The Importance Of Education: Why Education Is Important?

“Education is important”. That phrase is something that everyone has heard at some point in their life. Our society and country is very pro education at this point in time. People always say how in order to get any good paying job at all, that we must get good grades and go too a good college. While that is true, many people have gotten too be very wealthy and well off by not going to college. Sometimes kids learn better by not going to college, they learn by going to a trade school or being an apprentice to someone such as a mechanics helper, or shadowing someone in the field of work that they want to go into. School and college does help by getting a job, but on the contrary the student could end up paying an insane amount of money to just …show more content…
They have been in the education system in America for a long time and have also not been working for most of that time. These tests are a lot like the exams I mentioned in the last paragraph. The only difference is that before exams come around students can study and know what kind of material is going to be on the test. During the standardized tests students have no idea what they are going to be tested on, so they can’t study for them. These tests are designed to show the school system how well their students are doing, and if their teachers are doing an adequate job of teaching the students the information. Someone did a study on these tests and found that “the average student in the United States will take approximately 112 mandated tests in their 13 years of schooling, which is nearly nine tests — not including tests administered by teachers for specific classes — a year” (Walker). Thats a lot of tests. This number is also not including the exams and other little quizzes that teachers give throughout the year. No wonder the stress rate of teenagers is so high, with all those tests too worry about. On top of all the studying stress the students go through, the standardized tests affect the kids future more than any other test that they take during school. Not only does it cause all this stress for the students, it also “Creates competition between students, schools, districts, etc. that takes away focus from the ultimate goal (student success)” (Pros and Cons). This means that instead of the kids, the school worries about how they look too other schools in their area. In short, Standardized tests do more harm to kids and schools than would happen without those stress