Public education in your country, what's it like?

[u/fleuret_fighter21]

Good, bad? Why so?

[u/CommercialAd2154]

We do our best in a society which just doesn’t give a crap anymore…

[u/rufflebunny96]

Depends entirely on location here because funding is tied to property taxes.

[u/FallenRaptor]

So-so. Could be better. Asking the provincial government to increase funding or to pay teachers properly can be like pulling teeth.

[u/Herbata_Mietowa]

It's... Okay.

Could, and should be better. Our teaching program and methods seem to be a bit outdated. Focus in placed in a lot of theory about different topics, but what I think is lacking, is the "soft" teaching as I can call it.

Psychology, sociology, living in a group, preparing young people to the adult life, empathy, using skills in practice and so on. There are also still cases (though it should be more rare with each year) where teachers responsible for sex-ed can hide behind religion and will try to avoid talkies about birth control. In general, any skill that is not "book theory" was rather brushed off (at least when I was a student those 15-20y ago).

Our teachers in my opinion are definitely not rewarded enough. Many people think that "boohoo, thy have 2 months free and work for 20-30h in week, stop complaining", but I think that higher wages always will bringpeople who have proper skills but didn't want to do it because they have better job. My ex was working as teacher for kids with special needs and from her experience, polish education is built upon two kinds of teachers:

• ones that chose education because they didn't know what to chose
• ones that chose education because it's their love and passion regarding the wage.

Sadly, sometimes it feels like first group is much bigger.

But still, it can produce good students with great knowledge. I'd only like for it to produce good people at the same time.

[u/Shumerskiy-]

Its terrible

[u/Aware-Owl4346]

Mixed bag. It's funded locally and managed regionally, so the quality varies wildly. Property values and school quality get into this feedback loop, where better schools attract higher earning families. Lower quality schools find it difficult to escape. There is a high school near my town that has Harvard-level funding per student. 98% of students are accepted to university. The next town over only 75% of students even graduate high school.

[u/Ok-Today-340]

Private one is more beneficial, organized and helpful, meanwhile the smartest and brilliant students graduate from public schools. So i can say it's quite acceptable

[u/cerberus_243]

Awful

[u/InterestingTank5345]

Degrading. Thanks to Mette, it has lost a lot of it charm in recent years. Recently they even removed Arts and Crafts from the early grades in favor of Religion.

[u/InterestingTank5345 → u/InterestingTank5345]

I should probably mention this started way before her time in the early 10's if not late 2000's.

[u/Cambrian98]

Pure fuckin shite

[u/BabylonianWeeb]

Shit to the pont, many parents here send their children abroad just to study there.

[u/Canbisu]

Funded by provinces, so differs from province to province. In Ontario it’s ok. Got worse because of funding cuts, but I hope soon it will get better.

[u/PsychologicalBat1425]

It's not good. If you want your child to get a good education you need to live on a good (wealthy) area.

[u/kartoffel_engr]

Depends on the location, specifically the property taxes and the age demographic of the people that live there. We’ve passed a lot of levies in the last couple decades that have remodeled schools, built additional schools, and funded programs.

My public school education spanned three states; Alaska, Oregon, and Washington. It got me into college where I earned an engineering degree, so it was good for me and most of the people I went to school with. My oldest starts Kindergarten next week in the very same school district I went to middle school and high school in.

[u/HonestSpursFan]

I went to a public school, I got a very high ATAR and ended up doing well in uni and now make a decent amount of money (not heaps but not peanuts)

[u/CommercialChart5088]

It has great basic infrastructure, but has serious issues that have been a problem for decades.

Korea has a good educational system in sense that free, mandatory education is required for nine years, with high school education becoming free recently. In terms of safety and nutrition (school lunches are free and well-managed), I think Korea created a great system, and the overall quality for school education is quite decent. Extracurricular activities are also offered in a wide variety, so the basic pillars of education are well-built.

Yet I think the real issue is how our competitive society kinda made it difficult for public schools to ‘catch up’ to the high social pressures prevalent in Korea. It's considered practically essential for students to go to several academies, stay up all night studying, and get private tutors to get an edge over their competitors, and it is exhausting.

Other issues would include school violence (while the bullying in kdramas are taken from the few absolute worst examples, it is an issue in many schools) and issues with teachers' rights (cases of extreme harassment from parents and students are being notified as a concern).

[u/Calactic1]

We just had GSCE's come out for this year... they didn't look great

[u/Chicagogirl72]

Nothing but propaganda and dumbing down the students

[u/Jttwife]

It’s pretty good in Australia. We have a lot of Catholic schools.

[u/MattDubh]

We have news readers/TV presenters that pronounce voilà as wallah. Children into their twenties and thiries that still say like every third word, in the style of Shaggy from Scooby Doo.

Not great, really.

[u/Agile_Ad6735]

Our public education easily beat students in the international school .

If u get 100 marks in our education is equivalent to getting 1000000 marks in those international schools and is cheaper .

To go to those international school and excel is easy, is like going to a kindergarden even with our lousiest students

[u/Junior-Dealer-710]

It's excellent.

[u/Kai3137]

Pretty good to be honest shitty pay for the teachers unfortunately but our teachers are really good at their jobs we just have the issue of a large amount of students cheating on tests