Individuality in Students

When it comes to schooling each child takes a different approach. The reason for this, each child's mind is only capable of handling so much. As well, each child learns their own way at their own pace. Due to the school system wishing to have a more uniformed style in teaching and testing the amount of stress imposed on an individual has increased greatly in the years. The schooling system needs to understand and promote individuality in student's in order to achieve a higher student success rate.

On average a student goes through eight classes in one day, five days a week. Now add in about an hours worth of homework from each class, that is about eight hours of homework each night, forty hours of homework a week. In one study it was found that a single student can only handle about five AP classes in their high school life. If that is the case how is it any different with homework. In many European countries such as Norway a student does not start to receive a lot of homework until high school, even with that, the country is exceeding the United States academically. In one article written by John Taylor Gatto, Gatto discusses and questions the way the education system in ran. In one line he states, "And plenty of people throughout the world today find a way to educate themselves without resorting to a system of compulsory secondary schools that all too often resemble prisons. Why, then, do Americans confuse education with just a such system" (Gatto). By stating this, the author contributes to the idea that the school system is failing by pressuring and seeming to punish students with high expectations and an excessive amount of school work.

One of the largest known downfalls with the American education system is the number o...

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...olt). With this line, the author explains what school feels like to the students as well as what they experience and what school does to them. The reason being for this is the idea that each student, and teacher, must live up to the expectations put down by the system that runs the education. Individuality is not promoted nor is it seemed to be allowed in schools.

The problem with schools today is that individuality is not allowed in the system and that damages each student whether anyone realizes it or not. These authors presented in this essay have given multitude of examples as to how conformity is not needed and not effective. Schools should allow more individuality in not only each student's personality but in their learning as well. By doing this, the American education system will improve by a significant amount and the student success rate will sky rocket.