sucks
College should be free and the military abuses this to enlist the poor
@fireteamblue true. But it has always helped those individuals stop becoming poor (unless your a 11 bang bang) I used to also be poor but through the military it has allowed me to prosper and gains experience certs and education that helped my civilian life proceed with ease because I had all the benefits the military had to offer me. I'm now middle class and have a solid money base that keeps me well afloat and well traveled. I even visited the Bahamas recently this year.
@fireteamblue they wouldn't have to "take advantage of the poor" if more middle class and upper class people enlisted.
My husband was the first in his family to graduate high school. He has visited most countries in the Pacific, lived in Hawaii and Guam. He now makes 6 figures with no student loan debt. Employees see his military service and he gets invited to interview for almost every position he applies for. And it's all because he took advantage of what the military offered him. Were solidly in the middle class, were not hampered by debt and our health care is affordable. How is that being taken advantage of?
Im glad this video came up in my feed. I just graduated with a social science degree, and i intend to become a professor/lecturer in academia. Knowing all this can better prepare me for what to expect in my career path and how to be a better educator and/or role model. Amazing video!
Best of luck moving forward! I transitioned into academia back in 2020 and have loved it!
I am a strong believer in education, especially public and higher education. Tragically, the USA’s education system has been on the decline since I was child, and it’s only gotten worse since I graduated.
I also firmly believe in and value a quality college/university education. However, colleges and universities have become more like loanshark enterprises than places of higher learning.
I’ve yet to meet a teacher, professor, administrator, or student who isn’t grieved, frustrated, or outraged by how deficient the American education system is on all levels.
No art = no rhetoric = no real education
I honestly had to do a double take on this video. I got offended, but then i had to stop myself and ask. Why am i mad? Why does this offend me. And honestly it was just ego and somethings were against my beliefs. But after i sat through a listened whole heartedly. I can say thank you very much for this enlightening video.
That means a lot! Thank you!
Im doing home schooling when I have kids because frankly, the schools failed utterly at socialization. They are depressing prison like rooms where kids do not get individual attention and are forced to sit still and be quite.
They are both held back and left behind by a standard of teaching, while remaining utterly clueless about mamy common sense things that are never taught.
It has nothing to do with politics or religion, although I truely believe there would be no one better to teach my child on this then me, because I want my kids to make their own ideas and argue with me.
I am not interested in sheep, and the school system is just for wild sheep to be domesticated. Not for my kids.
Urgently overdue. This terrible, antiquated and hollowed out system needs to break before something new can replace it.
We need something new BEFORE the current system breaks.
Schools worried about teaching gender but forgot to teach them to read?? Passing a failing student is not the parent or students fault.
This video will blow up you deserve way more subscribers than you have now great video
About the first topic. School choice seems to be a about who is responsible for a child; the government or parents.
Personally I would say the government has a responsibility for the well-being of the individual. In the case of children "well-being" does mean having to go through some type of education, but it doesn't mean where. It seems that all the negativity towards school choice in that first section comes from mentioning people/groups which you might not like.
Great video otherwise
I think that's a reasonable take! Honestly, I'm not anti-school choice at all. I benefitted from it as a kid and can think of all kinds of scenarios where it's helpful. I mostly criticize it in the video because the school choice movement is one of the big anxieties people have surrounding the future of education in America.
I don't love the idea of tax dollars being funneled into organizations (like private schools) that aren't bound by government rules. But at this point I don't 100% oppose it either. I'm more of a "make positive change from the inside" kind of guy than a "fight the system" kind of guy. Lots of states already have school choice vouchers for private education alternatives, so this is going to be a reality of the future to some degree anyway.
I just want to see people well-educated and well-prepared for the nuances of living in society and being part of the workforce.
There is indeed a problem with how tax dollars are used, the government should indeed have more of a say about the places it goes to.
And gotta appreciate the perspective of striving to a well educated society
I've been teaching for two decades, and there really has been a constant shift to the left in public education. It has had horrible consequences on the system.
I hate school
I wish I wash smart enough to realize back then I could just have immediately got my GED. so I could just have spent the entire time getting certified in everything at a tech school
Also wish I was smart enough to spell "was"
this is a good video and i very much appreciate you making it
Thank you!!!
The 2021 census recorded the average amount of money spent for each child for public school annually: $13,187
Alternative schools educate a similar to better level at a fraction of that cost.
Could you imagine a parent getting paid $13K a year by the government to educate their child? So much would be possible
$13,000/year is getting paid less than minimum wage 😭
@@UrgentlyFiringOnly if you're single.
And that would be Per child.
Imagine having 4 kids.
And getting paid 13k each to educate them.
"Alternative schools educate a similar to better level at a fraction of that cost." No they don't. It's a verifiable fact.
@@Rensune You wouldn't be getting paid $13k each to educate them, because the Taxpayers aren't going to give you OUR money with no oversight.
@@thesciguy4823 as opposed to public schooling now, which has next to no oversight?
The standards of public schooling have consistently gone down year over year for a century.
This is despite (or probably even because of) more money being pumped into public schools per student.
Having school districts where students are assigned seems as odd as having work districts where each person 18-65 must work unless they fill in a form for transfer due to work choice, charter work, or home-working (working in your own family business).
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I taught in a rural HS for 30 years. During that time, we had a District Superintendent go to jail for embezzlement, a principal fired under VERY "shady" circumstances. In addition, there were several other district administrators who "resigned" under similar questionable circumstances. Yes, corruption is quite rampant.
This video is so well made. Keep it up and I think you could get a much larger audience.
Just read “Technopoly,” “The End of Education,” and “The Disappearance of Childhood” by Neil Postman
ANOTHER BANGER BY URGENTLY FIRED!!! (i love seeing you in my feed and I learn lots from you)
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I live in a booming area (the suburbs north of Dallas) and we're already seeing wealthy local districts closing or consolidating elementary schools because of a combination of smaller families and higher housing costs. Middle and high school enrollment is still doing okay for now, but will be facing similar issues in the next decade or so.
The education system, like our overall society, has always been flawed, it's just now it's getting to the point where something has to give, things have to change and will change.
Interesting video. There are other problems….. behaviour is one but honestly that starts at home. The kids who misbehave, and I don’t mean calling out or needing to move, I mean very serious violent and dangerous behaviour, these students come from a lot of trauma and they traumatize other students
This issue is one teachers have been very very concerned about
25:33 How in the literal hell does the percentage of children living in poverty more than double in the time span of less than a year?
Lots of early career people with kids get laid off during COVID and the senior workers prioritize their own well being. Our representatives in government are indeed representative, so as a society we dramatically prioritize the needs of the elderly (boomers) over the youth.
Not me desperately holding back saying "It's all Ronald Reagan's fault" when you say everyone's to blame.
That's because you suffer from leftist propaganda, Reagan was an Amazing president who has been slandered by leftist political science brats.
He’s being a centrist in this video. I mostly found it annoying at the end when he said that the left shouldn’t push their side because our side is just people different from you exist
@@solereclipce6737It's not that? Regardless both liberal and conservative are basically making their situation harder
@@ベース-l1f and they say to salve that lgbt people have to pretend they don’t exist, if homophobia didn’t exist this wouldn’t be worth talking about
Ronald regan let the left win.
I wish i never went to college
Watching videos on this topic and others for the past few years and it’s so weird seeing how so many problems we have are interconnected and influencing one another. We have a system and culture at the moment that feels like it’s poison sometimes and we actively avoid trying to take medicine to fix it. This goes for education, health, entertainment, dating, relationships/community building, workforce, and politics/law…
this goes hard
Like myself, my sons continually learn far more of value from informational and educational TH-cam videos then from public school
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Really good video, thanks for making it and I hope it gets widely seen! I wanna offer a counterpoint to your closing statements though... although these are massive problems, and you're correct that it's very difficult to make change in the U.S., there are also many groups and organizations that are working to solve most of these problems. Just want to put out there that instead of taking the approach of doing what's best for you or your kids, folks can engage with the structures as they are and improve them for the benefit of everyone. It's a steep mountain to climb, but it's not a lost cause -- a lot of progress is being made in lots of areas, and often the reason that people can take the option to do what's best for their individual kid is because a collective struggle was won before that.
Im glad you touched on men’s issues in this video. I also don’t want to sound like some redpilled chud, but as a man who struggles with mental health, who’s lack of academic success led him to serving 5 years in the army, and now feels behind in every aspect of life at the age of 26, it’s nice to know that someone cares and that these issues can be discussed without the speaker being Andrew Tate or having our issues shut down by people who don’t think that we matter
Andrew Tate is awesome. ❤
Yeah… probably shouldn’t have led off with the most partisan attack points.
My parents are old school gen immigrants and they heavily subscribe to the “men must earn more income than their women in order for men to be successful in their relationship” ideology, which ends up with them telling me to leave the education field in pursuit of higher income jobs. I am a 6 year hs teacher, one of the few groups of men teaching in public education. We are all so fucked.
I told my husband that I would be homeschooling our grandchild one day so that my daughter can have a career. We're in the states where it's every single breathing human must work to survive. The only way that I don't, is his income. I'm gen X. And I feel like we're the last generation to get away with being stay at home moms. I hope it changes..
The main incentive for everything in American life is MONEY. It's not quality outcomes, community, people, health, happiness, safety, a future; it's profits. I don't see much happening without getting rid of our current economic system.
What’s the alternative socialism, Have you been groomed to think this way by the education system? Or your news outlet?
@@Ms.A422 We have all been conditioned since early childhood to embrace the notion that capitalism represents the pinnacle of societal organization. The United States has positioned itself as the foremost champion of capitalist democracy, positing that it functions as a rising tide that elevates all vessels, with businesses serving as engines of innovation, employment, and prosperity. In stark contrast, socialism and communism have been demonized; however, the current socio-economic landscape starkly contradicts this prevailing narrative.
Throughout my life, I have witnessed a marked decline in our social safety nets, overall quality of life, and the affordability of even the most essential goods and services. The fundamental needs that underpin a dignified existence have been commodified and exploited by the elite for their own financial gain. There is a growing acceptance of overt corruption and bribery within our political institutions, accompanied by a pervasive absence of justice for marginalized communities. Our "keepers of the peace" have been exonerated by our Supreme Court from their obligations to safeguard the public, with their indifference to community welfare becoming glaringly evident on camera, facing no repercussions from the ruling powers.
Our federal government maintains a close partnership with the military-industrial complex and foreign governments and organizations to perpetrate grievous atrocities and devastate both human life and the environment. Public officials often endorse such immoral actions, simultaneously vilifying the victims as aggressors. Fossil fuel corporations continue to undermine the stable climate essential for human existence, all in pursuit of relentless short-term profit, fully aware of the resultant harms, while systematically misleading the public. Technology magnates accrue wealth by ensnaring the populace in their social media platforms, utilizing the data they misappropriate to finance extravagant vanity projects, often aimed at replacing human labor with automation or constructing private sanctuaries far removed from the very communities they exploit.
The fragile façade of social decorum is eroding, exposing the deep-seated decay and corruption that have long been festering beneath the surface. The undeniable reality is that the affluent corporatocratic elite have systematically infiltrated and extended their insatiable grasp into nearly all of our public systems. The remaining populace must coalesce, organize, and mount resistance against those who aspire to reduce us all to disposable servants, utilized and discarded at their convenience.
Appreciate your work. Subscribed.
I don't know if you meant the "corruption to help the football team" line as a joke, but that is exactly what happened to a school in my district. It was the "rich" school on the other side of town that we were rivals with because we hated how they would throw money at any problem. Well, turns out, that included the football team. They paid a college football player to be their quarterback. The fallout when that came to light was epic. The coach, the principal, and all three vice principals were fired!
Y'all all rehash the same crap 💩.
Anyone that has ever worked a corporate job knows that it doesn't require more than an 8th grade education.
The real reason why higher education exists is to kull the herd.
Easier for a company to pick a candidate with a bachelor's degree vs someone holding only a high school diploma.
It's as simple as that with few exceptions. 🤓
It not just over for education. It over for society. GG buddy boyos
Choosing your school isn't "school privatization"... you can choose between public schools.
It's taking away funding from public schools
Yes, but oftentimes a student is pushed to attend a school in their district, which is related to property zoning. Schools around expensive houses are better funded than schools around cheaper ones; it’s really difficult to near impossible to choose a school out of district.
The US was founded by rich men for rich men. Education is not enshrined in the US constitution for that reason and the whole thing was written to keep change as glacial as possible.
Our orignal government was hijacked and dismantled.
1889.
So you think all our Founding Fathers were rich? What makes you think that?
Thank you
Oh, it's well past that point
"Almost no one has tried to meet in the middle" (of religion and social issues) *me thinking, well I do. "Except the Episcopalians" Oh. I am Episcopalian. 😂😂😂
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there are plenty of alternative certification paths that cut short the time a specialist may need to switch to teaching. Many districts will accept a test score and an agreement to continue certification after hiring. Its very very easy to switch to teaching a subject in which you have collegiate or professional experience.
Good overview of the issues but you should definitely acknowledge your political and sociocultural biases.
It should and needs to be irrelevant. That’s a big reason this mess was able to manifest like a cancer.
Right 😂
Ty
Gen Ed’s is a stupid waste of time. A long side of the “college experience”.
How much would it cost to produce a K-12 National Recommended Reading List? The majority of books are mediocre to crap. So if school is mediocre teachers using mediocre books couldn't an excellent book list be better?
*The Tyranny of Words* (1938) by Stuart Chase
George Orwell mentioned Chase in an essay on politics. Chase published the book, *A New Deal* shortly before FDR's famous speech. He was a member of FDR's brain trust.
There is lots of old sci-fi free on the Internet now:
*Omnilingual* by H Beam Piper
*The Fourth "R"* by George O. Smith
*Space Prison* by Tom Godwin
*Little Fuzzy* by H. Beam Piper
*The Servant Problem* by Robert F. Young
*Deathworld* by Harry Harrison
*Black Man's Burden* &
*Border, Breed nor Birth* by Mack Reynolds
*The Status Civilization* by Robert Sheckley
When I was in high school I was supposed to read boring crap.
*Catcher in the Rye*
*The Scarlet Letter*
*The Mayor of Casterbridge*
I refused to read Catcher. Read about a kid kicked out of high school while in high school.
I've had 3 major completely different experiences of school(and a few minor but i was too young to remember it well)
Absolutely awful experience of normal town school in Ukraine with yelling teachers, uncomfortable groups, absolutely horrible way of learning where nobody cared and nobody tried to make us care. I hated it, i hate it, i genuinely think it made me a worse person.
Then covid hit, partical virtual education was meh and my family decided to swich me to ukrainian e-school. At this point (8th grade) i already knew what direction i want to move in and i didn't have many irl connections. So i invested my time into learning art and passing online courses with mentorship and really enjoyed it. Looking back i see how lack of irl contact impacted me but at the same time ehhhhhhh it is alright i didn't feel lonely because of online friends and my area didn't have many people with similar interests
Then i moved to Canada, 2022 happened, and went to canadian secondary school for gr11(also finishing ukr school at the same time) and gr12. And it was so awesome, so enjoyable, so welcoming and interesting! No physics or chemistry, no history, geography, all of that. I was learning what i was interested in with a few classes i had to take sprinkled in, but even they were pretty good! And most importantly - no mega-super-important exams that decide your life! Students, teachers and staff were incredible and i am super happy that this was my form of adaptation in new country and in society overall. I experienced real life friendship for the first time in 5-7 years and i am only 18!
Now i am excited for the start of my university life and i hope it won't be a rip-off lol
Yes
1.5 K subs? This guy is about to blow up.
Let's hope so
I intend to homeschool my kids, i’m a biochemistry major and feel I’ll be qualified to teach them mathematics, chemistry, biology, and english. I will also teach them history of course, but I acknowledge i’d be less capable of teaching that subject. Regardless I intend to read more about history and have them read books about it. Any gaps in my knowledge will be filled. I intend on having standardized exams and review sessions especially for english and mathematics. Homeschooling should be regulated. Parents should have to have curriculums, and prove that their students are being educated. I know that homeschoolers are required to send some homework but it should be frequent and rigorous.
You are part of the problem. You feel you are good enough to teach, so you will. Teaching is not a profession anymore (no need to learn theories of physical and social development of children). There is no difference between you and the MAGA parents who decide they are qualified to teach students because they think they are "smart enough"
Its because the credibility has been watered down so much that conpanies no longer take it seriously without experience. Now companies like hiring college graduates because they know they are straped with debt and desperate for a position. The skills taught don't transition well into real work in the marketplace, which is another reason higher education is not worth it is because its outdated.
A lot of this feels kind of empty at this point, because we are heading towards a society where what you inherit matters more than what you can earn.
It used to be that your job was able to provide you enough financial stability to have a family, a house, maybe a couple vacations every year. But that’s only probably true for maybe 20 to 30% of people today.
Wages are so low compared to what we need to live I expect a larger share of men to completely drop out of the workforce.
Working 40 hours a week doesn’t get you what it used to. So why try?
So assuming all of that is correct, what role can education really play at that point?
The RISD campus in the thumbnail is so funny lmao
Great essay!
People literally don't believe me when I say I was attacked by a 4 year old, but I was. I understand it sounds unbelievable, but some people have no idea the level of physical capability children have. To be clear though, they do it out of pure emotion, when they're unable to regulate themselves because obviously that part of their brain is still developing. But that's only one reason I quit teaching. Other reasons include the typical parent aggression, admin demands and neglect, assessments, lack of support for ied students, having to pay out of pocket for materials and being pressured to spend more, being underpaid in general, suffocating micromanaging coworkers, and too much focus on academic scores with little attention to social and emotional learning (as much as schools want to teach it, they can't with how high the stakes are for moving grade levels). That being said, I'm still an educator bc I value education itself and its importance. I'm just not a teacher. Teaching is one of the worst professions you can ever get into.
a problem with schools is terrible teachers, like a teacher could be outed for being a kiddy diddler the school won't do anything for the most part,
Speaking as a college grad who was approached to sub I did the math and Walmart pays better. As far as critical thinking... I was never impressed but now it's really bad. People tend to let emotions make their decisions.
Education was designed to teach students to do something, now it teaches them how to be something.
You might not see this but could you give me a basic jest of what you think I should do in my current situation.
I’m a 21 year old man, I work a regular 40 hour week, & I want to go to college because it will increase my chances of becoming wealthy. Luckily for me I’m not interested in to many things that historically pay terribly.
I’d like to do something with business, I’ve looked into accounting & a few other positions that are “recession proof” The thing is I’m my sole supporter. I live on my own, I do not collect any benefits like food stamps. (I’ve been rejected even when I was being paid 11$ an hour😂) so I will 100% have to continue working while going through college. I’ll likely attend my cities community college, but one of your many points that caught my attention is when you mentioned how important the social dynamics are of attending college. I know I’d greatly benefit from them, I just do not know how to manage socializing with people, working full time & attending college. Going from work to school & making no friends only because of my lack of time would truly suck.
& after reading this maybe I don’t need advice, I just wanted to rant.
Being as unbiased as possible should extend to music you choose to play when talking about the opposition. Lol The over dramatic music had laughing so hard. Good video though.
At the end of the day, parents want their children to be able to read and write. Which schools are the most successful?
There are flaws in any approach and somehow we get the worst of both worlds. We should have more honest discussion without grifters or greedy benefactors mucking everything up to improve things overall.
Can anyone explain what is meant by “Pay is going up, especially for high school teachers,”? I have an idea that maybe HS teachers make more because of things like coaching, sponsoring clubs, university adjunct positions, or maybe because of more advanced degrees at the HS level. But those things don’t actually mean our wage is increasing faster than other teachers, all of those things are supplemental income along with our regular salary. Asking because I believe in my state, schools don’t differentiate pay based on grade level. Our entire district uses 1 pay-scale, and I believe that’s how it is in my entire state. So I’m hoping someone can help me understand how we can really say HS teachers wages are raising faster than lower grade levels, if they’re really just basically working a second job.
20 companies control 70% of global industrial output. They have turned universities into their HR departments. Now schools are generally controlled by limited corporate interests. Monopoly is the root of most evils. The rest seems to be envy, but that I'd much more individualistic.
Nah gen Ed’s are a waste of money
I'm not to blame for any of this....I just exist.
Education has been in crisis for a long time
Well said man
anybody who went through the school system and then went on to put their kids through it.........
You must be from Vegas. Even with living in Henderson and going to Coronado High School, I was not ready for a 4 year university. I was suffering from adhd and as a little black girl, none of my teachers told my mom that. It was like they just didn’t care. I graduated in 2003. I was the first graduating class. I didn’t figure out that I should’ve majored in business til I was in 12th grade. No one talked to me about my interests and what I needed to do to get there. All they knew was that I was not great in math. The education system is still bad. My mom graduated from UNLV. It’s not updated because she took one of the classes I am taking now. She graduated in 2001. Pay has to balance out between males and females. Those social issues will never go away. White people still dominate the population. They still increase costs on black kids to go to college. Read Principles of Economics. There’s a chapter in there about price discrimination. The longer people of color and black people are charged higher rates to go to college, it will not change.
Disco elysium but education themed
Oh yeah without a doubt we are in DEEP trouble
Hank Green is pretty smart.
Y E S it is
There’s a lot of good points here but I will say cte programs always seemed like an amazing career starter and my boces had multiple events and connections with company’s to get hired before leaving school which like 60% of my class got jobs through these , learning a trade was the only reason I stayed in school.
I actually teach and work in CTE. I don't think I explained that in the video, so I probably came across as too dismissive in my critiques of the data. The trades helped me pay my way through college and they're a fantastic way to launch into adult life!