What I think about School

After watching the 2 million minutes video I was confused about what exactly they were trying to say. Up until the last 5 minutes when they discussed what happened to the students after high school I thought they were arguing about how students from other countries generally work harder at school which they proved. I also understand that they were creating the idea that since american students currently have a lazy work ethic it will effect future developments of the country. So I guess I did understand what they were arguing it was just the last five minutes that messed me up. I just typed and that and had an epiphany about what it was saying. They used the last five minutes to show that these super intelligent kids from other countries didn't make into their top school so what does that say about the kids who did make it in? It shows that they have even smarter and harder working kids then the one's in the video that america will be competing against in the future.

To go on to me general thoughts about the education system, I believe that everyone is to blame for the problems with the educational system. I think students are to blame in part for not work, for blaming the teacher for bad grades, for getting by with the minimal amount of work and for only caring about the grade they receive and not the actual learning taking place. I also think teachers are to blame because they often set their standards to low for students, don't take time to explain things all the way through in class, and some, not all, always blame the students. They don't ever think that maybe it's their teaching method that is flawed not the student. And of course parents are partly to blame. Since when is it a good idea to blindly believe what ever you child says? A growing number of parents are blaming teachers for their child's problems in school because their child said it was the teacher's fault. They don't then go to the teacher and ask what's going on in the class but immediately began to blame the teacher for their kid's bad grade. Overall I think that it will take effort from all three of these parties to fix the education system and until they can all admit that they are partly to blame it can't be fixed.