School Sucks: The Problem With Our Education System

What is Wrong With Our Generation of Americans? Many things could be said about what is wrong with America in 2017, depending on who you ask. A democrat might say our newly elected politicians are phonies, a pro-life advocate could suggest our country’s downfall points to how we kill our babies. One American may say it’s the media and how it portrays the way people “should” look, skinny and without a single flaw of course, while another might blame it on the unhealthy choices we as Americans make when it comes to our eating and exercise habits. A young student could say that public school in America is killing his creativity, while an older person, who may not understand the mindset of millennials, would just complain and say that we, as young

Sadly, this effect is usually not positive. According to the article “School Sucks: The Problem With Our Education System”, the author points out how although he does love learning, he has always hated school, so much that he even stopped going. The author goes on to explain how education is drilled into students so much that it becomes routine and uninteresting, which is the way that thousands of students across America also feel. The author asks, “Is there a difference between receiving an education and learning? I think there is. I think there is a definite disconnect between what’s going on in classrooms today and what constitutes actual learning” (Awosika, 2015, para. 2). This is a great point made by Awosika, meaning that there is a distinct difference between how a person learns in public school and how they learn when they are in college or after they graduate. The American education system is centered around reading, memorizing, and testing, which is not an effective way to teach young people. In response to this method, most middle and high school students will only learn information to test over it, and then immediately forget about it. This is not the way our students should be taught, especially since each student learns in their own individual way. Another great point made by author Danielle Ronquillo is that college is overemphasized and sometimes pushed too

Biased opinions thrown everywhere online, from Facebook to Twitter and even to Snapchat. Within the recent election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, there was an intense amount of pressure put on young adults through social media for who they would be voting for. If, per say, a young adult posted a tweet that supported Trump, almost instantly they would receive hate mail or vulgar responses from those who disagreed with him (Sanders, 2016, para. 3). This bias went both ways, and opinions were formed for young voters that had only based their choice off of what was on social media and didn’t actually research what the candidates stood for. A lot of this happened in the 2012 presidential election also, between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, although instead of social networking sites, it was more about news channels. Channels like CNN portrayed biased news towards both candidates. In the article “Across the Great Divide: How Partisanship and Perceptions of Media Bias Influence Changes in Time Spent with Media”, it elaborates more on how CNN effected voters; “Respondents who thought the media were biased against Obama spent less time with conservative media and more with liberal ones, while those who judged the media as hostile to Romney spent little time with liberal and neutral media” (Kaye &