Standardized Testing In High Schools

High school is a place where students go to acquire an education and prepare for college. The general idea of what those years are like stays the same, but as each generation changes so do the experiences they go through. It is easy to look to the past from the present and see what has changed from then and now. Change is inevitable and not an exception for the future; the high school experience in a few decades will different than what it is now. Those changes are already beginning to take place currently. They act as a foreshadowing of the future. Technology is growing, standardized testing is evolving, rigor in the classroom is diminishing, competition between students is increasing, and saddest of all, the ultimate desire to learn is disappearing. The concept of expanding a child 's knowledge through school has seemingly begun to be forgotten. It has been pushed aside by the daily stresses of high school itself, from getting good grades to finishing homework on time. The biggest stress presented to students of high school today has been standardized tests. Based on the growing importance of these tests and their

The competitive process of college applications beats down on students in high school more and more as time passes. High school has lost its concept of pure education and has evolved into a place where students need to spread themselves thin in order to make the cut for the colleges they dream to get into. This reality will no go away in the future, but become worse. Colleges will continue to become more selective and students will need to push themselves further to stand out against their peers. High school in the future will completely loose its original intention of spreading knowledge and convert into a place where kids go only to compete against one another in every aspect. Rather than going to school with the ambition of learning something new, students will think of school as a place where they must succeed above everyone else around