The Problems With School Curriculums And Scheduling System

Teachers are not the problem here, a great teacher can inspire a kid and bring out the best inside them and they can help them when they need it the most and that is truly immeasurable. School curriculums are made by curriculum makers who never even taught a day in their lives. EQAO has standardized testing, Bubbling a multiple choice question will not determine your success in fact these tests are too cruel to be used and should be abandoned and don’t believe me? In fact, the inventor of standardized tests Fredrick J.Kelly quote on quote said “these tests are too cruel to be used and should be abandoned”.

Schools were used to train factory workers in the 1830s so are you preparing students or the future or the past? That’s why you put students in rows nice and neat and give us a short break and for 6 hours a day they tell us what to do and think. No more common core, every person in a classroom has different ways of thinking and different strengths different problems that’s why some student just don’t understand - The word education comes from a Latin word called educere which means to bring out but when we’re at school are we bringing out? No we just sitting and listening to teachers (not their fault) and cramming in information so when it comes to a test all this information gets forgotten and we compete to get a A and if you don’t you get upset.

Countries like Finland are succeeding with shorter school days and homework is nonexistent, less testing and more breaks these schools are focused not on competition but on collaboration which is more important today with jobs focused on working together. School thinks that other subjects are more important than other ones I understand that English and writing are basic skills that you need and mathematics may be important but give art or dance a chance each kid has different dreams and beliefs some may think that mathematics is more important but each student is different.

I think that one hour of sleep for a student is more important than 100 test, 60 pages of math homework 20 essays. Here’s why the American Academy of Sleep Medicine said that school starting earlier prevents students from getting a full night rest and can affect their health and learning skills - In school we have a are forced to use a schedule premade by the school this is bad because in the modern world our schedules are managed by each individual. Peter Gray once said “children don’t like school because they are not free” that means that we are trapped in a scheduling system with no other options except complying with it.