Seeing as how the topic has changed to stuff about religion, I suppose it's too late to add my 2 cents, but here's at least a penny's worth:
1. Classes generally move forward too slowly.
2. Limited selection of courses that I could take when I was in high school. For example, it would have been nice to have the option of taking Latin or an east asian language. There wasn't even a philosophy course or programming course offered. Why is it that an english class got 10 computers when they weren't even used!?
3. Very humanities based. The high school I went to...the minimum science requirement was 1 year of a life science and 1 year of a physical science. Math requirement: up to algebra II I believe.
4. Too much BS work. Worksheets on lots of "blah" aren't going to help me learn -- it's just busy work so the teacher can just go on the phone and chat about some extra-cirricular event. I had a teacher who made us write down huge vocabulary lists and define the words during class, while he talked to other basketball coaches about the team's performance.
5. Electives were rather weak. I can honestly say I learned nothing from the 6 semesters of computer classes I took. WTF is up with calling us "techies" and making us throw out the library's trash!? There were a few others I took, such as art. That one was taught by the football coach who couldn't even draw very well
6. Opinions on teachers didn't really mean much to the district, it seemed. The school I went to didn't require any reviews of the teachers from the students. The teachers don't really ask for any criticism from the students either. Very, VERY, few did.
7. Mandatory rallies are the biggest waste of time.
8. Schools bend towards parents very willingly, ultimately passing everyone in the class. All a parent has to do is bitch and whine to get their kid a passing grade.
9. Teachers generally have very little concern and cannot really interact with students with so many restrictions imposed on them.
10. Politics. Teachers are quite underpaid, while administration is raking in the dough. When I left my high school, the district received some more money, and very little of it went to raises. A good portion of it went to the administrative side. What the teachers did was leave school exactly when school ended. Such was the way afterschool help was eliminated. There's a heck lot more political crap going on, but I don't to write a huge set of paragraphs on this...
11. Lack of integration of technology, or poor use of it. I think we've all seen examples of this.
12. High school libraries were very limited.
13. Parents aren't involved much.
Yup...that seems to be about 1 cents worth.
Have a nice day,
Darien
