So this week I start my last semester of undergraduate work. Wow!!!! It seams like it has just came up on me but it is such a great feeling! It has been such a long and rewarding journey. I just hope this last year goes by slowly because who knows when I will go back to school because it has become so expensive to go to school. I think that the education system in the United States is screwed up! I would love to go on and get my masters but it cost so much money to do that. The fact that it cost an arm and a leg to even go to college is crazy!
Besides the fact that higher education cost so much money, another problem that I have is how teachers are evaluated. So much emphasis is put on exams and how many students in one teachers class can pass the exam. Personally I think that the results of the exam should be used in teacher evaluation but I don't think that they should a major part in teachers evaluation. I say this because I think that an exam does not accurately show what a student is learning instead what it does is shows that a student can repeat information that is given to them. I know this for a fact because I am a horrible test taker but that does not mean the teachers that I have had are bad teachers. Instead it had been the absolute opposite, I have had great teacher that have made a big impact on my life (my mom is Facebook friends with one of them even!) Although I am not a teacher I have a feeling that the reason that we are currently so many cases of teachers cheating on exams for their students is because they are afraid for their jobs and all they want to do is mold the minds of the next generation. Exams cannot test for a students environment. I am lucky that my parents made education a priority in my life and the neighborhood education is important to everyone, but that is not the case for everyone.
Plain and simple the United States needs a massive education overhaul and we need it fast! We are doing a dissatisfaction to the generation by continuing to ignore our failing education system. The biggest change that needs to happen is the repeal of No Child Left Behind. Trust me when I say I can go on a another rant about how that policy is absolute ridiculous and does not work. It is probably one of if not the most dangerous policies that came out of the second Bush administration. I say this because I went to an amazing High School that has been recognized for being one of the best High Schools in the state of Illinois yet because of No Child Left Behind the school has been placed on probation year after year. Needless in my opinion something had to be done and it has to be done fast because of we as a country continue to neglect our education than we will fall from grace and we will fall hard!
With that being said hope everyone who is in school has a great school year!
