Global Approaches to High School Education

2 Million Minutes

“Two Million Minutes,” gets a perspective of High School students from China, India, and here in The United States. The film targets a pair of students consisting one female, and one male. Neil and Bridget are from America, they are top tier students in their High School.

Neil plays sports, manages having a job, having a personal life, and his academic work. Bridget is also a top student who thinks college is about having fun while also educating yourself, seen almost as a disciplinary time period. She, just like Neil believe they can't just sit and do work, they describe themselves as active workers, hands on workers. It is not a matter if they work hard and study hard enough as other students around the world, it is

That doesn’t mean that American parents don’t want their children to have excellence at all. In these rural and foreign countries, the parents of most, not these teens, may have not had a chance to educate themselves as they wish, and or didn’t have the privilege of free general education as Britney and Neil’s parents did. So they carry out their wishes that they had for themselves onto their children, to ensure they get the chance they didn’t have. Family and friends in this instance are making sure the next generation of teens in High School can be contributors of the global economy. Not necessarily saying that have to be major economic holders, any amount of wealth or education, or even skill can help contribute and keep the economy

It doesn’t ensure a good foot in the economy. In India, Rohit’s father gets certification in the chemistry field, which sounds like a good job, but doesn’t pay good just for the fact of their complications in their countries economy. In America, Neil the son on a graphic designer and who appears to be well off, got a full ride to Perdue. On the other hand, Xiaoyang was declined acceptance into Yale, and Ruizhang was accepted into his second choice school despite copious amounts of mental effort and strive for greater knowledge. The same type of instance is played with Rohit and Apoorva from India. What I see is going on is almost ironic and painful to learn about. Neil, the teenage male, captain of the football team, class president, worker, athlete who says he doesn’t really study intensely and takes thing by calm got a better chance of a next level of education than that of foreign international students such as from China, and India. Could it be that Colleges and Universities are picking American students over foreign exchange students since the competition and selection of students in these foreign countries are much harder to choose from than the select few intellectuals here in the America? I’m not talking about racial discrimination or white privilege either, as confirmed in the film as well, that sixty-percent of Phd holders in American are foreign