This is my second year in this calculus class and it seems like I won’t be graduating on time this year either. I try my best to study, yet I just can’t understand any of the lessons. I keep asking for special attention, but I guess with thirty other students in this class it’s difficult to get much time alone. I feel like I’m in a concentration camp. I’m told what and when to learn and if I don’t succeed I’m punished with a failing grade. I’m doing real well in my English class, but I guess it’s not enough to pass calculus. I want to be a writer one day and at this rate I’ll be forty before I get out of high-school and start my career. I just don’t understand why I have to have the same classes as my other friends if we have different plans for the future. This is just one of many students failed by the American educational system.
Today’s educational system is a relic of the past. We set up a curriculum that in theory is there to educate every student that passes through its gate. This manner doesn’t work because every student is different and work at different paces. Much like the student in the introduction a student may excel at one subject and be struggling in another subject. We set up standa
Our schools throughout America are losing more and more students everyday. Students are treated like a part of the masses and not individuals. We want our children to go to school and return scholars, but we don’t nurture their talents. We teach student to be like everyone else and blame parents for what school should be instilling as well. Our schools need a change and it needs to begin with the students and not those that feel like they know what the child needs.
Schools today in the United States discourage creativity and alternate intelligence. Students are taught to be the best guessers possible, not to be creative and think outside the box. I have been punished many a time for writing papers teachers didn’t agree with, not for the quality of the paper but for how closely it matched everyone else’s paper. I also have seen that many a times because schools seemingly force students to learn, when these students become adults many of them don’t like to learn. Much like John Holt, author of “School is Bad for Children,” I feel that public school works, just not for the students. I agree with the author’s perception that public schools are genuinely low budget and ugly, yet we ask for out children to see them as beautiful and an educational Mecca. Schoo
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