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Graduation Requirements

If you are a Hunterdon Central Regional High School student then you will know that to graduate high school you must complete 15 credits of math and science, 20 credits of English, and 10 credits of world language. The reasoning for this is to prepare the students for the "real world" and to explore their interest which lies in the other required 60 credits of mixed electives and art classes. Another reason for these required classes are due to the demands of colleges and universities. However do these classes actually help prepare us? Ask around any high school student body and you'll find that most students hardly retain any of the information forced on them throughout the years. Students don't retain information because they find the subjects they are forced to learn to be boring or without use in the real world. Although it can be argued that many professions and skills in the real world do require such skills it does not change the fact that students are unwilling to learn. The problem is that although graduation requirements are split into different fields such as math, science, and english, the classes that the students are required to take are very specific to a field such as trig, chemistry, and physics. Students can remember general information such as "what is an atom?" but when the classes start to focus on the specifics such as VSEPR models and oxidation the students become lost. It is a combination of lack of interest and lack of available information that keeps students from retaining these facts. Because in higher education many of the fields such as physics, chemistry and biology are so heavily intertwined by teaching them separately the students only get part of the puzzle, this mixed with an already present disregard of wanting to learn in the first place leads to no information gained.

Intro

I'm a senior at Hunterdon Central Regional High School. For my Critical Issues in Lit class we are making blogs about certain issues that we "care" about.

Media
Although we hate to admit it, the media is a giant perpetuating propaganda machine, it forces ideals and values to the masses that are perceived to be universal when in reality it really is not. It would be universal if every country was spewing the same bs everywhere, but its not and that is where the problem comes in. Every society preaches peace while at the same time deliberately conflicting with opposing views.

Standardized Testing
In America we constantly hear students whining about how standardized test "suck". Most of these students don't put much effort in their school work either. In general we can all agree that questions on the standardized test are for the most part pretty basic, and the reason for that is each question is designed to be solved in less then a minute.

Medicine
It is generally agreed upon that health care in our modern world is much better then back a century ago. We have medicine that fight infections, treats asthma, fends off the common cold, and preventing heart disease. Our dependence on medicine however is a double edged sword. Each new pill we add to the cabinet weakens our natural bodily defenses.