“College ready”

When schools use this term, why is it always to justify something that the students really dislike or something that isn’t best practice for that age?

I want a school that gets kids “college ready” but only making them take 1 or 2 classes a day. The rest of the schedule can be filled in with leisure, social, or choice time. Teachers could even help younger students plug in things like 20 minutes of reading or studying math facts or whatever they may need to improve test scores. School campuses could be much more “college” ready too by adding things like walking paths, common areas, and other environments suitable for their development.

Forcing kids to take 6 classes sometimes with 6 different teachers with 6 different sets of expectations while only being required, sorry demanded, to pass a test loosely based on 2 of those classes that no one can see before or talk about after and to stop each class at the same time regardless of momentum or group is not helping students become college ready in any way.

Submitted March 24, 2022 at 06:03AM by DFHartzell https://ift.tt/IMUmLiR