Proposals to Solve Provlems

In Korea, there is a scene of a teacher lecturing in a classroom with lots of students dozing off. More and more big and small private institutions are appearing steadily. At first, they were considered to be for schoolwork’s make up for those who fall behind but are now changing into stronger and more necessary they think than public schools are. According to a survey, the gap of entering a university between the students and the ones who try a year more has been increasing. It tells us that people depend more on private institutions rather than a real school which used to be original. How can our school system retrieve its own traditions and authorities?

Above all, the overall renovation of the education system is now required. In Korea, almost every student struggles to admit to so-called ‘the top ranking’ universities. This fact is getting severe because the result affects which job to be given and ultimately the money they can earn. While admitting to the university is very tough, graduating from it is rather easy. This leads to the higher competition among the high school students, so they think private institutions can meet the expectations of them. The collapse of public education of Korea can be solved by changing these overall atmospheres of society as well as education.

Another specific proposal for solving the problem can start by trying some change of a classroom. It is said that the number of students in a classroom of Korea is the most of all OECD countries. Even though it has been lessened to 35 to 40 people, it is still too much to deal with all of them for one teacher. A teacher is not able to care each of them and it ends up for students putting more emphasize on their private teacher who can teach in more detail asking and answering questions. With more classrooms and less students in a room, the public schools would have more possibilities to go back to original.

Accepting more professional teachers can be one of the solutions. Many students and their parents are complaining about some teacher’s lack of expertise. Some teachers stick to their teaching methods or materials for 30 years without speculating about big and small changes. Teachers who cannot answer students’ questions are not that hard to find. Scouting foreign teachers to foreign language subjects or higher standard process of choosing a teacher are being required. I guess it can prevent students from not trusting their teacher any more.

Society is changing every day and that is why education system of Korea should not be stuck in some old-fashioned way. More and more parents are worrying about money spent on kids’ private education. It is time for public education to strengthen and to retrieve its own authority it used to have. Only big and small changes of public education can stop the trend of the overheated private education.