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Professor Shuqing Advanced English Writing 11 November 2014 The American Compulsory Education Fails the Whole Society It is undeniable that education plays a very important role in America’s rise and the maintenance of its leading position. However, American compulsory education fails to cultivate excellent children nowadays. First, too much workload makes compulsory education become a routine only focuses on the achievement of the appearance of compulsory attendance laws. Second, its traditional teaching method depersonalizes children. Third, its unserviceable teaching contents become an impediment to children’s future lives. First of all, the whole country’s students bring tremendous workloads so it is impossible that schools can meet all the standards of compulsory attendance laws. So the only thing schools can accomplish is to ensure high rate of student enrollment, and the teaching part is doomed to fail. In “Are Compulsory School Attendance Laws Necessary?”, educator Samuel L. Blumenfeld states the situation of how schools are superficially implementing the laws. He affirms that schools just “fill classrooms with children” and “delude the public that education is taking place” (Blumenfeld 139). In this essay Blumenfeld clarifies the fact that students are just tools for schools to reach the laws’ standards, they do not receive competent management and education at school. For example, whenever encounter the difficult lesson most teachers just read the reference book to students and ask whether they understand. If students say no, then teachers will tell students to read the passage again and again until they have an epiphany to comprehend the author’s intension. Over time students find the class is boring and pretend to read aloud as if they understand so that teacher will pretend they all understand and jump to next lesson directly. Both students and teachers pretend they are working hard. Like Blumenfeld, in a debate about “Formal education (K-12) o