Now before I go on this rant about school over-emphasizing sports. I was in track, and I have no problem with sports being part of school, in fact I think it is an important part of school. However, I am indeed quite bitter. I think we have too many idiots graduating, at least it is very common where I'm from. It is really scary when our high school graduates doesn't know basic algebra, science, history, or even how our government works.
First of all I do want to make it clear I am a senior attending a high school that seems like it came right out of a TV show. We have pep rallies, assemblies, and recognition days all throughout the school year for sports because those are the only school spirit, yet not even 2 assemblies during the school year to encourage students to perform better academically. Recognition for students who did well academically is just pathetic.
What really starting to pissed me off is the fact that teachers actually purposely raise the grades of students who performed poorly in class so they can play football. We spent million of dollars on a stadium as if we don't already have enough sport fields all around school. Our hideout "safe room" for tornado is as small as a mouse-hole that were expected to fit 2000+ students which wasn't possible, we tried.
I was in an astronomy class. I love astronomy but I couldn't learn anything, these dumb athletes with ego as big as the universe itself were literally harassing the teacher and the teacher literally lower his standard of teaching so they can pass, even that they can't. It upsets me because the already-low standard is now even lower.
Overall I can go on and on forever, but I think educators have a responsibility to give students some of the basic knowledge and skills across the variety fields of study. But if we have graduates who doesn't know literally anything, we got a HUGE problem. It is almost like a lot of schools are killing their own students, giving them a false illusion that they can go pro easily. Last time I check, the chance of getting into pro is less than 1% yet these people get scholarship and waste it because they can't get past basic courses in college.
This is not just from where I'm from, it happens everywhere, I know people who performs well academically and work hard to achieve it that are just not recognized or encouraged, and one of those people is myself. I feel like a lot of teachers and school administrator doesn't give a crap about students who are your typical "nerds" and "geeks", they almost seem invisible.
Okay i'm through.
First of all I do want to make it clear I am a senior attending a high school that seems like it came right out of a TV show. We have pep rallies, assemblies, and recognition days all throughout the school year for sports because those are the only school spirit, yet not even 2 assemblies during the school year to encourage students to perform better academically. Recognition for students who did well academically is just pathetic.
What really starting to pissed me off is the fact that teachers actually purposely raise the grades of students who performed poorly in class so they can play football. We spent million of dollars on a stadium as if we don't already have enough sport fields all around school. Our hideout "safe room" for tornado is as small as a mouse-hole that were expected to fit 2000+ students which wasn't possible, we tried.
I was in an astronomy class. I love astronomy but I couldn't learn anything, these dumb athletes with ego as big as the universe itself were literally harassing the teacher and the teacher literally lower his standard of teaching so they can pass, even that they can't. It upsets me because the already-low standard is now even lower.
Overall I can go on and on forever, but I think educators have a responsibility to give students some of the basic knowledge and skills across the variety fields of study. But if we have graduates who doesn't know literally anything, we got a HUGE problem. It is almost like a lot of schools are killing their own students, giving them a false illusion that they can go pro easily. Last time I check, the chance of getting into pro is less than 1% yet these people get scholarship and waste it because they can't get past basic courses in college.
This is not just from where I'm from, it happens everywhere, I know people who performs well academically and work hard to achieve it that are just not recognized or encouraged, and one of those people is myself. I feel like a lot of teachers and school administrator doesn't give a crap about students who are your typical "nerds" and "geeks", they almost seem invisible.
Okay i'm through.
