Public Education and its Effects

There is a lot of arguments on the strengths and weaknesses on the public education system in the United States of America. I believe while it does have big issues, I think it does a heck of a job considering the pressures to conform to ever changing demands and all the different types of students that are expected to learn under the system. I do believe that it needs to be changed to fit modern society and the technology emerging as the students progress through the system. We all have had different experiences with the system, which leads to different views and different ideas. The only thing that can be done is to remodel the system to better fit the students that have to learn in this set system that was established long ago for less kids in smaller classes and limited resources such as little to no technology. It's nearly impossible to have a inner-city school student learning under a system made for students with more resources at their disposable. For example, a student from Loudoun County where the family might be able to supply a tutor compared to a student in inner-city Baltimore who most likely couldn't afford extra support and as a result falls back in his studies do to something out of his/her control. Different areas have a mixture of both effective teachers and ineffective educators. However, even the most effective of teachers can be found lacking if they are not provided with the same resources as ineffective teachers in other areas who have all the technology in the world to help them. One teacher who brings the subject to life for students who can only provide students with worn out copies of novels that are barely able to be read is limited to those sources and may not be able to provide copies for all of their students. Those teachers could bring about a new change in their students life and help them go far if only they were able to provide more support to their students. Teachers in the case often purchase materials and other things from out of their own pocket yet they often aren't paid enough so even they are unable to help their students no matter how much they desire to. Meanwhile, a teacher who sits at their desk during the entire class and just lets their students filled around on IPads and laptops as well as brand new individual books for the students give students the opportunities to explore the world around them or at least enough copies of previous standardized tests for them to practice on and do well on the real one. These people can do nothing for the students expect provide them with the resources and the students could still do better than less privileged students. The imbalance in resources and the fact that the education system favors areas where students do better on standardized tests can really prove that the system itself is biased and doesn't allow for every student to have the chance to succeed at times. I realize this idea brings up the question of how to determine who makes a effective teachers and who qualifies as a less effective; but, all major change will have big questions, in which their answers will have to be handled by the leaders of the new system whether it be a type of test or another solution.