Our Flawed Education System

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Our Flawed Education System The idea that America’s education system fails to meet the standards of foreign countries bothers me. Being from a strict academic family, the expectations of learned knowledge as a senior in high school is much higher than what I seem to know as of this moment in time. So why am I being commended for even graduating? In other countries, students must take standardized tests each year; these students dread these tests because they worry they won’t pass; they work all year to plainly pass or fail. In Texas, students only have to worry about TAKs tests, which are not even taken seriously. Our school system, not only in Texas but also in America as a whole, fails to meet the standards of other countries, and we, as Americans students, are misconstrued as “dumber” than overseas students. Americans have an education system that makes it fairly simple to graduate. The reason I say misconstrued is because I strongly believe that we as students all have the potential to prove ourselves laudable students, but we are not in any way forced to push ourselves; we never have the opportunity to be our greatest because we have no motivation from our professors or counselors. If we wish to take regular classes, no one is there to motivate us to take accelerated courses to learn in a way that will teach us what college is like. Students put minimal effort into their own education, as long as they are able to. If someone were only there to constantly push him or her, I strongly believe each and every student could do it. But if students continue to make their own decisions throughout high school as long as they graduate, what happens when college comes along? Students in this country have the potential but need an accelerated push in their academic career. I strongly feel that other countries are more successful in the field of education

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