Summary Of Let's Really Reform Our Schools By Anita Garland

In Anita Garland’s essay “Let’s Really Reform Our Schools” the author begins by telling us that high schools in the U.S are failure. Garland argues that “the pressure to look fashionable and act cool outweighs any concern for learning.” She tells us that current safety measures like metal detectors and security guards have not be enough to beat the conflict of criminals in school. She claims that school ideas have to be reconstructed.

Anita Garland tells us that the essential change to school structure should be school attendance; stop making it mandatory. She writes that any student who honestly wants to attend school for educational reasons, despite their disabilities should be allowed to in any U.S school. She also argues that students who are constantly disrupting the learning environment should not be allowed a spot in the classroom. She tells us that these troublemakers make it difficult for teachers to teach and for students to learn, and that these students are not afraid of suspension because they don’t want to be in school anyways.She says that because these students are rarely in school it’s difficult for them to learn anything, and when they are in school they are being bullies. Garland believes that teachers should be more concerned about students wanting an education than on those who disrupt it. She claims that these students barely make it to graduating, and nothing becomes of most of them after, but those who lose their school privilege would have alternative solutions.

She says that young girls will no longer have to worry about looking their best, but thinking about more productive things. She tells us that the students who constantly ask their parents to buy them the latest trends to wear for school will no longer, and that those students with different lifestyles will stand out through personality and intelligence and not by what they