F’s For Society Or For Students?

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Term Paper Title	F’s For Society Or For Students?
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F’s For Society or For Students?

     The American education system has been taking some serious hits recently. In an article entitled “What Our Education System Needs Is More F’s,” Carl Singleton suggests that students are merely attending class, but do not complete an acceptable level of learning.  Teaching levels are of low quality and impersonal in nature with an emphasis on passing the students from their classroom to the next without ensuring their level of learning meets the minimum requirements.  By a widespread issuing of F’s, we as a society must look at the cause and effect aspect this will produce.  Giving F’s will not solve the problems Singleton suggests, but create new ones.  Society must be prepared to deal with the results of more F’s by understanding how it affects the family, student, and schools themselves.
     As part of his argument for sending home more F’s, Singleton feels that this would force parents to take time out and help children improve their grades.  Many parents do not play an integral role in encouraging good study habits by allowing their children to watch television as opposed to doing homework.  By sending home F’s, this would force the parent to address the issue, take away privileges, and become more active in the education process.  According to Singleton, the responsibility of failing children belongs at home with the parents.
     It is a noble idea to have parents spend more time with their children and a core value that many politicians promote, but the reality of this situation does not always leave enough room for parent involvement.  Singleton must realize that the majority of school-aged children are products of single-parent families, multi-family households, or dual working parents. The report card in the mail with a barrage of F’s will only create a hostile environment between the parent and child.  The over-worked, over-stressed parent will yell at the child and could potentially discourage the child’s willingness to work harder on achieving better grades.  As mentioned earlier, this is the cause and effect issue at hand regarding parents and F’s.
     Assigning F’s does not leave total responsibility on the parents.  This would also “force principals, school boards, and voters to come to terms with cost as a factor in improving our educational system.”  Singleton suggests that with the reality of failing students will come the obvious need to spend more money in bringing these students up to a passable level.  “One...

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