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Let's face it: this generation of students is virtually unprepared for college. In general, those who attended public school were almost handed good grades just for showing up to class or for doing the homework (regardless of how much was correct). And with the exception of the AP classes, the standards of the classwork has gone down dramatically. Who cares what we learn, as long as we pass the standardized tests? We will leave no child behind...but we will allow none to move ahead either.
So now we are here, in college, taking classes that are more difficult than anything we have yet to face. Winter finals are in a few weeks. We are unprepared. Our grades are not what we expected. My high school did not even make us take finals, so that is something I have no idea how to study for.
Yet the pressure is the same, if not greater. Get excellent grades in college and more than one degree so you can get that mediocre job. Do bad in a class? Say goodbye to scholarshpis. Bid farewell to hopes of beating out the fierce competition ten years down the road.
We are given more and more pressure and stress to struggle under, but the things we needed to prepare us are long gone. We must stand alone, and stand strong; not to live up to the expectations of our "superiors," but to prove we don't need them. We are strong on our own.
That's my rant for the day.
So now we are here, in college, taking classes that are more difficult than anything we have yet to face. Winter finals are in a few weeks. We are unprepared. Our grades are not what we expected. My high school did not even make us take finals, so that is something I have no idea how to study for.
Yet the pressure is the same, if not greater. Get excellent grades in college and more than one degree so you can get that mediocre job. Do bad in a class? Say goodbye to scholarshpis. Bid farewell to hopes of beating out the fierce competition ten years down the road.
We are given more and more pressure and stress to struggle under, but the things we needed to prepare us are long gone. We must stand alone, and stand strong; not to live up to the expectations of our "superiors," but to prove we don't need them. We are strong on our own.
That's my rant for the day.
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My high school, in an effort to encourage better attendance, only made you take finals if you missed more than four classes. That wasn't exactly the point of what I was saying though. I was trying to say that the curriculum in general is becoming more and more dumbed down to match the standardized tests, but expectations and competitions for jobs are growing, as the U.S. competes with other countries.
i don't think i was "unprepared" for college in general though i definitely could have used more preparations on some subjects, mainly English grammar.
We had a system at my school that if you had a certain grade in a class, along with less than 2 absences, and no detentions, you didn't have to take finals so i only took a few final throughout high school when they changed the rule.
I'm still not quite sure how to study but my system seems to work for me, even if it mainly b/c of the OCD.
I'm sorry the switch to college has been so difficult though. Good luck with finals!!
We always had to take finals, no matter how perfect our attendance record is... i dunno if its a state thing or county school board but Ive had finals since middle school.
I feel like some of the classes arent that hard but I also believe that there is A LOT more pressure on kids today than there was 20 yrs ago. I mean I went to tutoring at Sylvan and some children that were enrolled were in k-3rd grade. They even had a couple of preschoolers. To me that is ridiculous to shell out a bunch of money to tutor a first grader but thats just me.
I feel like there is a lot of pressure on kids to be the valedvictorian, be the president of ten different clubs and play a few sports before graduating high school.
The job market is tough and a BA doesnt seem to be enough really (that kinda freaks me out). But I mean I dont know how to change it. Its the whole supply and demand thing. I once saw an ad for a library assistant that required a BA degree! Which blew my mind
We can take a stand but I mean we have to face reality. Its the system.
Props though for standing up and saying what you believe in!!