Reflection 20

The acceptance of public high school in the mid-nineteenth centurey affermed democracy. Schools in the U.S. differed from the schools in a lot of ways. However even with the changes schools in the U.S still fell short of democratic principles.
Schools in the European side of the the spectrum have always been quite different from ours here in the U.S. European schools had a pretty collectivistway of working with their students. They really believed in having the student being involved in thier education they wanted them to have a choice in exactly whatit was that they were learning. Of course thay had to learn the standards of learning such as the maths, languages, grammer, history, and things of that nature but they were democratic and letchildren choose other things to be taught that they were interested in.
The U.S on the other had the picture in a different filter. See the U.S wanted things to be a little different; we were suppose to be democratic but somehow we stayed in the republic stance. We as a country i believe are a little more spoiled and layed back. We came up with standards and we made sure that they were methowever thats when we stopped. We were only concerned with the standards being met we were not trying to make our students surpass that mark. So instead of becoming followers of democracy we become people of mediocraty. Not realizing that our students werent equipt with the tools to succeed in life. We had giving our students every tool to pass question on a peace of paper but we had failed them in the test of life in life skills and life management.
Of course every country has their ups and downs and disagreements and education is deffinatly not a limitation in this situation. Of course we know for sure know that democracyis deffinatelt the way to go because our students will be well prepared for live live but to change the entire curriculum after all these years would be a mission. A lot of people are afraid of change and certain teachers are afraid of release their voice of the students choice. When in actuality it should only be up to thestudent since its their future anyway.