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Standardized School System

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The idea of earning a 4.0 GPA rings through the heads of all high school students like how the hotline blings. It is logical that everyone would want to have all A’s and get into the best colleges but that idea is highly unrealistic. When nearing the end of a quarter , that is when you see the hungry grade seeking beasts come alive. Blood shot eyes, droopy bags under the eyes, and the essential coffee in hand is what one will see in the early hours of school in the hallways. Several hours of studying and homework devour the imaginative, happy souls of the most hard working students. We all become zombies eventually in our highly standardized school system. It is just a matter of time before we stop producing memorizers and start producing learners and thinkers. …show more content…

I was shocked to find out that his class had spent one week on how to do multiplication. Apparently third graders have evolved in there eight to nine years of life to be able to know all their multiplication tables. This must be the only possible explanation or they must have been injected with a multiplication shot a birth.
In my earlier years of schooling, I would wake up early ,all on my own, ready and excited to go to school. In class would spend multiple days on one topic to ensure that we actually learn the topic and did not just put in our short term memory to be thrown out later. In class there was no competition to see who was the smartest. In class there was not the constant question of “What did you get on…?” that can be heard daily in high school. Now, this is all we care about. Our brains have developed computer like speed to be able to calculate a possible GPA in a

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