The Education System Needs Serious Reforms
Luc Bubaker
Professor Kozak
English 110
Reading Journal 7
23 October 2012
Over time, a student’s education and the education system in which he or she is brought up in has drastically changed for the worst. Compared to the education system they had in the medieval times, the grading system that we have now is not great at all. Also affecting the educational system is technology because it provides easy access for students to plagiarize. Between the grading system and the technology dependency, the educational system hasn’t provided the best education. Throughout my schooling career, I have seen countless cases of students receiving grades that they clearly didn’t deserve. There were kids who got better grades because they would cheat their way through tests and homework and there were kids who clearly knew the material, they were just lazy and were fine with receiving a bad grade. Because of these experiences, I have drawn the conclusion that the grading system has nothing to do with how much you learned in a class or how smart you are. In the essay, “A proposal to Abolish Grading,” Goodman while talking about the grading system in medieval times shares, “My philosophic impression is that the medievals thought they knew what a good job of work was and that we are competitive because we do not”(Goodman 72). From this impression, it can be concluded that the only reason for the grading system is for the competition between students and not for the benefit of education for the students. From Goodman’s argument, the grading system is only hurting the students and the educational system. Aside from the grading system, technology has also contributed to the struggle with the educational system. Now and days, a student can search for anything on the internet, including answers for homework or tests. While it’s always good to check your work to see if you did it right, that is the last thing students are doing with the answers they find online. Copying the answers is
Professor Kozak
English 110
Reading Journal 7
23 October 2012
Over time, a student’s education and the education system in which he or she is brought up in has drastically changed for the worst. Compared to the education system they had in the medieval times, the grading system that we have now is not great at all. Also affecting the educational system is technology because it provides easy access for students to plagiarize. Between the grading system and the technology dependency, the educational system hasn’t provided the best education. Throughout my schooling career, I have seen countless cases of students receiving grades that they clearly didn’t deserve. There were kids who got better grades because they would cheat their way through tests and homework and there were kids who clearly knew the material, they were just lazy and were fine with receiving a bad grade. Because of these experiences, I have drawn the conclusion that the grading system has nothing to do with how much you learned in a class or how smart you are. In the essay, “A proposal to Abolish Grading,” Goodman while talking about the grading system in medieval times shares, “My philosophic impression is that the medievals thought they knew what a good job of work was and that we are competitive because we do not”(Goodman 72). From this impression, it can be concluded that the only reason for the grading system is for the competition between students and not for the benefit of education for the students. From Goodman’s argument, the grading system is only hurting the students and the educational system. Aside from the grading system, technology has also contributed to the struggle with the educational system. Now and days, a student can search for anything on the internet, including answers for homework or tests. While it’s always good to check your work to see if you did it right, that is the last thing students are doing with the answers they find online. Copying the answers is