The Paramount Issues of High School
What assets, features, and rules would the perfect high school have? In Leon Botstein’s article Let Teenagers Try Adulthood, Botstein calls out the issues of modern high school and claims that high school needs to be completely reinvented, offering many ideas as to how schools can better the education and experiences of their students such as having teenagers graduate at sixteen and ending harmful high school culture. Although Botstein makes some good points, the most important issues that need to be corrected to make American high schools more ideal are hiring more caring teachers, removing cliques and social class, and letting teenagers have more responsibility.
Teachers are to schools what blood is to the body; schools cannot be schools without them. We need better teachers that go beyond just …show more content…
High school is the last step before emerging into adulthood: to quote Leon Botstein’s article, Let Teenagers Try Adulthood. However, Botstein goes about letting teenagers try adulthood in the wrong way. They do not need to be pushed out into the workforce at sixteen, like he says. That will accomplish nothing if schools do not first give them small doses of responsibility. One of the ways we could give students more responsibility is by allowing schools to be open campus. An open campus teaches teenagers time management. When my mother was younger her high school was open campus, and it taught her to be prompt and timely in her classes, and then later on in life. Having schools be open campus prepares students for when they have jobs and go on their daily lunch break. Schools should not be afraid of students not coming back after being let off campus; teenagers should be reprimanded appropriately and deal with the consequences of their actions. This is one of the things we need to integrate into high school again to allow teenagers more responsibility in high
What assets, features, and rules would the perfect high school have? In Leon Botstein’s article Let Teenagers Try Adulthood, Botstein calls out the issues of modern high school and claims that high school needs to be completely reinvented, offering many ideas as to how schools can better the education and experiences of their students such as having teenagers graduate at sixteen and ending harmful high school culture. Although Botstein makes some good points, the most important issues that need to be corrected to make American high schools more ideal are hiring more caring teachers, removing cliques and social class, and letting teenagers have more responsibility.
Teachers are to schools what blood is to the body; schools cannot be schools without them. We need better teachers that go beyond just …show more content…
High school is the last step before emerging into adulthood: to quote Leon Botstein’s article, Let Teenagers Try Adulthood. However, Botstein goes about letting teenagers try adulthood in the wrong way. They do not need to be pushed out into the workforce at sixteen, like he says. That will accomplish nothing if schools do not first give them small doses of responsibility. One of the ways we could give students more responsibility is by allowing schools to be open campus. An open campus teaches teenagers time management. When my mother was younger her high school was open campus, and it taught her to be prompt and timely in her classes, and then later on in life. Having schools be open campus prepares students for when they have jobs and go on their daily lunch break. Schools should not be afraid of students not coming back after being let off campus; teenagers should be reprimanded appropriately and deal with the consequences of their actions. This is one of the things we need to integrate into high school again to allow teenagers more responsibility in high