Chase Huskey
9/21/13 Current
Connection
Mrs. Gilmore
3A
It seems that more and more each
year fewer students are prepared for college.
Whether it’s lack of effort or simply not educated properly, there
appears to be a problem with how schools are teaching their students. Personally, I would like to be ready for
college and be able to overcome any obstacle to do so.
In the article High School Students Not Prepared for College, Career , it discusses how poorly
students results have been over the past couple of years on tests like the ACT
and Benchmark. It explains how nearly “one
quarter of 2012 graduates fell short of college benchmarks that ACT sets for
four subjects” (Sheehy, 2012) . One out of every four people basically failed
the test! We should have standards
people… Our duty as teachers and students is to have every student college and
career ready and if we can’t even achieve this goal then we have all failed.
To dig even deeper, we can really
narrow it down to two main subjects. Sheehy
informs the reader that the two main subjects that have the worst testing
results are “science and math” (Sheehy, 2012) . The thing is, math and science are the two
subjects that you really need to know when it comes to getting high income jobs
that have to do with the medical field and engineering etc… Our schools need to
start narrowing down at this point to what really matters the most when it
comes to our future career jobs.
All it really comes down to is
EFFORT. You get what you put in. If we can get all students on the same track
as all of the teachers then we will get something out of this. It takes a group effort its not just up to
one person. It’s the connection you must
have with your teacher in order to learn and it’s the barrier of being
comfortable that we must break to achieve success.
