I`ve made a lot of decisions in my short life however, none of them may be as crucial or life changing as the one I made this year. I`m quitting traditional high school, yes you heard that right, I am quitting traditional high school. Some of my reasons for doing so apply exclusively to my personal situation. However, most of the reasons that pushed me to leave traditional high school apply to everyone. In this article, I`m just going to cover the reasons that everyone should consider leaving traditional high school. After this I will do an article about alternatives to regular high school and talk about what I`m personally doing instead of attending regular high school. Just a quick disclaimer this is my opinion and a lot of this is based on personal experience (I can just hear my English teacher cringe as I write this article from the first person). However, I think most students, and teachers would agree with most of the statements I am about to make, now let’s get started.
Firstly, it is has been proven and agreed upon by multiple experts that western education is outdated, but no far reaching reforms have been enacted yet. When standardized
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When is the last time a school taught someone how to do their own taxes? Or file for a mortgage? Invest in the stock market? Provide internships to help us decide what we want to do in the future? Work together on something with real world applications? Teach us how to budget? Public schools teach none of these things. Many would argue it is the job of the parents to teach many of these skills. However, many parents don`t do this, and many more parents just aren’t around to teach their kids these essential skills, and some don’t know how to do any of things correctly themselves. This is why it should be the responsibility of public schools to at least gives us an introduction to some of these
The purpose of Rebecca Solnit’s “Abolish High School” is to criticize the present high school system along with the emotional and academic strain it puts on developing minds. Solnit’s intended audience is any educated person with the opportunity to voice their opinions on the current approach to schooling.
Frida Giannini once said, “ The idea of ‘ferie,’ or summer break, is a long tradition of which of all Italians, including myself, participate. It’s a time to relax, reflect and recharge” This quote relates to this topic because imagine having to go to school all year round. Schools should not consider switching from a nine month calendar to a twelve month calendar for many reasons. One reason, is a money issue may be present for schools and families. Also, most students will lack or miss out on their social lives.
Does year-round school truly have a positive impact in the lives of students? Various studies have suggested that year round school is helpful. There are some disadvantages to this type of schooling that are preventing all schools from switching to this type of scheduling. In earlier times schools were only teaching throughout half of the year so that the school would be out of session when it was time to work in the fields. This type of scheduling is still common today, even though only a small portion of agriculture is tied into education and kids are no longer required to work. “In 1994, the National Education Commission on Time and Learning (1994) urged school districts to develop school calendars that acknowledged (a) differences in
Homeschooling is often portrayed as an overprotective mom - unwilling to let her kids leave her for a day at school, and a large number of children, all unable to hold a conversation, let alone function normally in society. As someone who was homeschooled from kindergarten through eighth grade, I can attest that my homeschool experience was the exact opposite of this confining stereotype.
Thousands of dollars for college tuition; thousands of dollars for textbooks and materials, the cost just keeps building up! Students going through high school right now do not have the experience of having to actually pay for school. Often enough, colleges and universities require students to pay hefty prices to attend their schools and leads the hole in our pockets to become deeper and deeper. To change this problem, public colleges and universities should not require tuitions and school materials to be fiscal problems for students. With this, students would not worry about not going to college just because they could not afford it.
Going to school is something that children do at a young age. The idea of school is ingrained into children at as early as six weeks of age in a daycare. As the child grows older they enter elementary school, middle school, and then high school. Within the schools there are students, administrative staff, nurses, volunteers, and of course teachers. Then questions are asked. What really is the purpose of school? How can a teacher gain student’s attention when they are thinking about things outside of school? How are the students different from one another? What determines between a good and bad teacher? How can character be successfully be integrated into schools? These are a few questions that were addressed in the book You Can’t Teach Through
Walter Kirn successfully unearths some of the worst aspects of senior year. However, these reasonings are not sound enough to condone the discontinuation of it. Any issues found are the fault of the student or the school administration, not the grade level itself. Senior year is worth holding on to for both the persistence of learning and for solidifying relationships. Kirn mentions with pleasure his choice to leave high school early. Nonetheless the four year high school experience should not be demoralized by those who wish to value it for the irreplaceable opportunity it is.
As I started to advance into my high school education, I noticed that my attitude about school and grades was not going to get me anywhere. I went to school and goofed off with my friends and did enough work to get a decent 70 on my work and go home. I had no “active responsibility”, as Freire would say, because I didn’t have anything to motivate me to want to do well. It all changed when I started high school at Bear Grass Charter School. Bear Grass had just reopened as a charter school my freshman year. I was a new beginning for me because not only was I starting out at a new school, but I started to realize that I needed to improve my self-effort in my classes. I knew that I wanted to be a nurse when I graduated and I
All of the notebooks are off the shelf. The school bell rings in the morning.
Getting up to go to school really early in the morning is more upsetting than having to actually attend school. Almost all high school students would agree that high schools should start later in the morning. Even though high school students should be responsible
After high school majority of parents want their children to go to college, graduate, have a promising career and start a family and this is the American dream. Of course going to college will earn you a career and make you financial stable with certain jobs. To earn all those things you need to work even harder to achieve them. Going through four to eight years of college is exhausting and time consuming. There are a lot of stages you go through during college starting from high school. For me I can say that it has been a long journey but it is a well worth journey because of the reward I will receive in the end. In college financial aid, teachers, assignments, and classrooms are different from high school in a major way.
Why would one hypothesize a change is needed? First, international comparisons show the decline in education. Tests show American high school students rank much lower than other nations on standardized math and science tests (United States 66). On a test given in twenty-one nations, American pupils only outperformed Cyprus and South African students. These results seem more devastating when one sees Asian nations, usually ranking high in competitions, did not participate (McNamara 73). Examinations also reveal pupils' performances decline as students climb up the educational ladder toward college. "We seem to be the only country in the world whose children fall farther behind the longer they stay in school" ("Nation" 1). Yet, just comparing our students to international standards does not divulge the whole story.
Public education funding has more than doubled in the last few years. Money associated with public schools has shown to improve academic outcomes; but the funds have mostly followed social goals. For an example, nutrition programs, education of the handicapped and busing for intermixing. I know this because of my experience with public schools. With many attempts of making
Numerous parents struggle in deciding if they should to enroll their child into school as soon as possible, when the child becomes able to go to mandated schooling, or whether they should wait a year or two to send their child to school. For many parents, there is a clear age at which they should enroll their child into school, which is mandated by state law. However, a great number of parents want to know when their child is ready and cognitively able to begin school. These parents are not heavily focused upon the age of their child, but their intellectual abilities and whether their children will be ready to start school by the current mandated schooling age. Therefore, there is much controversy over whether children are being put into school at too early of an age, not early enough, or if there should be other
Schools can give responsibility to students but never without a cost. Students should have to chance to prove their worth to schools and show how responsible they can be as adults. When students go to college classes as high schoolers they sometimes tend to have more free time during those times. If a child has enough responsibility to take those classes they should have enough to leave school and be trusted to come back to school after their free time is over. Although leaving school early is not something that is smiled upon it should be because some students are ahead and can work their schedule to allow extra time because of hard work in early years.