FDA ENGLISH V students in Mr. Jordan/Ms. Thompson's class tackle a wide array of topics/questions that correspond with world literature, current events and daily life to help promote critical thinking and responsive writing techniques.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
WHAT'S WRONG??
Among other successful countries, when it comes to education the United States is far from first place. What do you think is going wrong with American education? How could it be fixed? (DUE WEDNESDAY 29th @ midnight)
In America Education is not a high priority because the Youth Lifestyle is based on SOCIETY. Teenagers are the main focus in the experiment because teenagers are the main victims. They fall into peer pressure and Ruin Their entire life.
For example, a boy at the age of 16 can be smoking marijuana and he can easily influence a 14 year old into getting into the habit with words. he can say something like " just try it this time, you wont get addicted." Just that easy the boy falls into the trap and becomes a steady smoker.
Many Teenagers Depend On popularity because they are insecure and strive for attention. They Become Class Clowns or school-wide rebels trying to impress people that are either living the same lifestyle or not even paying them any attention.
A Racist Mind would think its only in Majority African AMerican Neighborhoods or the "Ghetto", but its everywhere throughout america. Most americans are materialistic and money hungry so they only care about their appearance. They dont care about their upcoming midterms they care about what their going to wear to school that day.
Another reason why american education fails is because of Gang Related Activity. Many Teenage Boys get caught up in Gang violence. They base their life on the color of their flag and not their intellect. They fight for the respect of their flag to gain a higher status under an idiotic mind of the man they call OG or Big HOmie or whatever the title is.
My opinion is that their is no solution to this problem because the people of america are already accustomed to this negative lifestyle. They believe their going to make it somewhere by hustling and stealing. They care about what their going to wear or who their going to rob and not about the hard-work that many people put in to get them to where they are today. They dont understand the horrors that we could have possibly still been facing if it wasn't for education.
Americans Of today are selfish and greedy. They have the mind set that everything is going to be handed to them on a silver platter. They have to understand that it was never handed to us people of brown skin tone. we have always worked for our freedom. Our ancestors fought and died for us to be able to sit in a classroom and all they're doing is showing that our ancestors have wasted their time.
I think is nothing wrong with American education.Its just the young people doing the wrong things and messing up their life and future.If the young people just listened to their parents/guardian instead of going the wrong way they will get somewhere.Other then that they won't.Young people need to be thought right and not wrong.They need someone to guide them as they get older until they know what to do.Young people always follow the wrong crowd.And also do wrong with the crowd.They always go in the street,stay in the street hanging with there boys smoking and drinking.Many young people go to jail for something they do wrong.If we can help the young people show them the right way or path the American education would not be a problem because they can go to school,get there education,and finish school and get a great job.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with American education. It’s just the kids now in days don’t see why it’s so important to have education in their life. They rather hang out with their friends, smoke there lives away in call it a day. If kids or kids of tomorrow just listen to their parents and go to school when they post to a lot of things would go better for them in the near future. Don’t get me wrong there are kids out there who want to get a good education in be someone in life but there are people out there who bring them down as well. Our young people today don’t believe in them self’s because we the people of America don’t encourage them to try their best at all time in life. I believe that if the government gives the schools more money to buy new books for us kids to read and do work in we would come to school every day. Matter fact if you think about it the kids of tomorrow follow the wrong crowd they think if they do what others do then they would be down with everyone else. Kids these days don’t like to b treated like an outcast so they do what they got to do to be down with what in. For example kids join gangs to feel like they have power, respect, and to feel safe. So like I said before there nothing wrong with American education it’s just people who don’t have faith in themselves or have anyone to lean on when they feel like there’s know where else to turn in life. As a high school student I know how it feel when you feel like your best is not your best. When you think no one believe in you in only want to see you fail in life. There is times when I just want to walk out the school door in don’t return because I think people don’t understand how hard I try to pass my class or how hard I try to be that person my parents know I could be. But every time I wake up I say to myself no one can do for me as much as I can do for myself. There’s nothing wrongs with American education jus the people who don’t care or don’t believe in them self.
Hi I think what is going wrong with the American education is that along with the Iraq war, dealing with immigration, and health care, the poor performance of the institution of American Education is among the most severe of the problems seen facing the nation. Yet, depending on the source, the definition of our unease varies widely. The definition of Education’s failure comes in many forms, largely based on the source from which it originates. The victims (students) of course, have their own definition – school is boring, useless, with its only value one of meeting friends and, for some, participating in sports. Try asking a kid what he learned in school today, and you will get the “thousand mile stare,” which quickly informs you of your membership in the group of those, intellectually challenged. Parents have many complaints. If children are in their teens or older, they have changed from the compliant, respectful children so fondly remembered, to defiant, lying, empty-headed, drug-using, promiscuous brats. They are certain that it results from their kids’ heads being filled with all kinds of ideas that have no place in a traditional American home. Teacher look at their unmotivated, cheating, noisy classes, with occasional deadly violence thrown in, and either leave the profession, or stay, longing for the days when students were eager to learn, respectful, did their homework, and trembled at the threat of a parent conference or a failing grade. If all of the above is true, how have we made the enormous leaps in technology, science, medicine, and consumer electronics during the last half century? The answer, it seems to me, is that this progress has resulted in spite of rather than because the institution of Education in this country. From the rebellious drive that fostered the Revolution through the tenaciousness of the 19th century inventors, to the non-conforming brilliance of Einstein and the purposeful drive of the thousands of university academics and their graduate students, we still maintain a hugely rich source of intellectual power. Yet, we no longer stand alone as the world’s leader in brain power. Billions of dollars, a giant bureaucracy the Department of Education, new Internet instructional tools, and thousands of people have been thrown at the challenge, with no evident reversal of this problem. All of the statements above represent different perceptions of the results of educational failure, but fail to make clear what is and has been missing. Thus, it seems appropriate to attempt a specific description of those elements of the educational process which have proved to be so intractable to any and all efforts to remedy them.
I think is nothing wrong with American education. It’s just the young people doing the wrong things and messing up their life and future. If the young people just listened to their parents/guardian instead of going the wrong way they will get somewhere. Other than that they won’t. Young people need to be thought right and not wrong. They need someone to guide them as they get older until they know what to do. Young people always follow the wrong crowd. And also do wrong with the crowd. They always go in the street, stay in the street hanging with their boys smoking and drinking. Many young people go to jail for something they do wrong. If we can help the young people show them the right way or path the American education would not be a problem because they can go to school, get there education and finish school and get a great job. We live in a world that have young people don’t listen to their elderly, don’t have jobs cause they drop out of school start hanging in the street. Many parents have many complaints that they child is not in school and they never show up to come to school. A lot of parents trying to help their own children to be a good student. So they can be a good person during their life but they won’t listen to their parents. Many students try to pass their class and it is hard for them because they tried their best to pass and get a good grade but some parents don’t appreciate what they have or saying you can do better and do well. But students try to be that person and make there parents know that they can do it or try their best.In this world it’s not safe for young people to be outside at night because anything could happened to them and they parents don’t know.
I dont think that there is nothing wrong with american education. The reason why i say that is because its the students who dont want to take things seriously. then they start to drop out because they think its boring or just a waste of time. Another reason is that the people around the students could also affect them. One way that they could affect them is they telling them the good or bad things about school. Which is not good.
Wow, that's a good question or issue. To a certain extant I would agree with some of the people who responded. The American system of education is quite good and that's one of the reasons why I came to this country. The education system here is only good and effective to only those who want educational assistance and are also willing to learn.
I am going to hit the nail on it's head. The number one reason why "Americans" seem not to be successful in educatinal terms is found in one word, FREE. There too much free things in this country for example food, clothing ,transport, housing and even education is for free. Where I come from you have to pay school fees to attend school and learn. So if you tell these kids to go to school and actually participate most of them think to themselves, " Why should I get an education if I can get welfare".
And another reason is that kids see it alot in the community. A lot of people are uneducated All they do is wake up find money for drugs and alcohol and that's their daily life. People in this country have it easy. The government is supporting Jack and Jill and that's why the economy is not doing well. For example look around and most of the buildings you see are project and they are full of uneducated people.
The last reason I would like to throw in is the fact that mot teens are followers. In most cases if your friend decides they don't want to go to school today, most likely you won't go to. Talking from experience in my old I used to cut class just to o hang out with my associates and smoke weed. ( thanks to God I don't do that anymore). Us as teens need to realize that we are doing this education thing for nobody else but ourselves. So we need to stop following each other and influencing each other into doing illicit things. Let us encourage each other as a people and make America a better country for ourselves and our kids.
To close up I will just let you know that there are three things that NOBODY will ever steal from me (1) God , (2) Jesus and (3) My Education.
There are various reasons why America is far from being first place when it comes to education. One of the reasons I think that the United States is way behind other countries as far as education is concerned is the attitude of the students. A lot of students do not give their all when it comes to learning. Their minds are too lazy to aim for the best. Some of them skip school on a regular basis. Others are being suspended for breaking school rules. I think education is taken for granted and is not being appreciated. In this day of technology youngsters are so engrossed in the latest invention, they do not focus on what is important to them.
While we applaud great teachers and parents who go above and beyond to shape and educate our students some do not live up to what is expected of them. There are some parents who do not seek interest in their child’s schoolwork. They believe it is up to the teachers to instill knowledge into their kids. At the same time, there are some teachers who do not take an interest in the child’s welfare and lack of accountability helps them to get away with that.
It’s appalling to see so many students are not graduating from high school on time. Something must be wrong with the system. Maybe it is the way students are being taught today or the text books are not informative enough. Students even in third world countries have a very low drop out rate and the vast majority graduates from high school. I think in these countries, students appreciate education and are aware that an education would make them better persons.
What ever, the reasons I think everyone, students, parents, teachers and political leaders Should be held responsible and should come together to see how to tackle this problem.
(Education) the field of study that deals mainly with methods of teaching and learning in schools. Education is something everyone should want to learn in today's world. Their is an quote that was told to me by many people and it was '' With an education you can deserve and have everything you want. In America our education is in between good and bad you would say bad because we don't have enough to get and do different things. Everyone has an brain so they should use that brain to get that education they need or the education they want. About 79% of people you can look at and see they want an education but other things are stopping them from getting it. In America we have people dropping out for not so good reasons like no role models or can't do some stuff and etc. When you compare America to other places you would say this place has such and such what about America ? Something i would say American citizens need leadership and skills. Education is like money you have to work for what you want. In this world today everyone should want and get and education. When your in other countries other than its more easier and comfortable. But when your in America its the most educated , and busy country. When your in my perspective you would think getting my education would be good but at the same support and make my family and friends happy. Education is the key to success in many of places. The five sense is why its in our world today. When you think about we would need all of this stuff if we would want an education. In America we have many people who would want to educated and prepare for them big steps in the future.
Jameira Young I think other countries are on top with education is because in the U.S.A there are a lot of issues going on inside our states. Other countries younger students may have a better long expansion with work. It helps them pay attention more because they don’t have other and better things to do. I don’t think it’s nothing wrong with American education. I’m learning in my school so what’s the problem? My cousins are learning and my younger sister is learning. I just think right now that we are in 2010 the learning is different and also harder. In other countries the teaching is probably different and easier for the students in school. American education has come up from what you might think it really is. American education is busier than in other countries. I think teachers work harder to teach because classrooms are fuller. More students come to public school. In other countries you may have three schools in one city. Also in American countries they pay more attention to all the other issues like criminals rather than their education. Since I’m in high school I know that that my city is focusing on their money rather than my education. And sometimes I may slip away and forget about my education as well and get mixed up in what’s going on in my city / society but that shouldn’t affect everyone’s education. The reason why people may think it’s a problem is because the youth is really focus on what they have to do to get their education in order. No one is giving them exact direction of where they need to be every day. The way we learn now is weird they teach is different things from what it was. But I think that all the U.s teachers are trying there hardest and are doing the best they can from what I know since I’ve been in school. I’m not sure what kind of education is going on in other countries but its nothing wrong with American education we might be behind a little bit but at least children are learning their basic skills !
Jameira Young I think other countries are on top with education is because in the U.S.A there are a lot of issues going on inside our states. Other countries younger students may have a better long expansion with work. It helps them pay attention more because they don’t have other and better things to do. I don’t think it’s nothing wrong with American education. I’m learning in my school so what’s the problem? My cousins are learning and my younger sister is learning. I just think right now that we are in 2010 the learning is different and also harder. In other countries the teaching is probably different and easier for the students in school. American education has come up from what you might think it really is. American education is busier than in other countries. I think teachers work harder to teach because classrooms are fuller. More students come to public school. In other countries you may have three schools in one city. Also in American countries they pay more attention to all the other issues like criminals rather than their education. Since I’m in high school I know that that my city is focusing on their money rather than my education. And sometimes I may slip away and forget about my education as well and get mixed up in what’s going on in my city / society but that shouldn’t affect everyone’s education. The reason why people may think it’s a problem is because the youth is really focus on what they have to do to get their education in order. No one is giving them exact direction of where they need to be every day. The way we learn now is weird they teach is different things from what it was. But I think that all the U.s teachers are trying there hardest and are doing the best they can from what I know since I’ve been in school. I’m not sure what kind of education is going on in other countries but its nothing wrong with American education we might be behind a little bit but at least children are learning their basic skills !
Jameira Young I think other countries are on top with education is because in the U.S.A there are a lot of issues going on inside our states. Other countries younger students may have a better long expansion with work. It helps them pay attention more because they don’t have other and better things to do. I don’t think it’s nothing wrong with American education. I’m learning in my school so what’s the problem? My cousins are learning and my younger sister is learning. I just think right now that we are in 2010 the learning is different and also harder. In other countries the teaching is probably different and easier for the students in school. American education has come up from what you might think it really is. American education is busier than in other countries. I think teachers work harder to teach because classrooms are fuller. More students come to public school. In other countries you may have three schools in one city. Also in American countries they pay more attention to all the other issues like criminals rather than their education. Since I’m in high school I know that that my city is focusing on their money rather than my education. And sometimes I may slip away and forget about my education as well and get mixed up in what’s going on in my city / society but that shouldn’t affect everyone’s education. The reason why people may think it’s a problem is because the youth is really focus on what they have to do to get their education in order. No one is giving them exact direction of where they need to be every day. The way we learn now is weird they teach is different things from what it was. But I think that all the U.s teachers are trying there hardest and are doing the best they can from what I know since I’ve been in school. I’m not sure what kind of education is going on in other countries but its nothing wrong with American education we might be behind a little bit but at least children are learning their basic skills !
I dont't think it nothing wrong with american educationsystem, as i matter of fact the American school's systems is one of the best education system in the world because it FREE. Nothing only it free but it'ds have the best teachers that are train to teach.But what make it bad is the kids are not meeting the requirments. So why is these children not learning (beside kids who have learning disabilities)? Well it depends on what the age group. Also it depends on rather these children parents are really putting in the effort of helping their children excell in school.
Age groups is one of the factors why American students are failing to excel in school. Frist let start with high schoolstudents. To me today society school is not a first priority. Like back in the days people believe in going to school because back than there was'nt much options available to student like today ,it was like uif you don' t havfe a dilpoma you wasn't going anywhere, but today they have alot of source to high school students who choose not to attend regular like if a student decide to dropout of school they know that it will be programs like GED and job training for to get jobs.
Parents of american students could be big affect on why kids are not learning like they suppose to.Not all but some parents don't put in the effort of trying to help their kids.For example kids come from school instead of being a parent to your children and making him/her sit down and do their homework and helping with it they go ahead and go on the video games or going out side and play rather them siting and the teaching them their work.
So therefore that why I think the american school system is not good. Keyonna A.
No country is the same. The reason that America is not really ahead in education is that we don’t need to excel in that area. In third world countries people aren’t living so well they need education if they are going to get a good paying job. In America to me it’s a totally different situation. There are many small time jobs and labor jobs where people don’t need much off an education. A lot of these jobs are enough to make it by in life. Every economy is not the same some people can’t afford to set there standards even an inch lower then what it already is. There are people who probably never even been inside a college or high school and got rich because they had and idea. I stay up some times and watch TV and they have people who act like they have no sense or no education what so ever and they probably don’t. The point is they get paid thousands of dollars to do nothing but act a fool on TV. People in these other countries if you watch documentaries that they live in the worst way you can image they live in dirty areas crowded population with horrible government and many of them see that they will stay that way and have to raised there family like that if they don’t get the education necessary for good jobs. U.s as American have all this money all these electronics, arts, job opportunities and a lot of time we waste them because we feel like we are find just fine where we are at. I know parents who give their kids like 5-20 dollars a day just for nothing. A majority this money is being spent on useless items when it could be used for more education programs or books something we can actually use. American live for today and not tomorrows satisfaction and that’s the way a lot of us were raised to live. Not that all American kids do this but a lot of us do and when we decide to see the true importance of education then and only then will we finally be top country.
I THINK THAT OUR COUNTRY IS NOT SUCCESSFUL AS FAR AS EDUCATION IS BECAUSE MOST TEENS DROP OUT.OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM IS NOT FOR EVERYONE MOST PEOPLE GO TO SCHOOL GET BORED LEAVE EARLY.WE ONLY HAVE MOSTLY BLACKS,WHITE AND HISPANIC.OTHER COUNTRIES HAVE ALOT OF DIFFERENT CULTURES AND RACES IN THEIR COUNTRY THATS WHY WE ARE LOW ON POPULATION.PEOPLE In MOST OF THESE OTHER COUNTRIES IF YOU WATCH DOCUMENTARIES THAT THEY SEE AMERICANS LIVE IN THE WORST WAY.MOST TEENS DROP OUT BECAUSE PREGNACY.THATS WHY MOST DROP OUT THEY BEGAN TO GET SCARED AND THEN DROP OUT TO TAKE CARE THERE BABY.BUT US AMERICANS ALSO HAVE MONEY.Age groups is one of the factors why AMERICAN STUDENTS FAIL IN SCHOOL ITS MORE HARDER IN AMERICA BECAUSE OUR GRADUATION RATE IS VERY LOW.
i think that the reason for all of this is because teenagers now a days are easily distracted by what other teens are doing. teenagers are put under a lot of pressure when it comes to their friends. some teens think that their friends are going to think bad of them because they want to get their education. most kids grew up against violence marijuana and alot of gang related things so they start to do what they see other people doing. most people drop out of school because they feel the streets is more important then their education. For example gangs fight everyday because they think their going to get respect from other people when all their doing is putting their self in danger of being shot or stabbed to death. teenagers and adults usually influence their kids or other kids to do things that they know aren't the right thing to do. most kids steal money because they see other people with things they want. others steal the persons things to make a point that they have no home training. teenagers only do the things they do because they have a father figure or their mother doesn't care alot about them enough to tell them right from wrong basically they have no male influences so they take their anger out on others. everyday another life is taken and witnesses do nothing to stop it. basically my point is that to most teenagers education is not as important as it is to others. in other words they have no love for school only for the streets as they know it.
I feel that the population of education in the united states is so low mainly because young children and teens aren't don't really care about school and learning. Not much of them think nor care about there future at their ages. They , mostly just want to have fun and thats the problem. Kids heads aren't into school they are somewhere else. Teens tend to do things like get easily distracted and less focused on their education. Children don't know better ex specially because some don't have parents that push them to doing good and focusing on their school work.Education will continue to get lower and lower in the U.S until either the distractions go away which is kind of impossible or kids and teens start to value the importance of education more better.
I don't think it's something wrong with American education because if student's work hard and try to understand what school is and take school more serious , American education will most likely be successful as other countries. American education isn't that good but its not terrible but back in the day's "I heard school in America was much more easier back then , then it is now". Other ways American students can make our country a successful country is by going to school , go to a school that is highly educated and has very good classes , do all homework ,classwork , study more and by completing all assignments that are assigned to you. Students are not the only reason why America education is far from being successful as other counties because some of the American teachers are rude disrespectful and sometimes can be a little hard to understand and some American students can not function like that. Some students may not care about what eduction is, some student laugh and play and if they feel that eduction is a game they will get no where in life. Students can get very distracted fast and be unfocused for a good amount of time and they lose out on GOOD eduction that they should of been focused on. American education can get much better if students really put there foot down and start to participate more and be focused and work really really hard to be a successful country.
Madiyyah say; Well from a young students point of view New York has plenty of errors when it comes to school. For examples violence, grades, attendance, gang related, favouritism. We had too many break when that should be changed for study time until like 5 pm in the evening. And there is racism in some schools kids are treat different just because of their color and race. And kids also depend on popularity. In class they have class clowns who detract them from doing their work. And teenage boys smoking marijuana and having sex in school. Bring weapons to school just to fight because their friends are. Monkey see monkey do. Teenagers follow other student just hang out with the cool people when they should be doing something with their life. It’s not all about your friends it’s about you and you life and how it’s going to end. A lot of teenagers have a lot of pre pressure on them. Other people pressure them into doing something that they don’t want to do but they maded that person feel bad so they did it. Some teenagers are greedy and selfish and don’t care bout nothing but their self. We change this by showing them the right things to do. They need a great role model to show them hoe education helps you in life. Young teenagers always following the wrong when they should be leaders instead of followers. Most of these teens have attitude from the way they have been treated by people or their families. I say everyone makes mistakes but they can also fix it to. Most teenagers aren’t into school they worried about something that’s not worried about them. They are very headed and just want to have it’s not all about fun. You won’t be saying that year from here when you are homeless because you wanted to play games and not go to school. Teenager’s almostly care about what they wear to school and not their education. It’s all about money and smoking and chilling with your friends. Are your friends going to be there when you need all the time, no they not they not going to be worried about you. They only worry about their self and what they do. And in most schools have gang violence. All this hate for no reason just because yall in different teams. So what yall all basically grew up together? Grow up and act your age. Stop worrying about what people think of you and do what you have to do you get out of school.
It’s appalling to see so many students are not graduating from high school on time. Something must be wrong with the system. Maybe it is the way students are being taught today or the text books are not informative enough. Students even in third world countries have a very low drop out rate and the vast majority graduates from high school. I think in these countries, students appreciate education and are aware that an education would make them better persons and kids just go to school and hang out.. Obama want to make school go on right though June and i think that will be alll right because our test will go up
what is wrong with america today is people are jobless and business is shut down . and people homes are going for foreclosure . and school are shut down. and also student are drop out of school and dont have high school diampol . then they can't get job without a high school dimapol. and somepeople have to sleep on the street . because they dont have nowhere to go . because the bank took their homes from them.
In America Education is not a high priority because the Youth Lifestyle is based on SOCIETY. Teenagers are the main focus in the experiment because teenagers are the main victims. They fall into peer pressure and Ruin Their entire life.
ReplyDeleteFor example, a boy at the age of 16 can be smoking marijuana and he can easily influence a 14 year old into getting into the habit with words. he can say something like " just try it this time, you wont get addicted." Just that easy the boy falls into the trap and becomes a steady smoker.
Many Teenagers Depend On popularity because they are insecure and strive for attention. They Become Class Clowns or school-wide rebels trying to impress people that are either living the same lifestyle or not even paying them any attention.
A Racist Mind would think its only in Majority African AMerican Neighborhoods or the "Ghetto", but its everywhere throughout america. Most americans are materialistic and money hungry so they only care about their appearance. They dont care about their upcoming midterms they care about what their going to wear to school that day.
Another reason why american education fails is because of Gang Related Activity. Many Teenage Boys get caught up in Gang violence. They base their life on the color of their flag and not their intellect. They fight for the respect of their flag to gain a higher status under an idiotic mind of the man they call OG or Big HOmie or whatever the title is.
My opinion is that their is no solution to this problem because the people of america are already accustomed to this negative lifestyle. They believe their going to make it somewhere by hustling and stealing. They care about what their going to wear or who their going to rob and not about the hard-work that many people put in to get them to where they are today. They dont understand the horrors that we could have possibly still been facing if it wasn't for education.
Americans Of today are selfish and greedy. They have the mind set that everything is going to be handed to them on a silver platter. They have to understand that it was never handed to us people of brown skin tone. we have always worked for our freedom. Our ancestors fought and died for us to be able to sit in a classroom and all they're doing is showing that our ancestors have wasted their time.
I think is nothing wrong with American education.Its just the young people doing the wrong things and messing up their life and future.If the young people just listened to their parents/guardian instead of going the wrong way they will get somewhere.Other then that they won't.Young people need to be thought right and not wrong.They need someone to guide them as they get older until they know what to do.Young people always follow the wrong crowd.And also do wrong with the crowd.They always go in the street,stay in the street hanging with there boys smoking and drinking.Many young people go to jail for something they do wrong.If we can help the young people show them the right way or path the American education would not be a problem because they can go to school,get there education,and finish school and get a great job.
ReplyDeleteI don’t think there’s anything wrong with American education. It’s just the kids now in days don’t see why it’s so important to have education in their life. They rather hang out with their friends, smoke there lives away in call it a day. If kids or kids of tomorrow just listen to their parents and go to school when they post to a lot of things would go better for them in the near future. Don’t get me wrong there are kids out there who want to get a good education in be someone in life but there are people out there who bring them down as well. Our young people today don’t believe in them self’s because we the people of America don’t encourage them to try their best at all time in life. I believe that if the government gives the schools more money to buy new books for us kids to read and do work in we would come to school every day. Matter fact if you think about it the kids of tomorrow follow the wrong crowd they think if they do what others do then they would be down with everyone else. Kids these days don’t like to b treated like an outcast so they do what they got to do to be down with what in. For example kids join gangs to feel like they have power, respect, and to feel safe. So like I said before there nothing wrong with American education it’s just people who don’t have faith in themselves or have anyone to lean on when they feel like there’s know where else to turn in life. As a high school student I know how it feel when you feel like your best is not your best. When you think no one believe in you in only want to see you fail in life. There is times when I just want to walk out the school door in don’t return because I think people don’t understand how hard I try to pass my class or how hard I try to be that person my parents know I could be. But every time I wake up I say to myself no one can do for me as much as I can do for myself. There’s nothing wrongs with American education jus the people who don’t care or don’t believe in them self.
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ReplyDeleteI think what is going wrong with the American education is that along with the Iraq war, dealing with immigration, and health care, the poor performance of the institution of American Education is among the most severe of the problems seen facing the nation. Yet, depending on the source, the definition of our unease varies widely. The definition of Education’s failure comes in many forms, largely based on the source from which it originates. The victims (students) of course, have their own definition – school is boring, useless, with its only value one of meeting friends and, for some, participating in sports. Try asking a kid what he learned in school today, and you will get the “thousand mile stare,” which quickly informs you of your membership in the group of those, intellectually challenged. Parents have many complaints. If children are in their teens or older, they have changed from the compliant, respectful children so fondly remembered, to defiant, lying, empty-headed, drug-using, promiscuous brats. They are certain that it results from their kids’ heads being filled with all kinds of ideas that have no place in a traditional American home. Teacher look at their unmotivated, cheating, noisy classes, with occasional deadly violence thrown in, and either leave the profession, or stay, longing for the days when students were eager to learn, respectful, did their homework, and trembled at the threat of a parent conference or a failing grade. If all of the above is true, how have we made the enormous leaps in technology, science, medicine, and consumer electronics during the last half century? The answer, it seems to me, is that this progress has resulted in spite of rather than because the institution of Education in this country. From the rebellious drive that fostered the Revolution through the tenaciousness of the 19th century inventors, to the non-conforming brilliance of Einstein and the purposeful drive of the thousands of university academics and their graduate students, we still maintain a hugely rich source of intellectual power. Yet, we no longer stand alone as the world’s leader in brain power. Billions of dollars, a giant bureaucracy the Department of Education, new Internet instructional tools, and thousands of people have been thrown at the challenge, with no evident reversal of this problem. All of the statements above represent different perceptions of the results of educational failure, but fail to make clear what is and has been missing. Thus, it seems appropriate to attempt a specific description of those elements of the educational process which have proved to be so intractable to any and all efforts to remedy them.
I think is nothing wrong with American education. It’s just the young people doing the wrong things and messing up their life and future. If the young people just listened to their parents/guardian instead of going the wrong way they will get somewhere. Other than that they won’t. Young people need to be thought right and not wrong. They need someone to guide them as they get older until they know what to do. Young people always follow the wrong crowd. And also do wrong with the crowd. They always go in the street, stay in the street hanging with their boys smoking and drinking. Many young people go to jail for something they do wrong. If we can help the young people show them the right way or path the American education would not be a problem because they can go to school, get there education and finish school and get a great job. We live in a world that have young people don’t listen to their elderly, don’t have jobs cause they drop out of school start hanging in the street. Many parents have many complaints that they child is not in school and they never show up to come to school. A lot of parents trying to help their own children to be a good student. So they can be a good person during their life but they won’t listen to their parents. Many students try to pass their class and it is hard for them because they tried their best to pass and get a good grade but some parents don’t appreciate what they have or saying you can do better and do well. But students try to be that person and make there parents know that they can do it or try their best.In this world it’s not safe for young people to be outside at night because anything could happened to them and they parents don’t know.
ReplyDeleteI dont think that there is nothing wrong with american education. The reason why i say that is because its the students who dont want to take things seriously. then they start to drop out because they think its boring or just a waste of time. Another reason is that the people around the students could also affect them. One way that they could affect them is they telling them the good or bad things about school. Which is not good.
ReplyDeleteWow, that's a good question or issue. To a certain extant I would agree with some of the people who responded. The American system of education is quite good and that's one of the reasons why I came to this country. The education system here is only good and effective to only those who want educational assistance and are also willing to learn.
ReplyDeleteI am going to hit the nail on it's head. The number one reason why "Americans" seem not to be successful in educatinal terms is found in one word, FREE. There too much free things in this country for example food, clothing ,transport, housing and even education is for free. Where I come from you have to pay school fees to attend school and learn. So if you tell these kids to go to school and actually participate most of them think to themselves, " Why should I get an education if I can get welfare".
And another reason is that kids see it alot in the community. A lot of people are uneducated All they do is wake up find money for drugs and alcohol and that's their daily life. People in this country have it easy. The government is supporting Jack and Jill and that's why the economy is not doing well. For example look around and most of the buildings you see are project and they are full of uneducated people.
The last reason I would like to throw in is the fact that mot teens are followers. In most cases if your friend decides they don't want to go to school today, most likely you won't go to. Talking from experience in my old I used to cut class just to o hang out with my associates and smoke weed. ( thanks to God I don't do that anymore). Us as teens need to realize that we are doing this education thing for nobody else but ourselves. So we need to stop following each other and influencing each other into doing illicit things. Let us encourage each other as a people and make America a better country for ourselves and our kids.
To close up I will just let you know that there are three things that NOBODY will ever steal from me (1) God , (2) Jesus and (3) My Education.
God Bless you all.
There are various reasons why America is far from being first place when it comes to education. One of the reasons I think that the United States is way behind other countries as far as education is concerned is the attitude of the students. A lot of students do not give their all when it comes to learning. Their minds are too lazy to aim for the best. Some of them skip school on a regular basis. Others are being suspended for breaking school rules. I think education is taken for granted and is not being appreciated. In this day of technology youngsters are so engrossed in the latest invention, they do not focus on what is important to them.
ReplyDeleteWhile we applaud great teachers and parents who go above and beyond to shape and educate our students some do not live up to what is expected of them. There are some parents who do not seek interest in their child’s schoolwork. They believe it is up to the teachers to instill knowledge into their kids. At the same time, there are some teachers who do not take an interest in the child’s welfare and lack of accountability helps them to get away with that.
It’s appalling to see so many students are not graduating from high school on time. Something must be wrong with the system. Maybe it is the way students are being taught today or the text books are not informative enough. Students even in third world countries have a very low drop out rate and the vast majority graduates from high school. I think in these countries, students appreciate education and are aware that an education would make them better persons.
What ever, the reasons I think everyone, students, parents, teachers and political leaders
Should be held responsible and should come together to see how to tackle this problem.
(Education) the field of study that deals mainly with methods of teaching and learning in schools. Education is something everyone should want to learn in today's world. Their is an quote that was told to me by many people and it was '' With an education you can deserve and have everything you want. In America our education is in between good and bad you would say bad because we don't have enough to get and do different things. Everyone has an brain so they should use that brain to get that education they need or the education they want. About 79% of people you can look at and see they want an education but other things are stopping them from getting it. In America we have people dropping out for not so good reasons like no role models or can't do some stuff and etc. When you compare America to other places you would say this place has such and such what about America ? Something i would say American citizens need leadership and skills. Education is like money you have to work for what you want. In this world today everyone should want and get and education. When your in other countries other than its more easier and comfortable. But when your in America its the most educated , and busy country. When your in my perspective you would think getting my education would be good but at the same support and make my family and friends happy. Education is the key to success in many of places. The five sense is why its in our world today. When you think about we would need all of this stuff if we would want an education. In America we have many people who would want to educated and prepare for them big steps in the future.
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ReplyDeleteI think other countries are on top with education is because in the U.S.A there are a lot of issues going on inside our states. Other countries younger students may have a better long expansion with work. It helps them pay attention more because they don’t have other and better things to do. I don’t think it’s nothing wrong with American education. I’m learning in my school so what’s the problem? My cousins are learning and my younger sister is learning. I just think right now that we are in 2010 the learning is different and also harder. In other countries the teaching is probably different and easier for the students in school. American education has come up from what you might think it really is. American education is busier than in other countries. I think teachers work harder to teach because classrooms are fuller. More students come to public school. In other countries you may have three schools in one city. Also in American countries they pay more attention to all the other issues like criminals rather than their education. Since I’m in high school I know that that my city is focusing on their money rather than my education. And sometimes I may slip away and forget about my education as well and get mixed up in what’s going on in my city / society but that shouldn’t affect everyone’s education. The reason why people may think it’s a problem is because the youth is really focus on what they have to do to get their education in order. No one is giving them exact direction of where they need to be every day. The way we learn now is weird they teach is different things from what it was. But I think that all the U.s teachers are trying there hardest and are doing the best they can from what I know since I’ve been in school. I’m not sure what kind of education is going on in other countries but its nothing wrong with American education we might be behind a little bit but at least children are learning their basic skills !
Jameira Young
ReplyDeleteI think other countries are on top with education is because in the U.S.A there are a lot of issues going on inside our states. Other countries younger students may have a better long expansion with work. It helps them pay attention more because they don’t have other and better things to do. I don’t think it’s nothing wrong with American education. I’m learning in my school so what’s the problem? My cousins are learning and my younger sister is learning. I just think right now that we are in 2010 the learning is different and also harder. In other countries the teaching is probably different and easier for the students in school. American education has come up from what you might think it really is. American education is busier than in other countries. I think teachers work harder to teach because classrooms are fuller. More students come to public school. In other countries you may have three schools in one city. Also in American countries they pay more attention to all the other issues like criminals rather than their education. Since I’m in high school I know that that my city is focusing on their money rather than my education. And sometimes I may slip away and forget about my education as well and get mixed up in what’s going on in my city / society but that shouldn’t affect everyone’s education. The reason why people may think it’s a problem is because the youth is really focus on what they have to do to get their education in order. No one is giving them exact direction of where they need to be every day. The way we learn now is weird they teach is different things from what it was. But I think that all the U.s teachers are trying there hardest and are doing the best they can from what I know since I’ve been in school. I’m not sure what kind of education is going on in other countries but its nothing wrong with American education we might be behind a little bit but at least children are learning their basic skills !
Jameira Young
ReplyDeleteI think other countries are on top with education is because in the U.S.A there are a lot of issues going on inside our states. Other countries younger students may have a better long expansion with work. It helps them pay attention more because they don’t have other and better things to do. I don’t think it’s nothing wrong with American education. I’m learning in my school so what’s the problem? My cousins are learning and my younger sister is learning. I just think right now that we are in 2010 the learning is different and also harder. In other countries the teaching is probably different and easier for the students in school. American education has come up from what you might think it really is. American education is busier than in other countries. I think teachers work harder to teach because classrooms are fuller. More students come to public school. In other countries you may have three schools in one city. Also in American countries they pay more attention to all the other issues like criminals rather than their education. Since I’m in high school I know that that my city is focusing on their money rather than my education. And sometimes I may slip away and forget about my education as well and get mixed up in what’s going on in my city / society but that shouldn’t affect everyone’s education. The reason why people may think it’s a problem is because the youth is really focus on what they have to do to get their education in order. No one is giving them exact direction of where they need to be every day. The way we learn now is weird they teach is different things from what it was. But I think that all the U.s teachers are trying there hardest and are doing the best they can from what I know since I’ve been in school. I’m not sure what kind of education is going on in other countries but its nothing wrong with American education we might be behind a little bit but at least children are learning their basic skills !
I dont't think it nothing wrong with american educationsystem, as i matter of fact the American school's systems is one of the best education system in the world because it FREE. Nothing only it free but it'ds have the best teachers that are train to teach.But what make it bad is the kids are not meeting the requirments. So why is these children not learning (beside kids who have learning disabilities)? Well it depends on what the age group. Also it depends on rather these children parents are really putting in the effort of helping their children excell in school.
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students are failing to excel in school. Frist let start with high schoolstudents. To me today society school is not a first priority. Like back in the days people believe in going to school because back than there was'nt much options available to student like today ,it was like uif you don' t havfe a dilpoma you wasn't
going anywhere, but today they have alot of source to high school students who choose not to attend regular like if a student decide to dropout of school they know that it will be programs like GED and job training for to get jobs.
Parents of american students could be big affect on why kids are not learning like they suppose to.Not all but some parents don't put in the effort of trying to help their kids.For example kids come from school instead of being a parent to your children and making him/her sit down and do their homework and helping with
it they go ahead and go on the video games or going out side and play rather them siting and the teaching them their work.
So therefore that why I think the american school system is not good. Keyonna A.
No country is the same. The reason that America is not really ahead in education is that we don’t need to excel in that area. In third world countries people aren’t living so well they need education if they are going to get a good paying job. In America to me it’s a totally different situation. There are many small time jobs and labor jobs where people don’t need much off an education. A lot of these jobs are enough to make it by in life. Every economy is not the same some people can’t afford to set there standards even an inch lower then what it already is. There are people who probably never even been inside a college or high school and got rich because they had and idea. I stay up some times and watch TV and they have people who act like they have no sense or no education what so ever and they probably don’t. The point is they get paid thousands of dollars to do nothing but act a fool on TV. People in these other countries if you watch documentaries that they live in the worst way you can image they live in dirty areas crowded population with horrible government and many of them see that they will stay that way and have to raised there family like that if they don’t get the education necessary for good jobs. U.s as American have all this money all these electronics, arts, job opportunities and a lot of time we waste them because we feel like we are find just fine where we are at. I know parents who give their kids like 5-20 dollars a day just for nothing. A majority this money is being spent on useless items when it could be used for more education programs or books something we can actually use. American live for today and not tomorrows satisfaction and that’s the way a lot of us were raised to live. Not that all American kids do this but a lot of us do and when we decide to see the true importance of education then and only then will we finally be top country.
ReplyDeleteI THINK THAT OUR COUNTRY IS NOT SUCCESSFUL AS FAR AS EDUCATION IS BECAUSE MOST TEENS DROP OUT.OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM IS NOT FOR EVERYONE MOST PEOPLE GO TO SCHOOL GET BORED LEAVE EARLY.WE ONLY HAVE MOSTLY BLACKS,WHITE AND HISPANIC.OTHER COUNTRIES HAVE ALOT OF DIFFERENT CULTURES AND RACES IN THEIR COUNTRY THATS WHY WE ARE LOW ON POPULATION.PEOPLE In MOST OF THESE OTHER COUNTRIES IF YOU WATCH DOCUMENTARIES THAT THEY SEE AMERICANS LIVE IN THE WORST WAY.MOST TEENS DROP OUT BECAUSE PREGNACY.THATS WHY MOST DROP OUT THEY BEGAN TO GET SCARED AND THEN DROP OUT TO TAKE CARE THERE BABY.BUT US AMERICANS ALSO HAVE MONEY.Age groups is one of the factors why AMERICAN STUDENTS FAIL IN SCHOOL ITS MORE HARDER IN AMERICA BECAUSE OUR GRADUATION RATE IS VERY LOW.
ReplyDeletei think that the reason for all of this is because teenagers now a days are easily distracted by what other teens are doing. teenagers are put under a lot of pressure when it comes to their friends. some teens think that their friends are going to think bad of them because they want to get their education. most kids grew up against violence marijuana and alot of gang related things so they start to do what they see other people doing. most people drop out of school because they feel the streets is more important then their education.
ReplyDeleteFor example gangs fight everyday because they think their going to get respect from other people when all their doing is putting their self in danger of being shot or stabbed to death. teenagers and adults usually influence their kids or other kids to do things that they know aren't the right thing to do. most kids steal money because they see other people with things they want. others steal the persons things to make a point that they have no home training. teenagers only do the things they do because they have a father figure or their mother doesn't care alot about them enough to tell them right from wrong basically they have no male influences so they take their anger out on others. everyday another life is taken and witnesses do nothing to stop it. basically my point is that to most teenagers education is not as important as it is to others. in other words they have no love for school only for the streets as they know it.
I feel that the population of education in the united states is so low mainly because young children and teens aren't don't really care about school and learning. Not much of them think nor care about there future at their ages. They , mostly just want to have fun and thats the problem. Kids heads aren't into school they are somewhere else. Teens tend to do things like get easily distracted and less focused on their education. Children don't know better ex specially because some don't have parents that push them to doing good and focusing on their school work.Education will continue to get lower and lower in the U.S until either the distractions go away which is kind of impossible or kids and teens start to value the importance of education more better.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it's something wrong with American education because if student's work hard and try to understand what school is and take school more serious , American education will most likely be successful as other countries.
ReplyDeleteAmerican education isn't that good but its not terrible but back in the day's "I heard school in America was much more easier back then , then it is now". Other ways American students can make our country a successful country is by going to school , go to a school that is highly educated and has very good classes , do all homework ,classwork , study more and by completing all assignments that are assigned to you.
Students are not the only reason why America education is far from being successful as other counties because some of the American teachers are rude disrespectful and sometimes can be a little hard to understand and some American students can not function like that.
Some students may not care about what eduction is, some student laugh and play and if they feel that eduction is a game they will get no where in life.
Students can get very distracted fast and be unfocused for a good amount of time and they lose out on GOOD eduction that they should of been focused on.
American education can get much better if students really put there foot down and start to participate more and be focused and work really really hard to be a successful country.
Madiyyah say; Well from a young students point of view New York has plenty of errors when it comes to school. For examples violence, grades, attendance, gang related, favouritism. We had too many break when that should be changed for study time until like 5 pm in the evening. And there is racism in some schools kids are treat different just because of their color and race. And kids also depend on popularity. In class they have class clowns who detract them from doing their work. And teenage boys smoking marijuana and having sex in school. Bring weapons to school just to fight because their friends are. Monkey see monkey do. Teenagers follow other student just hang out with the cool people when they should be doing something with their life. It’s not all about your friends it’s about you and you life and how it’s going to end. A lot of teenagers have a lot of pre pressure on them. Other people pressure them into doing something that they don’t want to do but they maded that person feel bad so they did it. Some teenagers are greedy and selfish and don’t care bout nothing but their self. We change this by showing them the right things to do. They need a great role model to show them hoe education helps you in life. Young teenagers always following the wrong when they should be leaders instead of followers. Most of these teens have attitude from the way they have been treated by people or their families. I say everyone makes mistakes but they can also fix it to. Most teenagers aren’t into school they worried about something that’s not worried about them. They are very headed and just want to have it’s not all about fun. You won’t be saying that year from here when you are homeless because you wanted to play games and not go to school. Teenager’s almostly care about what they wear to school and not their education. It’s all about money and smoking and chilling with your friends. Are your friends going to be there when you need all the time, no they not they not going to be worried about you. They only worry about their self and what they do. And in most schools have gang violence. All this hate for no reason just because yall in different teams. So what yall all basically grew up together? Grow up and act your age. Stop worrying about what people think of you and do what you have to do you get out of school.
ReplyDeleteIt’s appalling to see so many students are not graduating from high school on time. Something must be wrong with the system. Maybe it is the way students are being taught today or the text books are not informative enough. Students even in third world countries have a very low drop out rate and the vast majority graduates from high school. I think in these countries, students appreciate education and are aware that an education would make them better persons and kids just go to school and hang out.. Obama want to make school go on right though June and i think that will be alll right because our test will go up
ReplyDeletewhat is wrong with america today is people are jobless and business is shut down . and people homes are going for foreclosure . and school are shut down. and also student are drop out of school and dont have high school diampol . then they can't get job without a high school dimapol. and somepeople have to sleep on the street . because they dont have nowhere to go . because the bank took their homes from them.
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