When it comes to the matter of education in the United States I believe students are to blame as much as teachers. As a student you have to want to better your self and do good in school. You can not just rely on an invention or a crazy new website to make you rich or well off because that is very rare. What students need to do is get an education and want to get an education. They need to study out of school as much as they do in school. I believe that the desire to do well in school comes from the parents or who ever the kid looks up to. If parents or a role model push a student to do well and support him he will ultimately try to please them. We also have to remember that not all teenagers care about school and would rather try to be cool and act like there above school. Most of those kids you can not change and thats fine.
It is not just the students who are to blame it is also teachers and our educational system as a whole. I think that tenure should be completely erased. Teachers should never feel comfortable about their job security. If they are not doing it properly and actually pushing there students they should not be teaching. Also, they should be tested reguarly wether that is every two years or a year. I do believe teachers have almost become baby sitters for the mischevious kids. Who cares about the no child left behind. If they do not want to learn it is there fault and keep moving because the world does not wait for anyone. Furthermore, statistics are important to a point and we should not judge our students as a whole through these statistics.
Websites I used
-http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/9/14/141847.shtml
-http://www.usnews.com/usnews/biztech/articles/060327/27global.htm
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I 100% agree that you can't just blame the students, teachers, or the parents. This issue is caused by a combination of the three and that is why it's often hard to fix.
ReplyDeleteI like your point that students need to want to be educated just as much as the teachers want to teach
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