Schools need longer hours?
Bollocks, they only need better teachers. Instead of sending teachers to the rubber room, they should just fire them depending on the consequence.
Germany, for example, has a much higher education(Average I.Q of 107), and they only need 6 hours of school. America has an average I.Q of 95, and they have about 8 hours of school on average.
It isn't the school hours, but in fact the teachers and parents.
Yeah they do. First off, as waka said, IQ has nothing to do with anything (especially education). I have an IQ somewhere between 140 and 180 (which already shows how unreliable even the professionally administered tests are). Even the pro-IQ people will admit that IQ has nothing to do with education; it has to do with learning capacity. It's something related to genetics, not to education.
Teachers are lazy that is the problem... But ultimately they are too protected by their contract... I liked the European country being compared in the vid...
I don't know where you went to school, but I resent your generalizations. My high school teachers worked very hard. Just because there are a few bad apples doesn't mean the whole orchard should be torched.
I'm not in high school anymore, but yeah pretty much the thing is schools need better teachers and curriculum, not longer hours. Also, extra curricular activities are good for the students for building up some social skills, so all work and no play will definitely cook their brains out.
I agree with the second part, but not with the first part. You seem to be contradicting yourself; you're arguing that schools don't need longer hours, but that schools need longer hours. Personally, I think that the school day should not only last longer, but that extra-curricular activities should be mandatory. I know what I did when I wasn't doing homework, school, or extra-curricular, and very little of it could be considered useful.
I'm already stressed enough with school as it is. Please don't make it longer. ._.
Welcome to the real world. If you go to college, you're probably going to be trying to hold down a job as well as working on your education. Writing a 20 page report and holding on to your job is not a cakewalk. You're going to be stressed until the day you retire, just like the rest of us.
IQ has no correlation/causation factor with academic success.
Yes. "Words of wisdom."
Also, it doesn't need better curriculum or longer hours. It needs better teachers and more organization. We have the same curriculum as everyone else, just a lot later. That needs to change too. (We actually have more..than some)
My teachers were fine, but I won't disagree with extra training and harsher rules for teachers. I also agree that we do need to learn more at an earlier age, like you said, but this means longer hours, which contradicts what you said.
I saw this, I'm personally against it, I think Obama's being a bit Adultcentric if you ask me.
Of course you do. You're a kid. If there's one thing all kids agree on, it's that adults don't care about them. Particularly absurd when you realize that a better education would help the same kids later in life and do nothing for the adults. How exactly does more education help our current adults, might I ask? It requires workers to put in more hours, it requires millions of dollars of government spending (which either means higher taxes or taking away funding from something else), and by the time the effects can be seen, they'll all be old or dead. A more demanding education is hardly "adult-centric."
