Noah+C’s+2016+OpEd+Article

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===** Maybe a little bit of an understatement but these cartoons are both near perfect depictions of today’s educational system. By showing the school board’s inability to provide necessary classes for distinct learning styles and skill sets, this cartoon argues the lack of classes that students have the ability to choose in order to further increase the likelihood of acquiring occupation in their desired work force. Also, more prominently shown in the cartoon on the right, the education reformist depicts the system as focusing solely on test scores representing teacher's ability to 'pass students.' **===

===** Every college that requires certain admission standards has failed to recognize the necessity of scholastic reform. The stress imposed upon young teenagers regarding the importance of exceptional notes on semester report cards and standardized testing has led to a completely corrupted school system. **=== ===** I want to be a neurosurgeon when I grow up. Do I need history and math? Do I need English to the extent to which I learn it? Maybe concentrating more on science and Latin would guarantee myself a stronger level of intellect and experience in terms of my desired occupation. Do I have this choice? No. Brilliant young men and women graduate high school with exceptional grades in the classes necessary for their profession but are being disregarded by college admission boards due to their inability to receive the scores required to gain acceptance into a college that will provide the information necessary for a profession that will effectively utilize their skills. **===

===** To colleges and high school planners; the only people that boldly ‘claim’ to enjoy your presence on this earth are the colleges and high school district commissioners and superintendents that enjoy the expansion of their wallets due to your inability to provide an educational system without extreme corruption that guarantees skillful students occupations that utilize their skills effectively. Your continued so called “persistence to create a strong educational system” has even failed to do what it was originally intended to do. Thanks to you, the United States has seen a continued linear decrease in overall educational ranking; internationally ranking seventeenth. The most industrially and economically prosperous, diverse country does not have the strongest education system. You are to blame for the continued thought of failure of students in terms of education and inability to reach yet another higher education (college). Not only have you disregarded extremely intellectual students that are concentrated on only few aspects of offered classes, but you have also wasted millions of hours per year in terms of unnecessary classes that will never be applied outside of the exams following the learning of the subject given. Not only have you disregarded highly intelligent young maturing adults and wasted countless hours of their limited and valuable time, you have failed to provide an effective way to release inadequate teachers from their inadequacy. You have failed to provide a helpful transition with the absence of culture shock from high school to the real world. **===

===**By imposing Common standardized tests and requiring classes to graduate, the current education system contradicts its urgency for democratic ideals by imposing Common Communist ideals of universal exams.**===