In Rose's essay he speaks on the education system in America and the flaws it has. When I was finished with this essay i couldnt help but feel bad for this poor boy. His whole life he was told he wasnt good enough all because the education system was the one that wasnt good enough. His friend says he just wants to be average. How sad is this that he was placed in a class that had ruined what he thought of himself. It made him feel essentially like he was not good enough. When later on in his life he learns he was in the wrong classes his whole life. Wow what a system that was putting him in the wrong class.
This essay makes me think of a friend I have who signed up for college classes. When they decided they wanted to take math 1010 they were told they werent good enough to take it because their ACT score was not high enough to enroll in that class. However the thing that did not make sense to me was the fact that the year before in high school they took concurrent enrollment and had done just fine in the class it was not a problem, they just dropped out because they needed room for another class. The sad thing was they were just not having a good day during the ACT and got a bad score, not being informed that you needed a certain score on that test to take certain classes, they decided they were done with that test. When college enrollement came they were told they could not take math 1010 even though there grade the year before in the same class was a B before dropping out.
It is sad that one test score can help decide what we are supposedly supposed to do with our lives. One test can tell us all we are. I think this system has many problems and something needs to be done to help fix this. Or are we going to continue making kids feel less than average.
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I agree completely wow your friend that had the dumb situation sounds a lot like me. Thanks for what you said I have to agree with alot of the things that you said including how dumb it is with the test taking ruling what class you get in even if you should not be in that class
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with what you said about tests. I don't think they are a very good way to measure what we've learned. I don't do well on timed tests and often do worse because I'm rushing myself to get out so I'm not running late for my next class. I actually had that experience today, I didn't understand the material, had to stay after to finish so I was late to my next class and I did horrible on the test! Our education system definitely has its problems.
ReplyDeletei totally agree with you. that was interesting about your friend. i know a lot of really smart kids that didn't do as well on the ACT as they would have hoped and because of it totally thought they were dumb. When in reality the test doesn't just measure how smart you are. It basically just shows that you did or didn't do well on one timed test. good job.
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