I'm Fixing a Hole Where Students Go In

I’m Fixing a Hole Where Students Go In

High school is a place where you grow up physically and mentally. In high school you begin as freshmen and graduate as a senior. Throughout the span of some twelve odd years a lot happens, and you are constantly learning as you grow. But I know many high schools including my own who are not perfect and have flaws in their educational system, that can be fixed in order to provide a better environment for learning. Learning is a never-ending process that we draw from our personal experiences. Although Americans believe in our educational system, there seems to be many problems that we are not aware of that have a negative effect on our students as a whole.

One problem that the educational system faces is the obstacle between school and life. There is a large barrier in schools, going to school to learn and living your life. Schools need to break down these barriers in order to connect. The students should be told that learning doesn’t stop after the bell rings or when a teacher says, “class is over students”. This is happening all the time. I think schools sometimes play a role of being separate from life because they enforce the rule of, “you come to school to learn” and that is it. Children come to school curious to learn with other people, particularly other children, but when the school has taught them to be indifferent they lose interaction with the world. School and living is a connecting subject because you are living your life while attending school, which can affect the way you are learning. Problems and other situations that are happening in your life can make you lose focus, which affects the way you learn. Letting school and learning connect will break the barrier and create a better environment for students to function. Going to school to learn is not free, like any other thing in the world it needs financial resources.

The way high schools are run and their standards are out dated and need new and improved ways that appeal to the student. School maintain and function on a timely matter, or on a class-to-class basis in order to collect knowledge. In “What High School Is”, Theodore Sizer writes, “The school schedule is a series of units of time: the clock is king” (351). Students who didn’t understand something during class could not be helped because the clock says it is 9:00 A.M. It is time for the next class and hurry don’t be late; there are consequences for being tardy. This is not fair for the students or the teachers because they have to keep in mind how much time they have with these kids. They do not have enough time to teach and answer questions, which is why time management comes in handy. The interaction between teacher