"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 first-year students in college depends largely on how public high schools prepared their students for rigorous college life. When I think of my senior year, I did not do anything to 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 college preparation supposed to be one of the focuses of our school system? Unfortunately, it is not the case; instead, 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 Americans' kids cannot afford private schools - I could not. In other words, the average American who graduates from high school is not prepared for college or not wanted in college. 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.
             I cannot criticize the system without mentioning the laziness of the average public school student: school is definitely not his priority; he has too much to worry about. He was raised without a thirst for learning; he does not even have parents: the so-called parents he has been addicted to, cocaine or crack. He is always left alone with no one to lead him to the right track. The only friends and guid...