Is our educational system too old fashion?

Should our educational system be changed in order to keep pace with our rapidly changing society?

When I was at school, eight years ago, doing my GCSEs, apart from maths, science and english, most of the subjects we were studying have no relevance into todays world and have all been forgotten by my feeble mind. What was the point of that education? What was the point of being forced to study religious education?

School children should learn more life skills - e.g. home financial economics, basic car repair, computer skills, on top of maths and english.

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While I am not entirely sure what you mean by being "old fashioned," it is apparent that our modern public school systems, by and large, don't seem to be doing their job. The solution, unfortunately, cannot be a quick switch to a new way of doing things unless a support system is in place. For example, in our local system, teachers are not given enough authority in their classroom; the reason for that is that schools are fighting to keep students on their rosters because they get paid by how many students they have. Clearly students everywhere have discovered this and standards have been relaxed far too much.

Change is always a double-edged sword; one must not only be prepared to support the changes on a permanent basis, which meets enough resistance by itself, but they must also pay the price in other ways, initially at least. An example of this would be to raise standards of behavior and insist on compliance. While the resistance to the idea would be significant, it would also encourage the marginal students to just stop going to school. Personally, I would require school or make them dig ditches or clean sewers. Sending them home to watch TV or hang out in the mall is not a suitable option. Sometimes key options are what people need.