What High School Didn 't Teach You

In today’s society students aren’t pushed in high school to pursue their full potential, which makes students think they don’t need to put hard work into school making them lazy. The outcome of this is bad grades and upset parents making them believe they aren’t smart and that is why they are getting the grades they are receiving. In actuality these students aren’t being pushed and the teachers aren’t tapping into their talents to show them the full academic potential they have.

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.

In order to grow and prosper in society, one must gain knowledge from a variety of subjects and apply the information in real life situations. High school is one source of education where adolescents are able to gain knowledge by attending classes. However, the school system has numerous flaws and fails to cultivate successful students who are driven to continue their education. Based on the texts in Conversation: Focus on the American High School and my own insight, two serious issues present in American high schools include the failure to reform the curriculum by integrating liberal arts and promoting artificial values in individuals which restricts growth.

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

High school. This one word can mean either the best days of your life, or the worst. It depends on how you dealt with the obstacles thrown at you. During the past few years of high school, I can honestly say that I have changed a lot, not just physically, but mentally I have becomes strong enough to ( ).In my experience, these circumstances shaped me into the positive and intelligent individual I am today.

High school, for many students, is prison. A prison that holds us for seven hours every day, five days a week. This type of attitude is what ruins students. Students with huge potential and bright futures are falling victim to this epidemic every year. It is time we try and change that.

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.

Americans today tend to believe that there is something that holding back teenagers in high school from achieving the proper education. The article “What’s holding Back American Teenagers?” states that “American high school, in particular are a disaster. What is it that makes these high schools a disaster?

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.

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.

This is because over the years the academic success found in the recent generations has dropped. The root of the problem that Richard Rothstein the author of, “The Myth of Public School Failure” has found is the lack of funding for public schools. Unlike the private schools briefly mentioned earlier the access to certain benefits are limited because the public education is catering the idea of “free” education for all. As most citizens know taxes are implemented to keep the education program going but it is not a direct fund like a private institution. Local government has control over implementing the curriculum being taught and how money is being divided. In the article, “The Myth of Public School Failure,” Rothstein argues that funding is being stretched thinly between special education, nutrition, and other various aspects of the system High school plays a significant role on the lives of an individual because there they gain knowledge on how to understand issues going on in the real world. Having educated citizens means having a well-rounded society. Having said that, it can only be accomplished if teachers are paid their worth, funding opportunities for students to receive real world experience, and qualizing school

“ The best experience in high school was the quality of education that I received, the quality was different because we were held to a higher standard, and we were required to graduate.” Today I feel like we should have higher expectations that requires finish highschool and for those who ditch school, they should have harsher consequences. My mom has been kicked out of two different high schools, but then she transferred to a catholic school which had rigorous rules which made her more

When I graduated from high school, I submitted my application to BYU. I believed that I will surely get accepted from them because whenever I set a goal, continually pray to God, and put my best effort into everything, there was always success in my life. However, this time was different. I encountered the first biggest failure in my lifetime that I did not get accepted to BYU. I was very disappointed about the school's decision, and I tried so many times to understand why I could not make it. Being unsatisfied, I started to think that my efforts and achievements during my high school years such as GPA, TOEFL, ACT, and the Seminary work were all in vain. This negative mind even led me to blame God by questioning "how could You abandon me?"

In consideration, the first reason that students have a difficult time attending public high school or coping with the high school processes is because of after school extra-curricular activities, such as sports or dance classes. Since my friends and I dance many hours a week, most of the people at my studio do online high school. If we did not have online high school, most of the girls would be late to classes or not be able to come. Some of the girls in my dressing room (a specific dressing room for people who have to get to dance earlier) are still in the 8th grade, which means they do not end until 2:45 or 3:30 at a public school. They are always complaining about how much homework they have to finish on time before the next day, or how late they go to bed to finish the homework. They wish they could work online, but their parents will not let them. If they did not have an option of online high school, which has more work than middle school, then there would be a lot of tired dancers waltzing around the studio and hurting themselves. If we did not have young dancers going to class on time or at all, then there would be a decrease in adult dancers and dancers on Broadway. If we had a decrease in adult dancers, for example, ballet dancers, then many famous dance companies would shut down, and there would not be many people on Broadway.