Is Federal Education Tainted?
As its own name describes, federal education provides regulations and a tight overview on all matters pertinent to education. What is to be taught on school and why and when, it banns topics and issues when they are deemed to “prejudicial” for children of a certain age and, naturally, they are the ones that come up with “great” ideas such as vivisection of live organisms aka frog killing in classrooms.
Federal education overall has been good idea all along, it has provided the necessary elements for children to be educated at the same pace, giving them equal opportunities of achieving successful jobs and making private schools work harder to give their own alumni access to even more privileged access to a professional environment.
This is why most parents prefer their children to go to public schools. In addition, it is the exact same reason why federal education has been chastised for so long.
Prohibiting issues in public schools when they are been taught in private institutions, is viewed as the crumbling of what would have been a great educational system. The irrational and more often than not politically incorrect statements from government officials on other countries’ policies and economical development mainly cause this view of the entire federal educational system.
Of course, everyone is entitled to a personal opinion, however, when this personal opinion becomes a motto and an educational law, then most parents will definitely have something to say. To quote an example suffices, to remember sexual education and the ongoing debate that has occupied schools and the entire school system for over a decade.
Moreover, in an increasing international world where professional careers are built without borders and throughout the internet and other international means require that young students and young adults grow without these fears and prejudicial views on other faiths, economic environments and development, race, creed, language and many more that have caused cold wars and world war in the past.
Federal education have the moral obligation to provide students with the right knowledge and mind building to be able to sort out every new information and either consider it particular of a culture, discard it as noxious or adopt it as enlightment. Of course, the first line of this education lies in the teachers and it is the moral duty of the federal government to make sure they do.
In the end, the view of the parents and consumers will determine if federal education is tainted or not.
The Alliance for Excellent Education has an insightful section in reference to Solutions in Educational performance of low performing students.