One of the largest social issues in
today's society is good education and access to it. In fact, San
Antonio Independent School District, or SAISD, has 38 out of 115
rated middle schools that are rated above 5/10, according to
greatschools.org. This is a site where parents can rate schools based
on a few different values. Throw in all the mucking and muddling over
standardized curricula these past couple years and you have yourself
a mess. One of the major problems is standardization itself. We all
know that everyone is different and no one learns exactly the same
way. So why does standardization exist? The answer to that lies in
the fact that in 2015, 50.1 million schoolchildren attended public
schools. There is only one department to oversee all of this, and
they want everything to be in a nice, clean numerical breakdown
because, quite simply, neither the schools nor the department of
Education have the resources to educate and grade every student's
progress individually.. So, in short, standardizing education is like
trying to fit a square peg into a round hole, but it's the best
option we currently have.
Another issue is inequality in
pre-schooling education such as language development or reading
skills. According to edweek.org, an informative site about our
educational system, 22% of all students attending elementary and
secondary school live in poverty. By the time they reach
kindergarten, these poorer students have only 1/8 of the language and
reading development that their peers do. Sadly, there isn't really
much we can do about this, except to offer tutoring and refresher
courses. Now that you have seen two of the large issues with our
education, you are now empowered to inform others.
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