Problems With Public Education That Are Derailing Literacy

By Ina Hunt


Numerous studies have been done to identify avenues of offering better school life. Getting to know the problems with public education becomes an important aspect so as to ensure loop holes to well-educated citizens are fixed. A method that can be used to tackle the hitch is getting to identify the obstacle and coming with solutions.

A 2013 study suggest that poverty which has for a long period been an obstacle in the achievement of education still remains as important as ever. Some years ago, education was offered to the working class and the ones at the bottom of socioeconomic ladder were offered no former learning. Currently we are educating everyone including the poorest and disadvantaged and expect all to graduate. This shift compounded with the high poverty level shows the new paradigm shift that needs new policies to address the reality.

In the start of the millennium, students who qualified for reduced-prices or free meals made up of around half of the students in four states. Within a decade, more than half the students in 17 states that are in public schools are in poverty. In this century there has been a great increase in unemployment among parents and the available jobs fail to provide for education and basic needs.

Score testing has been congested out in the arts subjects which include painting, drama and music. These lessons are able to produce skills that are unique to a student while also making learning enjoyable. Schools in poor areas find math to be a challenge and this frustrates the teachers putting the students to be at a great disadvantage compared to their peers. The standardization step has in turn posed difficulties in molding the lesson to fit unique social cultures.

Putting aside the vacations and physical educations has as a result postured as an obstacle to the welfare of the students. This is due to the fact that both of these develop the capacity of the student in focusing and learning while also making sure that the learners health is safeguarded since it combats obesity and also other lifestyle ailments.

There is a wider disparity of schools in poor regions and those from affluent regions. Most of these schools that are in poor regions have bigger class size, unmotivated teachers, and poor teaching facilities among other disadvantages. This is unlike those of well up areas that have well stocked libraries, medical attention, learning models and other goodies that makes the education system in the country to be unequal.

Parental involvement and the quality of the home life of the child act a predictor of the achievement of the student. Some parent are very much involved with their kids lives while others are nowhere to be found and no nothing about their children whereabouts. The need to be actively involved is very wise since positive encouragement at home will lead to improved outcomes in learning at school.

Though tackling conflict is a maturation process in a child, exposure to harassment and violence can lead to wanting performance at schools and can lead to development of anti-social character as well as anxiety as the child matures. Early childhood education needs to integrate violence reduction as well as conflict mediation.

The system of education remains to be highly important in the country since it is in here that a country is able to mold future professionals. Safeguarding this institution by tackling the many glitches which are facing it is important for it to remain relevant.




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