U.S. Education Concerning

Following up on a previous story, education appears to be getting worse, creating a concerning trend in the U.S.

Michael Wallace is an instructor at the Los Angeles Recording School in Hollywood Calif. He claims, “I have heard that there were some new factors, that they were making it harder for people to get financial aid so that may have an impact on enrollment.”

Wallace is right. Financial aid has become more difficult to attain. There is also a severe regression in enrollment.

“Teacher layoffs are inspired by lower enrollments.” he exclaims adding, “Class sizes do seem to be increasing.” Wallace notes, “A higher student to teacher ratio does mean less individual time for each student to ask questions or that sort of thing so I think that will adversely affect things.”

Wallace doesn’t think that the lack of financial aid is the only reason for the decline in the education system, however. He adds, “I think more students want to go to college than used to, not necessarily for the right reasons. I think a lot of kids want to go to school because they want to continue to be students. I think there’s a general feeling amongst the students that everything is really skewed to benefit those who do go to college.

Michael Wallace continues, “The job market is just getting tougher and tougher and so more students want to go to college because they feel like that’s the only way they’ll have a shot. Because the economy has been rough and the job market’s been rough, it’s even more competitive so more students want to go to college, not necessarily because they want to learn but because they want to position themselves in a better spot.” Michael believes that this reason for attending school is detrimental to the learning process and can lead to behavior problems since the students don’t actually want to be attending classes.

There may be some small hope for U.S. education, though it is still concerning. Federal spending for education is estimated to increase every year at least through 2019.