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Celebrities have cosmetic surgeries and promote unhealthy diets in order to reach the standard of 'beauty' as defined by our culture. Professional and olympic athletes deserve equally lawful access to supplements that will enhance their ability. If unsafe diets and cosmetic body enhancements are not illegal, steroids should not be illegail either.

But how can standardized tests be used as a tool is they do not accurately evaluate learning? Kids like copycat042's son does not tests well, but that does not mean he isn't bright. Yet college acceptance is based off of the SAT, ACT and a student's GPA. If these tests were eliminated then student's that might have slipped through the cracks before, can excel. For these reasons, I do not think standardized tests can be even a minor tool in education.

This past week, two of my teachers joked around with me about grade grubbing, and coined the term 'grade prostitution'. After getting over the initial shock of a teacher saying the word prostate I started thinking about it. I, a high school senior, am a grade prostitute. I constantly check the online system, which displays current grades, haggle for extra points and jump on any extra credit opportunity, all to get the A. When a teacher announces a test, I immediately ask how many points it is worth and calculate the minimum grade I need to get in order to maintain an A.

Yes, I am a grade prostitute, but it is not my fault. I am merely a product of the current education factory that manufactures multiple-choice assessments and labels students with a letter and a grade point average. We are placed in tracks and everyone knows who is in Track Three and who is in AP. We make judgments and see peers as their grades. Teacher’s say we should learn for the sake of learning, but why then do we get judges every quarter on a report card. Why, on Naviance, the online program for college searches, when we look at the college scattergrams, are the only two factors of acceptance SAT scores and G.P.A.? There is no standardized child, yet America has standardized learning. What message does this send to students? I am a grade prostitute, but what is the alternative in this competitive, test oriented, scholastic straitjacket? Am I supposed to disregard tradition learning and pursue other interests to purely learn more? Or, as I already do, push my other intellectual ambitions aside to achieve the A.

The belief that we should accept report cards for what they are is offensive. America cannot just accept a failing system for what it is. We are a nation of innovators, trailblazers and pioneers. A solution can and must be found. We should eliminate "traditional report card grades and replace them with evaluations written by teacher's. The B next to Math, or A next to History does not reflect a student's learning capability. It is a transparent front put on by education institutions to achieve a higher rating and more funding. The current grading system needs some serious renovations before our future children are cheated out of the education they deserve.

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