Taylors thoughts on "A Vision of Students Today"

In “A vision of students today” by Michael Wesch, and his students at Kansas State University, I think they are implying a few things. One problem is that Americans are not taking their education for granted, and that our education system is failing. A couple of the statements mentioned included that the average class size is 115 people, and that only 18% of their teachers know their names. So how would the ever know if the students even attended class, just like when the girl held the statement saying her neighbor paid for class and never shows up. Last year at my old college, in one of my classes I only attended three days of class, and I did not show up for the final, but somehow I passed with a 4.0! How about the boy who says he pays hundreds of dollars for books and never reads them, or the girl who says she will be twenty thousand dollars in debt by the time she is done with school. I think that those who do not pay for their own school tuition and our books don’t take their classes seriously because they are not spending their own money. America’s kindergarten through the twelfth grade system has even a bigger problem. One of my friend’s parents used to teach in Asia and they say that they hate teaching in the US because kids are rude, lazy, and don’t appreciate what they have, unlike kids in other countries who are lucky to get an education or lucky to EVER own a computer. The signs that said over a billion people make less than a dollar a day, or how some people don’t make enough money in a year to buy a laptop. Our society is consumed by technology, like the people in class who don’t do their work instead they surf the Internet and check their face book updates. I do it to. Children our learning younger and younger how to use these technologies, like my girlfriends little sisters who are 7 and 9 and can do more things on a computer than I can. Or how in the middle of this video if you stop it at three minutes and twenty three seconds, enlarge it and there is a boy I the middle of the class texting while the rest of the class is holding up their statements. We are all distracted by technology but that is not why our education system failing. Its our society, and our class room structure that set us up for failure.