Persuasive Essay: The Government Should Be Taught In Schools

“It is time that we face the fact that institutional school teaching is destroying our children” (Gatto). This is a quote by John Taylor Gatto on how our education is changing and how destructive our education is becoming; most of the blame goes to the government as well as the colleges.
The Government plays a big role in dumbing down education by not really caring about how much our students are actually learning, instead they just pass them to try to compare with other countries education such as Japan, China as well as others that are above America and because our government doesn’t take our education seriously we are ranked really low compared to the other schools in different countries, also there is a conspiracy that not only is the government involved
A survey was done in 2010 at a local college “Only 3% of the country’s educational institutions require students to take an economics class before they’re allowed to graduate” (Adams). As a result of this Americas graduates are graduating functionally illiterate and non-educated. They don’t have any real world skills or the actual understanding of how our society works. They don’t know how to buy a house, pay taxes, supply and demand, stock market, etc. It is safe to say that America’s future looks grim and we should all be worried. What is being taught in classrooms is random, useless and meaningless; too much time is wasted on useless topics. America’s class curriculum is different than before. The purpose of education used to be to make a student an independent well rounded individual who can make a difference in the world with their knowledge. If that is the case then why do we have activities such as sports, dances and pep rallies? Although without these activities school would be dull and boring but most of the students would probably do better in school without all these distractions and useless