Friday, November 11, 2016
A Flawed System
With the end of high school getting closer by the day, I often wonder how life is going to be after graduation. The troubling thought of having to face the harsh realities of life leads me to think about if I'm going to be ready for it all. But that's just it. Is what the school teaches enough for students to be able to enter the real world and survive? Looking over all I've learned so far and how it was presented to me makes me realizes how much of won't help at all. With the current educational system, students are being under prepared for college or whatever they may choose to pursue after high school, leading them to struggle to figure things out on their own. Such a flawed system for something as important as this is needs to seriously be looked at and revised in order to help the newer generation of students. Just as humans adapt to survive, the educational system needs to adapt to the ever changing times to be more suitable for those who grow up in this new era.
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I completely agree with you, I wrote about this in my essay. I think we are underprepared for our future. Leon Botstein writes “By the time those who graduated from high school go on to college and realize what really is at stake in becoming an adult, too many opportunities have been lost and too much time has been wasted.”
ReplyDeleteI agree with you also. I wrote about this article to and I feel that the high school system has not eveolved with how society has evolved. I have noticed that over the years they have changed the cariculum in high school but the way it is ran hasn't changed. It is essential that high school is the place that sets us up for what is to come in life and I hasn't really been altered to help students these days. Students are now able to go through almost their whole high school time without caring and then my the time they care it is way to late for them to fix it.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you as the times are changing the education should also be changing. Even though the education system was sufficient enough to make students successful in the past, it is no longer capable of that because of all of the advancements in technology, education, and just the whole world in general. I completely agree with you when you say that the system is flawed.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you-- and the rest of the world worries about the same thing. The education system is constantly under revision to maximize the students' level of preparation for when they reach their next step in life. Currently, I do believe that high school prepares students for their next step-- just not completely. These students leave high school with general education-- enough to prepare them for college or careers. What I think should be taught in high school are basic life-handling skills such as taxes, cooking, or money-management. A student may be book smart, but if they don't have these basic life skills, they'll end up in a bind. These basic life skills are rarely ever taught to students-- and this leads to the downfall of many would-be-geniuses.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with your opinion, high school doesn't fully teach and prepare their students for the next step in life. Skills such as taxes and money management are not taught, instead we learn various math formulas that we will never use in everyday life.
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