School is an ineffective system that needs to be rethought

Hey. This is my first time debating 1 to 1, and I"ve go to say, I like the structure of your argument! However, there were some minor problems. First of all, most of your sources come from your personal experience, which is wrong. (Some of these personal experiences are anecdotal evidences.) You did mention in your argument "I"ve corrected incorrect curriculum, talked to teachers about why I disagree with their lessons, and I"ve only been rebuked for my "bad" behavior". Yes, this may be true to YOU, but not to everyone. This argument is saying like, "I have met a black person and he or she was mean to me. Due to this conclusion, I say that all black people are mean." And we all know that this argument is wrong Similar this scenario, even if you had bad teachers, that doesn"t mean that all school must have bad teachers. This is also the same to the paragraph when you described about this particular teacher that wasn"t nice. Even if that teacher, you experience, wasn"t nice, doesn"t mean every single teacher isn"t nice. And also doesn"t prove a point that all bad teachers don"t get fired frequently using your personal experience too. That also brings me to the next point when you said " Teacher unions make it nearly impossible to fire a bad teacher. ". Check out this website: https://www.washingtonpost.com... From this website, it talks about how bad teachers are being fired, even in "highly unionized districts". Eunice Hans says, "What I found is that the facts are the opposite of what people think: that highly unionized districts actually fire more bad teachers." So, bad teacher are being fired even with teacher unions being in use. So what does this information lead to? Well, let"s say a teacher was fired. It is most likely that the teacher was fired due to being a bad teacher. However, if the bad teacher were to still be there, that"s when the First Amendment must come in: freedom of speech. People should speak up saying that this particular teacher was being bad. Also, it is incorrect for you to say that students are little robots in school. The First Amendments does say that we have the freedom of speech. Freedom of speech may include asking questions, and even correcting the teacher. Also, if a student does not wish to ask a question, that"s also a freedom of speech, too. Seeing this, schools do have an effective system to make sure that the student get the right education. Also, this is what you said about clubs: "I don"t need schools to micromanage my social life" But the thing is, clubs are choices, not a mandatory thing. I"m just trying to say that school offer clubs that could lead to many opportunities for and grade level. Also, some schools did sign up for the "School Meal Programs" in the United States. This program provide free or low cost lunch for the students, that contains neutrally balanced meals. But not only that, this program is in private and public schools. Seeing how some schools are developing their way to provide students free or even low cost meals, that one effective system that schools are trying to make. To support this, here"s the website: https://www.fns.usda.gov... Educational wize, there are schools that are free, known as public schools. (That"s another effective system that schools are trying to do.) Now, I am sure that many schools do offer honor classes, AP classes, high schools classes, and etc. These high degree of classes are first, your choice. You could either take these high classes or not. However, if a teacher believes that a particular student needs to go to a higher class, then the teacher would probably do it (with the permission of the student and that student"s parents). This is another way of how schools are being effective. I would also like to mention when you said "I"m disputing that it"s the students fault" Whenever you said that, that statement is basically contradicting your 4th paragraph. You said how teachers are the reason schools are ineffective and causing students to get prepared to work in "factories". However, when you brought up that particular statement, it basically contradicts your whole 4th paragraph. But not only that, what do even mean that schools are preparing students for factories? There"s not enough evidence that proves your point. The only strongest point you made was "That"s why we sit in straight rows, raise our hands, and are considered to be mischievous and a bad student (talking back) for politely challenging the rules." Also, the pictures really didn"t prove a point, too. First of all, the pictures did not have any source with it. And second, what if these pictures were just from a movie and not the actual life? The next point I do want to make is that there are these "special program" for schools. For example, this may include Gifted and Talented Programs, Magnet Programs, etc. Now, think about it. Schools are dividing each other into smaller categories to help students get challenged by their peers. But not only that, students are learned in DIFFERENT ENVIROMENTS as these student attend different programs for a certain school. Finally, schools do spend money (from student funds) for the student"s benefit. But schools also use money for the teacher"s and principal's benefit in schools that are not public school. It may be true that SOME schools may emphasize in buying a certain thing, but mostly, all the important stuff that are educational purposes are bought, especially for the students. This website states give a summary: http://education.findlaw.com... This also leads me to say that, please prove your claim for when you said: "We should be spending more money on counselors, better curriculum, and lowering student/teacher ratios instead of wasting our budget on fancy sports arenas." (Because I would like to say not ALL school are wasting their budget on fancy sports arena.) This proves my point that schools are indeed actually effective for students. Best wishes, Jason