Children Should Not Be Taught In Schools Persuasive Essay

In today’s world, many people desire to enter the education school system and gain nothing but continuous knowledge and--when ready to graduate--be prepared for what is to come. This way of thinking, sadly is unrealistic. Majority of the time spent in school, children are being taught how to test and not necessarily survive in the real world. Children are also spending their time taking tests, such as the ACT, SAT, ISAT, which are said to either “make or break” a student. This highly stressed issue is shown through an advertisement that highlights on this serve issue of what the school system is truly like. This impact can be proved through evaluation of advertisements that relies heavily on the American school system and testing. Mike Keefe,

The man whom is being interviewed, is misrepresenting what the public school educational system actually teaches. In the picture, the man is sitting in a school desk with a blank stare and a pencil in his hand as if the interview was a test. The blank stare he is showing resembles that the system of education does not prepare on to think on the fly or to think for oneself at all. The words above his head read out “Is that a multiple choice, true-false or fill in the blank question?” His response emphasizes that the school system has never taught anyone real life scenarios and only taught them how to take a test. By saying this, the man is making a mockery of the education that everyone is receiving by foreshadowing that anyone who graduates school is only going to be prepared for taking tests and their ability to memorize. The man’s absurd misrepresentation of how they educational systems works also show very strong pathos behind it, because anyone who sees this visual piece, is not going to want to put their child through the public school system in fear that their child is not going to be fully prepared when it comes time to being on their