Persuasive Essay About Education System

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The education system here in the U.S. is failing for many reasons. Students don 't feel motivated one bit. There are several reasons for this and this is probably the biggest reason for students not doing so well in school.. Schools are overcrowded and teachers don 't get the chance to give help to students who need it more. The K-12 program that we use here is not so bad and has good and bads but if one things for sure, it 's that students don 't get prepared well enough after they exit and move on to college. There is many many more issues, problems and flaws in our system and in order to create better more successful students we need to change our educational system. This isn 't something that can be changed immediately but if we implement …show more content…

I just liked to stay in the middle. I really didn 't feel like it mattered to me or to anyone if I did more than what was required of me. I never saw the need to go above and beyond when it came to school. The times that I have I never felt like i got anything from it. This is how many students feel and they shouldn 't feel this way. Mike Rose said in one of his articles “ I just wanna be average” that “He provided a role model that wasn 't shaped on physical prowess alone, and something inside me that I wasn 't quite aware of responded to that”. Mike Rose was a student who always wanted to just be average in school and never felt good if he ever went above and beyond. So one school year he had a teacher named MacFarland who helped him a ton and motivated him. She challenged him a lot and gave him a lot of work, readings, essays, assignments and just in general a lot of work. It was a lot but it all helped him a ton and it made Mike Rose become a student who actually wanted to do homework. McFarland turned Mike into a student who actually wanted to be the best in class and Mike just felt so much more motivated. He ended up being very successful to this day. This is what students need and it 's what students don 't

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