Begging, demanding, and asking for an undeserved grade Google “How do you go to a teacher and ask for a better grade?” The search results might be shocking as there are countless guidelines posted by several students instructing other students on how to beg, demand, or simply ask a professor for a higher grade than the one originally given to them. Each semester teachers get several requests asking for better grades because either the student needs it or the student really, really wants it. In Kurt Weisenfeld's article “Making the Grade,” Weisenfeld discusses how after reviewing final grades, his failing students felt as if they could hassle him for grades that they thought they deserved but did not receive. Rather than meeting their goals and putting the effort needed to be awarded for the desired grade, these students expected a free upgrade for undeserved effort. Regardless of the outcome, Weisenfeld becomes disgruntled and exposes how students attempt to manipulate and take advantage of teachers by asking, demanding, and using stories of woe in order to convince teachers to issue higher grades.
Effects of Poverty on Children Hilario Yanez Professor Emmanuel Obi SOC100 November 20, 2014 Effects of Poverty on Children Specific Hypothesis: Poverty is the leading cause for many children from low-income families to have more learning and health problems in the United States. They also experience poverty as their families’ incomes are terribly small. This prevents their children from participating entirely in the society. Applicable Sociological Concepts: The Social-Conflict theory is being used as stated by Macionis (2010); this theory shows how inequality creates conflict to poor families by not providing equal benefits to them. Parents can’t afford good jobs to provide any benefits to their children.
Topic:How procrastination affects grades? Procrastination is a problem that many college students have it is also called student syndrome.Procrastination means when a student will only do his task just before the deadline.What are the cause of that phenomenon? How does it affects grades? What are the other effects of procrastinating? The main reason of procrastinating is laziness.Most of the students when they for example get the assignment put it off to the side and do it "later".But that "later" becomes right before the due date or deadline .Still there are many more causes like the fear of failure.It makes you repel the task so that you never have to know this feeling of failure.Or the fear of success it can seem really weird but, but the fear of the success is one of the reason of procrastination.
When students have questions they should not be afraid to ask the teacher. For instance, some students might think or worry that their questions may sound somewhat silly, and their class will make fun of them. But this only shows that they have a desire to learn, knowledge is acquired by curiosity and it is more important to know than what others may think. Moreover, students should avoid procrastination by completing their homework and projects on time. They have to be proactive and take the initiative to cultivate these skills that will prove to be immensely rewarding later in life.
The question is why do students plagiarize? There are three main causes of plagiarism which are under pressure, ignorance and poor organizational skills. First, under pressure can cause plagiarism. Family members, especially parents want their child to have a high grade to compete scholarships, jobs or entry into graduate school. Therefore, students force themselves to please their parents.
My experiences as a junior changed my entire outlook on my role as a student athlete and caused me to reevaluate my perspective on the things that were important to me. When school started on August 26, and all my teachers began to give daily quizzes based on the summer readings, I knew I was in trouble. I started to fall behind due to the amount of time required to complete each assignment, and I had to complete it for all four of my classes. I knew I wasn’t off to a good start of the school year. I was told that when you become a junior that’s when everything starts to get harder and you have to buckle down meaning no time for friends and really no weekend because it was going to require a lot of work, but I was sure that if I got through middle school, 9th and 10th grade that it would be no different than any other grade level class that I had taken already and passed.
This number continues to rise as the Gap Year Program gains recognition as an acceptable, temporary alternative to college. As I began my research on the Gap Year Program, I predicted that most parents, colleges and employers would strongly dislike the idea of a Gap Year because the student would be taking too much time out of school. I was shocked to find out the exact opposite. Employers and colleges alike are the biggest supporters of the Gap Year Program. So much so, that some colleges and universities are even adopting programs like the Gap Year Program, and have begun to encourage a year off from school to every incoming freshmen accepted to the school.
Even though the drop out rate has been decreasing annual the dropout rate is still too high at 7% in 2011. (nces.ed.gov/fastfacts.com) While there are many reasons for dropping out of high school there are some factors that I have found to be more apparent in the high school drop out. Several decades worth of studies have documented that dropouts are more likely to be poor, minority, and male and also come from a single parent family. However students who have those characteristics are more likely to drop out but it is educational reasons over personal reasons that pose the more realistic reason why students drop out of high school. Students with poor academic performance and educational disengagement prove to be the main reason students drop out of high school.
• Students who are actively participating in the lesson are less likely to seek attention in inappropriate ways. 2. Power Seekers Some signs: • These students make you question your own authority. • They must always have the last work • They’ll mutter something unintelligible to get you to take the bait and say, “What did you say?” • Even when they do follow your directions, they are likely to do so with a sullen expression and in a slow manner. • They are likely to say something like, “You can’t make me do it!” Possible solutions: • Don’t fall for their ploys!
Sociology 101 29 August 2010 Students do not always respond to questions asked by a professor due to many different factors. A student may have studied, have all A’s in the class and still not want to speak up, knowing that they have the answer because it may be embarrassing to them to answer aloud in class, not want to be the only one who may know the answer, or for personal reasons. At the same time excuses cannot be made for any one person. The way to find out would be to do as we read and instead of determining “why”, as a whole class, lessen the broadness and bring it to the “micro-theory”. One must find out why one individual at a time to determine this answer to why nobody will speak up in class when asked a question, when they know the answer.