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Originally Posted by aka123
Works just fine in here; and there are anyways standards for the teaching. You don't need to know the school name to tell how someone is educated in the school. You can't just put up few chairs in the park and call it university and start giving diplomas.
So, we have standards for the education, but it is up to school how they meet the standards.
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That is one of our problems. We too have standards the schools must meet, but the problem is that these standards come in the form of test and graduation rates. If the school doesn't do well at the tests or has a low graduation rate they get less money. So the people running the schools do everything they can to get test scores and graduation rates up. This doesn't mean helping the students actually do better, but instead how to massage the numbers so they get paid.
An example. My nephew, when he was in 8th grade, failed every class except for PE. He was still allowed to graduate. In high school he got expelled early his junior year yet he was allowed to do a few packets of work and graduate. He can barely read or write yet he is a high school graduate.
It makes no sense to me that the way they punish the schools that are doing poorly by taking money from them. These are the schools that need help, but instead of trying to fix them it is more like everyone tries to figure out how to avoid it and just let it rot.