Argumentative essay The American School System in the 21st Century- What is

Wrong With It.

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The American School System in the 21st Century- What is

Wrong With It.

The American School System of this day and age put the children's education secondary to politics. Although, one would get very little argument about how important it is for a child to receive an excellent education. Unfortunately it seems as if politics, greed, and the school system as a whole, puts the child education on the back burner.

An article in the New Yorker put it best when it described the American school system of today as "Being like a democracy itself. It is loose, shaggy, and inefficient, full of redundancies and conflicting goals."(Lemann,2010). Especially when a...