Gerald Graff points out the pressure that society and school put on students to be academically intelligent. Students must have the perfect grades and attend the highest ranking school. Students also have to go to extreme measures to just get through one class because they know that failing is not a option. As Graff says, “To say that students need to see their interests “through academic eyes” is to say that street smarts are not enough” (p.303). I agree with what Graff says and also agree when he says, “The challenge, as a college professor Ned Laff has put it, “is not simply to exploit students’ nonacademic interests, but to get them to see those interests through academic eyes” (p.302).
The largest flaw in this school system is entitled “reward.” This reward that students receive makes them study not for expanding their minds, but for some colorful sash that they will on graduation and a pointless title to put on your application. Just ask Margaret Talbot. She can tell you all about the teenager’s mindset in high school.
The difference between the feeling of the schools in the movie and book are significant. The surrounding of the school in the movie and the novel seemed not quite the same. One school came off as a very serious, dedicated school with an advanced curriculum that worked hard to prepare its students for college. The other, was perceived as a place where parents sent their sons to get an education while being secluded from the distractions of the outside world. Both the movie and novel still portrayed the typical all-boys prep school, but in different ways.
Gatto compares school to a factory or prison which, generally speaking, are not fun places to be. This style of diction, with Gatto consistently projecting new words of the same connotation suggests his point of view on rejection of this prison-like system. The author appeals to anyone who has or has not questioned the usefulness of education. He appeals to our common sense by asking a simple question: why do we need this? Almost every student has thought the same thing at some point, but lacks the confidence needed to express these feelings to the public.
The University used the Consequentialism system; Utilitarism, which seeks the greatest good for the greatest number of people. Sandusky appeared to have good standards and great ethical influence at the school and in his community with the youth. This made the University choose to turn a blind eye and did nothing to further their investigation prior to Sandusky arrest. The humanistic system is based on the extremes of human behavior. Sandusky and some of his fellow employees’ behavior displayed extreme bad behaviors disregarding the law, work policy, and social status.
Unlike Richard, Helene is well off, wears clean clothes, and is very smart in school. Richard tries very hard to be like Helene. The only reason he goes to school is for her. Everyone else condemns his behavior. Nobody realizes that he is just another boy who wants to be recognized and seen as just a normal kid like everyone else.
Jacob will not be able to walk at graduation. This has an effect at the kids at east Pauling high school because they looked up to him. He was the class president and there is a way that they should act and that’s not it. He and the other boys respected the school wrong for them. And they are senior they should be the role model for those kids not the other way
“If Huck and Jim are going to be free, they’ve got to take care of themselves …‘With freedom comes responsibility.’” (Adventures[…]). They are both taking a risk with each other because Huck was thought to be dead. These two factors are what lead them to be so close; they needed each other to survive. All of these things were Mark Twain’s way of using satire in this novel. Many books not written in historical context contain vulgar language and are still allowed in high school.
Although it has become the most popular and wide spread form of discipline reform effort in the schools today it is highly controversial. Advocates of zero tolerance claim that it prevents school violence by removing dangerous students immediately after an infraction. These claims have not been tested to be a strong deterrent only theorized. The research that is available suggests that expulsion policies have had more of a negative impact on students and has had no preventative effect in disciplining students. The research has been done on zero tolerance in the home but not extensively in the school.
This is the line that is repeated in the poem and these words create a picture in mind that where he is at everything is amazing and not what really is going on. These words help understand the title of the poem and explain why he lied to his family. Those are the words in the two poems that help understand deeply what the true meaning of the poems and what the poet is actually trying to make the reader understand what is happening and help figure out the hidden them and or