Changes In Our Education

To me, my education is everything. There is nothing that I personally depend on more than the system that gives me an education to better myself as a person and go further in life then imaginable. The school system is the stability of my life, as well as some of my fellow peers.

There has been a recent change in the grading system that a lot of people have given there opinion on. It has been hard for some people to grasp there head around why the grading scale has been changed and how it impacts us a students. The grading scale is now currently set up so that it is easier to make good grades. As a student I think that it is crippling our education because it is not pushing students to try there best and grow as people nor build upon there character. Students are not being given the chance to be learn as much as possible. This new grading system is telling students that it is okay to not progress in life. Students now believe that they can get by in life with there current level of knowledge and that they are already at there intellectual peek.

"The purpose of education, finally, is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions, to say to himself this is black or this is white, to decide for himself whether there is a God in heaven or not.  To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity " ,said James Baldwin. Baldwin was saying that the purpose of education was to give the child the tools that he or she needed to look at the world from there own point of view.An education is used to help the child develop there mind to be able to make their own decisions.

The education that a child receives helps to set them up for their future. When the education system is not strong then the student can only go so far in life. It is a constant struggle for people around the world to get an education. Children in America are able to get a free education but, when the education that they are getting is not helping them progress they start to question what is the true purpose of it. We have to be challenged on an everyday basis in order for us to be able to think on an intellectual level. There will have to be a change in this school system if future generations are going to be able to run our country. We as a society need to be aware of how this impacts us as a nation. The future of this country is in jeopardy.

Abolish Grading

I believe that grading is used to show what a student has earned by the level of effort that they put into their work. It shows the kind of progress that they have made academically giving them the chance to let them know where they are in school. I think grading is there for a reason but can also be misused by the ones giving them.

When the grading system is abused it causes for a number of problems such as favoritism, unfair grading and stress. The teacher has the power to give grades by selecting favorite students to give better grades to no matter what their work ethic is like. The grading system can also be abused by unfair grading because, some students do better on a test than overall classwork. These problems can lead to stress by the student from all the pressure that he or she is under.

Some people may think that if grading were to be abolished that it would have a negative effect on students everywhere. This accusation is not true because there are no solid facts that state that grades are the foundation of learning. If the student has been given the chance to be judged on their testing and not strictly on grading, it could curve the the way that students perform in school. Therefore grading should be abolished because of the toll that it has taken on those who are receiving them.