Monday, September 29, 2014

The Common Problems With Public Education

By Karina Frost


The entire planet is comprised of human inhabitants who are unique on their own. Each individual can do something that the other cannot, and do it quite well, too. Some excel quite naturally in everything they do, while some have to be constantly coaxed out of their shells to be able to share their brilliant skills to the world.

Discrimination is still a thing today as it was before the advent of all the technological advancements. The good things go to those who are privileged. The not so good are shared among the people who are not displaying so much potential. It is in times like these, too, that quality education has become an adamant must. Parents work hard to send their kids to better schools, because they cannot afford to jeopardize the future of their children by getting them all entangled in the different problems with public education.

In the general sense, education is a form of learning where the knowledge, skills, and habits of a group of individual are passed on to successors by way of teaching, training, and sometimes even exhaustive research. It frequently takes place with the guidance of an individual deemed to be more knowledgeable, though some cases are autodidactic in nature. Experiences that have a profound effect in the formation of an individual is even considered to be something educational.

Education, like everything in life, has its different stages as well. Every learner has to go through each individual stage if he is to complete his formal education. At the end of every specific stage, his triumphs along with those of his batchmates are celebrated in the form of what is called a graduation exercise. The different stages are the preschool, primary, secondary, university or college, then internship. Some go through each one, while many opt not to complete it.

Because education is a right given to everyone regardless of the differences in so many aspects, state institutes came into being. These are establishments that impart learning for free. These schools are funded by the government whether by part or in full. Some even have non government benefactors and some can be adopted as sister schools of the private ones.

Despite its best efforts, the public education system is on the brink. Schools are hardly producing qualified graduates anymore. Learners are not learning all the necessary skills they are supposed to in order to fend for themselves in the real world. Some even graduate without recollection of any valuable thing that they have retained in all the years they have spent in an institution.

Educational systems often put the blame to many external factors beyond their control. At the topmost of the list is the lack of involvement of the family with regards to the education received by the children. They prefer to leave all the work to the teachers, when in fact the upbringing of kids is their sole responsibility.

Another dilemma is the lack of desire to learn by the children. They inhibit any knowledge to penetrate them. They see school as a necessary evil they have to endure.

Finally, poverty is also considered a contributory factor. Some hardly finish studying because they have to work. Even if schools are now rendered for free, there are still some expenditures needed to be able to send a child to school.




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