I was just flipping through the channels during a late breakfast about an hour or so ago and came across this news segment (headline news) reading face book comments from individuals about how graduating high school students are not prepared for college. My experience has confirmed this amongst my friends and I after high school. This whole 'no child left behind' mess for k-12 of the previous administration was one of the worst things done in the school system that I can remember, as one of the face book commenter’s (a former college educator) wrote in "there isn't a success story for everyone."
Upon reading this initially it sounds harsh...very harsh. HOWEVER, the problem is that it is not incorrect or false, it is just incomplete. What should have been stated is that "there isn't an IDENTICAL success story for everyone IN THE SAME FIELD IN THE SAME WAY." I am in no way trying to state that education is not for everyone because I believe whole-heartedly that it is. However, what I am saying is that 'success' in formal education will be different and is relative for each student. There is no catch all programs for education to make everyone a straight 'A' student that is not everyone's path. Most importantly, that is not success for every student that is not what education is about.
School has become this institution to teach memorization and not how to apply the knowledge that is being gained. True success is being able to take what you learn and synthesize it into something useful...NOT simply to be valedictorian.
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