The difference in the qualities of education even in the same state is INSANE

Hello! I'm heading to college very soon and the expectations are looking grim. I had the pleasure of transferring to a top-rated school and seeing the education I could've had and now I'm bitter.

There's so much that my old school neglected to teach me, even just basic things. And no, this isn't the typical, "I'm bad at school, so therefore school is bad," rant, I LOVE educating myself and learning more about the world and it's so invigorating.

But my old school, the one I was at for a majority of my high school years, was so ridiculously grade inflated and genuinely too easy and not even in a bragging way, but in a "we're seriously behind grade level," way.

When I transferred to my new school, there were so many content gaps, so many things that I should've learned at my old school and just didn't. Things I didn't even know existed. And I took the highest-level classes my old school had to offer. Our education genuinely sucks and I want better for me and other people.

The expectation is that people from that school are going to go to an auto-admit school with an education that is on par with the public. No one leaves the town. No one leaves the state.

I was lucky enough to get accepted into a college out of state. But I'm afraid I'm too behind. I'm self-studying and educating myself on the things I need to learn, but it's not fair that our school was so poorly budgeted.

It's not fair that I was told that my efforts were "good enough" when I was legitimately average/a little below average, and not just me, but every "top student" at that shifty rural school. I wish my guidance counselors hadn't lied to us and told us that our average was good. I wish they hadn't told us that our school wasn't grade-inflated when it was. I'm an honor roll student, but it doesn't MEAN anything if you're an the honor roll student of courses that are below average at best.

And now I have to fill in the gaps. I understand that ultimately, it's up to the student to be gifted and to study and to be intelligent, but I've seen schools with high budgets (I went to one for a few months) and the jump in the quality of education was INSANE. I feel like I was cheated out of the opportunity to do anything substantial.

I'm not trying to make excuses for my mediocrity or justify treating those with lower levels of education better or giving them special treatment, but I WISH there was some standardization of the levels of education. It's not fair that some kids have to go to these poorly funded mice mice-invested schools where we learn the most basic of information, just enough for us to get by and not excel, and meanwhile, this top-rated school is building their second Chem building.

And yes, I get that it's about the income and the taxes and how much people are willing to pay. Yes, I understand that these people whose children are going to these top-rated schools are paying for their kids to have a quality education. But damn it, most of us other kids never had a fucking chance. I only got into a decent college because I had the sense enough to work harder, not because I was smarter or anything.

And it's not even that we're dumb (which yes, kids not working hard is a problem however, I'm not saying the entire school board is to blame) but to say that we deserve to struggle just because we were born in the dirt while other kids are just handed the tools they're needed? Why is that fair? Sorry for whining, it's just so frustrating confirming what I knew since the day I entered that school. I knew the education was bad, but I never realized just the EXTENT of it.

Submitted March 17, 2024 at 03:08PM by MiserableReality5781 https://ift.tt/yzJ8Nv7