Why American Education is Broken
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- Опубліковано 10 чер 2024
- Everyone agrees that American education leaves much to be desired. American students consistently report lower test scores than their peers in countries like China, Finland, and Vietnam. But why? Are American students just dumb? Are our teachers too lazy or too ineffective? Or is something else to blame? Nikhil Goyal, sociologist and education activist, joins us to explain.
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0:00 Intro: The Big Lie
0:55 Savage Inequalities
2:20 A Tale of 2 School Systems
5:20 The Scourge of Poverty
6:40 Credits
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Love from Germany
"We will be forever in your debt" I thought you were a university,not a college
gravel is kind of poggers
Hell yes
When teachers have to buy their own supplies you know something isn’t right.
TRUE!
When .uk kids were in elementary they had to take turns buying supplies like extra kleenex, ziplocks, dry erase markers etc. The kids were also not allowed to bring their own supplies, like paper or pencils. Everything was brought in and shared. If there was a shortage a letter would go out for parents to put base and send in more.
I can't edit for some resson,but I meant when my kids were in elementary.
Yes, can't teach science with out supplies, but the sports teams have their gear, and get transportation to games in the US.
In most other countries sports are not a part of the school, but extra curricular, with the community providing funding, not the school. I think part of the divide between Americans festers because of team sports, teaching at a young age not to like the "others" from the opposing team.
In South Korea, teachers didn't get office supplies except for paper, teachers do get paid a lot more than in the US. Kids were expected to bring supplies, like coloured paper and retractable knives for themselves. They didn't have much in the way of labs for science.
In Sweden, kids are given a few supplies at the beginning of the year; a three ring binder, paper, two pencils, an eraser and ruler.
@@lindatisue733 I mean the school does make money. It falls in line with the investment business style of the U.S. . I mean if a 30,000 people would pay $10 to watch high school or college students throw a football around then why wouldn’t they invest. As a former student athlete and I saw first hand what sports provide. If a scout came to one of my games and I performed well then the school would also get some recognition. I’m not saying that’s wrong but like it or not, unfortunately schools are businesses. I really like your approach but everything in this country is run like a business but schools only receive they don’t provide but that isn’t the teachers fault. The school system in America would be fixed if we simply realized that teachers either need to be paid more if nothing is going to be done.
USA: We have equal opportunity!
Also the USA: Literally education based on how rich your community is.
people who scream the loudest about freedom and patriotism hate freedom for others and hate their fellow countrymen.
@@emhu2594 They think freedom is when you can choose the color of your cereal box.
Conservatives: "we believe in equality of opportunity, not outcome" 🥴🥴🥴🥴
@@s1mplem4gic58 Sounds like the DEMONRATS bigotry of low expectations to me. I'm guessing you also think the peasants need the GOVERNMENT WELFARE of the king to become aristocrats!
This is clearly shown also in social mobility (ie, people moving up out of a lower quality of life income bracket); it happens a ton more in Scandinavia than the US. The American Dream should be called the Scandinavian Dream. Scandinavia sucks too, don't get me wrong, way too much capitalism doing a lot of damage, but it's the best of the worst so far.
One of the things that boosted my grades in high school was one of the teachers starting a shared closet. We could go in there and just get whatever we needed, and drop off whatever we didn't, as long as it was in decent condition. All of a sudden a lot of us had workable clothes that fit again. And that's just one need fulfilled.
That's called socialism, you know, the thing that your government calls a demon spawn plague for commies
@@flamingwheel9926 This is a confusing comment, but I'll assume you mean well? I am a socialist, and I agree there's a lot of American propaganda trying to make that seem bad. But that's why we're here yeah? To counter that together. The more comments the better ^^
@@8bitpixelheart yeah, I'm from Brazil, Lula was all for socialism and his Bolsa Familia social program saved millions from starving, not getting out of poverty entirely, but help enough so that they can live another day
Conservatives: "If the police get defunded, they wont be able to do their jobs!"
Teachers: 😑
Hopefully funding teachers would greatly reduce the workload for police.
@@river7222 true.
@@river7222 It would help a lot with in Florida and Portland
Public school funding has tripled since the 1970s and test scores and graduation rates are still pretty much the same. Detroit also spends more per student than the national average. The crime spike in Seattle, Portland, New York, and Minneapolis proves the first statement is true, though.
@@Dennis-nc3vw 🤔 Has any such attention been shown towards solving the list of social issues itemised in this video? No? Then that explains the disparities you mention.
As an educator in a rural area, I’m definitely seeing the effects of poverty on my students and how low income schools get treated.
As a grandchild of analphabet people, who immigrated to a well developed european country, i shake my head. My grandparents had nothing and a welfare state (or as german tend to say for their construct: social state. There seems be no equivalent term in english.) made it possible for their offspring to have good education. Hence my grandfather died with a smile on his face, since he had six grandchildren holding a college degree.
And by no means is it perfect here. Neither was it easy for us to accomplish what we did. There were a lot of things that could've been done much better.
We have fucktons of problems, but i can't even imagine how fucked up it must be in the US, when it comes to state subsidies in any form. But hey, that would be socialism, i guess.
Who doesn't know of the socialst state of germany with all their red automotive industry and communist propaganda.
That concept of an enemy you got there in the US is as flat and shallow as the netherlands.
Thank you for your service.
@@Ichtiz Maybe people should stop focusing on the isms and start coming with actual solutions.
Here in the Netherlands, we also have a welfare state and even the right wingers are kinda proud of it. I was born with Autism and that made me part of the welfare state and I can stand in society thanks to that.
Maybe more schools should be like the ones I went to. the ones I went to as a kid had Smaller Classes and were in relatively quiet places.
oh and the "as flat and shallow as the netherlands." part got me good xd
@@javelinmaster2 The Netherlands is majority Dutch. You don't have 30% of the Netherlands hating the other 40%.
@@ShidaiTaino No instead we had a Government that lies to Congress and gets away with it...........
My history teacher said "People think it's needless charity, and a waste of funding, how we have cafeterias that serve breakfast and lunch. But kids can't learn anything when they're hungry. You ever tried to focus on something else when you're hungry?"
The number one obstacle of learning is poverty.
"Poverty is the worst form of violence." (Gandhi)
Also the school lunch food looks disgusting! Even Russian food looks better
@Drew They're not hungry because they get free lunch. If you take away that free lunch, what do you get? Hungry kids. Which goes right back to my point that it's a proper investment of school funding to feed the students.
Also my history teacher did teach history, it wasn't some insane school where teachers can monologue whatever without a curriculum. But that didn't stop him from talking about current events or his opinions, nor should it. Current events is soon-to-become history. And talking about history without a perspective is like having a library with no lights in the room: all the content is there, but it's entirely uncomprehensive.
To give you another quote from the same history teacher: "Don't kid yourself, I do have an agenda. If you walk out of this room at the end of the year the same person you were at the start, if you're not even entertaining the idea that you could be wrong about some things, I have failed as a teacher. That doesn't mean you can't disagree with me. I encourage my statements to be challenged, on or off-textbook. If you're not asking questions the whole year, that means you're not curious, or not listening. And if you come across a teacher that claims they have no agenda, don't trust them. Even if they really mean it, even if they try their best to separate fact from opinion, bias *will* slip in."
@@da_pikmin_coder8367 Sounds like a great teacher!
Is it true that the US doesn't give money to parents for their children?! Here in Germany all the left wing parties are complaining about how the child money isn't enough and has to be raised when children and young people get 250 euros per month, while in the US they don't get money at all??? That's just insane. We have child poverty as well, but I don't think that many children don't have enough to eat here.
Taking a sociology class in college was one of the best decisions I've made. It really opens your eyes to how a society functions from a scientific stand point. In america, your birth is the single most important moment of your life. It determines, the vast majority of the time, where you will end up in the world. The poor stay poor and the rich stay rich. Its time to stop pretending that is an accident.
Their will be no education worth a damn with capitalism in place.
It's hard to keep a class awake and conscious during lessons without any society-wide class consciousness, am I right people?
You seem more left than right 👍
wow. that one was impressive. im male but can i have your baby? :) cheers great comment
My mom, a lifelong teacher and educator, broke down in tears over No Child Left Behind and how cruel it is. The school to work pipeline is very real.
what's the school to work pipeline. Isn't school supposed to prepare you for work?
@@victorvelie3980 School is for education.
My niece was the same. She was going to quit teaching but the district or whoever liked her so much they gave her early tenure to keep her
Didn't you mean to say the "school to prison" pipeline?
My mom retired from teaching after that bill passed. She was already spending $$$$ trying to do it from her own pocket, and she was underpaid!
A good teacher can literally change someone's life. Sad to see so many people don't get that in the richest country in the world.
The GOOD teachers get fired. >:-(
I had 2 really fantastic teachers that I remember very well. They definitely made a positive change in my life
@@renegadelegacy8457 Same here. One of them, it was her last year. She was sick of the system. She was a creative writing teacher but was working for an institution which squashed creativity and focused only on sportsball.
True, but a good teacher should be supported and rewarded, not buried in useless rules about having to do tests every five minutes to stress out the students. The average teachers will quickly decide that they are fighting a lost cause, the really, really good ones will pour in their all and then head for a burn-out.
I really hate these inspirational "teacher at a run-down school turns it all around, inspires and motivates students, and all is well" movies. They create the image that all the problems _could_ be solved without changing the frame work _and the whole 'just put pressure on them' concept_ , without added money, without redistribution.
All it takes is one really committed teacher.
Which 'proves' that it's all the teachers' fault, because if only they were that super-committed, they'd have the problem solved already.
@@Julia-lk8jn Classic neo liberal individualist approach to a structural problem.
This is the anti-prager U in all the best ways possible
As Paulo Freire puts it: "Less schools today, more prisons tomorrow."
Thankfully the free market™ has stepped in and just made schools a pipeline to prison. Capitalist efficiency at work.
Our education system sucks but watching Gravel institute’s videos about why gives me hope
dude ur in literally every leftist comment section lol
lol this man is biased.
The left: Poor people are stuck in crappy schools, how horrible!
The left: Fight school choice!
You know who else has school choice?
*drum roll*
Scandinavia.
Dennis the left also says that schools are overcrowded and underfunded but we need more immigration
I went to school in Finland, and listening to how the school system works in the US almost sounds like it's from another dimension.
@@nickarjoma5350 wait what. How is abortion related to any of this?
@@nickarjoma5350 don't yall have abortion too
@@nickarjoma5350 illegalization never stopped anything. The US failed the prohibition and it failed the war on drugs, two times where it tried hard to make something illegal. The only thing that happened is that people invented new, more potent drugs or stronger versions of already existing ones.
Same with abortions. Making it illegal will not stop women from having them, it will just make them go to backyard dealers where they get them in unsafe conditions, possibly getting themselves killed in the process or after, or having been sterilized for life because the procedure wasn't done correctly.
No women just decides to get an abortion, same as no one ever just gets a divorce if their marriage is doing fine. It's only the bad marriages getting divorced and only the desperate women, who see no other possibility will get an abortion.
@@nickarjoma5350 I don't think anyone who responds to a comment about the school systems in Finland vs. The US with abortion has any right to cry about strawmanning.
True, there are some restriction to abortion in Finland. If you're happily married with a good economy, and no chronic illnesses, then you don't qualify for abortion. Nevertheless, Finland also offers better possibilities for parents than the US does. You won't go bankrupt just from having a child, you're entitled to paid maternity and/or paternity leave, and should your child get sick, you won't need to worry about debts like in the US. Finland ranks among the Top 10 (sometimes even Top 5) countries in the world to raise a family in. The US isn't even in the Top 30.
@@nickarjoma5350 My original point was about the school systems, and you chose to turn it into a conversatuon about abortion. If anything is an irrelevant point, it's that.
But I do sincerely thank you for the laughs you've given me 😃
I remember just 3-4 years ago I was in high school (in conservative country Oklahoma) and our teachers were literally asking us to buy supplies for the classroom in exchange for bonus points because our schools were so underfunded, as well as our teachers, so they couldn’t even afford to buy all the supplies themselves.
I was a kid when the "No Left Child Behind" first started and looking back made me realize how traumatic it was. I remember teachers sometimes having meltdowns in front of students because they were stressed about testing results of their classes. The pressure that teachers experienced during those times was so much that it pour over onto their students causing them to be anxious.
its so horrible to hold teachers accountable to actually teach!!!!!
@@scubastevoo8404 Having your performance based solely on student performance would be fair if every class in every school was exactly the same and had the same funding. In fact, student success has a direct correlation with parent income. Does that mean that teachers at rich schools are better than teachers at poor schools? Should teachers at poor schools be punished for lower-performing students? The 'No Child Left Behind Program' which focuses on teacher accountability has not resulted in better outcomes. You might be interested to know that in Finland, testing is used by teachers to determine what students need to learn. The US could learn a lot from Finland.
@@lorrainemcfarland621 As long as we have capitalism their will no education worth a damn.
This is such an important topic. A country that doesn't invest in its future won't have one.
And sadly, we can already see that downfall happen, often in real-time. It's only been a few decades, but we can see major shifts in how educated our society is, and also how opinions towards education have changed. Until some major improvements happen, it's only going to get worse. And unfortunately, I worry that many people won't realize the problem until it's too late.
It’s because people (can) make a lot of money without an education. The high school or college dropout turned zillionaire is what people aspire to. Rags to riches routine
Politicians don't give a chit and the very people keep voting them in!
You’re god damn right
ua-cam.com/video/gvH-4TqSy-8/v-deo.html This is why a mysterious friend of mine made an important video calling out people who pretend to be pro-life when they gut abortion rights, but do nothing else to protect kids after they are born. February 20, 2022, 9:16pm
Broke: Sitting in virtual class experiencing our broken education system
Woke: Watching Gravel Institute’s explanation as to why it sucks
A Turtle approves of Gravel Institute's explanation.
Virtual learning for all grade levels is one of the greatest crimes against humanity nobody is even talking about.
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Yolk: The yellow goo orb in an egg.
Joke: The comment I am commenting on.
Bwoke: Me, doing both lol
Love this format. Thank you for reminding us to lift our sight towards higher goals.
I love how the Gravel Institute is basically the good version of PragerU
Just mentioning the lack of proper heating is bringing up the memory of when we had to go to school even though the heat broke in the dead of winter when it was about 30 degrees outside. In one of my classes, we moved to the home education room just to turn on the oven and leave it open, that's how bad it was.
This was about 2012 or 2013, I was a senior in high school, and we had to be there for four periods because that counted as a full day and wouldn't have to be made up at the end of the year.
I'm long graduated (2000) but we had to cancel a lot of school days simply because it was too hot to be in class. 100degrees inside was quite common when I was in grade school (80s) and high school (90s)
“We need to stop the corrupt unions from protecting bad people!”
“Ok what about police unions?”
“AcTuaLLY”
As a conservative, I'm fine with breaking up ALL public-sector unions. Police and teachers and many others. No fight from me.
@@wingedpanther73 without unions, your business leaders are very little resistance in fucking up your employment
@@proton8689 I voted out a union when I worked at a Pillsbury bakery. Conditions got better, not worse. Unions consistently create stupid conditions for my customers, like an electrical engineer can't change a fuse because that's a union job. I live in a right to work state, and employers don't screw employees.
@@wingedpanther73 On average 11.2% more in wages than nonunionized peers (workers in the same industry and occupation with similar education and experience)
Union construction workers in New York City are five times less likely to suffer a fatal accident compared to their non-union counterparts. Meaning that their jobs are safer
Not only are they more likely to have a guaranteed benefit in retirement, but their employers also contribute 28% more toward pensions. Unionized workers receive 26% more vacation time and 14% more total paid leave
The data, by default, has it that unions are a net positive. You get more pay, more retirement, vacation and other leave, higher pensions.. And work conditions are safer.
Oh, but I'm sure you have another worthless anecdote.
@@proton8689 Oh yes, NYC where the cost of living is insane. Every contact I have with unions is maddening. Try writing software when every plant or division has different rules thanks to unions. No thanks.
These videos are what give me hope for thr future. Well done! You are the real heroes.
Damn, your videos are keeping to get better and better with the animations, keep out the great work comrades!
UwU
You know, the thing about No Child Left Behind that baffles me the most is that it is pretty much designed to leave kids behind by destroying the schools, instead of, you know, actually giving them money to fix their problems?
That's why in love am generally weary of catchy phrases infact the more catchy a phrase is the more cautious one should be....
Because "fixing" requires money, and the point was never to give schools more money. The point was for schools to utilize "good old fashioned American ingenuity" to squeeze blood from turnips.
NCLB never takes into account childhood poverty, or how well students test in a crumbling school with textbooks a decade or more old. It was a giant con job that frames public schools as failing which leaves the door open for privatization through charters, which was the original intention of NCLB.
I thought everyone knew that when Republicans name their laws, you can expect the law to do the opposite from what its name suggests.
@@KaiHenningsen "Right to work" (Right to get Fired), "No Child Left Behind" (Lots of Children intentionally abandoned), Election Integrity Act of 2021 (How to ensure black and brown voters can't vote after 2021)...
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Just so everyone knows, administrators for the far right wing fascist pro Trump school district known as Magnolia ISD of Magnolia TX will openly mock you and criticize you if you don’t vote for Republicans.
This happened to me in 2018 when I voted for Beto instead of Ted Cruz. Hell, they literally allow Republican Students to mock anyone student that isn’t politically aligned with the school district! Expose Magnolia ISD of Magnolia Texas.
That isn’t the only problem with Magnolia ISD. Back in August, they fired a teacher for supporting Black Lives Matter, yet Confederate Flags and other racist Trump shit are free to roam the campuses. Magnolia ISD of Magnolia Texas is Republican! Expose them! Make them famous!
Not to mention that Magnolia ISD follows the Republican “advice” when it comes to handling COVID-19. Look at this screen recording of a super spreader event that was hosted by Magnolia ISD themselves on November 11th! Expose them! Make them famous. Get them trending!
Not to mention that over the weekend of March 6th, Magnolia ISD of Magnolia Texas decided that they would show their true racist White nationalist colors by post extremely racist, terroristic things on their Twitter and their district website as well as sending hate filled text messages to hundreds and thousands of parents.
Magnolia ISD got caught in the act, so they are resorting to putting the blame on “hackers”.
White Supremacists don’t hack other White Supremacists!
Not to mention that they actively censored the local media by kicking them off of their district property. Censorship of the media is a warning sign of fascism!
I should also mention that on night of March 8, they voted to remove their mask mandate which did go into full effect on April 1st.
Also, there are literal paid shills defending Magnolia ISD. These shills are falsely accusing random lefties of doing the “hacking”.
The fact that Magnolia ISD is now accused random lefties, that rightfully call them out btw, of doing the “hacking” should be a dead giveaway that Magnolia ISD of Magnolia Texas is 100% guilty.
Magnolia ISD was never actually “hacked”. They willfully decided to show their true racist white nationalist colors. They got caught! And so they are pinning the blame on random “hackers” in order to shift the blame away from them.
Well.... now they are accusing random lefties fighting for justice of doing the hacking.
There is a reason why they kicked the local media off of their property. They are covering something up, because Magnolia ISD is racist and is 100% guilty.
Please, hold Magnolia ISD accountable for their actions and make them famous. EVERYONE SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT THEM!
I have an almost 20 minute long video here on UA-cam if you want a visual presentation of what I am talking about.
@@TheGravelInstitute Can you please help me expose Magnolia ISD of Magnolia Texas?
@@A_Lefty_Gamer yeah shed some light on this one pls
The transition from high school to college was brutal for me, I might even have to drop out
Was it freshman calculus? That normally gets people.
Nothing will change unless the people in control stop wanting it to be this way.
*Kid does poorly in school because he has lead paint on his walls and no food*
Right Wing: *D E R E G U L A T I O N*
Lol. Take your kid to better charter school.
@@vg7985 I know, right?
Move to a suburb, buy a $500k house, and put your kid in a private school!
It’s easy! Anyone can do it!
Maybe he should stop being poor. /s
@@vg7985 dude stop trolling
Your idols in Scandinavia have school choice, something you are fighting against.
Glad to see there's other people who share values for the betterment of ourselves and humanity :>
Glad there’s still people with empathy :)
@@kaylala4695 Schoolsystem was amazingly covered by Second Thought, Some More News and in a sense, by Sci Man Dan. Cant recommend them enough and i wanna see improvement in real-life, so excuse me, but i will comment this here multiple times, risking to be mistaken for a bot.
@@loturzelrestaurant awesome thanks!
Keep up the good work. More people need to see this. Not to mention you can follow all the right rules, do all the right things study until your sleep deprived, and still end up homeless or jobless as a result of the system.
Everything that this man said was absolutely correct. As a kid, I grew up I'm the Lower Merion township and went to Welsh Valley middle school. The school had an endless amount of resources, many different programs, 20k plus book libraries, and college-like facities. Because it was becoming too expensive to live I'm that area, we had to move to Philadelphia. From going to welsh Valley Middle School in 7th grade, to Amy Northwest middle school (philasd) in 8th grade, the difference is night and day. Even with limited resources, the friends and classmates at Amy were some of the smartest and most hard-working students I have ever met. In my opinion, it starts with the student/teacher resources and the teacher's pay. With the great job they were doing, they deserved more money for what they did. Some of them had to go into their own paychecks to help students stay engaged or just to get necessary supplies. I'm not sure how we should fund the schools to make them more equal but it needs to be done in order to help my black and latino students to not be at a disadvantage compared to the white kids in the suburbs.
You’re damn right we need to fix our schools.
u going have to migrate for that long as the liberals and Republicans are here it's going to stay fuck up.
Fix? There's no fixing that shit. The only way to better this situation is to amputate it entirely and start anew. Sack all bureaucrats, teachers, sanitary and social worker, revoke the concept of a secretary of education as well as the concept of a school board and just let it sit for a while, so the people can solve the problem themselves.
Can confirm that in all my time as a student never once has a “change in management” or increase in standardized testing been even slightly beneficial. The system just doesn’t work
@Stephen Kizlik The system just exists and effectuates its power at every moment. It shapes people into horrible beings and shapes good people into money-hungry CEOs or megalomaniac tech personalities.
The system must go, and through the destruction of it, we'll find our salvation comrade ✊
@Stephen Kizlik So basically, we just believe that it works and thus it works?
@Stephen Kizlik What is it's purpose?
This is also very much applied to Canadian Education. A direct mirror of American education at its finest
I've been reading up on this for a while now. He's pretty much on the mark about just about everything he says here.
We are united once again to throw this video into the algorithm.
Amen
Indeed.
It's a seemingly small task, but it's something we can all do it help improve the world, one click at a time.
sending my energy!
Already saw this on Patreon, but still watching here for the algorithm.
Thank you Comrade, this is what's gonna get us past Prager.
@@TheGravelInstitute comrade noice
Yes comrade.
@@TheGravelInstitute Comrade. ✊
@@comradefreedom8275
Comrade ^^
What a great video, this really needs to be shed more light on. Go Gravel!
+1
The fact that this didn't appear in my recommended until just now is depressing. Commenting for the algorithm, and hitting the bell icon.
Babe wake up, new gravel institute vid just dropped
Babe what’s wrong you’ve barely touched your education system
Babe you can't neglect your system like that!
Yo! Tweet it out
lol
said no one ever
Poverty is a moral failing of our society
Except that poverty is a direct product of our society - and an intentional one. The Capitalists at the top need a large poor class in order to ensure that the working class falls meekly in line. Fear keeps the workers in line.
It's all a product to ensure that more and more money pools at the top.
Poverty is an intentional policy choice of the government.
Our system depends on poverty
I agree; it is a moral failing of our society to allow poverty to exist. It's certainly not like we don't have *everything* we need to end it-- except for political will. :/
@@masterofalltrades_ I don't disagree but I don't think its that simple either. The poor is just as much the responsibility of the average Joe than the government. Most people aren't willing to pay an extra tax for UBI and similar programs. A politician suggesting that will most likely not get elected. Pushing unpopular agendas cost politicians their jobs, safest bet is barley passing any bills so you don't lose your job as an politician. Go see what happened to the politicians that led the gun reform bills in Australia. A successful politician is an employed politician.
Seeing gravel vids in my recommendations never fails to make me smile, even if the subject matter is usually depressing.
Thank you for making these videos and raising awareness to the real problem!!
Makes me tear up. The children deserve better, they deserve the opportunity to succeed without thinking about going hungry or homeless.
It's worse, teachers actively lose their jobs if they pay for a meal for a starving student. Every year a headline will read "I got fired for feeding a hungry child" or something to that effect.
It would be great that all children are taken care of and able to succeed, but the truth is, life is not fair.
@@jjc6530 So, your solution is do nothing about it?
@@stevonwhite8933 Capitalism has no solutions for the working class. We must make our own. Take away the power of the bosses on the job with trade unions and at the ballot box with a labor party independent of the capitalists. Turn the tables on the bosses and make them pay!!!
I was in 7th grade and my dad had just died 2 weeks prior, and while my teacher was handing out newspapers for the day he happened to be on the front page without my knowledge, I naturally started crying. what does the teacher do? gives me detention :)
so many good school memories
OMG, that's horrible!
yay, sounds rough man sounds like she didn't even try
We definitely need to pay these unionized teachers more /s
Hello.I have just read your comment (June 21st) and I am so sorry for your loss and the way that ‘teacher’ behaved. I am a retired teacher here in England 🏴 where we would have offered you compassion, knowing what had occurred in your family.
So sorry for you. Be blessed.
Don't mind me, just another algorithm blood sacrifice, comin' through...
glad this channel is doing so well!
I remember reading about that Kozol study in my college sociology classes. That shit literally shocked me and practically gave me nightmares considering that children in America have to put up with that kind of treatment. Absolutely scandalous that our media has ignored this!
I read in one of Kozol's books about how schoolkids are treated in East St. Louis. Well, it isn't how the teachers treat them, its that East St. Louis is a "tax free zone" meaning it has no tax base so the kids go to schools in buildings with no roof let alone electricity. They were shipped computers by Al Gore through his education initiative but one little detail that got missed by those passing out the computers is that you can't even plug one into the wall when schools don't have electricity. Surely the computers got rained on b/c there was no roof either.
@@havable The media talking heads are just another part of the propaganda system. Their will be no education worth a dam while capitalism rules the world. Revolutionary Cuba points the way forward.
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Bless you and the Gravel Institute for laying out this truth so plainly. I am a retired teacher, dissatisfied with our work every step of the way. Poverty is a crime and a choice.
One of the key points that stood out to me was the reading 📚 materials. I started high school in 1988 and when I reached my junior year, my algebra books were at least 50 years old. I was blessed with a good teacher and that made all the difference 🙏
The shit schools we now have aren't broken they're a feature of capitalism. Ever notice how when it's time to cut something education seems to always be first? Look at how they took out classes that helped like shop, electrical, mechanical, and other skill-based learning classes that could help. Kids don't vote but some need them to be dumb too.
Education has to be made a higher priority than it is. I went to a relatively wealthy public school and it was still a shit show. I don't even want to imagine what poorer schools have to go through on a daily basis.
If they are a feature of capitalism. Then how come the schools in other countries with Capitalism are not failing horribly? Including Finland, South Korea, France and more.
They took out shop, electrical, mechanical etc classes because society in the USA makes you believe that you are a sucker for working with your hands. They are telling you have to go to college/university for a big bang smartypants job.
@@koffiegast That's an easy one to answer. First, they're all Democratic Socialist countries. They don't have the level of privatization that we have in here in Murika for social programs like education, medical, etc. Their schools are funded nationally vs by local taxes which can hurt schools based on the incomes of local residents. The notion of needing college is a debt trap as most people can't afford college these days vs say 40yrs ago. One could get a good job with or without a HS diploma even in the '80s now, most can't get entry level, low paying, jobs without some ridiculous amount of experience vs the pay. Capitalism needs under educated worker to work otherwise the whole system breaks down. If you can't think for yourself you'll believe anything and won't know how to research it either. At worst, you'll think there's nothing wrong with you always having to struggle.
That's funny because your socialist idols brought capitalism into their educational system (school choice) and it worked wonders for them.
I want to be a hs teacher but I'm so stressed about how low our literacy rate is - there's so much shame and not enough help!!!!!!
The US is a really, really stupid country. Even if they did this socialist plan to improve the lives of children in poverty, I fear it would take a long, long time to see its effects. I think it's a good start though.
In the mean time, there are a lot of charities about getting children to read at grade level. If you have time, you should check some out in your area.
Don't. I used to be a teacher.
Once again, destroying the thieves and setting the record straight. Thank you!
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THANK YOU I’ve been waiting for education to be discussed
Not only this, but the “Pro america” false history that is told in schools
History is the diciest subject to teach. No one will ever agree on what is the "correct" curriculum as history is a conflict of narratives in the present. If we had a neutral, or at least rational, curriculum development regime, we would acknowledge both the honorable and dishonorable things in America's history as well as the complexity of the nations/cultures within our borders. Everyone likes a simple story, but that ain't reality!
Wow, a country's schools that it pays for compliment it? What a shock? Normally I pay people to tear me down and say horrible things about me.
@@Uarehere for that reason its one of the most important. I took history in high school and in college and the difference is staggering. In high school we were taught no nuance. Racism was downplayed, and nationalism was promoted as much as possible. My college US history class was taught by an incredibly knowledgeable man who loved his subject. It was amazing how much is skipped completely. Things like eugenics, social darwinism, and the american socialist party.
@@Atoll-ok1zm Hell, I took an online quiz even that was like a "Can you pass this American college-level Medieval history thing?" and figured, you know, I have been fascinated by history, and actively been a Medieval historical recreator, for several decades now; I've probably got a decent shot at this.
It was *hard;* I did not do well. But not because I didn't know my Medieval history, oh no. Because every damned question was only *nominally* about "Medieval European history," and *much* more using that as a loose tie-in to a question about the U.S.!!
A few *actual* questions I remember from it (may be paraphrased slightly):
-The "Unicorn Tapestry" is a famous English art piece. In which of these American museums is it currently displayed?
-The Black Death wiped out a third of Europe's population in the 1500's. Which American port city had an outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 1920's?
-Which American city was named for the French king who ruled from xxxx to xxxx, and was later canonized?
Like, seriously, I was able to guess most of them fairly accurately, just because they were multiple choice, and, like, for example, the option named for one of the multiple King Louises (St Louis) was pretty obvious.
But, please, what the FUCK does "Which American city has/experienced the same/a similar thing as this in the Twentieth Century" have to do with *Medieval* history?! And this was supposed to be *college/AP level* questions?!
Like, I know that these quizzes are just made-up bullshit and it probably doesn't have any relation to what is *actually* taught as "Medieval history" in the States (not an American myself, so no personal experience with it), let alone at the college level.
But please, could someone assure me that it was just that one stupid quiz, and that those type of questions are *not* representative of what the US education system is generally teaching as "history"? Because, like, I know perfectly well that the US tends to look at things from an exceedingly US-centric point of view. But dear lord, that was *ridiculous.* D:
@@KryssLaBryn I think your first mistake was "American medieval history". But yes most history classes tend to be very US centric though I've never seen one that bad. Idk why because US history is not very interesting even to an american. It can be summed up pretty well as just a lot of wars and racism.
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Yeah I’m chillin in class while watching this rn
I’m further Left than the majority of Gravel Institute presenters but this is such an important channel and work to do. Thank you. Prager U was given my computer viruses it’s so bad
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@@craffte PragerU could read a book instead of making stuff up
*Poor mindset immediately sees a surplus as an opportunity for consumption.* *Rich mindset seeks to spend their time,* *Resources,* *And energy on work that continues to pay off long after the effort has been invested.*
That's true.
Anyone who is not investing now is missing a tremendous opportunity.
Yes. It's better to take risk and make sacrifices than to remain poor or settle for less..
investlng in financial_market is what all rich people do. This is not a living but to grow our portfolio.
Can the real Constitution be restored? Probably not. Too many Americans depend on government money under programs the Constitution doesn't authorize, and money talks with an eloquence Shakespeare could only envy. Ignorant people don't understand The Federalist Papers, but they understand government checks with their names on them.
Great segment!
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The best way to have a proper democracy is to have proper education for ALL income levels.
And that's exactly why your ruling class doesn't want the poor's to have proper education
@@Praisethesunson The education in the capitalist era is the education in the ideas of the ruling class. Their can be no education worth a dam for the working class under capitalism.
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America: Spends half it's budget on the military
"Why are our schools failing?????"
More than half.
@Stephen Kizlik The only winners are Boeing and Lockeed-Martin
Look up the forgetting curve by Ebbinghaus and you'll immediately see why having so many standardized tests that are worth a huge percentage of your grade is actually a bad thing.
Most people are too stupid for school.
And school actively wasn't designed to help them.
Both of these factors come together to create an awful environment for growth and learning.
Fantastic job yet again!! 👍🏻👍🏻
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We better improve public education otherwise the conservative will destroy it
Not just conservatives, neo-liberals as well.
@@justaguy6216 You just want adoctrination
@@andraddya8447 Did you just try to say indoctrination? You should go back to school.
@@justaguy6216 Sorry, the corrector
How do you improve public education, when bad teachers are about as impossible to get fired, you are forced to go to the school in your district (No school choice), and performance-driven charter schools are blamed to be the boogeyman (despite having better student performance AND costing the government less)?
Seems to me like the public education needs an overhaul. It is anything but capitalist in its structure, because there is no meritocracy involved, to the detriment of the children.
Keep going guys!
In the tale of 2 school systems section, you talked about the Lower Merion school district. I actually go to a school here. And believe it or not, I have many friends from the city, many of whom go to the Philadelphia school district. I've heard them complain many times about how much homework they have, how little the teachers care sometimes, how little books and supplies they have, and other stuff mentioned in the video. Even my school has problems as well. My superintendent, Robert Copeland, has been trying to cram as many students in class as possible, even at COVID's peak. Very accurate and well-done video.
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As a current undergrad student studying pedagogy and working towards my teachers cert, this is a fantastic breakdown of an extremely important issue facing the US. Thanks again for a digestible and concise showing of an extremely complex issue.
I always appreciate your videos. Thanks for your work.
Great video, as always.
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The fact that public schools are funded by property taxes has always been dumb to me. I always argued it in debate classes. I also just missed the no child left behind stuff entering high school in 2001. Seeing how many more tests younger friends take or how many my husband mentions his students take?! Yikes!!
The fact that property taxes even exist is dumb to me.
What is wrong with it though?
I was born in 2000 and I've taken at least one standardized test every year from 2nd-12th grade. By middle school, it was 2-3 standardized tests every quarter. By high school, it was 2-3 standardized tests a semester not including SAT prep or AP classes, of which I completed 6 by the time I graduated. Now, as a college student, I'll have to take the GRE if I want to go to graduate school, which is hopefully my last standardized test ever.
The worst part about them is that students are not graded based on how many questions they individually got correct, but how well they did in comparison to everyone else. I only got 4 questions wrong on the math portion of the SAT, and yet somehow that was a 720 out of 800 because thousands of students did better than me. Not to mention that the information being taught on these tests has little to no relevance to what students actually learn in class, and usually teachers have to detract from their normal curriculum weeks ahead of time in preparation for the standardized test. No Child Left Behind had good intentions, but the ramifications lead to stressed out students who view each other not as comrades who all want to be successful, but as direct competitors in a dog eat dog world. It's a stupid system and I hope it goes away for the next generation.
@@johnjonson2738 Basing school funding on property taxes creates an unequal education system b/c rich neighborhoods will always have more funding than poor ones. If we funded schools out of the general fund instead, it would be a *political* decision whether to overfund rich kid schools while underfunding poor kid schools (instead of a supposedly 'arbitrary' system where pols can claim it is out of their control). By making it a political decision, it would become a political issue; meaning people would vote for politicians who gave a damn about their kids and would vote out those who only fund the rich kid schools.
@@emperorzerg1138 Another way in which you are being robbed of an education is that because these tests are so constant, and because your teacher is graded on how well you do, teachers are incentivized to teach you how to pass a test not teach you how to learn.
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