Surprising survey:students bored

LAURA VAN DE PETTE NEWS EDITOR

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The electronic responses of 10,378 teenagers who participated in an online nationwide survey painted a grave picture of how students rate the effectiveness of their schools in preparing them for the future.

A large majority of the high school students surveyed say their class work is not very difficult, and almost twothirds say they would work harder if courses were more demanding or interesting, according to the survey which was conducted by the National Governors Association.

Politicians were expecting responses that centered on the teenagers complaining about the workload and were stunned to find that fewer than two-thirds believe that their school had done a good job challenging them academical- ly or preparing them for college.

According to the New York Times, “About the same number of students said their senior year would be more meaningful if they could take courses related to the jobs they wanted or if some of their courses could be counted toward college credit.”

“High school was a joke. Aside from taking physics class my senior year, I breezed through high school. I never felt challenged and never had to exert much energy or time into my work. I wasted a lot of time senior year that could have been spent preparing me for college. I wish my high school had offered an intro to elementary education class or something to introduce me to the major I was hoping to study in college,” said Megan O’Brien, a junior early childhood education major.

The results of the survey prove that high school students across

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