Educating Students In High Schools

High school is always considered some of the best years of life. Students live with their families, see their friends almost everyday, and participate in the activities they love with the people they love. It has enough freedom for the student to decide how hard they will try, but it also has just the right amount of restrictions that parents can step in to make the student work. High school also gives students many opportunities to succeed and keep letting them try again if they fail. For example, a math teacher may allow a student to retake two test throughout a semester, but if the student proves that they are trying in the class then the teacher may allow them to retake a few more tests. Also, schoolwork is not tedious or lengthy,

Are high schools in America truly preparing students for the future? America hasn’t changed the way students are taught in high school practically since it was developed around a century ago. In consequence, America’s high schools are lowering the full potential of the education students are receiving. Students that are coming out of high school now days, don’t feel like they learned anything that has prepared them for their adult life.

In “Serve or Fail,” Dave Eggers dissatisfies the phenomenon that although college students have too much leisure, they are not willing to give a few hours doing community services. Eggers suggests that colleges should consider instituting a service requirement for graduation, and colleges are best-poised to create in their students a lifelong commitment to volunteering. He pointed out that there are even programs done by colleges and high schools in order to gain more than two million volunteer hours a year. Owning a lot of time, Being mature and able to handle wide range of tasks, and receiving the opportunity to discover a potential career, make Eggers believes that college students are uniquely suited to do volunteer work. Eggers admits

Tired of the same old routine? Too much pressure is being put on high school students; some students do not even know how to cope with it. The way that the American public education system has planned to make these individuals succeed is really not how it should be. Students are being taught information that will not be as useful once they become adults. Students should be able to receive the knowledge they need in order to succeed in life. Students need an opportunity to be open-minded. There are many different goals that can be achieved to prepare these students for the real world.

Yes, I do agree during high school and senior year you make mistakes and learn from them, you explore many choices of potential careers you may go into, you meet new people and join and sign up for many new different things. You begin to learn things such as skills to prepare for the upcoming future outside of school and college. Preparedness for college and

High school is an experiment to prepare young people for the adult world. Having to come over to High School from Midlle school was a huge transformation. Having to do a great mass of home work each night, is hard. But the only hard thing is high school is knowing that you cant graduate. Being in my shoes Freshman year of High School is very hard, but I knew what to do to be successful and achieve great things.

High schools have a set core of classes that each student must take and pass, mandated by the government. There is very little flexibility or creativity a student has to use as an outlet, class wise. Students must all learn the same materials, regardless of future life goals. The objective of the class load in high school is to pass

Not everyone understands how important a higschool education is and how it shapes you into the person you're going to become. In highschool you get to pick who you want to be as a person, find your profession, and learn skills for the field you will be in. Although high school doesn't matter after you graduate, you could get a better profession with a highschool degree. A high school education is a must when it comes to college. When you apply for a job the employeers look to see if you got a high school educations. Maybe McDonalds does not require a highschool education, so If you drop out of highschool then McDonalds always has open doors. I believe that everyone should strive to receive a highschool education, because it could help

People argue about whether to keep students in school until they turn 18. However, contrary to what people may think school should keep students until they are of 18. Since people with high school diploma have more money, less chance of getting into jail or getting public assistance.

High school is like climbing a mountain, you have to start from the bottom and go up slowly until you get to the top. We worked for four years to reach the top so we can consider ourselves successful.

Over the course of hundreds of years, students have been overworked and put to much pressure on at a relatively young age. School is necessary for learning and developing many important traits for the real world but determining a young man or woman's whole career based off what they do in school from the ages of 13-18 is outrageous and not right. The expectations of students has grown out of proportion enough that a high school student barely can focus on their personal life. Now the students have to mainly focus on studying and maintaining high grade averages which seems is the only thing that matters now in school systems rather than learning.

One thing is for certain, high school wasn’t that easy. One must find what works for them throughout their four years of high school if they are wanting to graduate and go onto college. There are many positive aspects about being a high school student such as, meeting new people, learning material you will use in your later life, and having fun. However, there are some negative aspects about high school made me learn, and not necessarily the easy way. I’ve learned many things throughout high school but the most important are, time management, motivation, and work ethic.

Ever since we were kids we were told the reason we attend school is to prepare us for life. Life the ultimate game, where one fends for himself, although for us so far school is life, a person's spends 35 percent of his life in school. Every year of school we look forward to something better, But high school did not turn out to what it was talked up to be . High School was expressed to us as the best 4 years of your life where you grow up and become free and responsible for yourself. In reality each year of high school gradually caused me to stress out and freak out more about life ahead rather than teach me

Once a child graduates from elementary school and goes on to high school, he or she is already molded into the person he or she will be for the rest of his or her life. Sure all kids become more mature within those four years, but their values are still the same, and in some cases even stronger. In most circumstances, a child will use what they learned in the past to make decisions inhe future. High school, however, is important for other reasons as well. High school is the very last step before a student can enter the realm of higher education. Therefore, high school is essentially what prepares a student to go on to bigger and better things. High school is where

    Students of every grade level need to be educated on how to succeed not only outside of school, but for when they graduate their last year of college. It is imperative to start educating students of simple life lessons at a young age due to the same reason that it is recommended for elementary students to learn a foreign language at a younger age, it sticks. In a like manner, high school students need the same. Students in this age more than ever need to be equipped with the skills and knowledge of how to function in the real world, without having such skills the student is more than likely going to struggle after graduation, which is what colleges have been seeing for