In my opinion, there are quite a bit of things that need to be changed about the K-12 curriculum in the schools of America. Nutrition, encouraging the arts, foreign language funding - while all of those things are important, the biggest change I would like to see is actually preparing students for real life.
How many years do you spend in school? 12, if you skip kindergarden and pre-school, 14 if you attend. Most of your life is in primary school. Yet, the minute you graduate, it's as if you have no idea what to do next.
Every student can say that throughout their school life, their parents and teachers had always told them "do well in school so that you can go to a good college." But how do you even apply for college? How do you know you're even good enough? What if college life isn't suited for you? So many questions that go unanswered and overlooked.
I guess that the biggest change I would like to see in schools is to stop pumping out kids that are ready for college. Instead of being like "you do this and this and this and BAM! College", maybe it should be more like "what do you want to do with your life and how can we get you there?"
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