“A Minnesota teacher of seventh and ninth grades says that she has to spend extra time in class editing papers and must 'explicitly' remind her students that is is not acceptable to use text slang and abbreviations in writing” (Cullington 89). Also, “many complain that because texting does not stress the importance of punctuation, students are neglecting it in their formal writing” (Cullington 89). These points are valid, but the evidence is limited because it is based on a few personal experiences, rather then a large study with much more research.
There has to be some kind of system to let the students know how they are doing (383). In this essay Mandrell presents her trial of testing the non-grading system and whether the students have the drive to learn the curriculum set by the teachers. Mandrell’s own account starts in her high school senior AP English class. Mandrell noticed how most of the students were wishing that they still had junior English class. A handful of students mouthed off about how their junior English teacher, Mrs. Thornton, hardly ever gave out hard assignments.
Abby’s Lament starts off the beginning paragraph talking about Abby and how she doesn’t believe that her voice can be heard and that her opinion doesn’t matter. Yagelski believes she is wrong, everyone’s opinion matters in society. He believes that it can be heard through education and comprehension of literature. After the opening paragraph the essay goes into how Yagelski was at a high school talking to teachers and students about how during this era of technology and the internet that it is easier for people to make their voice be heard and to make a difference. When he makes the point that everyone can make their voice heard, Abby, one of the students said that hers does not matter in society and it can’t make an impact.
She states multiple times that the children within the education system are being cheated every day because they are not being forced to read more difficult books. “Such benefits are denied to the young reader exposed only to books with banal, simple-minded moral equations as well as to the student encouraged to come up with reductive, wrong-headed readings of mulitlayered texts” (Prose 97). The reader can blatantly see that Prose thinks negatively of the high school curriculum that today's students face. It seems clear that Prose does not want to hide her personal view or feelings, so she starts her essay out in a way that we do not have to read between the lines to get a sense of how she feels about what she is writing. She uses more emotional language when she says, "The intense loyalty adults harbor for books first encountered in youth is one probable reason for the otherwise baffling longevity of vintage mediocre novels, books that teachers may themselves have read in adolescence"(Prose
Critique of “Will Your Jobs Be Exported” by Alan S. Blinder Starting in elementary school teacher’s begin to prepare you for standardize testing. You learn all this material, and test on it, learn the material… and the cycle continues. Kids who cannot test well drop out or fail and are looked down on by society , kids who succeed pass and continue on and are praised, the question is does that particular style of learning come in handy when all the American people jobs are being exported. According to an article in The Atlantic news paper “53% of recent college graduates are jobless or unemployed” so in the end are we not all equal? When all the jobs of the future go to personal service jobs, will American children only know how to test or fail or to invest all their time into schooling for professions that will not pay?
The principal and I did not agree upon the punishment for the student. After explaining the reasoning behind my decision not to suspend, the principal let the decision stand. I felt my decision would have a positive impact on the student. I also gave this student an alternative solution rather than running away from his problems at school. Another ethical issue occurred when the principal allowed the counselor to transport a student home to pick up homework assignments.
One thing that a child who feels out of control needs is a sense of self-determination. In essence, she needs to have some control. Daran might consider giving her a selection of books to read, allowing her to choose a format for a project, or choosing which questions to answer for homework. Research has found that students who are given a choice, they have more ownership in what they are doing. For a student like Caitlin, she has had no choices to make at all because her parents made them for
Empowering Students In the essay “Why Are Students Turned Off,” by Casey Banas, she tells us about a teacher named Ellen Glanz who pretends to be a student and sit on a few classes. Glanz found out while sitting in on these classes that they were manipulative and boring. She found students were doing little as possible to pass and get good grades. Found that the students even use poor excuses to avoid assignments. Ellen Glanz concluded that many students are turned off because they have little power and responsibility over their own education.
Students do not realize that plagiarizing someone else’s work is actually stealing. The educational system does not teach this to students. The educational system should teach that you have to cite an author even if you just take their idea and do not use their exact words. The online companies that generate essays for students should be outlawed. This is making it where students that have a lot of money can easily get by with actually learning how to write correctly.
On moving from Primary school to Secondary I thought that I had conquered the art of writing. I carried the skills and style that I had developed at the Primary level. Again my frustration level reared its head. The teachers at the secondary level were not impressed with either my writing or reading. My list of books read was unacceptable.