Studies show that students who are over-age for their class was held back a grade level. Not completing assignments, late work, or just missing class led up to being held back a grade. Over-age students seem to need more help in the classroom, than the regular students. Adolescents pick many excuses to drop out of school. Being bored and frustrated with class, many teens say school is irrelevant to
Capitan Mark Kelly Ever since I was a young girl I have always had great dreams and high expectations for myself. Anytime I was asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” I would quickly reply” a lawyer” As the years went by I still had that goal in mind, but I began to realize that I was not exactly Ivy League material. Though I did work really hard in my classes, I was still at best average. During my junior year I took my SAT’s, and cried when I got my scores back. For many years I was scared to go to college because I thought I wasn’t college material.
During my high school years, a big issue of mine was some of the teachers. Some of them never really seemed to care. They wouldn’t listen and they wouldn’t help. The other half of the teachers made me feel like
Older people always tell me they would re-do there high school years over again, but not me. Graduation day had to be the best day of my life, finally my senior year was over. I could finally get away from the horrible memories I had and start over. I couldn’t believe I made it through Brennan High School. A lot of people always think Brennan High School is for bad kids, kids that get kicked out of school that might be true for a few but most of us were there for emotional problems.
Many students who failed were “A Students” and never failed a test before this. All that matters is that I finally passed. It took four tries but I have a lot of determination and the reward was the Advanced Regents Diploma for High School that I will now live with
This is mainly because of my great support group. Without them I would not have made it this far. One reason my life is out of balance is because of an incident that happened while I was in high school. That is what I feel has ruined learning for me. I use to love to write, stories, poems, songs, and essays.
In my first year, I was struggling for the first semester, I had a hard time with my roommates who I had to live with, I had no choice, I couldn’t really pick. I didn’t mind them, but they would always have these huge and loud ridiculous parties, and I hate parties. Soon, though, two of them left, thankfully the two I disliked, the other two were fine, one of them similar to me as in he hated the parties, and soon two way better people moved in, who I became close friends with, and I still am to this day, Those two are the only “friends” I really consider myself having. They hated parties, they had VERY similar personalities, and we became really good
Looking back on my life, I have face challenges and paid consequences for my action. For example, the challenge that I had was I missed a lot of school days because I was often sick and sometimes I skipped classes, so when I backed to school I had to go to my every classes and make up all my missed work to catch up to my classes. Even though I did all my missing work sometimes it came up short to pass my course. When the work that I need to do is a test or exam it gives me a hard time to answer every question because of I did not come to my classes to understand the lessons that I was supposed to be learning. The consequences that I paid for my actions was I earned low grades for my classes because of not going to school everyday
When I decided to go back to school, knew that college would help me refresh my brain in certain areas that I may need improvement on. I also returned to school because I want a job that will fit with me. Since I have been out of high school, I have had quite a few jobs. The jobs that were employed at, I knew that those jobs were what I did not want to have a career out of for the rest of my life. So, after all the different jobs I had back to back and me not being satisfied with either one.
I felt like they all tried to intimidate us about junior high school. Always reminding us that we are “up a creak without a paddle” trying to make us work harder. I also didn’t enjoy class because of the environment; our freedom was restricted due to the bubble of protection around us. Thinking about it now I feel as though the staff was over bearing trying to mature us to quickly. Overall middle school was the worst two years of my life.