Currently, public school districts are doing a very poor job of providing students with the education that is essential to excel in college courses. Changes need to occur in the school systems in order to better educate the students and prepare them for college. An increase in the number of certified teachers and exit tests are vital for students in today’s society in order to succeed.
Presently, there is a major shortage of certified teachers in Texas. If teachers do not receive certification to instruct the subject they are teaching, it creates a sizeable setback in the school system by not providing students with the information they need to learn during that course. School districts should require certification for all teachers who wish to work in their school system. Obviously, by hiring uncertified teachers, the district robs the student of the quality education that they deserve and need for higher education later in life. Also, certified teachers kno
Also, today’s public schools fail to require students to take any sort of exit exam to be promoted to the next grade level. Therefore, they do not necessarily require students to learn the skills they need for higher education. School systems brainwash their students into believing that as long as they have the information memorized on test day, they will not need to know it again. These beliefs only end up hurting the students. If the state were to require a standardized exit test for each core subject in every grade level, students would have to pay attention in class in order to actually learn the information that is imperative if they wish to succeed in college courses. This exit test should be directly correlated with the teacher’s curriculum in order to see if the students paid attention to and absorbed the information taught in the classroom. In today’s society, teachers have learned to just teach the test. Teachers need to learn that the test should come from what is taug