#2 - Complexity - An Opinion
The education system is incredibly complex. Centuries of experience, various ideals, a number of political and religious motivations, federal quests for power, states appetite for control, vested interests like unions and publishers - everyone has a iron in the fire.
It would take an army of administrators, bureaucrats, executives, lawyers, accountants, experts, authorities and consultants to understand and decode the system.
It might be complicated for a reason. It’s hard to navigate the system. Maybe the people who work in the government, school administration and state bureaucracies make it so complicated that you can’t penetrate it and see what they’re doing or stop them from doing what they want.
It should be pretty simple. Put students in a classroom with books, teachers and a curriculum and - voila - an education. But, we make it so much more complicated. Lunches, child care, school rules, a plethora of opinions about how you should do it, protection from this, guard against that, profits for institutions and publishers. It seems like every time you turn around there is a really good reason to make it complicated.
Actually, it should revert back to something more simple. Get back to straight ahead schooling. Get rid of the fluff.
Authentic things are usually simple.
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