If you haven’t heard about House Bill 5, a new-proposed law in Texas for students that will not be required to take Algebra 2 in high school. Current high school students need to take this class in order to graduate, but that’s going to change. Instead of students having basic classes, they will be in class for job training. The House Bill 5 will have a placement into college-level math at two-year institutions. The Texas legislative is now deciding whether or not to make this as an official law.
The House Bill 5 will impact many students across Texas. People might agree or disagree, but in my opinion HB5 will affect us, students, in a negative way. State legislative want to make a flexible system for the students, but this wouldn’t be helpful for us because most of us will not be able to go to college.
This has its pros and cons. Yes, it’s better to take five end-of-course tests rather than fifteen, but at least we will actually be prepared and ready for college. As a student I can see why students will be happy to take fewer tests, but we don’t see the changes that will come later on in our future. Even though math isn’t relevant for most careers, it’s better to graduate with Algebra 2. We wouldn’t be ready for those types of changes, not now or later.
When students want to go to college, they might not be able to qualify because Algebra 2 is a prerequisite for college. If this law is official, teachers might not tell us that we need to take this class for the college that we want to go to or that it’s better if we take this class. Because of this, our future will be thrown down the drain and we’ll be crushed. Not all students are planning ahead, that’s why they are not concerned about this, but some of us are. If they know that by 2020, 65 percent of all jobs need some kind of postsecondary education, then this should be required for us.
Making students take job courses instead of four years of math, science, social studies, and reading is not good for us. How they say that math isn’t relevant, then what about the other careers that we want to take that has science involved? Preparing us for college in high school isn’t the best way to learn something. This is why we have college, to make us gain information and skills that we’ll use in life. We shouldn’t be learning something that should actually be taught in college. Either way, we’re too young to choose our future job in high school because we don’t know what we want to become.
Taking Algebra 2 will take way more work in high school, but is it worth it? Algebra 2 will make us graduate and we’ll still be able to go to that college we’ve been dying to go to. This has been going on for a while, so why change it now?
Deborah
The House Bill 5 will impact many students across Texas. People might agree or disagree, but in my opinion HB5 will affect us, students, in a negative way. State legislative want to make a flexible system for the students, but this wouldn’t be helpful for us because most of us will not be able to go to college.
This has its pros and cons. Yes, it’s better to take five end-of-course tests rather than fifteen, but at least we will actually be prepared and ready for college. As a student I can see why students will be happy to take fewer tests, but we don’t see the changes that will come later on in our future. Even though math isn’t relevant for most careers, it’s better to graduate with Algebra 2. We wouldn’t be ready for those types of changes, not now or later.
When students want to go to college, they might not be able to qualify because Algebra 2 is a prerequisite for college. If this law is official, teachers might not tell us that we need to take this class for the college that we want to go to or that it’s better if we take this class. Because of this, our future will be thrown down the drain and we’ll be crushed. Not all students are planning ahead, that’s why they are not concerned about this, but some of us are. If they know that by 2020, 65 percent of all jobs need some kind of postsecondary education, then this should be required for us.
Making students take job courses instead of four years of math, science, social studies, and reading is not good for us. How they say that math isn’t relevant, then what about the other careers that we want to take that has science involved? Preparing us for college in high school isn’t the best way to learn something. This is why we have college, to make us gain information and skills that we’ll use in life. We shouldn’t be learning something that should actually be taught in college. Either way, we’re too young to choose our future job in high school because we don’t know what we want to become.
Taking Algebra 2 will take way more work in high school, but is it worth it? Algebra 2 will make us graduate and we’ll still be able to go to that college we’ve been dying to go to. This has been going on for a while, so why change it now?
Deborah