College or technical schools are thought to be the gateway to higher-paying careers, but most are not all that they are cracked up to be. The standards and goals that society wants to be met are continually not being met by the students today. Also, many higher learning facilities lack the funds to provide positive learning environments for students. For these reasons and many more are keeping the pupils of today from benefiting fully from schools.
Society today has to make some new choices for the students of tomorrow, choices that will carry them into the next millennium. Society can either lower standards so that everybody passes in a way that loses all meaning in the real world or raises standards and then meets them. I personally believe in raising our expectations and doing whatever is needed to meet them. Our countries standards are among the lowest in the world and at the same moment as we are transferring our responsibilities to the shoulders of the next generation, we are aiming them for our own generation s most conspicuous failures. Every election year the candidates use something about education as one of their platforms, but few ever carry through with them once they are elected. Most education bills die in congress in some shape or another and the ones that actually make it through congress, usually ineffective because they have been changed and modified to the point of ineffectiveness.
Also, many of the learning facilities today lack the funding to provide an adequate, Create a positive learning environments for students. Underpaid teachers and professors who make less than accountants architects, doctors, lawyers, engineers, judges, health professionals, auditors, and surveyors, and thus many students disregard teachers as role models. If people see someone who can score touchdowns or dunk a basketball making millions while their teachers are scraping the bottom to survive, then how can an educator possibly motivate them to learn. Many people chase after their dreams of money instead of seeing the reality of learning. Although society today rates education as one of their top priorities, they still allow learning facilities to become broken and run down. Like animals, children and adults file into buildings with bad floors, horrible plumbing, leaky roofs, and ceilings, and pack into a desk, usually 35+ per educator. Today the government spends $35.000 a year to keep someone behind bars and only a fraction of that to keep them in school. Tuition, room, and board at most colleges now come to at least $7.000, not counting books and fees. This might seem to suggest that the colleges are getting rich. But they are equally battered by inflation. Tuition covers only 60 percent of what it cost to educate a student and ordinarily the remainder comes from what colleges receive in endowments, grants, and gifts. It's about time we started to provide more money. Funding more for education won't solve every problem but no problem can even begin to be solved without it.
The so-called higher learning facilities of today are selling students short when it comes to their education Properly funding the education system and setting new standards for the future is an important part of education reform. Education reform for the world is a vital part of ensuring the future of students and bringing them up to the standards set by other countries.
