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Flaws in the American Educational System 

By: Ethan DeSalvo  

In this article, I am going to talk about some of the flaws the American Educational System has.  This will include effects on student's mental health, the amount of pressure put on students to get good grades to go to college, as well as how school fail to teach students basic life skills.  

As a student here at Wheatland-Chili High School, I hold education close to heart as I'm sure many of my fellow students do as well, regardless, with the new Common Core learning system placed in effect in 2009, schools have become more orientated on having students memorize what they are taught. Nevertheless, students aren't the only ones who are restricted and are hurting by the way learning is being conducted. Teachers are now more or less being forced to teach the test. This became the norm when the No Child Left Behind Law was passed in 2002 to “hold” teachers accountable. “The Stakes of these standardized tests where in a way raised when Obamas 4.3-billion-dollar Race to the Top funding competition, in which states could win federal education funding by promising to undertake specific reforms – including evaluating teachers by test scores and adopting common standards” (“Confirmed: Standardized testing has taken over our schools. But who’s to blame?” The Washington Post by reporter Valerie Strauss). Not only does this put stress on teachers to get better grades out of the students but it puts unneeded stress upon the students they teach as well. 

 

In school we are taught the core classes Math, ELA, and history, while these classes teach us how to read and write, or how to do more complicated math then taught to us during elementary school, and most importantly the history of the world as we know it. Now all of this is very important information to know that could potentially help us in future jobs as some of this information can be carried over into many different carrier fields, but what happens when today's students don’t know how to thrive in life outside of school and work, or when we as students must take on all the financial responsibilities that being an adult will carry with it. Now some may argue that as students at Wheatland we have access to WeMoCo, which, yes, it does teach us about certain skills that could be carried into a certain carrier field that we as students show interest in at this point in our lives, but just how much of what we learn can be carried into our adult social-emotional lives or our financial lives? Not a lot. Schools don’t teach students how to handle finances.  

 

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