Notes on Readings Chapter 1 31-62 Section: ____________________________ Page #: ____________________ Notes on Readings "Plight of the Little Emperors" by Taylor Clark There was a boy whose mom would come to class everyday so that she could monitor how he was doing with his studies. Parents would go to extremes to give their child the edge over everybody else. One test in China will decide what type of life you will have. If you do good on the test you can go to good schools and have a relatively easy life, if you do poorly on the teat then you will have to work hard for the rest of your life. All of the pressure on the young students has led to frustration, depression and unemployment because they are unwilling to take jobs that they feel
But for my sister she has to go back and forth spending a lot of money on gas, then she has to get her home work in on time plus she has to deal with her two children and also house work. The only benefit that my sister has over me is that she is able to interact with her classmates and professor but I am not able to do that. With the subject I chose to write about I already have the opportunity to do both so I already know what to expect from both online and a classroom setting. I did my High School learning in a classroom setting and it was pretty difficult for me. Because I had no transportation and no one to take care of my children and to make things worst I was pregnant.
I was overly excited and nervous at the same time, preparing for my first year of college. I would be away from home with no adult supervision and the “college life” scene would be all new to me. Since I would be living on my own without my mom by my side as a reminder, I was responsible to make sure all the proper paperwork was completed and submitted on time in order for me to sign up for my first semester of classes and start college. At work I spent my lunch breaks making phone calls to the Veterans Department, each call patiently waiting to speak to a human after repeating responding to a robot on the line just to make sure all my documents was being processed such as my veteran educational benefits. College was a new start all over again.
I see my friends getting good jobs and pursuing their education and I was a sixteen year old mother with nothing to look forward to. My life have change so much and my goal was to go back to school and complete my education. For the past three years my mother and brothers always encouraged me to continue where I left off. Finally one day I decided to reapply to a secondary school to complete in education. I try looking for a job first to take care of my daughter and pay for my finances but that wasn’t successful.
It was sensitive of the teacher to consider any language barrier by having translators present at this speech. By staying after school until 8pm the teacher is giving an opportunity to all of her students and parents to have a chance to come by personally after work to have a meeting. If the teacher cannot make herself available to her students parents she is less likely to be affective. By giving out handouts it can act as an icebreaker for some parents, as well as, more importantly continue to help parents feel more directly involved with their childs education. I believe the affect a translator has on parents is obvious, for parents of students who are learning English themselves it is paramount to any real communication.
American schools should offer more language choices to help their students whose parents’ English is as a second language communicate with parents. Owning to their responsible for their families, parents have to work many hours a day; consequently, they do not have the chance to teach or use their first language with their children. In addition, many different languages are used in the United State daily. Having three children and coming to United State from Vietnam 20 years ago, my friend, Huynh, had to work 10-13 hours a day until her children graduated high school. She rarely had the chance to talk to her children, so her children almost did not learn Vietnamese from her.
These sessions at the library would provide them with a quiet environment to learn and get a better understanding of their work. Parents should also be of help to their child when they are studying because there may be some materials the child doesn’t know, and having them there can be helpful. Having these study sessions could prepare the child for tests and keep them in good condition for class. Study sessions are a way to begin studying early, so that when the test is distributed the child is well prepared. Next, the parents could have their children review their work at the end of every week.
Stress can cause illnesses in later life, for example, heart disease, hair loss, whitening of hair and cancer. Though this may not be directly connected to middle school students it will still have an impact to them in life. Homework is also a main cause of stress for high schoolers. Stress from working too long, stress from anxiously hoping to get a good grade. 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.
Children’s creativity brings inspiration to adults, improves the act of education and makes the change to the world. It is also can make children have a better future. The system of education is not perfect; it is difficult for the children to freely to think, write and create when they began to study the knowledge from the school for a long time, because school teaches the knowledge that is scientific and rigorous. The knowledge is the system and it needs to be audited and modified. Chinese students spend 15 to17 years study knowledge in school.
More importantly, the government finances new comers for the English learning and the further education and helps them find professional jobs. Every immigrant is allowed to join LINC and ESL class for free, and then go to college for their careers development in future. Finally, after several years, they can get better lives as they expect. Moreover, all immigrants want their children to have better lives in Canada. For instance, the high school students in China have to study very hard without leisure time because of intense competition from the huge population of China as there are 1.4 billion people in China.