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Our Education System Is Becoming Capitalized
In the 1980s, it was expected that a college graduate would be able to pay back their whole tuition 5 years after having graduated. In today’s society, paying back a college tuition in 5 years is nearly impossible as the cost to attend universities can be as high as $80,000 a year. Because of this, many students are stuck basing their future college off the price of attendance rather than the quality of the education they would be provided with. This prioritization of quantity over quality in the education system, however, is not solely limited to colleges. For example, high schoolers are burdened by standardized examinations that can cost them hundreds of dollars a year (neglecting the additional costs of review material and tutors). But how exactly has this capitalization of learning affected educational institutions, specifically that of high school?
By Jack Cebulski8 years ago in Education
Education
Picture today’s educational system…it’s not perfect—in fact, I imagine most of us can agree it is far, far from perfect. And not surprisingly as the underlying principles of the US schooling system haven’t experienced any significant changes in at least 100 years. There are obvious differences such as technology, and with the constant discovery of new information, curriculums frequently exhibit minor adjustments and additions. However, change itself is still essentially foreign to the educational system. Not only have the principles remained rather unchanged, the same standard that more money is equal to higher level education is still in place, which I find completely unreasonable. Not to mention the gaping achievement gap between race which has failed to narrow in any significant way in the past 50 years. In 1964, an average of 87 percent of white students in the 12th grade scored higher than the average black student in the same grade in both math and reading. Today, an average of 79.5 percent of white students in the 12th grade score higher than the average black student in the same grade. To put that data into perspective, the achievement gap has closed by a slim 7.5 percent in the past 54 years. Researchers believe that it will take nearly two and a half centuries for the gap to close; a change that not a single person in this room will witness...not even a change that our children or even our children’s children will get to witness…
By Shay8 years ago in Education
4 Things They Don't Tell You in High School
Growing up in a 1A school in a town with a population of less than 1,000 people, it can typically be hard to picture yourself making a huge impact on a world that has over seven billion people.
By Madelena Martinez8 years ago in Education
High School: Junior Year
Chapter One Have you ever had that sensation where you just didn’t want to get out of bed? Well, I feel that every morning I wake up. I don’t know if I’m just lazy or if I have some medical condition that won’t allow my body to actually wake up early in the morning. I do the same routine every morning: shut my alarm clock off, roll the covers above my head, and lay there until the replacement mom walks in and tells me breakfast is ready. I’m freaking 17 years old and my “replacement” mom still cooks me breakfast.
By Samuel Gaitan8 years ago in Education
Seven Things to Know Starting Your Senior Year
1. The work doesn't get harder, the load just gets heavier. Perhaps many people have told you that Senior year is the hardest year academically. But this is not because your classes are more challenging, you will most likely have around the same amount of classwork as you did Junior year. The added work comes from the Common App or outside applications that the colleges you wish to attend want you to fill out, trying to gain more job experience if you are going directly into the workforce, or training if you are going into the army or navy. So the best way to stay on top of this work is managing your time, which is ultimately one of the more significant skills you gain from your high school experience that will be helpful throughout your entire life.
By Kristen Gregg8 years ago in Education
Embarrassing School Incident
It was my first day of high school and I walk into the doors of the school excited to go to the same school as my friends from eighth grade. I was excited to start class and meet new teachers and friends, hoping they would get to know me in a good way. I am handed my schedule at the table in front of the office without anyone around to tell me where to go as they were busy with their own schedules and finding their own way, I tried to find my first class myself. So I am walking around trying to get to my class with only five minutes to be in my seat in the right classroom and I end up in the wrong class. How? Well, when you are going to a new school that is pretty big because every kid in town goes there and you have nobody to show you where your class is, you tend to get lost.
By Aliyah Sanguedolce8 years ago in Education
4 Things I Didn't Realize About High School Until It Was Too Late
“I present to you the graduating class of 2018.” I could not believe I was a high school graduate. It did not feel real until I heard those words come out of my principal’s mouth. I reflected on my high school experience. I remembered where I began and where I ended. I thought about how I felt. I took note of my successes and failures. I realized that there is a lot I wish I would have done and understood at the start of my high school career, and I can sum up most of it in four pieces of advice.
By Emma Knowlton8 years ago in Education
You Did It
Congratulations! You survived the last four years of prison... *cough* I mean, high school! Today is the day that you walk across the stage to get a piece of paper that basically holds the last four years of your life. I mean, come on, you'd think you would get a little more than a piece of paper. Like maybe an all-expense paid trip to the tropics to relax for the first time in 1,460 days, or some cash. I mean I'd even settle for a candy bar, just something more than a piece of paper. I love it when people congratulate me on graduating and I'm just like, "Yeah I went through four years of hell, stress, and tears for this one, single, piece of tree... totally worth it." Just kidding. Actually I'm not because I definitely think I should be receiving more than a piece of paper, but it is very important to graduate and it's a day you will always remember. So let's just take a moment and reminisce the past four years of your life.
By Madison Rheam, B.A.8 years ago in Education
What Do You Mean High-Schoolers Are Stressed?
I can tell you one thing for sure: high-schoolers are not okay. Some are, but the overwhelming majority of them are silently struggling with issues like depression and anxiety, but they don't even know it. Most of them have never been properly told about the importance of their mental health, so they ignore their suicidal thoughts and their bi-daily emotional breakdowns and live their lives. It shouldn't be that way.
By Anon8 years ago in Education
Message to the School Systems
May 17, 2018 One Student Some High School An uncared about district To Whom It May Concern: Some High school of An Uncared for District by a low blow with the news of the upcoming layoff effective next year. The number is currently 42 teachers of different departments; this is approximately 25 percent of our teachers. That is the equivalent to eliminating two classes from each of our eight class schedules. These teachers are responsible to provide for their family, their children, and spouse. While some are fortunate enough to be relocated to a position in the middle school, other middle school and high school teachers alike will not have a place of work in the following year.
By Alex Lee8 years ago in Education
Faith and Folly
If you would have told my fourteen-year-old self that I would someday walk away from my Christian faith, I would have thought you were crazy. At that age I was such a strong believer that no amount of evidence or reason would make me believe otherwise. At age fourteen, I thought that I would never stray and never stumble. It was ingrained so deeply in my head that I never even thought to question it. But even then I knew that I didn't feel that strong bond with God that other believers described. I believed he existed wholeheartedly, but I didn’t have that “connection” that seemed to come so naturally to everyone around me in the church community. Looking around the room during times of worship, I would see people, hands raised, singing so loudly and passionately, and I just didn’t get it. Where did that passion come from? Why didn’t I feel that strong divine influence? I kept thinking that if I was patient and prayed hard enough it would eventually click, and I remember sitting in church praying, begging for the God of the universe to reveal himself in a way that would completely knock me off my feet and show me his mighty sovereignty. But that never seemed to happen for me, so at the end of sophomore year I got tired of waiting around and I think that was the beginning of the end for me. Realizing that that wasn’t going to happen for me was the first step in accepting that, if there was a God, he didn’t seem to care about me.
By Em Graysen8 years ago in Education
Surviving High School
MY EXPERIENCE When most adults look back on high school the majority of them say that it was either the best or worst time in their life. Some think that high school is straight forward and easy, but those people like me, who struggle in high school, well....this article is for you.
By Anne Marshall8 years ago in Education