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Personal Story

It was finals week. I was sprinting towards the lecture hall to take my first ever final exam in college. I was about 10 minutes late. I finally entered the room but there was a different professor in the room. I didn’t get too concerned though because I thought “this is how they do it in QC.” I took the scantron and the test paper and went to the back of the room. Before starting, I looked around the room, looking for familiar faces, but I could find none. I brushed that off too because I thought “this is how they do it in QC.” After all, it WAS the anthropology test…

When I started the test, I thought it was a bit weird. The questions weren’t related to what we did in class. At first I thought it was just a hard test. But eventually I got the feeling that I was perhaps in the wrong room. I kept looking around the room for someone, anyone I knew. I thought I saw a few. But still I went down to check with the professor to ask what class this was. She said it was Anthro 101, which WAS the correct class. I went back to the back of the room, but five minutes later, I eventually realized that I was in the wrong room. I apologized to the professor and left.

So why did I think that I had an anthropology test on Tuesday at 1:15 pm in room 250? Because that’s what someone had told me. I had to ask someone else because I always missed the first half or so of that class… But why did that person give me erroneous information? Was it malicious intent? No, because I saw that person also looking for the test on that day. She was as clueless as me.

It was ironic because after all that source checking for online material, I wasnt able to judge the credibility of a REAL-LIFE source…

Flaws of Public Education

December 12, 2008

New York – A student from Queens college missed a final exam yesterday, after being told the wrong exam date by a classmate.

“I missed the test because one of my classmates told me the wrong date,” the student said when asked about why he didn’t know when the finals were.

This is another example that showcases how inefficient and underfunded the public education system is. Students aren’t told clearly about important dates and deadlines. No one is paid to call students to remind them of even about their final exams.

The underlying problem can be traced to the government and elected officials. It all comes down to funding for educational programs. Can students succeed in life when they attend seriously underfunded schools? It is the governments responsibility to ensure that everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed in life.