Here’s another issue with TUSD…a serious Daft Punk deficiency in the educational process. What if synchronized sign holding is the job of the future? The Koreans are already way ahead of us. It’s sad, really.
This article appears in Jan 5-11, 2012.
Quality Education in Korean Schools
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On the other hand, the South Koreans have a far better educational system than the U.S. does. I teach at the School of Visual Arts in New York, where we get many international students, and by far the largest number come from South Korea. They may have some English issues, like all international college students from non-English speaking nations, but their reading, critical thinking, math and science skills and knowledge base is superior to that of American high school graduates. OECD rankings of educational systems confirm this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/20…
They may score higher, but Korean high school kids are usually in school from 8 AM until 7 PM, then go to private academies until 11, when the new law bans classes from continuing. Then they go home and study until they can study no more, sleep a couple hours, and do it all again the next day. These kids have very high stress levels, and in terms of better math/science scores, but is that worth it? For kids to be very narrowly focused? After teaching here, I feel my education back in America was far better, since I learned bits of everything, including self reliance. I’d like to see some of my kids try that in a few years.
Thanks for posting my video, by the way!
–Dani