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.
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.
The chapter shows how being a minority in a school can affect a child and their learning habits as well as social interaction. When reading through this chapter I thought of a personal situation I was in, the time I first found out who my roommate was going to be during my freshman year at college. I did the typical teenage thing and looked her up on Facebook and saw the way she was spelling and typing in what you would call “ghetto” way. I went into the situation thinking she was going to be an illiterate girl who could care less about her studies. It turned out that I was completely wrong and she was actually one of the best writers I have come across.
If you would rather work in the morning and take classes in the evening, it is possible. The last difference are the attendance polices. In High School the teachers are always on you about attendance; that is, if you miss to many days, you can fail, so if you are not in class, they want to know why; in addition, they probably call your parents and let them know that you were not in class. On the contrary, in College the teachers do not care whether or not you are in class; it means that if you are not there, you are going to get a failing grade, so you have to be responsible to succeed. It is up to you.
However, this does not mean that students should be encouraged to work very hard at night and then just take it easy in class the next day. College students should understand by now that they need to manage their time wisely. That means that they should not put off essay-writing until the night before the due date. They should not cram a study session the night before the test. Some students have especially terrible reasons for falling asleep in class.
I have seen students go to college because their parents forced them to, then cut classes, not study, do way too much partying, and get poor grades. Far too often these kids end up dropping out and never finishing college--what a waste of time and money! Now don't get me wrong, I very strongly advocate going to college, but only for people who have what it takes to be successful in college, including having a desire to go in the first place. If a teenager went all through high school cutting classes, goofing off, getting poor grades and barely graduating, then what do you think is most likely to happen if they go straight to college from high school? Besides, you have to consider that teenagers are still young, naive and inexperienced.
It was 2122 at a grey high school, which's name escapes me, when the incident happened during the Deprime Test. I was a young college student at the time, attending to earn experience. As a young adult, I understood well that the test played an important part in helping the depressed. Locating depression early helped in a time where entire graduation classes diminished by half. On that day, I couldn’t find the right room and asked for directions.
When I first found out I wouldn’t be graduating, it was an Eye Opener for me. I had no clue what I would do, Consequently, I couldn’t pass the algebra 1 EOC test, along with the SAT or ACT. I thought to myself if I could at least have good enough grades I will get by. I don’t know why I thought that. I just really hoped for the best, later down the road 2 months have passed, I was sitting in 7th period and then my teacher got a call telling me to head down to the guidance counselor called me down, we talked about the direction I was going, my GPA was right where it should be.
Studies have shown that homework for elementary – high school should not have homework but work on some special project or reading at home after school for only a satin amount of time depending on what grade the student is in like forty minutes to two hours a day after school. Studies also show that homework can be more harmful then help full to students as they grow up. Studies show that students going to school all morning and afternoon doing work then coming home to do even more work will make them very over worked and make them lazy and they would not wont
Little did they know that one and every four dropout of college before even completing their sophomore year of college (Whitbourne). After reading an article of a young man by the name of Michael VanAdams, I began to agree and see how this was possible. This article was written by Jonathan Whitbourne and his main agreement is to know why college freshmen dropout before their sophomore year of college. Whitbourne’s promotes his viewpoints by taking, Michael VanAdams, an academically excelled high school senior and figure out why he dropped out. One of the reason that VanAdams dropped out was because he let a couple failing grades get under his skin.