College Spreadiness

College readiness is a large issue of debate among the educational community. The teachers are blaming the students, the student are blaming the teachers, and with all the finger pointing going on nobody is willing to realize that it may be the fault of both parties.

Students are all willing to point the finger at teachers because “they didn't teach us the info we needed to know”. Teachers are willing to point the finger at students because “they didn't put in enough effort” or “we didn't have time with all the state set standards”. It is the fault of both. Teachers are teaching student to be parrots, to regurgitate information without understanding what it means and students don't take the initiative to learn on their own time. In the

They are normal people who have the guts and are willing to go teach the children of the world, putting up with their behavior for 7 hours a day, one-hundred and eighty days a year (In the U.S.), for 13 years of their lives. Students have to be willing to teach themselves also, putting in their own effort to succeed in life and not relying on the abilities of the people around them. Throughout their school career students have gained the ability to “switch languages”, depending what class they are taking. Each subject is its own discourse community, students being thrown in head first and has to “learn on the go”. In high school, the material you learn in same subject last year has nothing to do with the material in the class the next year. For example in history you take American history one year and then European history then next. The two subjects have nothing to do with each other. In college classes your professors expect you to be able to link ideas from different classes and subjects together. This is a problem- posing education, unlike the banking concept that is used in high school. Of these two methods, one is more productive in a real world setting. As stated by Freire “Students... are increasingly posed with problems relating to themselves in the world .... They will feel increasingly challenged and obligated to respond to that challenge” (247, Freire). With the methods used in the current learning system the skills needed to succeed in college are being lost. When the join college they are want to further their skills but don't have the abilities required, so they must “fake it till they make it” or fail to succeed and drop out. In the article “Agonism in the Academy: Surviving Higher Learning’s Argument Culture” by Deborah Tannen, the idea that “We assign scholarly work for them to read,