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Everything Wrong With the Education System

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Ainsley Carter in Everything Wrong With the Education System

Dec 11, 2018

Summer Break Sux

I’m pale. My foundation shade is the lightest one offered. Summer is hell for me. Legitimate concerns over my health come up from…

Ainsley Carter in Everything Wrong With the Education System

Dec 10, 2018

College Readiness

The fact that the Olathe School District can ask students to commit to a four year program that shapes their entire high school career blows my mind. How on Earth are 13 year olds supposed to know what they want to do with their lives? Quite frankly, how are 18 year olds supposed to know either…

Ainsley Carter in Everything Wrong With the Education System

Dec 8, 2018

Standardized Testing

There are so many different types of students in this world. There are the naturally gifted students, like myself. We barely have to try in school to excel. There’s the students that work their *butts* off to succeed. There are students that need to hear things, and student’s that need to…

Ainsley Carter in Everything Wrong With the Education System

Dec 8, 2018

Busy Work and Homework

Surprise, surprise: I hate homework. Every student in the world does. But really, I hate busy work, which is what most homework is. Do I really need to copy down the front side of a filled out map to the back side on the blank map? No. That, quite literally, teaches me absolutely nothing.

Ainsley Carter in Everything Wrong With the Education System

Dec 6, 2018

Why Standards Based Grading Works (Persuasive)

Last year I had one English teacher, who I won’t name, that was widely hated by almost every student that had her. We all understood the fact that we were freshman and weren’t generally the most mature, but she must’ve mixed up freshman with second…

Ainsley Carter in Everything Wrong With the Education System

Nov 30, 2018

#1 My Experience with School (Memoir)

Growing up, school was the light of my life. I excelled. I wanted to be the absolute best…