What Are The Flaws In My Years Of High School

The American education system has many flaws. It is becoming more and more ineffective. To society, school is a competition especially in colleges and universities. People care so much about the grade they get that they forget the real reason why we even go to school; to learn. All everyone cares about is the grade that we receive. It has become so bad that we have lost sight in what’s really important; our growth as humans. We are taught that we need to get good grades in order to go to a good college, we are constantly judged on how well we do on tests using a grading, and most of the material being taught to us doesn’t even prepare us for what’s in store in the real world.

Parents want their children to have a successful career, so they feel obligated to choose a career path that will do just that. Parent tend to want to send their kids to college to obtain a medical degree, law degree, or business degree because they want them to make a lot of money and not ever have to worry about debt. When a parent chooses a career path for their kid, it puts a lot of pressure on him or her because they want to make their parents happy or have them pay for their college. So, this leaves the students not enjoying the classes they are taking or the college experience because they are doing what mom and dad want them to do.

To begin with, a key issue that should be addressed to help improve America’s high school system is that most schools have substandard teachers or mentors. The teachers' roles in a classroom or generally in any school is to teach knowledge to their students. Although if students are given inadequate teachers that do not teach well this can negatively impact the students learning. As follows in the article called, Let Teenagers Try Adulthood by Leon Botstein, he mentions about the substandard teachers, “Given the poor quality of recruitment and training for high school teachers, it is no wonder that the curriculum and the enterprise of learning hold so little sway over young people.” (Botstein 183) To which, the lack of attention that schools pay

Three out of four graduates are not fully prepared for college, because of this they are almost certain to take remedial classes in which they can prepare to be “freshman,” in their second semester of college. ACT’s have tested 50% of these graduates, and it was measured that only 25% of that was actually prepared in all three areas of testing. So what is wrong with this picture? The problem is American high schools are not preparing their students for a college environment, and college work. Students aren’t receiving the key work and lessons needed for college. With all the method that teachers have, which aren’t working to the extent they should be, they are honestly forced to help these students out when they should have been prepared to begin with. With that said, High School teachers are not preparing their students academically for college. Colleges are forced to do studies in consideration of improving the United States Academic reputation, and the overall education for America.

Preparing high school students for college is every parent and teachers goal but sometimes that goal is hard to achieve. Students are not getting a proper education now-a-days and they do not realize that it is going to hurt them after they graduate. A study says, “That composite score dropped to 20.9 among high school students in 2013, the lowest in eight years” (Adams, 2013). That is a very low average and it is because what students are learning in high school just isn’t sticking with them through college. After students graduate they start taking harder classes, some have to start paying their own bills, and so many other changes they are not ready for. It is a big jump to go from high school to college and I think schools can do a better job of preparing students. It is their experience and education in high school that is going to help them in college. If they are not ready they are going to struggle which will result in some not so good outcomes such as having low grades or even worse dropping out. I do not believe that high school education has prepared students for college because there are many useless classes, it is more about memorizing than learning, and students drop out in a year or less because of the workload.

12 years, 2040 days, 16,320 hours, 979,200 minutes, this is the amount of time American students spend on the first step of an education (K-12). After spending this massive amount of time in school you would think that students are leaving with a good education, right? But the sad reality of it is that American high school students graduate with a mostly irrelevant education and it is crippling them in the real world. I am a student at Denver south high school in Colorado, so I have been able to witness this issue first hand. Although Denver south has an impressive level of diversity of different ethnicities, cultures and ideals that adds a lot to the experience of a high school education, our curriculum is still far from what is should be. I 've witnessed students sitting at desks sleeping, playing on there phones or doing something completely different from what the class is doing, not saying that I do the same thing. Being a senior I was required to take a civics class, this class consists of mostly lectures that rarely interact with the class, for me this class is a study hall where I finish homework assignments and where I finished the majority of my college application I was able to do all of this while still maintaining a A, isn 't their a problem with this? The majority of teachers, and parents think that this is the student 's fault for not being motivated to learn and to resist boredom, on the contrary I

In case you have been living under a rock for your entire life, you may have noticed that the education system of America is a complete disaster. To put it delicately there are many flaws with the current system we have in place. One of the major flaws of the education system is that it takes an insane amount of your time and money all for just a fancy piece of paper. The system also can implode too easily; all it can take is a student to just not care or just a bad teacher for bad things to happen. We can look at several different essays that show how the system is flawed, through the academic journey of two students. We can see that the education system has a great cost, how the level of a student’s success is determined, and how the

Twenty-five percent of American Teenagers drop out of high school each year. What does this say about America’s education system? Are students not interested or are they tired of memorizing a subject and then having a letter grade represent how much they can remember. Some articles suggest that America should decrease the number of years that teenagers spend in high school because many teenagers already know what they want to study and do not want to be stuck studying something they are not good at or interested in. America needs to redesign the school system so it can help students prepare for their future and have more classes that students are interested in.

High school…last steps we take before we ready the adult world, but are they really preparing us for it? What we need is more freedom and changing some school rules can help. During our lunch periods, we should be given more freedom like being able to leave school grounds and buying our own lunch.

A diploma worth having by Grant Wiggins (Wiggins, 2011) asked the question what is the purpose of high school? His proposal is untraditionally, bold in such a traditional, content demanding society. He explicitly states that the purpose of high school should be to prepare students for the trials and tribulations they will actually face in their adult lives and careers. Instead of a curriculum that is still based on archaic ideas centered on “content” as oppose to utilitarian “abilities”. I would have to agree that gone are the days of “covering” curriculum, and here enters a time where students are given an opportunity to follow their talents, hopes, and dreams. Where learning to write well and communicate effectively is a high school curriculum requirement. It’s a pretty ambitious vision. Is it too much to create conditions where students are expected and allowed to follow a path they are the most successful in and allows for the opportunity to remake and redo? Where they are given a chance to make meaning of what they are learning and how this will apply to them in their career of choice?

Based on previous experience as a high schooler in the American education system the conclusion can be made that public high school is not giving a fair, just, and meaningful education. Reading many texts in high school that prove this point may have given a meaningful perspective on this issue, but it truly represents areas that still needs to be fixed. Achieving an all-around better high school system will mean looking into faults in the current system and taking pointers from systems in other countries that have a higher approval rating in their education system by parents, students, and educators themselves. In order to have an improved education system students will have to have: a home environment that promotes a balance to the importance of an education, along with value placed on growing up as an individual person; a good school that is well funded; the ability to be tested via different methods; and these requirements will need to be seen as uniform throughout the United States.

Schools today have changed dramatically. At one point in time education was a thing and you had to have a high school diploma to receive a job or go onto college. You would always hear the good things about the school system and it was wherever you go. However, that was a thing of a past. Now you hear on the news or in the community that schools are failing, have a lack of attendance, and children are not up to where they should be. Why? Why is this all going on, when you have parents or family members that should be a part of the children lives? Is it the parents or family members? Is the students themselves? Or is the teachers? These questions have a lot to do with why the school is failing. Education is highly important, without it then

Throughout the four years that most of us attend high school, we are taught many skills and tricks based off the curriculum the state has provided our teachers with. The “skills” only pertain to the curriculum and not our lives. The high school graduates come out into the real world and are being fed to the sharks of society. Come on, really? These kids were asking to use the restroom no more than four months ago and now they are expected to make life-changing decisions. In high school you are treated like babies, you have to ask to go to the restroom, you get to turn in work late for most of the credit, and you can fail a test as many times as you want and still get the chance to re-take it. High schools do not provide their students with the right skills required once they break out of the little bubble they were once in.

Through out school, starting all the way back from kindergarten and up through high school, students are taught a various amount of skills. In kindergarten students learn basic shapes, the ABC’s, and colors. In first grade it is numbers all the way up to one hundred. Then kids begin to learn addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, history, science, algebra, English, and then BOOM. Nowhere in that long list are students taught any sort of actual communication skills. Nor are they taught any hands-on experience, besides if they are looking to be a welder, a wood worker, an auto mechanic, or working with pottery in their future. Nowhere in school are students taught how to express empathy. When it comes close to the final deadline and it is time for students to graduate, it can become confusing, and students may appear as to be lost in where to go or what to do. In some cases school can seem to blind students with a lot of homework, which does not seek any importance in ones future. Mark Twain, who was an intelligent American writer, once said, “I have never let my school interfere with my education” (Guise).Therefore, there is so many life skills that students are not taught in schooling how to excel in life.

It is apparent that today's youth is heading towards a downward spiral in many aspects of life. One reason for this is probably that schools are not preparing future adults adequately enough for life outside of school. While school may prepare our children in some areas of life such as teaching commitment by coming to school or doing homework every day, that would only apply to students who take school seriously. During my high school years it was obvious that the vast majority of students did not want to be there, as they either did not show up or ditched school as soon as the bell rang. While there are some students who strive to do well in their studies, I don’t believe it Is because “they” want to do well but rather because their parents force them too. In comparison there are only a small percentage of students who take charge of their education. Students should be taught why it is important that they should show up on time every day. On top of that I also believe that teaching students about the real world during high school is a little too late, because by then a lot of students will have lost interest in why it is important to learn these things. Learning about this should come at any early age like any other school subject. These subjects include assuming new responsibilities, taking care of yourself, dealing with money, and preparing for the future.