You don’t win track meets by sending in just anyone from your high school. You send in those best at each event. Our technological society depends on knowledge, innovation, and creativity. Other countries from around the world do have competitive education systems and they are preparing many times the number of engineers and other knowledge based jobs. We will not be able to compete in the future unless we similarly identify our most gifted students and provide them with everything they need to magnify their gifts. Heaven knows we spend millions upon millions providing facilities for our athletes to train and compete at the highest levels. Why don’t we do the same for our academic students where the stakes are real and the payoff is much higher? Not everyone is cut out for academic work requiring brain power. If you’re in the bottom half of the intelligence spectrum you’re going to struggle in higher math. Yet in many states, our “leaders” keep adding on math requirements for graduation. It’s an impossible goal that will frustrate students, parents, and drive good teachers out of the profession when they are expected to teach the unteachable and then pass them. reading for every state superintendunce of education, for every school board member, administrator, principal and teacher. We will never have a world-class education in the country until we are able to admit that not everyone needs to, or is capable of going to college but I know there are people out there who will attackas being elitist. Creation educational system that is more free and can truly adapt to the needs of the students rather than the teachers. like online points out that merely paying teachers more won’t change the quality of the teacher. What we need are better and more focused opportunities for the students. If that means letting new kinds of teachers teach, then so be it. Well actually not all teachers at school are really good teachers but most of them hate by students because teachers does not really give the best for their students.

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