Rhetorical Analysis

In my rhetorical analysis i will be explaining what South Korean academics have come to. In the article Teacher leave those kids alone, Amanda Ripley explains all about how serious grades are for most of the students in South Korea. It has become so bad that there is a team that enforces a curfew on after hour tutoring academics. In this article she witnesses first hand the team crack down on these groups. They actually hide themselves in rooms called hagwons. The problem with this is that there are groups of people running scams on students making them believe without these cram sessions they will succeed to nothing. As a society there is to much pressure on the students to be perfect, when in fact they are just hurting them selves. Ripley states that they are spending to much time in class and therefore most of them are asleep during lectures.
Towards the end of the article Ripley does state how there are changes being made. One of the most important i thought was the effort to get ride of long stressful tests. Asia a whole is trying to design tests that don't relay so much on the grades, but instead the attributes of the person. This is shifting generations away from just memorizing books, and actually teaching how to apply themselves in a diverse world.