Flawed Education System

What has the educational system in this country come to? I strongly believe that the educational system of our time is extremely flawed. The government has stepped in to try to fix problems of certain districts not being educated as quickly, or with the same curriculum they want to be implemented. As a result, they have damaged the educational system more than they have helped it. They’re trying to tell the public that everyone has to learn the same information, the same way, and in the same amount of time. That’s not right. It’s wrong because everyone is different, everyone learns in different ways at different speeds. The educational system should be regulated at a smaller scale, there should be smaller student to teacher ratios, less material
Schools should be allowed to teach curriculum voted to be the best for children by the parents on a district sized level. This way children are being taught what they are most actively need to learn or what the parents in the local area want their children to learn. Doing things this way would eliminate the majority of children learning things that aren’t useful and keeping them educated according to what is most in demand or most needed in their area. Individualized curriculum for different districts would also create more freedom in choice of what people’s children are learning. If someone didn’t like what type of curriculum was in place in their district, all they would have to do would be to send their child to a school in a different district where they taught what the parents wanted their children to
Most of the money taken from US citizens is in federal tax and goes to various frivolous things that aren’t as necessary or as important as the education of the upcoming youth of today. The youth of today will be the professionals and workers of the next generation and the federal government overlooks this fact far too much. The taxes should be more geared towards states. More of the money geared towards the states should be funneled down to more important things like more teachers so that the students to teacher ratios were smaller. With more teachers per students in classrooms, there would be more individual help and attention for each student. If students were getting more individual attention, help and guidance, the success rate of students would be much higher. This would eliminate the need for government wide testing and rules such as the No Child Left Behind Act. It would also decrease the pressure and strain put on teachers. A lot of teachers don’t like federal education involvement. Not because it holds them to a standard, but because a lot of teachers feel these rules hold them to the wrong