The aim of the public education system in today’s society has been to create a typical student, but this priority must change. Over the years, students have been failed by the curriculum that they are taught because the idea of learning has not evolved with the world in which we live. Educators have diminished the abilities of students by standardizing the system, which has been proven not to work for everyone. Students are often required to memorize and to regurgitate material rather than use any analytic skills. These skills that are being neglected in the classroom are leaving students unprepared as they enter a post secondary education or the work force. The public education system stifles individual thinking and discourages creativity
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Schools classify students by age rather than ability, holding the intelligent back and keeping the struggling ahead. The purpose of this is to create a manageable student body, but they are foregoing any movement towards student success. Instead students should be classified by strengths and weaknesses to focus on development to achieve aspired goals. By focusing on what each student needs educators would see a spike in academic achievement. John Gatto states that the public education system is trying “ […] to hamstring the inner life, to deny students appreciable leadership skills, and to ensure docile and incomplete citizens”, in Against School. Essentially this means the public education system is doing more harm than good. Ideally the public education system should break away from this tactic and focus on ability based curriculum instead of forcing information on students that they are unable to comprehend. In this way students are at a disadvantage when entering the work force because they are no longer standardized, but are now classified by skill and experience. However, the standard public education system is not the only way educators are overlooking student’s …show more content…
As the public education system has attempted to produce students that are similar in skill, the job market has not been able to evolve accordingly. The job market today is not prepared to handle individuals with the same skill set because of the need for variety of jobs with different skill sets. Individuals are prepared to complete the same jobs because of standardization and lack of creativity. It is fields such as the arts that are suffering because people are all equipped with the skills to do the same basic jobs. In Minimum Rage, Nona Willis Aronowitz states, “one in 10 employed American’s now work in food service-9.6 million of us.” Most people have not developed the skills in their lives to work in new innovative jobs; therefore they result to the service industry because they are simple and reliable. As the job market continues to change the curriculum being taught in the classroom also needs to progress. The curriculum being taught should be improving our students and preparing them for the future. In fact, it is the post secondary education system where students are experiencing failure because they are not living up to their full
Schools classify students by age rather than ability, holding the intelligent back and keeping the struggling ahead. The purpose of this is to create a manageable student body, but they are foregoing any movement towards student success. Instead students should be classified by strengths and weaknesses to focus on development to achieve aspired goals. By focusing on what each student needs educators would see a spike in academic achievement. John Gatto states that the public education system is trying “ […] to hamstring the inner life, to deny students appreciable leadership skills, and to ensure docile and incomplete citizens”, in Against School. Essentially this means the public education system is doing more harm than good. Ideally the public education system should break away from this tactic and focus on ability based curriculum instead of forcing information on students that they are unable to comprehend. In this way students are at a disadvantage when entering the work force because they are no longer standardized, but are now classified by skill and experience. However, the standard public education system is not the only way educators are overlooking student’s …show more content…
As the public education system has attempted to produce students that are similar in skill, the job market has not been able to evolve accordingly. The job market today is not prepared to handle individuals with the same skill set because of the need for variety of jobs with different skill sets. Individuals are prepared to complete the same jobs because of standardization and lack of creativity. It is fields such as the arts that are suffering because people are all equipped with the skills to do the same basic jobs. In Minimum Rage, Nona Willis Aronowitz states, “one in 10 employed American’s now work in food service-9.6 million of us.” Most people have not developed the skills in their lives to work in new innovative jobs; therefore they result to the service industry because they are simple and reliable. As the job market continues to change the curriculum being taught in the classroom also needs to progress. The curriculum being taught should be improving our students and preparing them for the future. In fact, it is the post secondary education system where students are experiencing failure because they are not living up to their full