My injury occurred on May 28th 2012 and I started to struggle in school instantly. The lights bothered me, loud noises were unbearable, I could not concentrate or remember anything and worst of all I couldn’t read. So school and a concussion seemed to not add up. Unfortunately the concussion was taking over my schoolwork and I felt vulnerable. I missed the last three weeks of my sophomore year; however I got the grades I earned the whole trimester, consequently all A’s and B’s.
“Detail how you would explain the importance of challenging oneself and excelling in math to an aspiring sixth grade student about to enter the seventh grade” When I was in sixth grade I was one of the worst students, I was almost held back for a year. I was horrible in almost every single subject but I was especially terrible in math. I never learned how to do long division by hand and barely knew how to multiply. All of my time in elementary school I had problems at home and never made math or any subject, for that matter, a priority. I was in your spot today graduating from elementary school and thought that I would never need to learn or use those concepts I had chosen to overlook.
They argued that the education is meritocratic and is there to soft sort and select individuals on the basis of ability, motivation, talent and allocates them appropriate roles when they reach adulthood. The inequality in society have come from this fair selection in education and everyone had equal chance. Supporting New Right theorist, Saunders ‘unequal but fair’ argument that inequality is inevitable. He also supported the idea that IQ is purely inherited so it was fair for children of rich successful people to be in the best schools as they are offspring of people in high end jobs so they must be naturally intelligent, however, there is no evidence of
• “Only 28 percent of students in grades 9 through 12 participated in daily school physical education in 2003, down from 42 percent in 1991.” – This is sad but I can also agree that this is 100% true. Even at school now, students just sometimes sit and do nothing while they are in a PE class and still get the credit. This is concerning because if we don’t get enough physical activity
Some of my worst days arise from procrastination and underestimating the extent of my homework. One instance in particular has taught me to do at least ninety-nine percent of homework at home as well as to remember what my homework actually was. On some days, I get a little lazy and do my homework of my last few class periods during my first few class periods. This was possible last year when my first few classes were the easiest classes I had all day, during which time I would usually do my homework for history or chemistry and sometimes both if I was feeling exceptionally tired or soporific the day before. Because chemistry could be done at lunch, I usually had to get history out of the way.
A piece of research to back this up is althusser, he says that the main role of education in a capitalist society is the reproduction of an efficient and obedient workforce. This is achieved through schools by teaching the idea the capitalism is a good thing. He says that they teach you to compete with your fellow peers for grades to distract you from what capitalism really is. It convinces you that capitalism is a good thing and it is the best thing to have. This stops you from questioning the system.
I didn't like to listen to these mouth breathers shout at me on the playground and I sure as hell didn't want to hear them struggle over two syllable words in class. I was similarly bored in high school. Our school's "college-prep" courses were a joke. I transferred in my freshman year from a school in California. My college-prep science class used the same book that my sixth grade class used three years priors.
This split the school between the “delinquents” and the “will be”. I took three years of engineering (one of the two “smart” classes), so I was part of the “delinquent” class. I was the only one with a “good” future in that class and the teachers pitied me. When I read/watched this article it struck a chord in me and I really saw what me highschool was. The “delienquents” were talked down to and punished while the “will be” were praised and helped.
Terms like assertion, thesis, and elaboration seemed like a foreign language. I managed to slide by in English with good grades, but I never seemed to enjoy it. My junior year in high school changed my perspective on all of this. I showed up for my first day of junior year, not excepting things to be any different. My teacher stood in the front of the room and read the class syllabus in the same monotone voice while my classmates and I drifted in and out of consciousness.
My greatest accomplishment is I made it to high school. It wasn't easy for me because I never did very well in my classes, especially on tests. I was so afraid that I wasn't going to pass my End-Of-Grade tests to get out of elementary school, much more nervous about middle school, but somehow I did it. I remember when the test's started at the end of the year I was so stressed and worried that I wasn't going to pass. It all started in 6th grade when we had End-Of-Grade tests.