Fremont High School Analysis

Many people can agree that with a good education, you can save yourself from working at a job that has a lot of hard labor, and can give yourself a career that you have always dreamed of having. In order to get a great education and relieve yourself from a job one wouldn’t want to have, one must attend a good school that is well operated, such in the way that they teach the right materials, and is properly funded so one can get the most out of the learning experience. Some schools may be funded differently because of their location and previous history on academics. Here in America, many schools are different from those from other countries. Authors such as Eleanor J. Bader, Jonathan Kozol, and Anu Partanen address issues about students and
Either it’s the way their school is run or how the environment is like around them. Depending where you are in the school district, many schools will not have the same classes provided as the rest. Like in high school, many students get an idea of what their future can be like if they continue to follow a career pathway. But, many schools fail to provide the necessary classes that can create a path for students. Students such as in Jonathan Kozol’s report, “Fremont High School”, tell readers that their school is not providing their students with enough classes that will meet their college requirements. In his article, Jonathan Kozol brings up the necessities of what students need in order to pursue a career but schools like Fremont High are not providing the right classes they need. He states that,
Mireya, for example, who had plans to go to college, told me that she had to take a sewing class last year and now she was told she’d been assigned to take a class in hair dressing as well. When I asked the teacher why Mireya could not skip these subjects and enroll in classes that would help her pursue her college aspirations, she replied, “It isn’t a question of what students want. It’s what the school may have available. If all the other elective classes that a student wants to take are full, she has to take one of these classes if she wants to graduate.”
In her report,” Finland’s School Success,” she notes many reasons why Finland is having success in the way they are operating their system of education. The United States has two forms of schools, private and public. In Finland, all of their schools are public and the same. Unlike the United States, in Finland there are no private schools, and there are no tuition fees, “None is allowed to charge tuition fees. There are no private universities, either. This means that practically every person in Finland attends public school, whether for pre-K or a Ph.D”. (978) In other words, since everyone in Finland is getting the same level of education, no one is superior to the other person. Everyone gets taught the same way. Here in the U.S. there are different status in schools, which might be why only some schools are getting high test scores. Having different prestige’s in schools can be a problem because some schools may only be teaching certain things and other may be teaching more