I reviewed the article titled, "Young Adults Give Low Marks to High Schools" in the April 20th issue of Ed Weekly. This article is about a survey given to young adults so they can rate different aspects of their high school education. They were asked if their high school prepared them for college or trade school and work or internships. It also asked if it exposed you to the latest technology and did it give you the pratical skills you will need to survive as an adult. The majority of surveyors gave a "fair" judgement to most questions. A few of them said they had an excellent experience and a handful said it was a very poor experience. The biggest seems to be being prepared for college.
I can relate to this because I attended a small rural high school in Tillamook Oregon and although I was in college level writing in high school, I wasnt prepared for college math or science. My placement scores for college math put me in the lowest level math offered. In science, I struggled with basic concepts, like parts of a cell. I think I was required to take science for a couple semesters and thats all I remember. I still struggled in writing in college. Even though I took writing 121 my senior year I still couldn't tell the difference between, their, there and they're or your and you're. Apparently I missed some basics in my grammar and to my surprise it wasn't addressed until I took a college level writing class in college. Overall, I would have probably scored this survey the same way, that I had a mediocre high school education.
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