Do you believe the primary schools and high schools prepare you for college and the rel world today?
116932
No. I think that the education system in the US is terrible. The schools here don't get students ready for college. When I made the transition from high school to college it was very difficult. I was not ready and I think that the schools need to do more to get high school grads ready for life outside of school.
432983
Nope, its not just there.  I live in Massachusetts and out here, the rich (sometimes smarties, too!) kids go to Harvard, M.I.T., UMass Amherst (BOOHOO) or WPI.
893945
It depends on the quality of the high school.  There are bad public schools and bad private schools, and the opposite is true.  They universities understand there are different high school qualities.
210697
With a "teenager" just out of high school and one going into the 9th grade, I would have to say that in my area, the schools have a great college prep program, but the prep is only as good as the kids make it!  It's like a horse, you can lead it to water but you can't make it drink.  Schools are only a small part in preparing kids for college.  The parents are just as important if not more and outside influences.  But mainly it all falls on the kids and what they do with what is offered to them.
25770
Short answer: Yes.\nWhoever said that high school is supposed to be the best years of your life must have been high for most of it.\nDon't let it get you down (I assume you're still in school?)  Trust me, it gets better.  WAY better.
120084
Not at all.\n\nIt has been proven that there are many different types of intelligences (16) and yet the school system only grades/evaluates for seven (reading/English, math, science, PE, art, music & history).  \n\nThen, if that is not bad enough, most schools are mainly geared around popularity, sports (and I love sports) and screwing off.  Kids are more than capable of doing the mindless busywork that they get assigned.  \n\nE.G.  I took a group of kids, insisted that they designed a "cool" mall.  It was a class called HOUSING.  Fed up with the inadequate curriculum and boring approach, I changed it all around and told them they had to design a mall.  It had to cost no less than $200 million, and had to include at a minimum certain services and 18 new services that are not currently offered.  \n\nWhen they got done, it was poor at best.  I flunked them all, and said, now get back to work.  If you want to pass this class, I want a mall that this school can be proud of, one that I can submit in a business plan, and one that will knock the socks off anyone who dares to look.\n\nThe kids were furious.  The parents were even angrier.  I stood my ground.  I said produce it, or fail; the choice is yours.  Long story short: when everyone got their cows over their buckets and knew that I was not kidding, they got busy and produced a phenomenal sketch.  It far exceeded my expectations, and I think the reason why this happened, was because they knew I expected it from them and that nothing lame would do (like so many other classes where lame and lousy was often times the norm).   It was quite a mess to get started and a lot of toes were stepped on.  But in the end, people finally grasped that excellence was indeed a requirement, and so produced it.\n\nIn short, our school systems "ASSUME" that young people are incapable, that resources are inadequate, and are short of “stuff”.  When in reality, the imagination is the most powerful "stuff" that humans have got, and if we would use it more often and “have to” produce, I think we would see a lot more out of our schools.  (Necessity is the mother of invention.) \n\nFor example, no teacher should even be allowed to use a text book in class.  The text book should be for homework assignments only, and need not even be brought to class.  Furthermore, students should be connected to real world problems and solutions.  They should be solving real world issues, not just theorizing about them.  I love to hear about projects where students have to care for a real live puppy (as if it were a human baby) or perhaps a real live baby--24 / 7, as they would have to do should they become parents any time soon.  What a great experience.  Not only does it provide real life experience, but a good shock of reality which hopefully will make them think twice when it comes to careless, unprotected  sex.\n \nI feel that if kids are going to learn science, then they should roll their sleeves up, and cure a disease, and if nothing else study why the disease foils the doctors in the first place.  Then, perhaps, they could begin to look at alternate ways to address the same problem.  \n\nIn the same way, if kids are to do math, then why are they not "using" the formulas to produce something of use?  At the very least, they should be solving a basic every day problem.  (The number one reason why people are poor at math is because they don’t know how to apply it, i.e. set up the problem.  Perhaps if they were actually solving problems on a day to day basis, they may have more experience and desire and knowledge of how to use math to get their work done.  Ya think?)\n\nAccounting classes should be based on running the books of real live businesses--or ones that are based on school businesses created and ran within the school itself.  Students who are learning about stocks and investments should have to manage a portfolio.  There are ways to go on the internet and use pl
658427
People who go to prep schools have parents that are willing and able to invest in their secondary education in the hopes that this will make them better prepared for success in college. There are a wide variety of prep schools with a wide variety of students, so it's impossible to fairly generalize on what people who go to prep school are like. Some may be the snobby, spoiled offspring of rich people. But I suspect most are the children of parents who are willing to sacrifice other things to provide their kids with an experience that they think will benefit them. Given the poor record many public school systems have, it's an understandable and commendable choice.
609395
Yes indeed.  There have been recent studies which reveal that as much as 40% of high school students report that they were given no information at all about college.  It isn't enough to assume that the "good" kids will find the information on their own.  This is the mentality that threatens to make higher education a commodity reserved for the wealthy (if it isn't already). It isn't as if, nationally, all schools would step aside and agreeing to provide less information to their students -- its the underprivileged high school students who are left in the dark while students from wealthy families receive the information about SAT Prep, College Prep, help from financial advisors to "maximize" their financial aid eligibility, etc.\n\nBased on my experience working in Higher Education (Financial Aid), I  have no doubts that students need to receive more financial aid information.  Both students and their parents need to have more realistic expectations about the costs of education today (most know that it's expensive but they think that they'll "find a way" to pay).  Comments like the one from the above poster perpetuate the myth that "expensive schools give more financial aid." There are more expensive schools that DON'T give out good aid packages than those that DO!  It's true that they're all looking for the best students, but that doesn't mean that they can afford to "woo" the students that they want (schools that are "top" in their field like Harvard, Juilliard, and MIT might be able to, but these are the exception and not the rule).\n\nAs for my personal experiences with the process: I didn't receive ANY information either, and it made what should have been an exciting process feel like a chore. It was many years ago, but I remember being called into the guidance office with a group of about 10 other students.  They plunked us down in front of a large table piled with college "How To" guidebooks (of the "For Dummies" ilk), gave us each a piece of paper, and told us that by the end of the period, we had to list of 10 colleges we might want to apply to...  Anyone who had siblings in college knew how to narrow down the THOUSANDS of schools out there but, being the oldest in my family, I didn't even know the difference between UC Berkeley and Berklee College (or Stanford and Samford).  I didn't know which schools were "reach" schools and which would be my "safety" schools -- these aren't the sorts of things you can tell by the school's name!  When this "session" was over, I couldn't help but cry.  Eventually, the guidance counselor found me a book where I could search for schools by major.  But, sheesh, what a way to have your students "test the waters" by throwing them in the deep end!\n\nAs for what kind of information I could've used: information about the various schools' reputations.  Assuming a school has the resources, why not offer one-on-one counseling where the student is asked about their academic interests and then pointed in the right direction? Most students have a sense of whether they want a big or small school, co-ed or not, city or rural, etc. -- it would seem to be less overwhelming to start with what you know rather than drawing attention to all the "missing pieces" in a student's college search.
901196
absolutely! weren't you paying attention in a $$\nclown school that day?
130125
yes i attend the high school diploma program at penn foster.i love it im almost done.
997253
uuhhh before you bring some poor kid into the world and inflict yourself as its parent, maybe you should finish high school first.
704604
ask urself do u think u have a future?
306020
Yes, I'm sure there are many people that go to said school. Perhaps you should rephrase your question.
406722
Yes i have lost faith in the American education system by reading some of these questions. When i went to school during the mid 70s Thur the 80s they taught you how to spell and proper grammar.I do not know how some of these young kids make it through college, because they must write reports with proper spelling and grammar. Sigh, they are going to be our future leaders.
156188
your high school should have information on that. maybe your school offers a course.
544431
Yes I believe they do as they should. I attended a boarding school and all of my friends in the church did as well. Addressing the point of the last entry of only the rich ones do well that is not 100% true. The church makes it possible for ALL to attend the school of there grade level. The worthy student fund makes it all possible. I feel as though I had a better education through the system. I feel bad for those of you that feel it is only for the rich. I may not have been rich then but I am now in spirit if nothing else.
188636
Too me yes and no. When i was in Middle school i was looking forward to high school as a new start. I thought it was going to be great! That's when all the teachers came in and started stating that high school is so hard and that people don't care about you there and its just one big place with a bunch of bad people doing bad things. These where the teachers that were suppose to be supporting me! So i was so worried going to high school and when i got there i noticed it was great! it was just like middle school but there was a whole lot of more people and you get a bit more Independence homework and school wise. So i guess high school is different in some ways but its a whole lot better then middle school. There are a lot more people that you get to know and you classes will have different people in them but it just opens the door to new friends.