Why students fail in college
"Oh my god! I think I failed the math test," said one of my classmates, after having his first math test. This situation is not strange to the freshmen class at Boston College. The success of freshmen in college depends largely on the way public high schools prepared their students for the rigorous college life. When I think of my senior year, I did not do anything that could prepare me for college. Since day one, it was all about the prom and after that the eviction of the seniors. Am I to blame because I am out of shape for the competition? Isn't the preparation for college supposed to be one of the focuses of our school system? Unfortunately, it is not the case; instead, the public schools prepare students for failure in college. While the private schools' students keep complaining about how hard high school is, the public schools' students hardly have homework. Another important fact in the failure of public schools' students is the underpaid teacher: the teacher is always angry; there is no desire for him to teach when he is working continuously, but cannot have a life. Most of the Americans kids cannot afford private schools - I could not. In other words, the average American wh
As a result, he does not do his work: there is no need to because his situation is helpless. One question becomes evident, why are we tested? A test, by definition, is a mean to evaluate the knowledge of a group, or an individual on a certain subject. It seems like the colleges do not share that point of view; instead, they test their students in such a way that they feel like they are being harmed. On the other hand, the colleges should make sure their student body is on the same level by creating support center for the students feeling behind. College takes unprepared students like the prototype described earlier and subjects them to testing. He was raised without the thirst for learning; he does not even have parents: the so-called parents he has are addicted to cocaine or crack. How will he ever learn something in school where he only finds time to sleep? Even if he makes it somehow to college, he is sentenced to failure because college has its own problems. I cannot criticize the system without mentioning the laziness of the average public school student: school is definitely not is first priority, he has too much to worry about. o graduates from high school is not prepared for college, or not wanted in college. The only friends and guides he has are only the people in the same helpless conditions: a blind guiding another one. If so, the students should be tested to evaluate their knowledge on the studied subject. If the public schools, where more than half the Americans get their education, barely prepare their students for college, where they are taught to become an individual for the better of their country, it is judicious to say that our government is preparing a generation of failure for America. In a recent study by the University of Florida, eighty percent of the students interviewed mentioned the way exams are given as one of the key reasons why they failed their first year. Is it a way to prevent certain student from succeeding? What should be done to help those kids succeed? The easiest way is that our education system take decisions to improve the quality of the education offered in our public schools, (Mayor Thomas Menino started by supporting the higher education center in the public schools) in not only the rich neighborhoods, but also everywhere.
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