Criticism of Turkiye’s Education System
In Turkiye, education is free and compulsory in the first three stages, elementary school, middle school, and high school, which is 12 years in total. However, we all doubt the quality of all these stages. Any student from a middle-class average family in Turkiye, can not get a proper education. It seems so, but most of the time it is not. Reasons for this can be a lot of things, classes are too crowded, teachers’ income is not enough, which results in worse work efficiency, students do not have equal opportunities even if they are in the same classroom, the fact that we still have village schools with so little materials, and so many reasons are valid. In addition to these and many more problems, there is one big issue, and that is the evaluation system in general. Students are taking so many exams each year and the “big” exams such as LGS and YKS. And it is inevitable that measuring students’ knowledge multiple times throughout the year and then using them instead of one exam’s r