Native American Education System Analysis

Being a student is my job, part of my lifestyle, and is truly what composes ten out of the twelve months of every year, for the last ten years of my life. Many hours of quality sleep have gone out the window to devote my life to memorizing the exact steps of photosynthesis and cellular respiration, or remembering the effect of the industrialization of America on the Native American population. Too much of the time a plethora of students find themselves contemplating the same narrative “why do I have to learn this, what’s it going to do for me in X amount of years?” Although millions of Americans are granted free education without discrimination, the education system that allows us so many opportunities has its blemishes and has come up short in providing the means to
When I asked my mom about which education system is better she was lightning fast in her response, “United States. And it’s not even close”. She was quick to rebuttal her own point and say that there are many downsides. She believes, like many educators, that the implementation of Common Core in 2009 has tied the hands of teachers behind their backs and restrained them from expressing their creativity in the classroom and making them comply with this “cookie cutter” way of teaching. Teachers are falling into the educational trap of teaching knowledge and teaching to test more than teaching to comprehension of the material and teaching applicable skills to prepare the child for excellence. Moreover, my mother was adamant in believing that Common Core has involuntarily coerced teachers to worry too much upon reaching their state mandated goals rather that recognizing what each child needs to succeed in the classroom and achieve their valuable education they are working so hard to