Welcome! My blog shall consist of a variety of topics, most of which I'll have a strong opinion. However, I am not going to sit at this computer screen and preach my own gospel... I doubt many people will keep reading if I suddenly become uber-opinionated... I might as well be a reporter for FOX News if that were the case. The point of this blog is discussion--an American past time---the foundation of this country...
So our first topic...
This time of year is huge for Seniors... College is just around the corner and you can't help but feel the pressure from your guidance counselors to get going on the college application process... By this time next year, we will almost be finished with our first semester of college! What I'd like to know, is whether or not high schools do enough to prepare students for a post-high-school existence. In my own opinion, they do an atrocious job. They couldn't treat 17-18 year old students anymore like elementary kids; granted, many kids deserve this designation and have worked hard to get it. Personally, I've felt held back by the very system that's supposed to make me into the ideal image New York State wants me to be... isn't there more to gain?
5 comments:
I completely 100% agree with you Chris. I feel like high schools almost baby us to the point that we have no idea how to do anything on our own. Especially with this new zero policy, the majority of us have no motivation to turn anything in on time because we know we can always turn it in later. In almost all college classes once a deadline is set it's set, and if you miss it then you just get a zero. My sister goes to SUNY Brockport and for certain classes if you miss more then three classes you receive an automatic zero for that class. There's a girl in my english class who missed almost fourteen classes in the first quarter. This is going to make such a hard transition for more kids to go from college to high school, which in the long run is a definite mistake.
I agree with the fact that schools don't prepare us at all. Over the summer, I attended a college course where I took classes and lived on the campus. It is...absoluetly nothing like high school, in fact nothing like living at home. No one tells you to wake up to get the bus, no one tells you rules, because the college has a lot more to worry about. If you don't go to a class, they won't send you a notice, its your education that your paying for. I think our school hurts us more than benefits us. We shouldn't have the attitude that we can turn a paper in late, or skip a class and expect the teacher to supply us with the materials or cut us a break. In college you don't have to sign a pass to the bathroom or let them know where you are, and they don't take attendance. There is no administration unless of course you do something really stupid or...illegeal. Lunch has so many choices and the cafeteria is open for hours, not 30 minutes. Oh, and you can leave lunch whenever you want. I think schools should give us more freedom and not treat us like children. I mean some of the students in this school are 18, not 5. I agree that the school has a job to keep us safe, but many students that will go to college next year will have no idea what they are in store for. You have to be an individual, and your parents won't be there to help you. Personally, I can't wait for college.
Yeah I agree. They should really fixed how things are run around here. They do not do enough here to get us ready for not only college but the real world as well. I mean some of us are screwed because we have no idea what we need to do and how to do it. Its crazy they should be teaching us how do things in the real world and not thing that we are not going use after high school like proofs in math.
School does not prepare us for the real world. At college and in life I don't think we are going to need a pass to go everywhere.
I completely agree with how you worded it too: they treat us like children and yet still expect us to behave like adults? That doesn't make a lot of sense.
And the new zero policy is completely ridiculous, it's not that way in life so I don't understand why they would have that in school (minus raising those oh-so-coveted scores of course).
I just don't like being in a high school where everyone despises the building. Maybe it really is like that in all other schools, but I don't think the hatred is quite as prominent in most places. Kids I know from like Brighton and Pittsford actually don't mind their school that much.
Your frustration is shared by many of the teachers as well. There are some of us who want to create an environment with much higher expectations. We recently sent out a memo to senior classes reminding them that the last day to turn in their final papers in PIG and English is set, however they still have until the end of the semester to actually turn them in. It all makes no sense.
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