Public Schools Need To Change

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Do you feel like public school needs to change? Many people feel public schools in the United States today are too traditional, students have been going to school for ages, and yet the public school systems are hardly changing for the better. Since public schools are all programmed to run a certain way it is restricting learning of all ages, and shattering the ability for some students to find their true potential. As a student in a public school I have a strong belief the education department needs to change for the better, I am constantly being pushed to learn the way public school wants me to even if it is not my learning style. If public schools today want to see improvement in their students they must stop running like factories, forcing …show more content…

Some people even say that the Common Core Curriculum is likely lowering standards instead of raising them (Jeynes 7). From reading many studies I see that many parents and even teachers do not like that their children are being forced to learn with Common Core. An article on Common Core believes that “countless teachers and educators continue to argue that Common Core will "dumb down" educational standards and give faculty less control over what they can teach in the classroom” (Lebon 6). Teachers are the ones who know their students and know what kind of ways they need to teach to help their students learn and grow, but the teachers are forced to teach a certain way to keep their jobs. Common core gives no room for learning other than academically, for example the Common Core is pushing for students to read non-fictional books instead of fiction so they are reading more practical books for the workplace (Jeynes 9). All of the classic books students could read and educate themselves with are trying to be pushed out the picture because they aren’t non-fiction. If we get rid of Common core and let the school and teachers decided how to teach, and what to teach I believe the schools will be way better …show more content…

A standardized test is “to assess the aptitudes and achievement of students. These tests have been used to make informed decisions about curriculum and instruction” (Tager 2). Supposedly standardized tests are used to see where students are academically, yet these tests are taken every year and are never actually used. Standardized testing is one of the biggest issues in public schooling, and in my opinion falls under the main reason why there are so many other issues like the ones I have mentioned beforehand in this essay. One reason I believe standardized testing needs to be removed is because of these tests teachers are being paid on how well the students are doing, and I including others believe that the only reason we still have these tests to this day is so the teachers do not have to be paid as much. Standardized testing overwhelms so many students that they are not capable of testing well. A mother in an article I read makes a great remark about teachers pay “Are we really going to use these scores to evaluate teachers and determine how much they will be paid? The idea of "pay for performance," which involves supplementing teacher pay based on student test scores does not lead to better results” (Tager 5). Teachers are the ones doing all the hard work to educate these students and should be giving out the give out the tests instead of getting paid less for random tests that have no

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