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We, the free-thinking teenagers of America, wish to express
our views of the high school environment. It is our belief that
the current educational system is at a major slump in its
development. We believe that high school as we know it needs a
drastic change.
First of all, look at some of the teachers that have epileptic
fits when they spot a poor, helpless soul chewing gum in class. What
does chewing gum have to do with the teaching environment? Will it
distract other students? Or is it a health hazard ( "You might choke
on it while trying to catch up on your Algebra II homework." )? It is
understandable that you have to draw the line somewhere, but the way
some of the teachers act towards some subjects, it makes you wonder
if you are going to school to learn something, or just to be there for
a teacher to show of his/her power to you ( "This is a down staircase!"
"But... there's no one else on it!" "It doesn't matter. Go back down
and walk around!" ). And the funny thing is, most of those teachers
can't even TEACH. In their class, you'd expect them to be good at the
subject they teach, but they tend to concentrate more on whether you
have enough points in the gradebook rather than if you've learned
something. And if kids DO learn something, but don't get the points,
their bad grades discourage them. The ones that get good grades but
don't learn anything get scholarships and turn out just like the
teachers. Not all teachers are like this, but all it takes are a few
to ruin the "teaching environment". We think that less seriousness
in the enforecement of a student's extracurricular activities and
more stress on actual TEACHING could not only help today's high
school youths, but also tommorrow's leaders. We don't want a world
run by a group of rejected, mentally confused people, but by
organized, calm individuals that can take pride in themselves and
their fellow man.
Maybe those teachers are right and the rebellious students are
at fault. It very well could be that those teachers are the ones
teaching us a very important lesson in life, and we are the ones that
should be listening. Who knows, maybe it's alright that 42.7% of all
students graduating from most high schools today can't even get
admitted to a halfway decent college. If that's the case, modern
education can go on without us. Who needs the student anymore?