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While I agree that in some cases the public education system is failing and that children are not interested in learning (the two points that I can remember) you must look at the causes....
This comes from the sometimes heated discussions that we have in our Education Foundations class..
Whose fault would you say that it is that the system is failing..personally I think it's due to the lax requirements of teachers. In some states, probably a lot, people from other fields not related to education are not required to have any hands-on-experience in the classroom before hand..I can remember my teacher saying how unfair it is that you can be a teacher with a degree in any field but it's impossible for a teacher with a degree in education to become a doctor..just like we would need more training they do also..and believe me I know I've gotten lots of training..(staying up late doing portfolios filled with lesson plans)...shoot you would get beat up coming into one of our classes telling us that education is an easy major..
Second point sort of relates to the first..could it be that students are not interested in learning because the teachers dont give them new and exciting ways to learn and use the textbook as their only guides..with the strict guidelines now teachers are forced to teach to the test and it leaves them no time to teach about things that children are actually interested in..and also students are uninterested in learning because they have teachers who dread coming to work and find no enjoyment in the field..
Strictly my opinions and definitely open for discussion...
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