The American Education System; Cause For Rebellion

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B. Johnson, also believed that there is no institution more
fundamental to American society and democracy than its public schools.”(36)
Public schools are the cornerstone of America's future. The development
of youth's knowledge, skills and social dispositions has always been critical to
the country's success. In the next century, America's youth will play an
increasingly important role in the country's survival and well-being. By the
year 2025, one out of five Americans will be 65 or older, and by the year 2040,
one out of four Americans will be 65. In less than 15 years, the first baby
boomers will reach the age of 65 (Peterson 64). It is clear that the economic
success of America will be in the hands of youth to unprecedented extent. It is
time to invest in education in order to maintain the American way of life.
In the competitive knowledge-based world of the twenty-first century,
the education of America's youth will be more important than ever. More
responsibility ...

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Schools
face a variety of academic and disciplinary hardships. According to a recent
USA Today poll, seventy-two percent of Americans cite drugs and violence as
serious problems in their local schools. Sixty-one percent believe that
academic standards are too low. Lack of discipline and low graduation rates
also ranked as one of the biggest problems facing public schools (Edmunds A2).
Nowhere in this country are the problems facing schools more evident
than in the nations largest school system. The New York City Public School
system handles approximately 1.1 million students in the city's 1,085 schools.
Many of those schools are old and in serious disrepair. In 1994 the ...

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