Secondary Education Gone Wrong

In "Who's Ready for College?" John Cloud presents his opinions on remedial classes in post-secondary education. He states that out of the 600,000 students that enrolled in college last year, twenty-nine percent needed at least one remedial class in reading, writing, or arithmetic. Taxpayers feel that these skills should have been mastered by the twelfth grade, seeing as how they pay over one billion dollars for the classes each year. The writer points out that at …

…you get a less educated country with drastic negative effects on our economy. The legislature wants to remove remedial classes, but for a successful future of potential students, they need to be kept. There are still things that high schools, the government, and students can do to help this situation. They can teach the subject, not the curriculum; they can put the money where it needs to be; they can work and study harder, respectively.