Learning 2.0
    My main thoughts today come on the teaching side of the learning spectrum. Does America under pay their teachers? According to my mother yes they do, that is all i have heard for the last 22 years of my life. Growing up in a household where your mom is a teacher, your uncle is a teacher and your grandpa was a teacher and principal you hear a lot about faculty meetings, grading, parents yelling at teachers ect.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jack-jennings/teacher-pay-us-ranks-22nd_b_940814.html
    in this article it explains that the US ranks 22 out of 27 countries when it comes to paying their teachers. One thing i really enjoyed about this web page was the quote from U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan which said, "Money is never the reason why people enter teaching, but it is the reason some people do not enter teaching, or leave as they start to think about beginning a family or buying a home. Today, too often the heart-breaking reality is that a good teacher witha decade of classroom experience is hard-pressed to raise a family on a teacher's salary." 

This is from 2012 but i don't imagine we have climbe to much on the scale mainly because i feel that education is so greatly over looked in our country because the people who are making the most money are the ones playing sports or recording albums. So everyone is aspiring to be either an athlete or the next rap artist.

This is the problem with the learning system now days. Kids have been given everything and they don't have to work for anything anymore. If we want the learning system to start to climb back up and get to the level of other countries we need to change a few things. The first thing we need to change is the way we pay teachers. I am not saying all teachers deserve more money but i am saying all teachers deserve a chance to earn more money by letting them prove their teaching abilities with state or even nation wide tests in each subject they teach. At the end of the year make the kids take these tests and actually make it count towards their grades so they are expected to try hard on these tests and lets see how the teachers begin to teach and put forth more effort. The second thing is explained in the picture above. Parents need to understand the problem is coming from inside their own homes not anywhere else. Parents encourage your children to excel don't blame the teachers for your child's behavior if you don't teach them at home they probably don't pay attention or give respect in the classroom any ways.
I close this rant on teachers not being paid enough and students being to highly praised and babied now days. Grow up and take responsibility for your actions. Mom and dad wont be going in to work and yelling at your boss when he fires you for being lazy. Don't start bad habits in school because they wont go away.
    Some of the top reasons families choose to home school is simply because they have the control. I have compiled a list that is copied from the website
http://www.nheri.org/research/research-facts-on-homeschooling.html

·         customize or individualize the curriculum and learning environment for each child,

·         accomplish more academically than in schools,

·         use pedagogical approaches other than those typical in institutional schools,

·         enhance family relationships between children and parents and among siblings,

·         provide guided and reasoned social interactions with youthful peers and adults,

·         provide a safer environment for children and youth, because of physical violence, drugs and alcohol, psychological abuse, racism, and improper and unhealthy sexuality associated with institutional schools, and

·         teach and impart a particular set of values, beliefs, and worldview to children and youth.

 When looking at the test results, homeschool students on average do much better than kids in public schools. They score in the 15-30 percentile higher than those kids in the public schools. The website also says that the home-educated students score higher on ACT and the SAT on average.

Stats don't lie! Public schools stick to the system to much and homeschool and private schools are more committed to sending kids towards success rather than getting them out of school and on to the next kids.

This to me is why public school systems don't work! They don't focus on each individual and they don't adjust their teachings. For example, I graduated from High School in 2008, yes a public high school, now 6 years later my sister is taking the same class as a Junior in high school from the same teacher and nothing has changed in the class right down to the same exact syllabus. Times have changed and teachers have to except and adapt their teachings.