Why I came to hate Public Education

[ghskilla]

Even worse in the Philippines. Public schools here are overpopulated with filth.

I am disappoint.

I took a private school there in K-Prep, went to public school in America for 2 and above. I was average in the Philippines, if they used letters, I'd have a B. I went to America in 2nd grade, first time in a public school, I was the smartest in my class. I stayed smart all through my public school life, really, either the students in my school were idiots (or they were really annoying/preppy), or Philippine private schools are better than American public schools. Personally, I like the cleanliness of American public schools compared to Philippine private school, but the amount of ignorance in my American elementary-high school years compared to my 2 years of kinder(garten) and Prep in the Philippines, I'd choose my childhood and go back to that.

 

[uMadson?]

I took a private school there in K-Prep, went to public school in America for 2 and above. I was average in the Philippines, if they used letters, I'd have a B. I went to America in 2nd grade, first time in a public school, I was the smartest in my class. I stayed smart all through my public school life, really, either the students in my school were idiots (or they were really annoying/preppy), or Philippine private schools are better than American public schools. Personally, I like the cleanliness of American public schools compared to Philippine private school, but the amount of ignorance in my American elementary-high school years compared to my 2 years of kinder(garten) and Prep in the Philippines, I'd choose my childhood and go back to that.

Being educated in a private school for my entire life so far, yes I find Philippine private schools cool. I can't say for American public schools though because I haven't experience how it is there yet.

 

[Camaroyenko]

Which what and what these days? I'm curious because there are some methods that are a lot better than the "old school" methods that I am thinking of.

The old school way of addition is carrying over. In public school, they taught me some weird way of doing it called "regrouping".

 

[Azuremen]

The old school way of addition is carrying over. In public school, they taught me some weird way of doing it called "regrouping".

Looks like basically the same thing to me. And honestly how I pretty much do large math.

Of course, I also will take something like 1.87 * 6 and make it 2.00 * 6 - .13 * 6 because its just easier.

But yeah, regrouping is basically just another name for carrying over... so, congrats?

 

[bass264]

Where I live in the United States, the education is great due to the fact that the county I live in has good funding and actually spend taxpayer dollars on good teachers and schools. My county is the only county in my state where the public education is way above the US average. Not all public schools in the United States are horrible, but the majority are. Nevertheless though even where I live my teachers make the classes very easy, so it's pointless to study often. In my life, I consider the time I had spent in Michigan were the most unproductive years of my life, due to the fact that because of teacher unions in Michigan the teachers get payed so much they don't give a **** if the majority of the classroom fails the class or get low scores on the MEAP.(Michigan's state test) They'd just do whatever they want, teaching as very little as possible.