I See the Education System Leaving People Behind

Is there a person out there who can explain the way public education works in northern Virginia?  I would love to hear your take. 

My understanding is this. 

The rest of the citizens largely dink around, toying at...

The age of science has change the status of the universe.We are part of the earth as well as the universe.Now electricity has cut off .bye

"Why cant you make an a?"
"Why can you make a b?"
"Why cant you make a c?"
"Why cant you make a d atleast?"
"Why are you failing now?"

There's a box where we all fit. Lets call this box our "standard" box. In this standard box is...

In the United States, if we-both liberals and conservative-can't abandon the passive hatred against education, American education will never reform; neither increasing salaries for teachers nor charter schools will help. It will...

yesterday i was talking to a friend who has a teenage daughter and son in the choral program of the local high school, some of the things said to me concerned me vastly since i went to the school some years ago and choir was a real...

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This is possibly the worst idea that has ever been implemented in public education in the last 50 years.
With the mandate sounding like a good thing for all, some embraced it. But... let's consider where this idea was born. Our frat...

I didn't much like school when I was still in it, and here's why. I've always loved learning( still do), but it was hard to pay attention to the lesson when half the kids I graduated with could barely read at a 4th or 5th grade level...

I have heard so many stories on how people are left to hang in the cold after they worked their asses off and wasted their youthful time to gain nothing from the educational system!They do not care nor do they give anyone the time of...

Hello, i am a 22 year old man from britain and i am a product of the education wasteland.i have always liked school, i love to lean new thing even to this day but i found it extremely stressful to go there, not because i was bullied or...

It's true. Other than knowing basic maths, and reading/writing and other similarly basic skills, everything else is useless unless you go to college.
The best way to describe to you why this is the case is to tell you a story of what...

      Unless We Act Now, Our Schools Are Doomed To Failure…       
     When my son was in the third grade, my wife got a call from the...

At this point, I'm not ready to reveal my identity just yet due to the content I've shared. However, I have even been interviewed about it, and this webpage with my story has been embedded into the history of the internet- which I gave...

I do consulting and contract programming for various technology-intensive industries around the country, so I'm continurally being inserted into their software development groups for one reason or another. These folks are really sharp...

(I posted this in another group first, but I would have posted it here, if I had known this group existed.

The kids and their families must want and appreciate education for it to be of any use.  And I don't just mean that "You...

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Nobody needs to know Pythagoras' theorem. Instead children need to cultivate in an environment that will teach & allow them to expel skill. The whole damn world's...

Hello, i am a 22 year old man from britain and i am a product of the education wasteland.i have always liked school, i love to lean new thing even to this day but i found it extremely stressful to go there, not because i was bullied or...

Tutorial. Wasting hours of life in my high school since the beginning of this school year.
Fail the practice ACT test, and you are doomed to a wasted hour a day for the rest of your high school life.
Theres no way out. Trust me, Ive...