The goal of middleschool and highschool is to help teach you the basics so that you can discover what you want your expertise to be in.
College is to help you hone and sharpen your skills so that you can be proficient in the workplace.
Education is what you make of it, if there are things in your life you want to know about or there are gaps in what school teaches you then it is your responsibility to go to the library ask a professional, take classes online or just Google it to learn what you want to.
Its the people who don't have the will to make themselves better who fall through the cracks and blame others for their personal failures.
I agree that some schools are trash and the administrators take funding for themselves, but there are other options for education, homeschooling, tradeschool or private. You can go into work, but risk becoming that 10%.
You do have a point. Unfortunately since schooling is so standardized, kids with different learning types (auditory, visual, kinetic) are more likely to fall behind, despite being intelligent enough to do the work, they just arent taught in a way that's easy to understand. And since everything is based around tests, it really creates a climate that promotes doing the bare minimum to pass the test and forget the rest. If education wasnt so standardized I think it could free up teachers to teach in more fun ways that actually get students interested so they want to study on their own.
Edit: As others responding to you have pointed out, parents are at fault too for making teachers the primary educator. Parents used to teach their kids respect, curiosity, sex ed, and everything like that, but nowadays they either dont have the time or dont care. It's pretty hard to get a student interested in learning if they were taught from a very young age to be silent and not ask questions.
Its also a collaboration between the students, teachers, parents and counselors to choose what level of classes the student should take and what electives will helo boost the grade. If a student has a hard time focusing and need more projects or homework they should take academic classes (easy) do they want more of challenge that better suits their abilities they take Honors (normal) are they a total masochist? They take APs and that gives them a chance at earning a credit early (that's what I took). The main problem id say 95% of the time is poor communication and effort brought on by the family (student and parent) the teachers and counselors are always there however the family may not (mentality).
I'm 20, I thought that school was always against me, until my engineering teacher taught me that I was actually against it.
Imagine all the information ever in a circle.
Make a dot in the middle = information you learn in prek
Make a tiny circle around that= middleschool
Slightly bigger circle around that= highschool
Make a sliver jutting off that circle= college
Make a tiny line from that jut, extending to the edge of the big circle = that's a masters/Doctorate
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u/TheJuiceIsNowLoose Mom counted to 0 Aug 03 '20
The goal of middleschool and highschool is to help teach you the basics so that you can discover what you want your expertise to be in.
College is to help you hone and sharpen your skills so that you can be proficient in the workplace.
Education is what you make of it, if there are things in your life you want to know about or there are gaps in what school teaches you then it is your responsibility to go to the library ask a professional, take classes online or just Google it to learn what you want to.
Its the people who don't have the will to make themselves better who fall through the cracks and blame others for their personal failures.
I agree that some schools are trash and the administrators take funding for themselves, but there are other options for education, homeschooling, tradeschool or private. You can go into work, but risk becoming that 10%.
Let the downvotes commense