Education in America is a complicated issue that divides people on both sides of the political spectrum. After having traveled around quite a bit, I can say that the amount of geographic knowledge that most Americans hold is next to zero. It's almost a bit embarrassing, to be honest. Once, just before boarding a plane to Tunisia, someone asked my nationality. When I replied that I'm American, he said "Oh. I didn't know people from your country go to Africa, let alone know … more
I really feel like there's so much going on revolving around education right now - both good and bad. It's really sad when I see on the news that teachers don't have enough money for PAPER, and have to start "advertising" on the bottom of the sheet to get money so they can print material for the class. And honestly, when people on Wall street are making a bajillion dollars by being greedy and hording money away from the rest of America... why is it that TEACHERS, who probably have one of the toughest … more