How We Manipulate Our Education System

We as Americans uplift ourselves on our education practices. The praise that we give ourselves is great. However, what we don’t like to point out is the fact that our education plans is only updated every so often, and that we do not focus so much on results for the right reasons, but more for competition purposes.
Other countries around the world are most definitely passing us when it comes to our education and their education. We are the only country that has to participate in school for so long, yet we are still lacking in the updated plans department, and the results department. I feel as though the world is changing all of the time therefore the things that we need to know about the world needs to be able to manipulate our educational system.
When I say manipulate our educational system I mean worldly ways need to make their way into our education plans. Our world has become so modernized and so …show more content…
It may sound like a cliché, but testing bad is a very true reality that some students may face. I remember before I started high school and the GCRCT had to be taken. Some of my fellow classmates could not continue on to their next grade because they failed one portion of the standardized test. I do not feel that is the correct route to take. If the student fails that portion of the test by a few points then there should be other options given to them. Summer school only provides a second chance to take the same exact test. They take the same teachers from the school and teach them the exact same way they didn’t understand during the normal school year. I feel as though during this time the instructors should be dwelling in where the connection isn’t being made and stop focusing on what the school is going to say. I’m not saying that all schools in America conduct themselves this way, but I’m saying the ones that do need to stop, and get more effective methods of achieving better