The New England educational system is dying

[Manjusri]

To anyone who takes the time to read this, thank you.

I live in the state of new hampshire, which is in the region of new england. Over the past 2 years or so new england's educational system has been diminishing to the point where now, at my school, we have 57 students per class room. (in some situations, that number exceeds 57)

Due to the high increase in student body population, my school is having a very had time keeping up with each student as an individual. As a result many students are falling behind with their education. Sadly, including myself.

Freshman year of high school was by far my worst school year. Typically i am able to hold an A/B average in all of my classes. However this year i accumulated numerous c's, d's, and in algebra, an f. This isn't because of a lack of my own intellectual standards, this is a result of an inflated student body.

Throughout my school years i am able to keep at the same, or higher, pace as some of the top students in my grade. Freshman year that did not happen. Due to a lack of understanding of our lesson plans, and the lack of teachers being able to help me understand those lessons, i started to fall behind. At which point to my own chagrin, i decided to stop trying as i had in previous years. I was unable to acquire the support i needed in my class (particularly algebra), and wound up failing first semester of Algebra 1, Lv. 3

I passed all of my other classes, at the end of the year my lowest grade averaged out to be a c.

After failing algebra i decided to take my education into my own hands. I began learning algebra, geometry, and some trigonometry via the internet. Also some psychics.

Now due to failing the first semester of algebra i was assigned to a summer school program, without any prior knowledge to their being a program like this that my school had offered. I started this program last week, as i was notified on very short notice. (School starts wednesday here, aug 29)

The first semester of Algebra included 42 lessons, 15 study guides, and 20 tests. Yes, they organized them in that fashion. You would complete a study guide, finish the lesson, and move on to a final test. (Some lessons did not have a test or a study guide, due to the lack of teachers and lack of time to complete the program)

The computers i was forced to use featured good ol' windows '98. Throughout almost every lesson my computer would crash, freeze, or just decide to not turn on. The one teacher who was assigned to a class room of 30 or so students didn't know shit about computers, or any of the subjects being taught for that matter.

Today was the last day of this program, and i was unable to finish. No worries though, my school had laid off so many teachers, one of my friend has 3 studies and a lunch. I'll have no problem finding an open period for credit recovery.

I'm posting this thread as some what of a notice for anyone in new england, or new hampshire for that matter. If your school is going through any of this, have you found any solution? Are you switching schools or courses to accommodate with the lack of education being offered?
I feel like i'm being given an unfair chance to further my education, as my school is on the verge of losing its creditability. Meaning it will no longer be recognized as a high school, and graduating from this school will be as good as nothing.

What do i do?

[xXJust Jump ItXx]

Haha Im in NH too! Thats funny and yeah Im gonna agree with you here the school system here sucks and is failing... Our school it use to do great and now things are falling... damn paranoid teachers too -_- But if you look at the kids grades here, they are good at all unless its advance classes, its not good. Okay I mean I kinda suck at algebra in itself, Im doing alot better but everything else Im great, I get A's in English and then most other kids in that class are failing? Its a normal class... its quite simple to do the work there and get it done if they try... Hell I wanna get outta NH! Not for school reasons but other ones... but yeah schools arent doing well.

[Foamy]

My school is actually a pretty good one for having one teacher for 25 or so kids. They always make the time for you whether or not there's others with lesser needs before you. I'm in ct btw.

[Professional Russian]

you know why they do that? because obama cut spending to school so they lay off some teachers and put more kids in less rooms makeing it a little cheaper so they money fo other things

[TheMatrix]

People n California think that 35 kids to a class is bad(it is). But 57!
The ways to get out of this quickly(I am speaking relatively) is to either get homeschooled, or even online school.
you know why they do that? because obama cut spending to school so they lay off some teachers and put more kids in less rooms makeing it a little cheaper so they money fo other things

I think you don't quite understand, and you seem to have missed the point, again. So, first of all, I'd like to pose some questions to you. You hate Obama. Okay, great. Now if I know enough about American elections and stuff, the other cannidate to choose from is Romney. Assuming he was voted for with his big promises, where will the money to improve the schools come from? Does Romney come with a huge wad of cash that can magically solve the USA's debt? Probably not.
So, to fulfill his promises(if he even goes that far), he will have to borrow even more money from other countries, including China. Yes, China. I think that the USA already owes them a lot, anyways.
But eventually, if the USA keeps spending, the money will eventually be gone, and the foreign countries will say "yeah, as if you can pay that back in the next hundred years", and we'll be in one big pickle. So then what? Sell war bonds, like in WWII? Conquer other countries? Oh, I know, let's invade Canada!
So anyways, there's only so much you can do with so much money. I'm not saying that it's morally right -- it isn't -- but unless everybody pays a few extra % in taxes per year, not much will come of things.

tl;dr? There ain't no cash left.

[Zarakly]

Maine here, and something that really messed up our education was, out of 3 towns 2 schools got shut down. So we all had to go to 1 school. This was bad because that meant no individual learning or anything anymore, if you didn't get it, better find out yourself. My school was pretty small, we had 13 in a class total. After they combined the schools, it went from a total of 13 to around 30. It was a big difference and caused a problem. Then we went onto High School. Our school was listed as a failing school so to stop that they decided to come up with this individualized learning thing. You think its going to be great, but they haven't done ANYTHING yet. They make it so homework doesn't count only formative assessments. And once you get the subject you can move on or you can repeat it if you don't which seems wonderful. I still don't feel like I'm learning as much as I should. I go to another school to take a class, and in that class I feel pretty dumb. Its JROTC so its military which I don't know a lot about, most of the students there want to be engineers of somesort(so do I) but they are jsut some much more smarter than I. The time it takes me to do a problem someones already beaten me by 2-3 seconds. Its sad. I forgot to mention, I am the person in the class that knows all the answers at my main school. I scored the highest on the test every test until second semester when we got someone else in. We were the 2 smartest in the class. And btw we were the only 2 people in that class from the school with 13. So I think that smaller classes do get taught more and are better for learning. 57 kids in a class I feel is unacceptable. That is ridiculous. At the max there should be like 30-35. I was in a class of 47 once and I was just stuck in the background noone could even see the potential I had. If you are able you should try and bring this subject up to your superintendent. They are one of the only people that could do something. And if that doesn't work you should write a letter to the governor. I really am sorry about your situation. That really sucks to be going from an A/B to C/D...