Introduction

     Hello, I'm here to talk about the current American education system. As the current system progresses I, as a student, find that there have been many uprising issues with the progression of time and education. With this books are quickly becoming outdated and students are adapting to the life of technology at a breakneck pace as well as slowly losing the patience to sit in a classroom for virtually an eternity getting what could be done on a computer in mere minutes. Another issue is the current health problems that schools are facing, being that I've discovered many schools are actually highly unsanitary and promoting an unsafe environment for its students to work within. My final topic on these issues is that teachers slowly seem to become less and less knowledgeable of how the new and current student minds work as well as distasteful towards the student body.


     Today in modern times we use technology for almost everything, but with this there is an exception of school. Schools of the current day have had a small impact when it comes to studying from a computer. In my time as a student I've found no school that relied to help students through the technology of computers to help a student learn, but instead relied solely on the old fashioned paper and pencil. While I do agree that writing down notes on a subject may help you remember something far better than memory, a student could easily type a full paragraph within a matter of seconds instead of wasting an entire 10 minutes scribbling down calligraphy or chicken scratch onto a piece of paper and killing off trees.


     My next topic is now on to the health issues that schools face and how it affects all the students simultaneously. Once during class I had been discussing health in one of my classes after pondering the reason of why many students get sick at once after a single student is afflicted by something. At first I thought it was just because schools are naturally crowded and close knit, but there had to be a deeper reason. After asking my teacher of this she had told me that custodial staff were instructed to clean the desks in every class room once per semester so, as you can guess, the solid board that is your desk is also a haven for disease and filth.


     My last and final topic is the behavior of teacher towards their students. Quickly after entering middle school I noticed that some teachers were obviously not up to snuff when it came to student language and mental capability. I learned simply that the teachers had been uneducated on the student body and quickly developed more problems with the more complicated students simply because they didn't understand their problems. Another reason for this seems to be that some teachers taught to tough a curriculum and over half their students would end up failing. In the end I guess the parents would get more upset with the teacher instead of the child if more than just a smidge, maybe about half the student body, failed a class due to a teacher's tutoring methods. In the end some teachers can be so foul and cruel seeming to their students that either the students are compelled not to work or are so unhappy with the teacher that their grades may drop substantially.