The Importance Of Education

Register to read the introduction… Students are living in ‘bubbles’ that keep them separate from the real world. If you asked students about events that are going on in the world right now most would not be able to tell you much of anything because they are so isolated by the schools that do not teach what is currently happening. For students their whole world revolves around the immediate things like homework, social events, friends, and the occasional part-time job. Students, particularly high school students, need to be more educated on the events of the world in order to be able to live in it when their schooling is finally over and they are thrown into reality, but they should be allowed to do so at their own pace. The rules and regulations that are put on schools are sometimes “verging towards extreme” (Mann) and put in top priority over the education itself. With the way dress codes and rules on electronics are stressed and put in extreme importance it is a wonder students can show up to school without constantly being worried that they are doing something wrong. It is perfectly understandable that schools do need the rules to keep order but they should not be a main focus of the schools, the education should …show more content…
The Common Core Standards require students to be at a certain level of proficiency in reading, writing, and mathematics. Part of the mission statement of the Common Core is this: “The Common Core State Standards provide a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn, so teachers and parents know what they need to do to help them” (Common Core State Standards). The idea of the Common Core presents is a good one but the actual application of the idea is flawed; the way in which the schools are carrying out the Common Core puts more pressure on students and limits their ability to focus on their own path of learning because they have to meet the standards put before them. The way the schools are going and the way Common Core is being implemented “distorts and degrades the meaning and practice of education” (Ravitch).
The education system does not meet the goals of a true education. There have been many attempts at educational reform including the common core standards, and No Child Left behind, but none of them have worked to greatly improve the quality of education that we get. A true education involves more subjects or classes than they will afford to teach, so therefore the goals of achieving that are not met. Education has come a long way, but possibly in the wrong direction. Education now is generalized and geared for the masses and if we ever want to meet the goals of a true education it needs to