Not Going To School

In the United States, the average student wakes up around 6-8 a.m. in order to attend school to meet the country’s requirements in education. Because students are waking up early everyday, they are extremely unmotivated to achieve their country’s expectations. Students are expected to excel in math, science, English, and social studies, and they expect them to use their knowledge in these four categories to help make the country the best educated country. In my opinion, this puts a lot of pressure on the students, and discourages them to actually learn the material they are taught. Rather than absorbing the material, the students are memorizing it in order to pass the next exam, and once they pass the exam with an A, they completely forget about the material. Because the students are disinterested, this makes the teachers jobs extremely boring. In the piece, “Against School” by John Taylor Gatto, Gatto utilizes ethos and logos to convince the public that the school system is flawed, and students deserve a better education that what they are receiving due to the fact that students are constantly bored in their ‘laboratories of experimentation’.

Schooling is widely available throughout America with nearly everyone attending school up to at least high school, and most attending college. It has become possible for children of all ethnic backgrounds, all social and economic classes to attend schooling. However, schooling and receiving an education are two different concepts. Just because students endure years of schooling does not mean they are receiving the best possible education. All of this schooling is ideally supposed to prepare the child for adulthood, but is it actually doing this? In the article “Against School” by John Taylor Gatto, Gatto examines the schools and their system of education in order to inform people about the failure of the current education system. He introduces the idea that today's schooling system delivers an incomplete education, instead turns creative children into mindless machines, in order to spread awareness and hopefully produce change throughout schools.

All the children who go to these schools are eventually going to be out of school and have a life of their own. Even though the school did not prepare them for life, life is still going to happen, they just are going to have to struggle every day to figure out how to make it work. These adults who got thrown into the real world with nothing are eventually going to start a family, then what? They did not even have the tools to support themselves but now they

One of the brightest men to have lived, Albert Einstein, commented about school, ”School failed me, and I failed school. It bored me…I wanted to learn what I wanted to know.” One of the greatest to have walked this earth stated school was not the way to go, because it had failed him for not teaching him the way he believed to be right. Now growing up and going to college why would it not be the same way? Anyone else could feel as if school is failing them so they will fail the school.

School to help you with something but only the basic. In all my school years most of my my teachers in the past always say this what you need to know when you going to the next grade. They mostly talk about what I need to know when I get to I high school. Now most of my teacher teaching what I need to know when I get to colleg. There nothing wrong with that, but what about after college. There sometime some of my old teacher to talk about how the real world is like but they stop and get back to the topic they was teaching about. School do have health class to teach you about sex and drug also how to taker of you body. But why there not a class that is about who life after high school.

I believe, that school could possibly be one of the caves in our youth's lives. We are all required to go by government laws in order to get a career and to support ourselves as well as our family members. We all progress together with the same educational material given to us by federal people who deem it suitable. We cannot choose classes that we think would help us in our future careers in place of other ones we do not think will help. For example, I a high schooler, am required to take three years of math.

From Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Diary, he writes, “[People are] always haunted by the idea [they’re] wasting [their] life”. People contemplate if what they are doing is worth their time or if what they are doing is considered a waste of time. When students complete high school, they have the choice of going to college or not going to college. They then question the pros and cons of attending college and the pros and cons of not attending college. Some people argue that college is worth going to because of the benefits college provides such as more, available opportunities or getting a higher income. They view college as an investment for the future. Despite the benefits college may provide, others find college not worthwhile and think those who

People have many different opinions on school matters and how the system should work. Some believe that school should eliminate the letter grades and replace it with the pass/fail system. They believe that students credit for self-studying and internet gained knowledge. Also, they should be able to repeat a course, even after the student has successfully completed it. I could agree with some of these opinions, but I do not agree with all of them. So, I will tell you my opinion about some of these issues we are dealing with.

THE WORLD HAS PROGRESSED! We need people in this world who think creativly, inovatively, independently and criticaly with the ablitlty to connect to one another. Every scientist will tell you that no two brains are the same. So why should they trick students and make them feel like a fish and tell it to climb a tree. It’s just like if a doctor proscribed the exact same medicine to everyone the results would end up being tragic all of his patients would get sick. Yet when it comes to school that is exactly what happens its educational malpractice. Its where one teacher stands infront of about 20 kids and every kid has different strengths, different weaknesses, different dreams, and different gifts. Yet they teach the same thing to every kid. THATS HORRIFIC! It’s a shame to teaches have the most important jobs on the plannet yet their underpaid. No wonder so many students are short changed. Honestly a teacher should be paid as much as a doctor because a doctor can do heart sugery and that doctor can save the life of a kid, but a teacher can reach into that kids heart and truly allow that kid to truly live to that kids fullest potential. Teachers

Schools are preparing students for a world that doesn’t exist. Schools’ learning curriculums teach us students facts, but never teach us how to use the facts or why they’re important for us to know. If you were to turn into an adult in the next ten minutes, you wouldn’t know the first thing to do as an adult, on your own in the real world. Think about where you’d live, who your family would be, what car you’d have, what food you’d eat, what job you’d have, what’d you do if you were held at gunpoint, what to say to anyone who asks you a question or gets mad at you for whatever reason or even what you’d do if your car stopped in the middle of nowhere without cell phone service. Maybe you’re able to answer some of those but definitely not most.

Going to college we encounter people with views and experiences unlike our own. People from all around coming together for one common purpose, to get an education. In college you become immersed in diversity and diversity goes way beyond race; it’s about different life experiences, different perspectives, and different cultures. My leadership skills and creativity is what makes me remarkable. I am a go getter with a wide range of ideas, I perceive the world in new ways, make original connections, and generate solutions. I have had a multitude of experiences in my sixteen years of living, but my most important life lesson was failure. Freshman year my home life had drastically changed and I lost my support system which had a negative effect

Often times, a communities job is to educate their citizens. So, if some of those citizens are not coming to school because of an unexcused reason, it it also their job to figure out why. If a school wants students to be successful, truancy should be decriminalized.

Growing up I’ve always believed that everyone has a purpose to become something great in life. We are not only here by choice, but we are here for a reason. Many of us want to become doctors, nurses, lawyers, social workers, teachers, actors, and even musicians. There is so much to accomplish in life, but we forget the long road and hard work that comes along with it. At some point in time, we all are going to need to be educated. In order to stay healthy we have to eat right. It is just like education, in order to gain more knowledge and understanding we have to be educated. Coming from a family that strongly believes that education comes first, I now see for myself that in order for me to become prosperous in the career I someday plan to

"The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see." -Alexandra K. Trenfor. Honestly, at this point in life I feel like our public education system has been designed to fail students. Teachers don't have the power to teach children lesson on life anymore. We have to teach children to copy-and-paste and learn to regurgitate answers to pass a standardized test that doesn't even properly display how much a child as excelled. Children are going to be illiterate if they're not taught properly. They'll never be able to know how to deal with real world problems or survive financially with how the education system is right now.

Getting an education from a school for some reason is considered the ‘key’ to success. The key to our life goals and dream jobs, but why? We are letting a letter grade determine if we are smart or unintelligent regardless of any other acquired talent. Ralph Emerson states in “The Education” text, “the power of performance is worth more than knowledge.” This quote is extremely powerful because it can relate to a child. From day one, children are taught what to think and what they ‘need’ to learn. They are being brainwashed by these schools that should be called factories. Schools kill any sense of creativity and reasoning because kids and teenagers are so overpowered with a fear of failing and letting a letter grade decide what kind of student they are. Failing throws a label on our forehead and lowers self confidence all because test scores are so highly looked upon and all that people care about. Sooner or later, we are going to all be considered robots if we continue sitting on the conveyor belt in a factory. This path is leading us in an opposite way of