Analysis Of In Praise Of The F Words By Mary Shelly

“ Tens of thousands of 18-year-olds will graduate this year and be handed meaningless diplomas”(1). According to Sherry, for any job a diploma is useful, but in the other hand a diploma would be “meaningless” if the person don’t show the effort and the basic things they supposed to learn. In the article “ In praise of the F words”, Mary Sherry, explains how some High Schools give diplomas to some people who don’t know anything, or vise versa, how some students don 't get any diploma because they didn’t have the support of someone. Sherry is a teacher who teaches to adults and teens, she is disgusted for the fact that teachers in High Schools are not putting attention to their students. Some students in Sherry’s class explain her how they did not care about School and all the things that they did thanks to the people who never told them to quit doing that and to study. Teachers don’t care if their student don’t learn what they supposed to learn, they just let them be and if they do the homework or any other reason they graduate. Shelly also thinks that is acceptable students who have fear of falling, is something that would help students to make their own goals true. Having a fear of falling would help students to bring up their grades and do better …show more content…
Being afraid to fail it happens to everyone and it could happen many times, specially to students. For teenagers could be beneficial because it helps to keep them motivated to do something. Sherry admit that “[students] are motivated by the desire for a better job or the need to hang on to the one they’ve got. They have a healthy fear of failure”(2). Students have goals and they want to make their goals true, the best way is to be afraid of failing any class in School, that’s how they would try to do better in