What Our Education System Needs Is More Fs By Carl Singleton Summary

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“The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education” quoted by George Eastman. On average, 49% of high school students are experiencing a great deal of stress on a daily basis and approximately 8 out of 10 college students are also experiencing stress on a daily basis. Now imagine implementing, that if you do not 100% master criteria you will receive an F and kept at the same level until you've met all criteria flawlessly. Carl Singleton, author of “What Our Education System Needs is More Fs” believes in implementing just that to eliminate illiteracy among high school and college students. Also to enhance the quality of American education. Singleton describes the issue of the grading standards deteriorating and the education system failing to enforce enough failing grades to students who have not fully mastered required material. He states that students who are just borderline meeting the criteria should not be able to advance on and should …show more content…

He states that “The immediate need for our educational system... is not more money or better teaching” and that teachers along with their education are low-quality. However he later on claims “Teaching methods, classroom presentations, and testing procedures would have to be of a very high standard” in order for it to be appropriate to hand out failing grades. Therefore displaying inconsistency and a lack of support. Adding on to not needing better teaching, according to Singleton, the education system also does not need more money to fix the solution. Yet he then further on explains that he feels more money is being spent passing students on and that it is costing more money. He promotes failing students and keeping them at the same level until they learn the material will save money. He fails to connect these two statements accordling and fails to provide proof of the cost differences within both

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