Too far gone?

While I do agree with Sir Ken Robinson on many of the points he brings up in the video we watched in Tuesdays class, I am going to propose the idea that however flawed our school systems currently are, they may be too advanced to change. While reform is necessary, I believe turning the educational system upside down might be a lost cause at this point for a couple reasons.

First, the industry produced by the growth of standardized tests and prescription medicines for ADD have sky rocketed in past years. Many services and individual tutor companies have been formed in order to help kids do better on their standardized tests. Parents today are willing to sacrifice and pay in order to raise their children’s chances on these tests. While this is not necessarily a bad thing, it will be hard to reverse the trend of the growing industries in the past years.

Another reason why changing the American educational system is a hard thing to accomplish is because of the fact that bringing about the change Sir Ken Robinson is hoping for would cause the system to start from scratch. In doing this, many grade levels and possibly a generation would be lost in the transition and thus be in a worse position than had they continued on with the current system. Not many people will be willing to make this change, knowing that as a generation, they will be the transitional period and thus less educated.