“Miss, are there any extra credit assignments?”
This is probably the most common question asked by high school students besides “May I copy your homework?”. Students ask these questions because they are afraid of one thing: failing. Our grades are valuable. Our GPA is valuable. Our class rank is valuable. What do these all have in common? Numbers.
I am an A/B honor roll student, 3.9 unweighted GPA, number 51 out of a class of 619. The 8th percent. These numbers define who I am as a high school student. They define me as a good statistic to college administrators. They represent me as part of the worthy data administrators present to higher authorities to receive grant money. Yet, beyond these borders, I am still a number. I am a social security …show more content…
A southern touch zested my childhood. Also, I grew up with my parents hispanic roots - a proud mexican. My mother and father obtain a small education. One barely graduating high school, while the other didn't make it through elementary school. Therefore, as I got older, my parents pushed my sisters and I to attempt to achieve greater things as part of there way to encourage us to pursue the dreams they weren’t able to grasp. When my siblings and I were younger, we went by their word. We would prove ourselves to them through our homework, trying to make ourselves believe we were intellectuals. Each week, there was a fight on who would dominant the refrigerator, having the privilege to display their perfect 100 held by a pretty pink magnet.
As we grew older, the pressure to prove ourselves increased. At this point, I realized I was being labeled by my own parents. Throughout the years, I had more papers displayed on the black refrigerator, therefore, they convinced themselves I was their smartest child. It got to the point where I was called “their little one-hundred”. My “baby girl” title was stripped from me. I missed being called by my name. Was I no longer Nicole? I was now just a
This is probably the most common question asked by high school students besides “May I copy your homework?”. Students ask these questions because they are afraid of one thing: failing. Our grades are valuable. Our GPA is valuable. Our class rank is valuable. What do these all have in common? Numbers.
I am an A/B honor roll student, 3.9 unweighted GPA, number 51 out of a class of 619. The 8th percent. These numbers define who I am as a high school student. They define me as a good statistic to college administrators. They represent me as part of the worthy data administrators present to higher authorities to receive grant money. Yet, beyond these borders, I am still a number. I am a social security …show more content…
A southern touch zested my childhood. Also, I grew up with my parents hispanic roots - a proud mexican. My mother and father obtain a small education. One barely graduating high school, while the other didn't make it through elementary school. Therefore, as I got older, my parents pushed my sisters and I to attempt to achieve greater things as part of there way to encourage us to pursue the dreams they weren’t able to grasp. When my siblings and I were younger, we went by their word. We would prove ourselves to them through our homework, trying to make ourselves believe we were intellectuals. Each week, there was a fight on who would dominant the refrigerator, having the privilege to display their perfect 100 held by a pretty pink magnet.
As we grew older, the pressure to prove ourselves increased. At this point, I realized I was being labeled by my own parents. Throughout the years, I had more papers displayed on the black refrigerator, therefore, they convinced themselves I was their smartest child. It got to the point where I was called “their little one-hundred”. My “baby girl” title was stripped from me. I missed being called by my name. Was I no longer Nicole? I was now just a