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Originally Posted by xyzone
I know Americans are deluded about this, but your public school system in general is babysitting, plain and simple. There are exceptions in districts here and there as there always are exceptions, but it's not the rule.
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You have experiences with multiple school districts in multiple states, in various regions of the US, and different demographics? Perhaps as both a student and as a teacher? Since your tone indicates you are not an American, I find this hard to believe.
Where do you come by this "rule?"
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Ask a Japanese exchange student who spends time in the US what they think about the schooling. I don't mean to be crass, but I knew one Japanese girl who evidently only came to the US to skank out and party.
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My students have a lot more paperwork in Japan than I did. More tests, more rote memorisation. They have a lot less creative thinking. A lot less music. A lot less art.
Japanese teachers have very little student teaching. They do not have to take child psychology.
The view of education is very, very different. If your friend thought she could skate by because of lack of busywork, she's in for a rough ride, both in Japan, where we are already having a second lost generation, and in America, where the ability to regurgitate is not useful.
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Let's keep it real, that's what happened. Sorry, US schools are a joke, but it's no accident. That's how the status quo likes it to create ignorant drones and helpless slackers to make cannon fodder for their oil wars and shill grunt brigades -- oh, and shoppers.
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Yeah... This is where I write you off. Exit, stage right.