Good Morning North and South America, and Hello to all of you overseas! The topic I have picked for this week is: Kids spoilt but stupid? Nowhere else but here are kids capitalized. Everything, and I mean everything revolves around the educational upbringing and schooling of children.
With school budgets that are incomparably sky- rocketing and which for the main part consist of school taxes every home owner is obligated to pay regardless of whether they have kids or not, and with a giant coach network - almost like a yellow school bus epidemics - for students' transport to and from school, you might want to think, wow those kids must be doing absolutely fantastic, right? Wait, that's not all yet. Peers worldwide might indeed be googling so hard with envy here that their eyes would probably pop out if they only knew. So, what's more, US students attend schools that have fully functional canteens plus on average much better equipped sports facilities than I have ever seen elsewhere. Gee, those kids really must be outstandingly well- educated, well- nourished and above all athletic beyond anything alike. - Well, if it were like that, I would not bother wasting any of my time, for sure. Anyway, the mockery is indisputably on the American society which apparently still whole- heartedly enough supports all this luxury for their off- spring - but at what prize, I wonder. So, are American kids any smarter, fitter or skinnier that students in other countries? The answer is flat- out NO, not all all. Alright, where does all the money go to if not primarily into an education that is supposedly fit enough to stand international comparison? What do kids need a school canteen for if they end up being just as poorly nourished and/ or as obese as their parents? And seriously, do you really think that all those astronomous expenses for stadiums, tennis courts, athletic fields, swimming pools, etc. are necessary additions to a pupil's curriculum? US students are not any fitter or skinnier. On the contrary, most adolescents will gain more weight than the rest of the world. Again, my curiosity here on why all those theme- park like sports fields, courses, pits and pools are so much required if in the end US students are definitely knocked out of the ball park by basically every other nation on earth with way fewer privileges and much lower standards. American students are no match whatsoever for the rest of the world, I'm afraid because quite obviously detouring into sports is more of a thrill than acquiring a good and solidly profound education. My sincere sympathy! On a final note, let me give you a brief insight into what things are like in my country as far as schooling is concerned. We very much rely on public transport to begin with. There is no such thing like school buses swarming out of their terminals to pick our kids up at home and drop them off there again after school. Besides, the crime rate of minors being abducted or sexually molested is not even worth mentioning. Our schools don't usually own but rent sports facilities nearby their locations. Lots of schools still include small vendors where students get snacks and beverages.
And most importantly, the majority of schooling time is indeed spent indoors - in the class rooms that is. All together our students graduate smarter, skinnier and physically fitter than their peers here. Oh, I almost forgot. We do not pay school taxes. The state subsidizes our schools, and they must one way or another financially cope with what they get - which by the way is only a ridiculous fraction of US school budgets. Well, draw your own conclusions from this, and please weigh in.
With school budgets that are incomparably sky- rocketing and which for the main part consist of school taxes every home owner is obligated to pay regardless of whether they have kids or not, and with a giant coach network - almost like a yellow school bus epidemics - for students' transport to and from school, you might want to think, wow those kids must be doing absolutely fantastic, right? Wait, that's not all yet. Peers worldwide might indeed be googling so hard with envy here that their eyes would probably pop out if they only knew. So, what's more, US students attend schools that have fully functional canteens plus on average much better equipped sports facilities than I have ever seen elsewhere. Gee, those kids really must be outstandingly well- educated, well- nourished and above all athletic beyond anything alike. - Well, if it were like that, I would not bother wasting any of my time, for sure. Anyway, the mockery is indisputably on the American society which apparently still whole- heartedly enough supports all this luxury for their off- spring - but at what prize, I wonder. So, are American kids any smarter, fitter or skinnier that students in other countries? The answer is flat- out NO, not all all. Alright, where does all the money go to if not primarily into an education that is supposedly fit enough to stand international comparison? What do kids need a school canteen for if they end up being just as poorly nourished and/ or as obese as their parents? And seriously, do you really think that all those astronomous expenses for stadiums, tennis courts, athletic fields, swimming pools, etc. are necessary additions to a pupil's curriculum? US students are not any fitter or skinnier. On the contrary, most adolescents will gain more weight than the rest of the world. Again, my curiosity here on why all those theme- park like sports fields, courses, pits and pools are so much required if in the end US students are definitely knocked out of the ball park by basically every other nation on earth with way fewer privileges and much lower standards. American students are no match whatsoever for the rest of the world, I'm afraid because quite obviously detouring into sports is more of a thrill than acquiring a good and solidly profound education. My sincere sympathy! On a final note, let me give you a brief insight into what things are like in my country as far as schooling is concerned. We very much rely on public transport to begin with. There is no such thing like school buses swarming out of their terminals to pick our kids up at home and drop them off there again after school. Besides, the crime rate of minors being abducted or sexually molested is not even worth mentioning. Our schools don't usually own but rent sports facilities nearby their locations. Lots of schools still include small vendors where students get snacks and beverages.
And most importantly, the majority of schooling time is indeed spent indoors - in the class rooms that is. All together our students graduate smarter, skinnier and physically fitter than their peers here. Oh, I almost forgot. We do not pay school taxes. The state subsidizes our schools, and they must one way or another financially cope with what they get - which by the way is only a ridiculous fraction of US school budgets. Well, draw your own conclusions from this, and please weigh in.
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