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91 lines
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We, the free-thinking teenagers of America, wish to express
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our views of the high school environment. It is our belief that
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the current educational system is at a major slump in its
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development. We believe that high school as we know it needs a
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drastic change.
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First of all, look at some of the teachers that have epileptic
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fits when they spot a poor, helpless soul chewing gum in class. What
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does chewing gum have to do with the teaching environment? Will it
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distract other students? Or is it a health hazard ( "You might choke
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on it while trying to catch up on your Algebra II homework." )? It is
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understandable that you have to draw the line somewhere, but the way
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some of the teachers act towards some subjects, it makes you wonder
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if you are going to school to learn something, or just to be there for
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a teacher to show of his/her power to you ( "This is a down staircase!"
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"But... there's no one else on it!" "It doesn't matter. Go back down
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and walk around!" ). And the funny thing is, most of those teachers
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can't even TEACH. In their class, you'd expect them to be good at the
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subject they teach, but they tend to concentrate more on whether you
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have enough points in the gradebook rather than if you've learned
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something. And if kids DO learn something, but don't get the points,
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their bad grades discourage them. The ones that get good grades but
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don't learn anything get scholarships and turn out just like the
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teachers. Not all teachers are like this, but all it takes are a few
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to ruin the "teaching environment". We think that less seriousness
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in the enforecement of a student's extracurricular activities and
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more stress on actual TEACHING could not only help today's high
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school youths, but also tommorrow's leaders. We don't want a world
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run by a group of rejected, mentally confused people, but by
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organized, calm individuals that can take pride in themselves and
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their fellow man.
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Maybe those teachers are right and the rebellious students are
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at fault. It very well could be that those teachers are the ones
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teaching us a very important lesson in life, and we are the ones that
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should be listening. Who knows, maybe it's alright that 42.7% of all
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students graduating from most high schools today can't even get
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admitted to a halfway decent college. If that's the case, modern
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education can go on without us. Who needs the student anymore?
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