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Despite the relevance and effectiveness of the U.S. education system in earlier years, it is currently outdated and needs to be modernized as it does not apply to the diverse learning styles of today and does not prepare students for the real world.

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"Is this deadly routine really necessary?" (Gatto)

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"Is this deadly routine really necessary?" (Gatto)

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The U.S. education system is not thinking about the children and young adults and how it is affecting them. This system has caused students starting as early as 6th grade to develop depression and anxiety that will continue to be with most of them for the rest of their lives. This system is a big problem for mental health and that alone can be very deadly.

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"Even if they hadn't, a considerable number of well-known Americans never went through the twelve year wringer our kids currently go through, and they turned out all right." (Gatto)

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"Even if they hadn't, a considerable number of well-known Americans never went through the twelve year wringer our kids currently go through, and they turned out all right." (Gatto)

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Some of the greatest Americans ever known have never gone through the twelve year education system that we are going through right now and they turned out to be really successful. Some of the people that we currently go to school with we already know will never be as successful as those people or just won't be successful at all. So is this twelve year system that even the most successful Americans of all time did not go through really worth it?

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"And plenty of people throughout the world today find a way to educate themselves without resorting to a system of compulsory secondary schools that all too often resemble prisons." (Gatto)

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"And plenty of people throughout the world today find a way to educate themselves without resorting to a system of compulsory secondary schools that all too often resemble prisons." (Gatto)

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The American education system has made itself appear as a prison too often. Children should not have to be forced to go here "five days a week, nine months a year, for twelve years." Children are finding other ways to be educated without going to a building that resembles a prison. Why can't the American education system adopt a new way of learning that does not require this tremendous amount of time in a miserable building?

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The American Education system has made the passing period in between classes not only chaotic with the amount of people in the hallways at once, but with only four minutes to get from one class to the other. Students are not allowed to stop and say "hello" to their friends or to go to the bathroom in this short amount of time. Schools are making students not only not able to talk to their peers outside of the classroom, but also not allowing them enough time to take care of their bodies.

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The American education system has made the school day go all day from 8:20 in the morning to 3:01 in the afternoon. This is a long time for kids to be sitting in a classroom learning about something that most of the time is either not interesting to them or that they will never use again. Kids are not being allowed to get hardly any physical activity in throughout the day, which can be harmful to their bodies. After school is out, kids are given hours of homework to do that night even though they were just sitting at school all day.

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"... Kindergarten Testing" (Book Cover) 

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"... Kindergarten Testing" (Book Cover) 

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The American education system has put in a Testing system for little kids that are on average 5-6 years of age. This system of education has put in a test that is meant for 5-6 year olds but, kids that little do not have a long attention span and they do not know hardly anything yet, even if they think they do. They are making little kids sit for hours trying to fill something out that the school system will never use again.

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The American education system has made a book for children that average 5-6 years of age to help the "Prepare for Kindergarten Testing". These little kids do not have the attention span nor the will to actually use this book. If these kids don't have the attention span or will to prepare for the test, how well does the American education system think they will do on the test?

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"You cannot have a democratic- indeed, civilized-  community life unless people have learned how to participate in a disciplined way as a part of a group." (Postman)

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"You cannot have a democratic- indeed, civilized-  community life unless people have learned how to participate in a disciplined way as a part of a group." (Postman)

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The American schooling system has indeed done a good job of teaching kids to be able to participate in a group setting. The system has always been a group based environment and collaborative workspace. If it wasn't for the school system then there would be no sense of community because people would not be able to successfully be in a group setting.

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"One might even say that school has never been essentially about individualized learning." (Postman)

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"One might even say that school has never been essentially about individualized learning." (Postman)

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School has always been set up for teaching kids the ability to act appropriately in a group setting. This has made sure that our community functions properly and that people are able to get jobs that require you to work in a group. Even if kids don't like working in a group, it has taught them to tolerate it and do so respectfully and successfully.

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"And so in this dull and ugly place, where nobody ever says anything very truthful, where everybody is playing a kind of role, as in a charade,..." (Holt)

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"And so in this dull and ugly place, where nobody ever says anything very truthful, where everybody is playing a kind of role, as in a charade,..." (Holt)

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The American schooling system has done an amazing job at making a school look boring, dull, and ugly. Kids dread going to this place five days a week and their reasons are valid. Everyone that is in that building is putting on some sort of mask whether they are a teacher or part of the staff and are getting payed for it, or they are a student being forced to be there. Everyone is playing the role that they are supposed to and it all contributes to make school a boring, dull, and ugly place.

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"It is a rare child who can come through his schooling with much left of his curiosity, his independence or his sense of his own dignity, competence and worth." (Holt)

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"It is a rare child who can come through his schooling with much left of his curiosity, his independence or his sense of his own dignity, competence and worth." (Holt)

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The American education system is so detrimental on the students that it is rare for a student to still have curiosity by the end of their schooling. Students are so dependent on teacher in school that they never truly learn how to be independent so when they get out of school it is rare for a student to be independent. The schooling system is leading to more cases of depression and anxiety and when you have depression all of your thoughts merge into nothing and you don't have any original ideas that aren't negative. When you have depression all of your emotions are shot and you feel numb all the time. It is hopeless. It is an endless feeling of being alone and feeling like nothing will ever end your suffering. Depression takes away your love for things that you do in life, it takes away your ability to be engaged in the things you do, it takes away your happiness until you are left with nothing. Everything that you once had is now gone and there was no way to stop it, you could only watch it happen. You watch you lose yourself over and over until you are so far gone that you can't be lost anymore. Then all you want is for it to stop. You want everything to stop. You need everything to stop.

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"Photo of children singing in school." (Photo)

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"Photo of children singing in school." (Photo)

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In the schooling system nowadays children are forced into a choir at a young age (elementary school). They songs that are chosen for the kids to sing do not reflect on anything that the kids want to sing about or enjoy listening to or singing. These kids have no way to truly express themselves and music should be something for everyone to express themselves even if it is in a school setting.

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"Report to class on time and attend all classes regularly." (Expectations)

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"Report to class on time and attend all classes regularly." (Expectations)

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Students are being required to do something that they might not always want to do five days a week. This can be both mentally and physically exhausting to the student. The American education system should take into account the damage that this rule is doing to their students.

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"Accept responsibility for their learning." (Expectations)

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"Accept responsibility for their learning." (Expectations)

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The American education system is making students not only required to complete all schoolwork and homework but also bring in the correct learning materials each day. This is a lot of responsibility for a child or young adult. The schools should be responsible for have the correct materials for the curriculum that they will be teaching students, and the students will still be in charge of their school/homework. They can both do their part to make the schooling system better.

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"Cooperate with the specific rules of the the school." (Expectations)

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"Cooperate with the specific rules of the the school." (Expectations)

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In the American education system part of these rules includes what students are and aren't allowed to wear. With the dress code being put in place this is making it difficult for students to truly express themselves in a visual way. Students use clothing to express what they like and sometimes it reflects on their culture or religion. There are a lot of boundaries and this may affect the way that some students are able to express themselves.

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"Respect the teacher's position as leader in the classroom." (Expectations)

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"Respect the teacher's position as leader in the classroom." (Expectations)

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The American education system is demonstrating the teacher as the person with power over 25-30 students in the classroom. This is not allowing students to be independent. This is not allowing them to work at their own pace, learn about what they are interested in, or demonstrate their ability to lead themselves in a responsible way. This is taking away the student's right to be independent and that can have serious impacts on their life once they need to be independent after their years of schooling are over.