The world is constantly changing. Technology is rapidly advancing. The children of today are completely different from the children of yesterday. Why is it that schools should stay the same when everything else is changing? Well the answer is pretty clear, they shouldn't. If we want today's children to strive in the future, we can't be teaching them like they are living in the past. The 21st century is completely technology based, and who knows maybe in the 22nd century paper will be obsolete and every single thing will be digitalized. Schools must start to adapt to the 21st century, everything depends on it.
The top priorities of school should be what is best for their students, no what is "easier" for the school. Just because changing the whole schooling system would take a lot of time and effort, does not mean that they shouldn't have to meet their current students' needs. Wasn't the whole reason school was created to adapt to a changing world? Students today are more tech savvy than any of their parents, so why are they still reading from textbooks and taking notes from a chalkboard? Why are students forced to memorize a whole textbook when all that information is constantly at their fingertips? Not only should more technology be added into schools but also the methods of teaching should be completely reconstructed. If only this adaptation started when I was in middle school... things would be so much better.
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