I don't know if everyone's classes were like mine in high school, but I feel like we missed something at Highland. Everyone I talk to in San Diego worked so much harder in their college preparatory classes to get an A. They wrote 10 page research papers as sophomores. I feel like I haven't even done that yet...though I'm pretty sure I have. It's college; come on. I just observed two classrooms here in San Diego, and was completely amazed at the students. They are respectful and give a ton of effort. Why was that not present in my high school experience? I never felt like it was bad, but I am just now realizing how different it was.
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We went to a regular ole public school that had it's special points here and there but overall our situation was that the teachers had to mostly teach to the test. We learned what we were supposed to know so that we'd do well on our finals so that the teachers could keep their jobs and the school could be more federal and state money and repeat the cycle. There is hardly an incentive in the public education system, overall, to produce a high quality student but to get them to pass the test. The good thing about public education is that anyone can get an education instead of third world countries where most the population that are middle and lower class are perpetually uneducated but the public system here is maintained so that as long as a student passes a test, the school stays in business.
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