Calculated- reminiscent of Lenin and brought straight from The Frankfurt School.

Without question adding water to the lemonade has diluted the lemonade. First grade is critical to the development of love for reading. Home life is not condiaive to that developmet for many students. Schools have continued to burden teachers with “education” designed to cure social ills. Instead of more reading time, kids are expected to learn about improper touching, alcohol and drug abuse, cyber bullying, gender tolerance, fund raising drives, heritage and roots, racial issues, nutrition, how to help pareents who arw non English speakers, classe given in multiple languages.

There is more time allocated to needs that meet federal funding requirements and much less time designated for teaching real reading skills.

It's called lowering the standards for these kids making them look good GPA then came common core which these kids couldn't even do normal math even high school teachers didn't know how to do or how to teach common core

I believe one of the great flaws in modern education is that we spend all our time teaching students what to think. We should focus on teaching them to think critically, consider all perspectives, look at the data, doubt everything, and then make up their own minds of what to believe.

We should also teach to respect people with different ideas, perspectives and beliefs - That disagreeing with a persons beliefs does not mean we think less of them as a person, we just believe differently. It is OK to disagree agreeably.

By way of an answer I suggest that you look in a mirror and, being as Honest and Truthful as possible, ask yourself what sort of an “Instructor” ... “Educator” ... YOU are.
I would suggest that you might not be pleased with your answers and yet ... THAT’S Not Your Fault. However, if YOU are unsatisfied by Your answers, TODAY becomes the day that failure to correct those answers DOES become Your Fault. (Today is the FIRST Day of the Rest of YOUR Life)

The baseline “Goals” of a “Proper Education” has never really changed in a few hundred years. The “Target” and preferred “Results” however have.
Children, Kids, Students are rarely exposed to “Critical Thinking” or even, the “Art of Self Education” any more.
This was happening in the 1960’s and 1970’s and has become increasingly worse over the years as those who were Untrained became those who were supposed to Teach.
Our Education System has become more of a Social Experiment in Pushing Dogma than in Teaching, Training young minds to THINK.
Until such a time that the Requirement to train young minds to Think ... to Think Critically ... to Encourage Questioning of Information Sources ... kids are going to continue to arrive in your classrooms unprepared ... even AFTER Remedial Studies ... to LEARN.

Public School (so-called) started out as corporate, religious, government, subsidy, paid for by ill-gotten gains and used to secure power by criminals over victims, and that has not changed much over the centuries. At times the criminals in power took effective steps to maintain the ignorance of their corporate, religious, and government slaves. Then a new age of propaganda arose, with notable figures along the way, including advancements by Prussians, and more recently the work of Edward Bernays.

For a well-researched look at American National Public School see John Taylor Gatto, example:

Berkeley budget:
Teachers 38%
Administrators 30%
Student aid 14%

Caltech:
Teaching 42%
Research 40%
Administration 13%
Other 5%

Drain the college swamp!

It's fairly simple...the world, (or countrys), needs so many ditch diggers...and so many brain surgeons. It's a Spartan thing.

I see a few problems with current education of children, youth and young adults. The first is that there is not a core emphasis on the basics right now. With all the extra course works is social education, reading, writing, and math some times take a back seat.

Additionally, some of the methods of teaching reading, writing and math are flawed. Common core does not work! Whole language does not work. My wife took over an elementary class half way through the year where every child was failing. She taught phonics based reading and writing and a math course that constantly reviewed what what previously taught - not a one and done. By the end of that year, her children's scores were the top of the district.

Parents are not involved with their children's education. The parent has primary responsibility for their children's education and should actively work with them to succeed.

Lastly, children today are book smart but do not have practical application experience. Children outside of school need to be involved with learning outside practical skills such as first aid, swimming, cooking, camping, fitness, and sports activities, just to name a few. Too much time with children is spent on TV, the phone and gaming. They should get outdoors, play, experience life that is passing them by.