Just ask Kyoko Mori. She went through both Japanese and American educational system. The Japanese system is much worse because not only does it have the same flaws as the American system, but it adds on to their mistakes by not allowing students to question the teacher. When students cannot question the teacher, they are not able to think for themselves and it further proves my point regarding us becoming robots. 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.
Cyber bullying is when someone writes humiliating comments about someone on the World Wide Web. Cyber bullying is when an adolescent is harassed, humiliated, embarrassed, threatened or tormented using digital technology, such as the computers, and cell phones. It’s important to understand why people use this type of bullying. Cyber bullying is used in an effort to make the person who is doing the bulling feel better about themselves, in a way that isn’t as confrontational. As many as 25% of teenagers have experienced cyberbullying, even though there is still more bullying at school in comparison to online.
However, the article did not include any numbers or statistics from the survey, but it did contain a quote from a second-year college student. The information is convincing, but it is not quite credible. To make the article more credible, I would’ve gotten more in depth with the survey. Another point Shepard makes is that professors will not be as concerned about rushing through information because if a student missed something, they could just go back and listen to the podcast again. This helps proves his point that
High school itself is surrounded with the pressure of getting good grades for a future education and also the pressures of drugs, alcohol, boys, sports and adult influence. “The National Scholastic Journal took a poll of a group of one hundred students at random, “In today’s generation high school students believe the pressure they face has switched from peer pressure to pressure based of off social media” (Baur, 2013). Teenagers are hardly given a break & the media seems to add on to the pressures. A teenager’s biggest fear is to be considered an outcast. The media states in order for you to fit in you have to be thin.
Sam “Marshall” Davis What’s the problem with high school students these days? The problem is students today are losing interest to stay in school as study shows 35% kids drop out each day. The problem is happening right now in front of our doors! This problem is very serious, especially for young black males because the majority of them were born and lived in the projects, which was full of negative influence. The problem is still happening because every kid wants to be cool or to fit in, and the only way to do it, is to do drugs or commit crimes with their friends.
There were stories from last year and years back about cyberbullies and how this issue is raising eyebrows due to it being a deathly problem. From what the news or media has talked about it, it is widespread and with all the social media sites online today it is as easy as working from home to bully. When I grew up there was the bully at school, he or she bullied at school, maybe the bus, but after you went home that was it and that was the norm. As a kid you get used to it, the other kid moves on or the both of you grow out of that stage and all is well. Today, however that is not the case and anytime kids and or young teens are dying due to bullying an all out resolution has to be reached.
Nora, a freshmen currently attending a college in New York, had anxiety when college-applications came out. As she began needing to fill out more, she started fearing getting questions teachers asked wrong and feeling inferior to her peers (Clinic Staff). Nora is one of many students who face anxiety due to school. According to data by the National Institute of Mental Health, “about 30 percent of girls and 20 percent of boys--totaling 6.3 million teens--have had an anxiety disorder,” (Clinic Staff). A large amount of teen students have had anxiety, a side-effect from stress and mental disorders, and anxiety derives from high expectations schools create.
According to Lini Kadaba’s article, Colleges Hitting the Bottle Binge Drinking Remains High, but Initiatives at Area Schools Raising Awareness, “College binge drinking is remaining in colleges due to the intractable problems that contribute to 1,700 student deaths, 599,000 injuries, and 97,000 cases of sexual assault, or date rapes.” (24). For college students, health issues may not seem relevant, or carry that much weight; after all, many young adults believe they’re invincible. Binge drinking affects the entire college community, not just those who partake in drinking. To change this culture, colleges need help from parents, the Greeks, and the alumni. To begin, parents are usually the last to know that their children are influenced by
Faking ADHD Are you feeling unfocused in school? That’s how a lot of college students feel or at least say that they feel. Young adults in college have been faking ADHD to obtain the prescribed medicine Adderall. Others who haven’t gone through that process have been simply buying the pills from the people who have obtained it. These students feel they need a mental edge to help them study and take tests and these pills allow for that.
I’m blaming all of us as a whole because we have done this to ourselves and we just watched and let it happen. If “kids have convinced parents that it is the teacher or the system that is the problem, not their own lack of effort” (paragraph 10), where is the change in school administration rules to make the teachers, well, better teachers? Not only are we missing higher standards for our students, but also higher standards for teachers the district employs. If a teacher is unable to teach properly, how will the students ever learn correctly? It is almost as easy as a simple