In high school, I was worried about the writing test before and after I took the test. My grade was good but could have been better with more practice. In elementary school, I was just happy to finally get into the big kid school and then I realized all the reading and writing work I had to do all the
But when they get downstairs all ready to go, their parents tell them about how they need them to do better in school so that later on in life they can go to college and have a real job. This can be good, because it teaches their kids to succeed at everything they do, but it can also be hard on our children to tell them things like this. Everyone will always eventually fail and something, and when they do it will not feel good, but also having the feeling that they have let down their parents, that’s worse. When children think that their parents will now hate them because they did not pass a test, or do that well in their football game, they get depressed. They think that they are worthless and can’t do anything right.
The Senior Exit Project Toward the end of junior year and for the better part of senior year, students in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School System are working on their Senior Exit Projects, or SEP’s. The Senior Exit Project is a major requirement in order to receive a North Carolina high school diploma. It serves as a performance based assessment in which students demonstrate what they know and is able to do so as a result of their cumulative education. The SEP consists of an 8-10 page argumentative research paper, a product that is an extension of your research, and a speech/presentation about the product you chose. This assignment is a major determining factor in whether a not a student graduates on time.
The writer’s main purpose of this essay was to inform the reader reach for their dreams. This whole essay explains to the readers what happen to the author in the process of becoming an author. When Baker stated “It wasn’t until my third year in high school that the possibility took hold, until then I’d been bored by everything associated with English course. I found English grammar to be dull and baffling. I hated the assignments to turn out “compositions”, and went at them like heavy labor.” (Baker, 2nd paragraph, pg.
I’m realizing it now one month before I am able to graduate. My actions were influenced by my teacher letting me pass with the bare minimum on essay. My high school English teacher was not effectively teaching me the necessary skills to pass my senior year. I disappointed in that I put myself in this situation but I did not anyone know because I wanted to make pass English without anyone helps. The rest of the day I started to think what happened in past year that affected my chance going to
Devon Lynn Professor Aronovitz English 101 K1 10/5/2012 Racial Injustice Maya Angelou’s novel essay “Graduation” uproots us from what we as individuals call reality and effortlessly implants us within the memoirs of her own. The essay focuses on Maya Angelou’s memories as a twelve year old student graduating from the eighth grade of Lafayette County Training School in Stamps, Arkansas. She writes about the dramatic events that occurred many years ago on the memorable day of graduation. The matter of importance in this essay can be related to today’s society, as it concerns the battle of prejudice she and her classmates face. The intended audience of this essay is the African American society.
Receiving a high school diploma may not always mean hard work and dedication on behave of the student who receives it. Sherry states, “Tens of thousands of 18-year-olds will graduate this year and be handed meaningless diplomas. These diplomas won’t look any different from those awarded their luckier classmates.” Students who do not wish to devote time and effort into to their high education can simply just do enough work to get by and others may even choose to not try at all and yet still manage to graduate. Students will stop with these choices once they become aware that flunking will be their fate if they do not change their habits very quickly. They will feel the pressure and possibility of not graduating, which will have a great impact on them.
Kids Can Learn English If You Teach it Right In the article, “Kids Can Learn English If You Teach it Right” Ronald James criticizes our education system today as he discusses that upon receiving their high school diploma, children still lack important reading and writing skills necessary for success. He discusses the obstacles that freshmen have to endure when they enter high school simply by not having the basic literacy skills needed in order to ensure future success. In the article, Ronald James discusses a variety of reasons for success of remedial courses including the standards for passing are setup by the department, that college teachers have a greater authority than public school teachers have, and that the criteria for passing the English remedial course are very strict. Through his well convincing points, it can be said that our education system today lacks a key characteristic which is the emphasis on reading and writing skills, thus, disabling students from reaching their full potential. Firstly, the standards for passing are setup by the department.
Wallace was home schooled and she believes children should not be punished for choosing not to attend school. She first contemplated the idea of children being able to vote when she learned about discriminatory laws preventing high school dropouts from getting their driver’s licenses. These laws made her think about the unfair treatment of kids. Realizing all the rights children miss out on, Wallace focuses on the
When a student fails a class or grade, they also have failed learning the material that is repeatedly said to us by administrators is “important”. While the idea of social promotion has good intentions, in reality the practice of sending a child into the next grade level when unprepared is unprofessional. In an article, Merit System Boosts Kids-More Passing Under Stricter Promotion Rule, from the New York Post, a College graduate explains, “the extra year in third grade provided me an opportunity to learn and write English and understand the concepts of math and reading.” Some may say that who cares about the elementary students, they don’t learn anything valuable and so on.