Erica Goldson Valedictorian Speech Response Erica Goldson brought up a very controversial and very interesting topic about our current education system in the US. She states that students are so focused at memorizing data and getting good grades, that they miss out on the whole idea of learning and being educated. I agree with her, students should be learning and absorbing the material, instead of memorizing for the next big test and just forgetting about it later on. Graduating seems like the top priority in students nowadays, and to me that is just upsetting. And the students who are very talented and are very motivated to learn and be driven in a non-academic subject seem to have a more negative image than the people who are driven by academics.
My experience was significantly different from Rodriguez’s. His life at home and at school is even almost exactly opposite of my own. My family played a key part in my life whereas his was almost nonexistent. I believe he took the wrong path. He completely ignored his family to just work obsessively in school, but took absolutely nothing away from it because he was only working to be recognized, not to learn.
In addition to what Lang Wood believes, Stephens claims, students who are taking the test suffer from stress in result of worrying about passing it. Stephens points out “negative results more often than not yield low-self-esteem, higher incidents of seclusion and lower academic progress. Children who pass the test are just happy to be done with it and really do not gain sense of achievement” (par.4). It is clear that the pressure and anxiety
Name: Trần Đức Nam Class : A Task 2 It is obvious that people always resist making changes in their lives. It is very difficult to make changes because they are accustomed to a certain style of life. That is also a reason make them encounter a lot of problems. For example, there are a lot of students who are studying at school. They always cheat in the exams.
If the bad boy who becomes a good boy ever gets into an argument with his girlfriend, she would be more likely to forgive him for what he has done, though he was a jerk before and apologized, because he was once bad, and now he is good, people respond to that easier than someone who you are always. Just like if I always was late to a class and I also never turning in my homework, I would get into trouble for sure, but on the contrary I were always on time to a class and I always turned in my homework and one day I started not turning in my homework ontime but i was on time to my class, I would most likely get away with it on the first few times due to my constant good behavior in class, but evetually the teacher wouldn't accept the assginment anymore because I would be expected to know better. Now combined, if I was known to be the kid thats always late and never bringing my homework to class, and one day I started to actually do my homework and brought them to class, but was late to turn it in on time, the teacher may let me slip and turn it in because he or she sees
Yes, boys are bad at school; I can say this because I’m a boy and I see everything first hand, my peers are less and less interested in school and college, they often talk about just either dropping out of high school and getting a job, graduating and just work and not go to college or simply join the military. If they fall back on their work they don’t get any special treatment and thus are not helped, they are simply left to fail. I am not one of those boys, mostly because my parents wouldn’t stand for it and no matter how much they get on my nerves when it comes to school, I understand why they push me. They simply don’t want their oldest son ending up in a dead-end job for the rest of his life. I’m lucky, because the other boys that don’t plan for college or simply don’t even want to bother with school usually don’t get support from their parents, so why can’t the school do
Eventually I was moved from classes due to my insubordination and i was content at the time. In seventh grade I was still identified as a "Gifted and Talented" student but was in regular ed classes. My rebellion that year was much worse than the year before. It was mainly caused by the people I would hangout with and of course myself for letting myself be influenced by them. I started skipping class, leaving the campus and just generally not caring about my education.
Flunking students can be used as a positive tool by our education system. The consequence of flunking and holding students back alone can be used to motivate and encourage students to put full effort into class work. Most students fear flunking only because they’re afraid of what friends, peers and society will say or think about them; this is all wrong, the real fear should be failing and not being
Either the students already knew the material, or they did not understand and the teacher did not know how to explain it properly. All teachers were once students. They sat through the same boring classes as their students are doing now. Gatto goes on to explain that boredom is a state of mind. If a person feels bored, it is because he or she needs to make it an obligation to amuse his or herself.
These types of students do there best to make them look good. The problem with that is that it just makes them look stupid. They talk like they are all cool and in reality they are just really stupid. Their main go in high school is to be the most popular one in school and the coolest one too. These types of people just irritate the heck out of me.