User blog comment:Birdpool/Why the education system in the US needs a major overhaul/@comment-26470588-20170427143245

dangit i have to prevent myself from ranting because this is the exact kind of thing that I get triggered at

Starting from the back is the thing I get triggered at the most- at the end. "Why do they teach us about Trigonometry and Calculus and quantum physics when they could teach us how to code and do taxes or whatever?" The answer: Because they don't want you to work at a bad mcdonalds or work as some kind of telephone reciever. "But that won't happen!" I hear you say. "If I learn to code, i'll become the next Bill Gates!". No you won't, there's practically a one in a million chance for that. "I can at least work a high-paying job at some coding firm!" you retort. You could get an equally high-paying job or more high-paying job with the skills you learned- and you need to actually pay attention in school to get a good resume to even get a job.

Also, multiple teachers? Really? That ruins the flow of the classroom. Entirely, The most obvious and easiest solution to "How do you get students to pay attention?" is to not have distractions and having multiple teachers ruins that balance. You need the amount of time in the school day, also, in order to get students to learn everything they actually need.

"Food is trash." Bring your own food.

As for the sports issue... Oh I don't know, maybe the school doesn't want you to turn into a limbless blob made 85% of fat?

"The teacher to student ratio is trash." As mentioned before, the teacher needs to be a able to teach an entire class. The teacher should be challenged, too, and there's no challenge if they're teaching 12 kids. If they can't control the class, then get a better teacher!

Finally, to budget cuts. For one thing, these budget cuts are not the schools' fault- it's the fault of the fact that America spends more money on military than TWICE EVERY OTHER COUNTRY COMBINED and they can't bother to spend a nickel on education. For another thing, schools should be able to conserve enough money if they teach well.

Sorry if I sounded rude there.