I'm a teacher at the #2 High School in the state (should be number 1 but we are beat out by one that hand picks students from around the state for only 11th and 12th grades). I decided to look up my schools test scores and compare them to the national average..... yeah, we are just that. Average.
I tell that to my students often. You might be smart here, but to the rest of the world you are just normal.
As someone who was valedictorian of my hs, but the hs had the 2nd lowest test scores in the 100mi radius in our state, wish someone told me that before I went to college.
One of my best friends also got his college associates degree before his hs diploma, we went to the same university, but he got kicked out before freshman year ended due to bad grades. And then fell off the face of the earth.
It’s better to be warned that you are a medium fish in a small pond before you go off to a big pond and find out the hard way that there are much bigger fish out there in the world
Because otherwise college is a huge slap in the face. Especially if they go out of state, or get into a nice private school/UC/Ivy league. They rank dead last in education, and have been at the bottom for a loooooong time. I’ve seen what happens. These kids, top of their class in a well ranked school in their state, go to college in a state with a solid K-12 education and get absolutely slapped around. There’s this massive whiplash effect as they go from being in the top 5 students in their school to playing catch-up in freshman year GEs because everybody else’s educational foundation is much, much more solid. College doesn’t have a “no-kid-left-behind-policy.” If you come in with significant gaps in your education, like a lot of these kids do from these bottom 5 in education states, it’s up to you to fill them in. I remember being in Biology 101 and watching these students from these states have their minds absolutely blown by basic facts because they never received a proper sex education/their high school biology teacher taught them creationism instead of evolution. I mean, we are talking week one material here, basically the refresher week to shake off the cobwebs and get into the new routine that is going to college for the first time. I think it’s extremely important for these students who grow up in these education systems to realize early that they got screwed of a proper education and are going to have to work extra hard to learn what others already know.
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u/sgtgrubermeister 29d ago
I'm a teacher at the #2 High School in the state (should be number 1 but we are beat out by one that hand picks students from around the state for only 11th and 12th grades). I decided to look up my schools test scores and compare them to the national average..... yeah, we are just that. Average.
I tell that to my students often. You might be smart here, but to the rest of the world you are just normal.