/sci/ - Science & Math

The education system in the United States has become fucking atrocious. I went to school in the 80's, and even though my school had some issues, I got a pretty good education and ended up going to a decent college (Rutgers for my undergrad, Columbia for chemical eng. PHd). I have a nice who asked me to help her with her homework when I was at her family's house for thanksgiving and I couldn't fucking believe what kind of shit she was doing.

She had a packet that the teacher printed out from the Internet about multiple sclerosis and an accompanying worksheet that was just copy pasted sentences from the packet with a missing word. So all she had to do was find the words and insert them in the blank space. That's it. No critical thinking whatsoever.

I looked at her other homework, like writing an essay about what she learned from some bullshit teen-pop book they had to read for English class. The grading sheet was very strict as to what she should write about; 3 paragraphs, each 8 sentences in length. She had to use 10 of 15 vocabulary words in the essay and the things she "learned about" were already fucking given to her. So there is fucking zero creativity involved, zero critical thinking, zero THINKING at ALL involved. What the fuck???

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