A Students Dilemma

Ah the lovely task of crunching down on school assignments and making a final decision on a college major before spending another couple thousand dollars here and there on basic education.
By the end of my Junior year I was sick of the so called organization of the school system. Education is like a chore in these modern times, like clock-work the youth of America gets up and gets to school by 7.30am and rushes out the door a.s.a.p. at 2.20pm. How depressing. I lost a lot of hope and enthusiasm for my favorite class this past year when my physics teacher blaitently told our class that we learn near to nothing worth remembering in school because all of the teaching is geared toward a certain test. The youth of American is learning material for a test, and when the test is over the bits and pieces don’t form a concept. Instead the bits and pieces of material fade with the dormant-minded summer months and fail to resurrect upon return to school.
Now prove me wrong that college will be different! I am looking forward to my college experience and education, but I find it hard to imagine a college experience that is extensively different to my high school experience. As it is my parents have always been lenient with and trusting of me and a good number of my friends are older than I am, I find sometimes that I have more in common with the “adults” than with the “kids”. A misfit I guess you could say. So tell me… after that and the AP and college courses I already take… what am I waiting for? Paying for that same experience? I hope not.
I love to help people in general and if I find that I take a liking to law or business, I’d really like to start some sort of organization to reform the school system. I almost agree with President Obama to an extent regarding the lengthening of the school years. After all the original reason children are given an entire two and a half months break in the summer was with the intention of helping out with the harvest and the crops in the fields. Now since our economy is rapidly changing from a manufacturing and agricultural economy to a service economy, the summer camp business is the only preventative to lengthening the school year.
However I do not agree with lengthening the school day in addition to the year itself. It is my strong belief that teachers these days are getting lazy as are the students and classes are getting easier because there is no effort from either side, ultimately destroying the educatuon system. I believe that schools should not be giving Hw. Some nights, especially closer toward May and June and the end of the school year, teachers are rushing to get through the course material and pile on the Hw, giving students hours of work to bring home with the expectation that the students will complete it all over night and then come back the next day wide awake. This may be fine once in a while but not when students have up to eight or nine different teachers that give Hw five nights a week!
A students dilemma… how does a student make a stand and voice their position when the adults that we need to help us change the system will not take us seriously!? So many adults automatically assume that all teens are up to no good and treat them with little to no respect because we as teens are all pre judged by the few mischevious teens that define our gereration. How does a student who can not legally vote, drink, or fight a war tell an adult how corrupted and disfunctional the eductaion system is when the last time they went to school was in the 70’s and 80’s? The principals and deans have no time, and yet the “suggestion” box is over flowing. It is so frustrating to be a person who struggles to be on time and yet can still show up to a school function twenty minutes later than her procrastion causes and then still have to wait another half hour for it to begin…
Is it just me or this this happening elsewhere?

~ by bodash on June 14, 2009.