The Inefficiency Of U.S. High Schools

The Inefficiency of U.S. High Schools

U.S. high schools are not properly preparing kids for the college
experience.

The primary purpose of a high school in the United States is to get

kids into college. The courses taught in U.S. high schools are way too
lenient in their

grading policies and offer students much leeway. High school courses are too

lenient because high school teachers make them that way. One good example
that

proves just how much leeway secondary education offers students is that on
average,

professors at the high school level accept late papers. Of course late
papers are

marked down, but this policy voids the purpose to having deadlines. Most
universities,

both public and private set strict guidelines on these matters and openly
encourage

their professors to do the same.

I turned in papers a week late in high school and still received

a grade of 70 % on them. This is coming back to hunt me in college because I
now

have a big problem meeting deadlines. Although I do not like to admit it, if

high school had been stricter in this respect I might not be going through
these many

difficulties right now

Most public high school teachers are astoundingly underpaid and

overworked with sometimes over fifty students in a single classroom. In the
last ten

years the average class size doubled according to a Time magazine study
published

in 1995 stating that throughout the whole nation classes have doubled in
size. The
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The Inefficiency Of U.S. High Schools

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