Education Crisis

School is something a lot of us are familiar with. Not only are we familiar with its many successes, but also are thrown into its many failures. Whether you see them as time wasted, classes available, stress of grades, or even having to go to school in the first place we as students are surrounded by these negative aspects. In my personal opinion I belive the biggest issue facing education is how public everything is. Not only is the social and issues a large part of the high shcool experience, but so is the competion for the highest grade or sounding the smartest in class, or even becoming validvictorian. To some this competion is meaningless and they don't pay any attention to it, but to others it is at the core of their entire high school lives. I belive that what needs to be fixed in this day and age, is allowing students to have a little more independece. Teachers still need to be very involved, but at the same time it is important that students have the privacy they do or do not want. Maybe thawt means introducing more technology into the classrooms, which would allow students to recieve grades and such much more privately then passing back work. Maybe that means not sitting in rows and columns but instead a large circle (such as socratic seminars work) in order to allow everyone to feel involved, but yet not forced to say anyting if they do not want to talk. Another option is to lessen the importance on grades and make it more about improvment and activites that relate back to the real world such as community service or internships or something. I just have a hard time beieveing that at this point education is the best it can be. It is not the teachers fault at all. Its just the mindset of society. I don't know exactly how to change it but I do not that somethins gotta give.