Wrong With High School

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.

Who knew High School would be over in a blink of an eye? Four short years and a whole chapter of your life is over. The goal everyone was striving to achieve was completed, yet an even bigger thing was approaching “Life”. All 365 of us would venture out into the world and start new journeys hundreds of miles apart.

Question 1: What key activities have you been involved in at school, in the GEAR UP program, and/or in your community? Also, describe your most significant scholastic achievement or other honor/awards to date.

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?"

High School is a very stressful experience in most teenagers’ lives. High school gives us a very packed schedule as it is, but when you add an after school activity or a job on top of it, it seems as if we do not have time for much else.

Students in today's classroom are not focused in class as they should be. Some reasons involve technology, but a big factor is what they are learning is simply boring. If the school system focused more on subjects teens could relate to, school participation would greatly increase.

The educators in the documentary, “Rethinking High School: Best Practice in Action,” claimed that authenticity, collaboration, and challenge are the three core principles that are needed in our school system to achieve better teaching and learning. I agree with the statement, especially when we are talking about urban schools.

The media a lot of the times seems to portray high school as something completely far off from the truth. High school students are usually portrayed as immature and irresponsible people who are filled with raging hormones, who are either overly sexual or stoners. On the same note, high school is often portrayed the way we see on television shows or movies, think of Mean Girls, an environment where there are distinct cliques that revolve around drama and gossip. Although this may be true to the smallest extent, as a high school teenager, a can state from my own experience that the media does not do a good job in portraying what high school is really like today.

High school is known as a place where teenagers go to learn and expand their knowledge and skills that are needed to help them succeed. Students are hoping that high school will give them more of an insight of the real world they will face in just four short years. The current school curriculum is outstanding academically, but students are lacking life skills that are needed to prepare them for the real world challenges.

We have breaking news! Yesterday afternoon, 3 heros saved children from a burning building! It was just a happy and fun school picnic until things took a turn for the worst. Yesterday the local elementary school was having a picnic on Jay Mountain. On jay mountain, there happened to be an old, abandoned, and skeemy church. The school teachers told all of the children to stay away from it, but some did not heed their warning. The result of their choice was abysmally.

The author of this article feels that most high schools across the nation are losing focus on the importance of students’ time in high school. The article takes us through the average day for a high school student, which most people can relate to. It then makes the point of how very crammed the average day for a young adolescent is with a severe lack of down time and the slew of negative consequences because of this. This rushed school day, in combination with the average number of students per class which is twenty or so, causes students and staff members to miss the opportunity to connect with one another. Therefore, teachers do not get a chance to really get to know each pupil and allows for students to fly under the radar as they coast

The American education system, more specifically the high school system, has not changed for the time that my classmates and I have been alive. The system was implemented to insure that each American citizen had an equal opportunity to prosper. However many of my peers in high school are immature. Most students envision sports as success and schools encourage.

What’s wrong with highschool is that it doesn’t teach important life skills that students are going to need to know like how to balance a checkbook or how to buy a home. I know we have personal finance but the class isn’t enough. It’s too short and doesn't cover all the topics you’re going to need to know. Most high school graduates go to college where they are going to be away from their parents and friends so they won’t have anyone to help them. What i’m proposing is that the education system adds a new class that is to be required to take in senior year that teaches students what they need to know how to do in the future.

It seems as if high school was meant to suck individuality and joy out of students. Go exactly against the norm, and have as much fun as possible. Clearly, being lively as possible could not benefit test scores at all.

The best solution to solve this problem would be to make more classes (mostly electives) available for students. Doing this would allow students to have a greater range of options that pertain to that person’s interest. “It’s letting people learn about what they love rather than dictating what they should be learning,” said Morgan McDaniel, a senior who added the rock ’n’ roll class to her schedule. Schools will claim they already have a variety of electives and they don’t see the need to create more. What they fail to realize is that most of the electives offered are not relevant to students in this day and age. Schools need to start implementing the new classes to let students have the best high school experience.