education in america

With unmotivated students and abused school budgets I think that the education in America is not where it should be.

            Students in America seem to not care as much as they should about their education. In high school you see students sleep, text, and not pay attention in class.

Students come to class without homework on time and some are ok with the lowest possible grade that will get them to pass the class. They think school is a joke and that what they are suppose to learn, for example; algebra, will not help them later in life. One problem about the students is that they are obsessed with their cell phones. It has gotten so bad that I know of people that will call other people in the middle of class when we are suppose to be working on an assignment. They text in class constantly and the teachers have gotten to the point where they don’t care because they feel students are not going to listen to them no matter what the rule is. The truth is most students don’t care what the rule is because they know they can get away with it. Students also don’t get enough sleep. They will stay up until two in the morning and will get up at six for school. They go to school unable to pay attention and they sometime will fall asleep in class. This means that they are not learning and will not be able to succeed in the class easily. It seems like students set themselves up to not  be ready for college and to go into a good career. Students dropout because they make regretful decisions and have to or they just don’t like school. Also, a lot of students have to stay in high school for an extra year because they don’t pass their classes and are pushed behind of their peers.  This is all because they are not motivated.

            Lately, because of the economy school budgets are being cut around the country. Schools can’t afford new supplies like textbooks or cant get enough for all students. Then sometimes the school says they don’t have enough money for stuff but are able to buy things that the school could have a cheaper version of. At my high school they said that they only had enough money to buy class sets of the new math text books which meant that we wouldn’t get a text book and we would have to get our homework from an online book  that sometimes didn’t work and was unreliable for the forst few weeks of school but somehow paid for 32 apple Mac computers for the web design class, a DJ to play at lunch for homecoming week, and flat screen TVs to show a slide show of pictures in the commons area. I don’t know how they separate the budget but from a student’s point of view it seems like they don’t have their priorities straight for what we as student actually need in the classroom.

            Because of students who are not motivated in school and poor budget choices the educational system in America is not up to standards but it is something that can be fixed. if you are a student you can make sure you get enough sleep, turn off the cell phone, and try to pay attention in class. If you’re a parent, teacher, principal, or a school board member you can take part in what we spend school money on by going to school board meetings and letting them know what you think money should be spent on. Then, maybe we could make a change in the educational system in America.