Should Algebra Be Required For High School Graduation Essay

Algebra be required for high school graduation. There is a kid that he's looking at his report card with his parents and then on the side it says that he can not move on to college. He wonders why and then looks at it again. The student looks at the algebra section and he got a low grade and is not able to move on. The kid thinks that he is not good enough to do what he wants to do when he moves on after college so he drops out of high school.Some kids that don't have that grade for algebra might be held back from graduating. That is why Algebra should not be required for high school graduation.

One reason it should not be required is because that most kids don't pass algebra . For example The New York Times states that “A TYPICAL American school day finds some six million high school students and two million college freshmen struggling with algebra. In both high school and college, all too many students are expected to fail.” Most kids do struggle with algebra. The kids that can't learn the subject in school

The New York Times also explains that “State regents and legislators — and much of the public — take it as self-evident that every young person should be made to master polynomial functions and parametric equations.” They think that kids can do things that they can't. Then when the kid fails they make themselves look bad and then the kid the school and the district looks bad. Algebra is a hard subject to learn and then with all the pressure the kids can't get the grades they should have gotten. This makes it so the kid can't move on to college and the kid won't follow what they wanted to do in the future. The pressure is to high for the kids to not think about the pressure instead of thinking about algebra. That is why algebra should not be required for high school