So I'm new to this site but I decided for my first blog to write about my high school. I'm not going to name the school that way it won't be like anyone can pinpoint where I'm talking about. Anyway on with the blog. My school is like a prison. I don't know how other school's are but my school like traps us into the school between 8:00 and 3:30. My school doens't even care about teaching the students, they just care about the school looking good. When I was younger, the schools were about helping the students gain knowledge. Now it's just about looking like the best school. Our teachers don't even get to teach they way they want. Because of this the students don't learn as much because students don't pay attention because everything is the same. I really hope Strayhorn gets elected Governor of Texas. I know this is my last year at my high school but I want future students to have a better education than me. Alright I'm done complaining about my school. Thanks for listening to my babbling.
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I think all high schools have problems. My high school had a major problem with cliques.
Last semester at college I took a class called The Politics of Urban School Reform, and we read all about the problems with schools around the nation. The problems you talk about, with schools trying to look good but not caring about real learning, they are everywhere. Some of the authors we read were Jonathon Kozol, Paulo Freire, and Pedro Noguera, if you're interested in reading more about these problems. Unfortunately, it seems that these problems are not just local, or small scale at all....it's more like, it's a problem with the way we as a society view success. People don't really value education anymore, they value the symbols that represent it.
Yeah my school is the same way, if you learn thats good. But if you win the football trophy your a God, who cares if you know who won the Civil War?
The schools care about test scores and otherwise it's more about "Who has the durgs?"
Learning dropped out of school a longtime ago.
http://www.progressiveu.org/user/enter360 Read it.
What I disliked about my high school years is that there weren't much events (like Homecoming festivities, Career Day festivities, etc.), which I remembered thinking, "Can we do other things than just work?"