For my reasearch paper I'm asking the question, does high school properly prepare kids for college. This relates to what we discussed in class because we talked a lot about poverty. If high schools arent properly preparing kids then all they are doing is setting them up for poverty. I decided to use this as my topic because I remember one of my friends who graduated with 13 credits. I remember when I found this out I couldn't possibly understand how he could of passed because our high school required 28 credits. It turned out my friend was one of the special needs students. Some how this made it ok for him to graduate with only 13 credits. Another this was when I first got to college it took me a while to adjust. I had a hard first semester and I even took advanced classes senior year. I felt that my high school didn't really prepare me at all.
http://www.azcentral.com/failies/education/articles/0201collegeskills-html
http://dadtalk.typepad.com/dadtalk/2004/10/high_schools_ma.html
These two sites both talk about how high schools need to step it up. They both talk about how there are more college bound students then ever but also more drop outs then ever. This is a problem that needs to be fixed. I'm intrested to see what else I can find on this topic
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I just blog-hopped in here in an insomniac moment.
Have you considered the possibility that our educational system is set up to do just that? Prepare people for poverty, I mean. The middle class is shrinking, in part due to the increasing cost of college tuition. School funding (in Texas, anyway, which is where I am) is in total disarray, indeed, our courts have determined that our methods of funding schools are unconstitutional. There is a plan afoot to reduce property taxes and fund public education from a new cigarette tax. Please tell me how our schools will survive when the $1.26 they plan to add to the cost of each pack (that's pack, not carton) causes more and more people to quit the nasty habit.
Our high school graduates know next to nothing, are taught next to nothing, and don't really pay attention to the miserable amount of knowledge their teachers are allowed to impart. Your acquaintance with the 13 credits is more and more common here.
My husband is a teacher. He got a 3% raise 6 years ago. Nothing since. He spends his days trying to teach theater, speech and debate, throwing in as much general knowledge as he dares, and his evenings, writing scripts for his students to perform. here is very little material available that will both pass the scruples of the Bible Belt school board and engage the middle school kids he is trying to reach.
So the answer to your question is that kids are in no way prepared for college, and in no way prepared for life.
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