What Should Be Changed In High Schools

What Should Be Changed in High Schools:

I has been said many times that administrators need to change something within the education system for future generations. The only question is what do they change? In his article Leon Botstein states that “the American high school is obsolete and should be abolished.” High schools today should accommodate to each child's unique learning abilities. The children are not properly educated in the ways of adulthood and how the world works. Students nowadays do not care about their education; they only care about how well they fit in.

Teens today care less about school generally because the topics being taught they do not understand or care about. Every person has unique learning abilities. Teachers

should not generalize students because there are different types of learners. These learners are classified into either visual, auditory, or kinesthetic learners. The schools should give the children a test to see whether the child is a visual, auditory, or a kinesthetic learner and put them into a class with others who learn the same way. The teachers can then accommodate to each child's learning ability. Many say that this will distract the child and cause the child to not get anything done. What the administrators do not realize is that the child learns better this way so this makes the child better understand how to react to the information.

In high schools today students are taught such things as the Pythagorean theorem, or how to write a thesis. Children are not going to use this information in twenty years when they are an adult in the real world. Reasons such as these are why children are not prepared for the real world instead of teaching them to find how X equals G they should teach us how to pay bills, stay out of debt, or how to do taxes. This insubordination is the reason why many children have a hard time adjusting to being an adult after graduation.

Many students today are more concerned with the way the world views them. Students are more concerned about how people will see them and think than about how they view themselves and what they believe and think about themselves. The Teens are more concerned with the way their grades look than the amount of information they have retained from the class. The reason for this outlook on this topic is because of the way society is today. All that society is concerned about is the ways that people view them. Society states that in order to be the ideal person you have to have a college degree or a skinny waist and blue eyes. When in reality the way you view yourself is more important than the way that society views you.

Many people may refute this statement by saying that the school system is perfectly fine the way that it is. They also say that nothing needs to be changed people just need to accept that everything that we do in life revolves around an education and the things we learn in high school. This however is not true, schools do not teach you how to raise children, pay bills, do taxes be happy, or how to maintain a job. While schools may cover a great deal of other information they fail to teach the basics of adult life.

In conclusion, high schools should change their concept of learning not entirely but sufficiently. The schools should try to accommodate to each child's learning ability rather than focus on meaningless information. The administrators need to make sure that the information being taught is important in real life not useless information that many students only temporarily memorize just to pass a test. Lastly, students need to focus more on what they think of themselves and what their passions are rather than what society thinks of them. High school focus entirely on the wrong things and teach things to simply for the day and age that society is entering today. The only question is will high schools change to accommodate to this revolution in education or will they choose to ignore the fact that technology is changing?