My perfect Ap class

With education you find that the media and country talks about change, but is change really in our future? With the way that our school system is going, this education system will lead to the loss of great students not by the fact that we are beating them down but by the way we spoil them with praise.

Ralph Emerson once wrote that “by simple living, by an illimitable soul, you inspire, you correct, you instruct, you raise, you embellish all.by your own act you teach the beholder how to do the practicable.” This idea that, to teach is to inspire students to become greater is a thing that makes a great teacher different from just a teacher.

In a perfect world this would be one of the things I would change is I would make teaching different from it is now. With the standardizing of the schools, you lose the ability to make your class a place to learn because you have it teach things that everywhere is being taught.  To change this I would try and lessen the amount of standard there is in a class room. One way to do that is to take away advance placement classes.

Instead I would substitute it with an advance class that would teach college material, but you take the placement course in college instead of the ap exam because you can gain knowledge and it can better you learning career but it takes away the stress of teaching for the ap exam.  Teachers can now teach the college stuff at their own pace because you just take the placement class and be put in higher college.

This taking away of Ap classes would mean that weighted grades would go also. I would do this because taking the advance class would be your chose. You would take the class because you love the subject and you can see yourself being able to take a placement test in college and getting out of classes that otherwise would waste your time.

These ideas may not sit well with everyone, but the ability to learn stuff that is more advance is a good idea. When Ap classes were start they were to help with college and now they are pushed back into almost advance classes.  This leaves students with less to learn and less prepared to take an exam.  Just in a perfect world this learning would be inspired by teachers and a student’s own drive to learn.