Lindsey Gaby
Alison Fox
Ap Language and Composition
23 April 2018
High School: The Most Useless Years of your Life
The American school system has serious flaws in its regime, from allowing low test scores, grouping students, and allowing tenure teachers to not teach their students, excreta. The two main topics that most parents of high school students find important, are whether their children are doing well in school and are my child's teacher doing everything they can to help my child succeed?
Unfortunately, these things are not the best things American school systems are known for.
With the no child left behind policy, students are advancing when they should not be. If a child does not understand what the material was, and they struggle
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If these children have low test scores, it may not be the teachers' fault if the children do not understand what they are being taught they will not perform well on standardized tests.
Another reason students could be performing so low could be the teachers there are many teachers who do not teach or put in grades because they do not care what happens to their students. Again, this is not all teachers there are good teachers and those teachers are the ones that students usually remember more than the teachers who did not care. " My favorite teacher was Mrs. Ruby
Ratliff. More than fifty years ago, she was my homeroom teacher at San Jacinto
High School in Houston, and I was lucky enough to get her English class as a senior...These are not sorts of things did not appear on any standardized test"
(Ravitch 258). Teachers should want to strive to be this kind of teacher, the ones students remember and not the teachers who did not care about their students and just wanted a paycheck. These bad teachers really impact their students if they are not teaching them the students are not learning, and if these students play sports this can be worse for them because they must keep a certain GPA to be able to play that
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Most schools put way more into their sports than their academics. (Koren 256), in this image, there are two sides of the "court" a game side and a test-score side, with players only on the game side, this is saying that most American high schools are way more about their sports teams than preparing their students for tests. Some teachers do not give homework on "game days" so students will go watch the game and so the athletes do not fall behind. This is an issue because students are not learning and preparing like they should for standardized tests.
In conclusion, the American school system focuses more on sports than on
Academics, the no child left behind policy is not effective, and students do not learn well from bad teachers. Students learn and remember good teachers more than they do bad teachers, while that is the case even if students have a good teacher they may not pass their tests because they do not understand what they are learning, they will still go onto their next year in school even if they are not prepared. This will cause them to fall behind, and if that child plays a sport that will also be affected because the parent will become upset
parents may not have an education or language skills to help their child with their homework
factors: Is there enough evidence to bring the case to court, what their performance is in school,
Retaining kids only began to be questioned in recent years. Could there be a relation from these kids falling behind in school to how the world has changed and different ways kids are raised? We all know the different names for the young generation, including: “The Cupcake Generation,” “Generation Me,” and “The Participation Trophy Generation.” Everything that has been handed to these kids has affected their ability to earn things, instead they feel entitled. They can grow up lacking the motivation to finish a task. When at school, they can feel that they deserve a good grade without working for it because they are “special.”
Teachers will neglect students that need the most help to help those who need a slight shove. This is known as “educational triage” (Booher-Jennings 231). Those on the threshold of passing the state mandated tests are significantly more likely to receive help from instructors than those that are significantly lower than their peers (233). This is to make the district look better as these children are far more likely to pass the test with the extra assistance. This still leaves the ones who were left behind essentially out to dry. If anything, it should be the opposite. The ones who are at the lowest levels should be receiving the most assistance on standardized test preparation.
The first group will be divided into two subgroups: the general student body and student athelete. Student athletes that are out of season generally play inmurals to stay competive and active during their off seasons. We would like to target them, because they are naturally drawn to competion and may provide a fan base due to player’s standing with the fans. We would like to aim at the general student body as providing oppurtinty to relax, de-stress, and entertainment on campus.
In addition to these examples, interscholastic sports also teaches students a lot about dedication. An athlete must be willing to put a lot of time and effort into his sport. Spending this much time on one thing could lead to many things. A student could fall behind in classes. By the time practices and games get over, the athlete is tired and is not likely to stay up another hour or two doing homework. Students need to spend more time on homework and less time in
Student athletes live very busy lives. A typical school day runs from 8:00-2:30, add in a two- hour practice or game, score a part time job, dive into some family time, a grand slam of homework and catch a little bit of sleep. Students are more stressed due to the many activities they are a part of. This issue affects a lot of people not only in this school district, but most other high schools throughout the country. All student athletes exercise more than other children who are not involved in an extracurricular sport. In school athletics, the players are called “student athletes” meaning that school activities come first. There are strict rules for student athletes, not only on the field but in the classroom as well. In physical education
Because of the lack of attention from parents, as a result students are getting low grades and not only the students
Not only the students but some of the parents don't like st’s either. When the parents find
People assume that if majority of the class fail then the teacher is to blame and is not teaching the class. Well the student is to blame. If no one is learning there is still teaching. All teachers have various ways of providing information to their learners. Some techniques are more effective then others, but it’s the learner’s priority to take the teachers information and comprehend it into their own better understanding. The student holds the power to choose rather hey want to learn new information from their teacher or not.
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she was smart enough to be in our class and understand what was being taught. As time when on
Some children seem to take education for granted. When I was a school boy, I
at school that are not in school and that is the athletes have a higher GPA and miss three less days at
Teach your child whether it’s an activity they want to participate in, or use of something that another person is responsible for, they must ask