High School Persuasive Essay

The all too familiar sound of the school bell rings loudly in my ears as students converse among themselves during my final year of high school, and I think so myself, is college really worth the trouble? It would seem that somewhere such as a classroom would be a place for learning and retaining information that could potentially aid you in the long treacherous path of life later on down the road. For me, the classroom at the time felt like just a social setting, in general, the majority of the time. Also, I spent a big portion of my senior year doubting my chances of higher education, or in other words feeling reluctant about it, to say the least. Whereas many high school students graduate their senior year with goals and ambitions for college, uncooperative staff and teachers did not set me up well for my the future. A high school is a place students attend in hopes of furthering their education into college; however, the school that I attended from my freshman to senior year did not properly prepare me or many of my peers for university.

To kick things off, my high school accommodated many foreign students from South America that had little to no experience in speaking English, and as such received very little, if any support upon arriving in the USA in terms of education. Many Latino foreign transfer students were left with little to no support with language barriers and education.

ESL classes were required for students new to the country that were not proficient in