Maybe blog # 4

Maybe America should change their general education standards. In the United States, education is a major issue. The standard is being lowered year after year. I feel like this is destroying every level of education. The more the standards become lowered, the more it will affect a child when he or she becomes eligible for college. Speaking as a witness and victim of these awful policies, college is a severe struggle. High school has not shaped my education. High school did not allow me to expand my knowledge. I could not learn all a course had to offer because it would leave some classmates "behind." I had to stop at a certain level because my high school did not offer anymore than two advance placement courses. How embarrassing! It is bad when you have taken all of the offered science courses and math courses by your sophomore and junior year. It is almost insulting to be forced to take pointless classes because all that is left to choose from is a bunch of agricultural classes and home decorating/parenting classes. How can you come out of a school with a 4.0 GPA and become a college student that seems to barely be getting by? In Tennessee, there is a specific act that should have never ever been passed. The "No Child Left behind Act" is so ridiculous. It forces students that have potential to learn at an under average rate. The Act forces teachers to pass everyone, even if a student is not ready to graduate to the next level. This ultimately penalizes the child that is not prepared and the child that is smarter than the average.  It is a horrible system that needs a lot of repair.  The bigshots that are calling the shots need to put the students first.  Education makes for a better tomorrow.