The American Public Education System

“The education system in America is corrupt” may be a thing you might hear about if you pay attention to stuff like TAPES (The American Public Education System), but the people who talk about it never say why, or how to fix it, and this may provide some answers/solutions. Some of the problems are that we try to advance students to fast to try to catch up with other countries and their education; some states have teacher tenure, and we also have all of these other countries who have this system done in the right way. If we don’t solve the issues mentioned before, then we will fall behind even further When it comes to ranks in international tests, like the PISA (The Programme for International Student Assessment), we rank below average. In math

A lot of states are already working on this, as it has been a problem for a long time now, by removing things like the rubber rooms, where the teachers would go when they were in the process of being fired, if they made it that far in firing of a tenure teacher; basically, they got paid to sit around and do almost nothing. But if tenure continues to be easy to earn in some lower class areas, and no action is taken to improve their education, then the people in those areas will most likely end up in prison, and not in a middle-high class area with a sustainable job and a nice

The American Education System is dumb, and we should follow Finland as an example.” (Luke). According to many sources, Finland has a similar structure with their school system to ours, but they do some things better; for example, there is no “...standardised testing in Finland, apart from one exam at the end of student's’ senior year in high school.” (LyNell Hancock)[5]. They also have “no rankings, no comparisons, or competition between students, schools, or regions.” (LyNell Hancock)[5], they have schools run by the government which are publically funded, which just goes to show that we should follow the path that they have taken.There are many other things that Finland Schools do well too, for example, “Ninety-three percent of Finns graduate from academic or vocational high schools, 17.5 percentage points higher than the United States, and 66 percent go on to higher education, the highest rate in the European Union. Yet Finland spends about 30 percent less per student than the United States.” (LyNell Hancock)[5] And, of course, tenure and the PISA results aren’t the only problems we have, they are just a few of many that we need to solve, but they are big problems, and if we aren’t working on fixing these problems and following the examples set by other countries, we may not have a chance to in the future because there will be less and less people who are capable of doing so, meaning that the government and all of those important people need to get together and