Society is failing students by placing extremely low expectations on students and their achievement in academics as well as in life. Students are failing themselves. They are failing themselves by allowing parents, teachers, school systems, society dictate whether or not they will pay attention in class and receive an ideal education. Many people in society will attempt to place the blame of the problems in education on a specific group of people. No specific group of people can be blamed for the problems in education.
Over time, kids will have lower academic scores. A slew amount of kids is by nature motivates to learn. Schools should not pay students for good grades because it leads to practical problems to have lower academic scores over time, to show that countless children are self-motivated to learn. First of all, students should not be paid for good grades, since it results in multiple practical problems. The practical problems can be a conflict with parents.
A student should never act dumbfounded by how poorly their final grades turned out to be considering the amount of information provided by the instructor in order to help aid the student in time of need. Weisenfeld states, “Many, when pressed about why they think they deserve a better grade, admit they don't deserve one but would like one anyway.” Assuming the students already foresaw the outcome of their grades,
Explainining class differences in achievement Cultural deprivation theory blames the failings of the child on his/her background. This diverts the attention from the educational system which may contribute to, or account for, class differences in attainment. Cultural deprivation theorists argue that many working-class homes lack the books, educational toys and activities that would stimulate a child’s intellectual development. Bernstein and Young (1967) found that the way mothers think about and choose toys has an influence on their child’s intellectual development. Middle-class mothers are more likely to have more of an interest in their child’s intellectual development.
Even though studying is the best way to get good grades, students cheat because feel they have to be straight A students because they are pressured by their parents to do well and they will not excel without above average grades. Academic dishonesty is something that is frowned on by all academic institutes no matter where you enroll. Cheating, plagiarism, fabrication, and deception of any kind are risking your entire school career and could jeopardize your entire working career. So why do so many students willingly participate in this practice? Some would stay it is because students do not want to study and just find it much easier to just purchase a essay online or to park their seat next to the “nerd” in the class to ensure that you ace every pop quiz.
Tschinkel believes “we are failing to instill a love of learning in most of our students, replacing it instead with a pointless “game-the system” approach”. Tschinkel also states, the blame falls not only on the students, but on the entire educational system- professors, teachers, parents, the media- which encourages the sport metaphor and misrepresents the value of a true education. Tschinkel feels that students can change this mentality and actually take their education seriously however, this transition will be hard. The educational value of this article is for students and professors to realize
Americans do not care about have integrity as long as they win. Winning is the ultimate goal and it does not matter what do they do to succeed. A student, which Mark Clayton interviews, states that college students cheat because although it “[may] not be a good answer, but none the less it is an answer.”(198). The problem with this philosophy is that people expect integrity from others even when they lack it themselves. For example, students expect teachers to grade fairly even though they plagiarized the work they are handing in.
They are unable to search for their own identity, because it has pretty much been taken away from them. If uniforms are suppose to promote students with discipline, then why should students have to lose their individuality and be deprived of self-expression in the process? The two major places where discipline is encouraged are prison and the military. "If the aim is to teach students to be able to think for themselves and acquire kills needed to direct their own behavior based on informed choices and personal decision-making (something prohibited in both prisons and the military), then maybe we should reconsider
Not only is this unfair, but it is destructive. When students are told that they will receive something in exchange for performing well enough, the real reason that they should want to do well is self-improvement. Unfortunately, this is lost. Bribes and threats turn learning into a chore, rather than an adventure, which results in students who
Students will not give up in school when they are interested in their classes. Some people say it is a bad idea to let students choose their own course because they will never succeed in their major. Students may choose only the easy courses and they will not prepare for their