Dr. William Schmidt, the director of TIMMS, was in a video we viewed in class, today. The Educational System is being questioned by the Director of TIMMS. The interesting part is that the educational system has been questioned by parents throughout all of United States of "American History." We blame it on the free market and publishing companies that sell useless mediocrity on both paper or software.
As teachers we protest against education being reared to meritocracy. Meritocracy is elitist and divergent on our number one goal: creating civilized people in a free society. We may be a country that may seem to not be up to par with Japan or Germany, but that is not so. Our students have choices. They don't go to our schools because they are afraid to die of hunger or go to jail. They go to school because they want to learn to be leaders and find happiness in a world they were given to live in. We are a humanistic country and we teach everyone, not just one group of people.
What we need are good nationwide diagnostic tests. We want to help our students achieve as much as they are willing to go. Instead, we are forced to dwell in self-pity, wait for an answer or disagree on those we make. We either unite as a global community or we stagnate as sectoral worlds with potential, but no with no performance to convey it.
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