Informative Essay: Our Public Education System

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Our Public Education Education is a huge part of the average American's life. Being the law, everyone must go to school from ages, of 5 to 17 or 18 years old depending on the person's birthday. This whole progress dates back to the late 19th century, making public school an invention well over 100 years old. Now if you take a moment to look at other inventions such as the telephone, the automobile, and the television, everyone in this world can agree on how from the original models to the version of today, unimaginable improvements were made. As the world and technology changes, so does the telephone, automobile and television. Now take a look back to the very first classrooms, you will see little to no change as our public education, over the 100 years that it has been alive, has not improved and has kept its odds original methods. Looking specifically at what public education has and has not changed gives our generation a real insight on how our public education system has not improved, but not closing an optimistic eye we can also see how our public school system can improve for future generations. Discipline in schools is a tremendous problem. Today we see shocking videos of a student physically fighting a teacher or vice versa a teacher fighting a student in the classroom with everyone just recording on their phones. Not so long ago there wasn’t this problem in schools. The reason for that is the way students perceive teachers today doesn’t compare to what it was like before. Before teachers had the option to “paddle” their students for misbehaving. By allowing …show more content…

Does this sound familiar? Of course is does Since the start of modern day education, schools and factory have been compared. That is because the modern day school we know started during the industrial age where everyone thought a factories like environment would be most beneficial towards our

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