Nocte
10-13-2011, 11:24 AM
I wrote up a Declaration for BLUE leaving the Empire a few weeks ago. I never finished it, but thats simply because I went through Drivers Ed and barely had enough time to talk to friends during the week. Well here is what I really submitted for my Honors Government class.
Their comes a time in a students life when they need to sit back and think about the education they are receiving. What is it worth? Why are they learning this or that? The United States education is far from simply being broken, it has been shattered and the students suffer from it. So I am hereby declaring myself independent from the US Education system.
Students should be able to take up a proper learning environment, that means that the teacher that is standing up infront of a class of students knows what he or she is doing. For a teacher to simply put a check mark on homework means that the student could be failing the homework and not even know it. Teachers need to be tested on how they teach before they are even allowed to teach. Students need to be taught how to think, how to take time to digest and solve a problem. The United States is currently ranked number 17 at it’s reading level. Rank 31 at Math, which is under the average for the rest of the world and rank 23 in Science which is just above average for science education in the world. We are told we are the best country in the world, yet our educational system is failing us. Students must be taught to think and use their minds to solve problems, so that when they get out into the real world they have the proper skills to succeed. Otherwise we will choke under the pressure of trying to remember the things that we were taught to memorize, but have long forgotten. Students should have the right to speak out against the education they have to go through as it directly affects their future.
Due to the No Child Left Behind Act, students who are failing out of school. Instead of paying for their ignorance to not take their education seriously are able to take computerized tests and spend less time taking those tests then sitting in class and still get their diplomas. That means that all students have to do to get the document to allow you to go to college is fail enough to be put into their group of students and breeze by. Standardized tests are yet another flaw in our current system, they make it so that teachers have to shove so much information down your throat before that test just to make sure pass it. That takes the point out of learning, we need to be taught not to memorize something, but to be able to take that information we’ve learned and apply it down the road when it is needed. However with teachers being able to allow students to hand in homework and it just be graded on the simple fact that they did it, that allows no academic improvement for the students and shows that the teacher is just flat out lazy and cares nothing for the students education. Even if a student is failing the homework, they need to know so that they can look at it and improve. Self teaching is an important concept that is rarely taught in schools.
If students feel that their education is greatly lacking, then they have ever right to know that compared to the rest of the world it is greatly being hampered. They are not learning what they need to, to succeed in their world. People wonder why companies prefer a Korean Engineer over an American one and it’s simply because the Korean Engineer is better educated on how to do his or her job. As for the future of the US Education System I hope that the students that it misleads will soon wake up and recognize how they are being cheated.
Their comes a time in a students life when they need to sit back and think about the education they are receiving. What is it worth? Why are they learning this or that? The United States education is far from simply being broken, it has been shattered and the students suffer from it. So I am hereby declaring myself independent from the US Education system.
Students should be able to take up a proper learning environment, that means that the teacher that is standing up infront of a class of students knows what he or she is doing. For a teacher to simply put a check mark on homework means that the student could be failing the homework and not even know it. Teachers need to be tested on how they teach before they are even allowed to teach. Students need to be taught how to think, how to take time to digest and solve a problem. The United States is currently ranked number 17 at it’s reading level. Rank 31 at Math, which is under the average for the rest of the world and rank 23 in Science which is just above average for science education in the world. We are told we are the best country in the world, yet our educational system is failing us. Students must be taught to think and use their minds to solve problems, so that when they get out into the real world they have the proper skills to succeed. Otherwise we will choke under the pressure of trying to remember the things that we were taught to memorize, but have long forgotten. Students should have the right to speak out against the education they have to go through as it directly affects their future.
Due to the No Child Left Behind Act, students who are failing out of school. Instead of paying for their ignorance to not take their education seriously are able to take computerized tests and spend less time taking those tests then sitting in class and still get their diplomas. That means that all students have to do to get the document to allow you to go to college is fail enough to be put into their group of students and breeze by. Standardized tests are yet another flaw in our current system, they make it so that teachers have to shove so much information down your throat before that test just to make sure pass it. That takes the point out of learning, we need to be taught not to memorize something, but to be able to take that information we’ve learned and apply it down the road when it is needed. However with teachers being able to allow students to hand in homework and it just be graded on the simple fact that they did it, that allows no academic improvement for the students and shows that the teacher is just flat out lazy and cares nothing for the students education. Even if a student is failing the homework, they need to know so that they can look at it and improve. Self teaching is an important concept that is rarely taught in schools.
If students feel that their education is greatly lacking, then they have ever right to know that compared to the rest of the world it is greatly being hampered. They are not learning what they need to, to succeed in their world. People wonder why companies prefer a Korean Engineer over an American one and it’s simply because the Korean Engineer is better educated on how to do his or her job. As for the future of the US Education System I hope that the students that it misleads will soon wake up and recognize how they are being cheated.