School…

My friends and I have been getting so worked up about school lately, and we’ve made many points about our school specifically; and then the American school system as a whole. First off, colleges are driving us insane, like we are all seriously going insane, and the one’s who are in the IB program with me know exactly how much worst it is. The major stress comes with SAT’s, we have to make sure that we get like the best score otherwise the school will assume your not good enough to be in there. Then it’s the money issue. If you do get into college how are you going to pay for it? I mean between tuition, books, and if you dorm the food and all the other little things that mommy and daddy usually buy, well all of them add up. I have friends who have graduated and the problem was that they weren’t qualified for financial aid because they were on the ‘border line’ and they couldn’t go to that college. Can you imagine working hard your whole life, and then getting accepted to a school that you’ve dreamed about and then oh yeah you can’t afford it and that’s it you cant go!
Another thing we’ve been discussing, I think they should start to teach kids more. You see one of the good thing’s about my family is that there are 4 of us, my oldest sibling is in college, I myself am in high school, my younger brother is in middle school, and my youngest brother is in elementary school, so I can see what’s going on in each school. My youngest brother is in first grade, and there like not teaching him anything at all. I mean when your in first grade aren’t they supposed to be teaching you how to read and write actual sentences, add and subtract; but yet he’s still tracing letters and numbers. He’s also in ESL, anh what truly amazes me is how everyone looks down upon ESL but yet he’s learning more stuff in his ESL class than in his normal school class, a but ironic huh? And then there’s all ways some people,(well I know this exists in my school for a fact since I witness it), the people who all ways make rude remarks like “If there going to com to our country they should know English to begin with why should we stoop down to there level and have to teach them?” Ok when I hear that, it definitely makes me angry. I mean there are some kids that are just coming to our high school so that they can get some education get a job and then get back to there country, what kind of impact do you think you will have on them, how do you think they will describe our country when they go back after coming into contact with these kinds of people, I mean obviously you don’t expect them to go back and be like “Oh dey lubbed me, dey vere zo nice to me” And you all say that they should know our language, how do you think other countries feel when we have

In the IB program that I’m taking, my teachers have been tell us how the grades in the U.S. are usually lower than the other countries in the world that take IB, and how our essays aren’t really all that good compared to the other schools. There are a series of essays that we have to write for the program,we all aim for an A, but our teachers are telling us that a C will be good for our standards, uhm that makes sense…?!?

Towards the end of the summer I took one of Br. Nouman’s class (Al-Baquara : Grammar &Translation) and he told us one of the days that he was telling us how if he could chose he would give all of the money to Education and the Law, because when one is educated you will be more wise and have a better positive outlook on things, and the money for the Law’s would be for our security, even if you just simply look at the thought it makes sense, and then the more and more you think about the concept the more sense it makes.

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