Let me preface this essay by saying that education is not what it should be. Education in America is like munching down on a couple of cold french fries: not terrible, but not great either. Our current education system in America has produced a great deal of brilliant minds, so what is so mediocre about it? It has created a melting pot of mixed feelings toward it, but it is undeniable that many teachers do not just teach, and many students do not just learn. Students are faced with many daunting issues beyond their control: they are faced with the growing stresses of life, and they are faced with frustrations that they must deal with from being forced to do completely unnecessary and tedious tactics of learning which, knowing from personal
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This too, however, is not the best way to approach education. According to the American Test Anxieties Association (ATAA), approximately one in five students have high test anxiety, which leads to an onslaught of other problems, including reduced memory, jumbled reasoning, and overall poor scores due to stress and anxiety, even if the student is overall intelligent. Therefore, it does not truly seem logical to put students through such conditions to show growth, as the entire point of education is to educate, and it is nearly impossible to show that growth by putting an individual in such a stressful scenario where they forget nearly everything they learned. In my personal experience, fast paced tests have consistently made me highly anxious, to the point where I was literally shaking and I could hardly think straight, even though I would have been able to do it just fine if I had more time. Again, this is not truly indicative of life, as the majority of jobs allow for sufficient time to complete tasks and objectives, and does not always tend to have too much of a drastic effect on the employee if he/she misses the mark. However, if a student is unable to think clearly on such a test, there can be tragic consequences, such as a loss of college scholarship money, which could lead to crippling debt in college, etc. Unless one’s specific job requires one to work at such a speed, it is unrealistic to expect anyone to work effectively under such an anxiety-inducing time crunch, especially when it can have dire
This too, however, is not the best way to approach education. According to the American Test Anxieties Association (ATAA), approximately one in five students have high test anxiety, which leads to an onslaught of other problems, including reduced memory, jumbled reasoning, and overall poor scores due to stress and anxiety, even if the student is overall intelligent. Therefore, it does not truly seem logical to put students through such conditions to show growth, as the entire point of education is to educate, and it is nearly impossible to show that growth by putting an individual in such a stressful scenario where they forget nearly everything they learned. In my personal experience, fast paced tests have consistently made me highly anxious, to the point where I was literally shaking and I could hardly think straight, even though I would have been able to do it just fine if I had more time. Again, this is not truly indicative of life, as the majority of jobs allow for sufficient time to complete tasks and objectives, and does not always tend to have too much of a drastic effect on the employee if he/she misses the mark. However, if a student is unable to think clearly on such a test, there can be tragic consequences, such as a loss of college scholarship money, which could lead to crippling debt in college, etc. Unless one’s specific job requires one to work at such a speed, it is unrealistic to expect anyone to work effectively under such an anxiety-inducing time crunch, especially when it can have dire