Forget about it. Forget about the mandatory attendance. Forget about the curriculum. Forget about exams (Holt 86, 88). Kids shouldn’t be going to school just to get their degrees (Henry III. 136). They should be going to become more educated, so that they can make educated decisions in their lives. Schools need to change. Learning in a prison cell was probably easier for Malcolm X than learning in some of the schools of New York City. I …showed first 75 words of 1498 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1498 total…and grades altogether. We need to follow the students’ lead. Let them determine what, when, and how they learn, and then roll with that. Doing so will help kids learn to be better people than anyone could ever make them be. Trying to mold kids into the people the government wants them to be by making them go to school and learn what they want, how they want, and when they want is simply tragic.