Education Highly Valued

In the article" Failure is not an option," Sharon La Franiere reveals an interesting fact.In China there is a test called"gaokao(gow-kow)" that raises the stakes and determine the furure of 9 million Chinese students this year. It is sort of like the SAT's but the test is "twice as long and the stakes are much higher."

About three to five students make the cut and if they do not pass they have to wait a yeasr to retake it. The exam preperation are crucial and any mikstakes can hurt their results or chance to take the test so students try thier best not to mess up or arrive late. China is a country that values education highly and gaokao is considered the course set of one's life.

For Chinese students the preperations are stressful and overwhelming. Zhao Xiang, a high school graduate from Guizhou Province took the test and her comment was, Sometimes it was pressure from my family, sometimes it was preure from myself." Schools in Chiona sat aside senior year of highschool as a year for the gaokao. Lui from Tiajin, in eatern China said," I want to study until the lat minute and I really hope to be successful."

This test determines everything for the future of the youth. America should take notice of this because while other conutries value education highly we waste it down the drain. This should be and example to America and this should let them know that education is taken for granted here.

 Many students who are successful in America are not from America. Asian children value education so they excal in life while Americans believe that everything is handed to them. Children from other countries work hard for thier education because in certain countries education is not easy to get.

My techers complain all the time that students waste education and learning experience and I agree. I want to get all the education I can while I can because now and days the government is cuttring budgets on school and before we know it schools are only going to be for weathy kids.

Nobody wants this so as Americans we need to step up more toward education befor it dissovles