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« on: September 12, 2014, 02:08:19 AM »
I think my biggest disappointment about the USA education system, at least according to my experiences, is that the college I take isn't at all what I expected in high school.
I thought college was gonna be living hell, even though I graduated with a GPA greater than 3.6 in high school,
due to how modular high school is.
You get up 5 days a week for school, and if you're lucky, you get a short day every week,
and as you progress through school, you tend to have pre-defined classes, and some electives later.
And as you go up and up, things become harder and harder,
like you imagine middle school to be really advanced while you're at elementary, then you think high school was going to be really hard when you're in middle school, and then finally college when you're in high school.
Until I actually took college, I though college was just a harder paid version of high school.
It isn't. And it shouldn't be that way, as in it's perfect as it actually is.
In the college I take, everything's a elective, including online courses.
(I did have them at my main deaf school, but not my public school while dual-enrolling.)
And I choose to only go two days per week for actual courses, and take the rest of the courses online.
Grades so far:
Public School: C? (Five Days a week, has less holidays[/color], 5 years of dual-enrollment (6th-10th, 9th/10th was hell.)
Deaf School: A-B (Five Days a week,Has more holidays, all of my years (Pre-K to 12th))
State College: A-B during high school, A+ after graduation (Three days per week during dual enrollment (10-12th), 2 days post-graduation.)
When I took college for the first time, I realized that college wasn't the living hell my 6-year old self's brain predicted it to be, and then as I started to take more college classes, I realized that college is for adults, like adults who has families and jobs, not like the public school system which is more "for kids", since kids don't seem to have the same range of choice as adults have, even when the kids become old enough to drive a car.
As a high school student, I could pick some classes I want, and some extracurricular stuff, and maybe even a different teacher, but that's it.
As a college student, I pick the classes, I pick the time, I pick the day, and I pick the professor.
I'm much happier now.
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In and all, the public school system should at least promote specialization, like specialize in mathematics, science, etc.
College does the same thing, and that's another reason why I'm so disappointed.
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If only jobs could be tweaked that way...
Also if I knew what job I want(I don't.)
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