Bayshore? A D school? Orly -_-'

I guess Bayshore is a D school again? Well, what else is new. The school grades are based off of FCAT scores, which is completely unfair first of all. I know some very smart people who have done bad on the FCAT; the reading section is very poorly put together with a lot of objective, opinion-orientated questions that still have right and wrong answers. Judging a student based on their test-taking skills is not an accurate depiction of that student's skills. Having said that, it's also true that many students blow off the FCAT, and frighteningly, some of them are proud of low scores. It is most definitely not a reflection of the teachers. There are a lot of very talented, very well-educated and very enthusiastic teachers currently employed at Bayshore, in every department. But no matter what kind of amazing teachers you have, it does come back to the students. It can sometimes be hard, I think, to teach those who simply don't want to learn.

It's too late, in my opinion, for the current generation of high schoolers and possibly even middle schoolers. There are so many students who still, at this level of education, don't know the difference between "they're, there and their" that you wonder, didn't anyone teach them anything back in elementary school? Because that's where I learned simple grammatical skills. So personally I think the problem is with our elementary school system. Someone needs to go regulate it to make sure they don't keep pumping out stupid kids! It's embarrassing; America is basically the most uneducated non-third-world country in the world. Ever heard all those stories about how in Japan and China their schooling system is far superior to our own? There's no smoke without fire. For Bayshore, for Florida, for America, it's imperative that we begin to put a higher value on education earlier in the student's career. In fast-changing times where our position as world leader is being threatened by the booming economy of a Communist country, we need to make sure that our country doesn't become the next Atlantis, lost under the ocean, a vague myth of an advanced civilization cast into nothingness.

The children are our future, so for the love of God, educate them! >_< /rant