That is why public education in the USA has failed. It does not put any importance to learning. Teachers cannot get close to children. As you will see the teachers in Russia hugs and kisses their students for encouragement and congratulate them for their hard effort. They also spend time with them outside of the classroom. I have lost count on the many times I wanted my K-12 teachers to do so with me.
Now I am in college, and realizing how much I did not learn in public education. I have to work harder in my college classes just to come up to speed with my college work. I have to learn all that I did not learn in high school, on my own, in order to fulfill what I need to learn in these college classes. (I know I am stressing the "college classes" by repeating it. This stress the point that public schools in the USA...SUCKS!!)
Why do teachers in other countries teach as they should and ones in the USA do not? One might be that teachers are on a leash on what they can and cannot do with their students. If they even hug their students, they can get a "child molestation" charge on them. HOW STUPID IS THAT?!? The pay in being a teacher is barely manageable in the USA. There is no incentives for teachers to teach to their fullest.
What is going on by the educational boards around the country is demoting proper education from their teachers by giving them far too many regulations on what they can and cannot do with their students. One does not need extra tax dollars to teach. If Russian teachers can teach better than Americans with their economic woos, then we should be doing a better job...yes? The thing is we are not. That is outright wrong!
For a country that has more money, freedom, and everything else than most around the world, we are the laziest and sorriest group of people in the world. We have absolutely no excuse. This is a political issue, and why this post is in my political blog. Educating our children is ever so important. It must be done right and to the fullest.
Congress...want to move the economy in the right direction? All you need to do is allow teacher to properly teach the children of this great country before we lose that status.
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2011/09/18/magazine/100000001040165/an-education.html
