Queen of Education

The question on many people's mind is what we should do to improve education. How do we change our education system? Many people have, over the years, complained about our education system and they want change. They keep so- called "reforming" the school system, but everything looks the same, all the books are the same, the children do the same things, it is the same as it was before. Reforms are needed to create a competent and successful new generation. This new generation is, many people hope, going to pay off our debts and lead the country to prosperity and happiness and even allow us to compete with other countries in all areas. Reforms for education are a necessity for a brighter future.

Our students’ effort and participation in schools should be recognized and they should be appreciated. Everyone has a different area that they are good at. There are also many different kinds of smarts. People can be horrible test takers or just bad at school and still try just as hard, if not harder, at school work. We say that effort, hard work, and perseverance will be rewarded, but where is that reward in the education system? We should award those that work hard at it, not just those that get the best grades.

Grades should not be everything to students, but they are. Grades help decide your future, your collage, and your future occupation. The importance of grades has been related with an increase in cheating in schools around the nation. In recent years, teachers and parents have been stressing that cheating is unacceptable, but that is not enough. Our schools should crack down on cheating by at least changing their policies to have stricter consequences for cheating. When the consequences are harsher, less students will attempt to chea

 Advanced placement classes should also be reformed. These advanced placement (AP) classes are supposed to prepare us for collage, but do they really? The AP classes do help you learn study habits and how write essays. Many of those classes are not structured like a collage course, so it does not prepare you for that aspect. Reforms should be made to recreate the structure of a collage course and use that structure in the AP courses offered in high schools.

 Everyone in this nation believes that reform in the education system is needed. Everyone in this nation also can't agree on how to accomplish these goals. I believe that reforms are essential in the AP classes and in our grading system. Schooling is all about you and your future. AP classes are the best college preparation classes that we have at this point. We should maximize their potential. The students' efforts should also be accurately shown and rewarded. Education has never been more important, than in today's society.