I was never really good at school. I never received a grade higher than a C on any test or quiz. Whether it was math, science, history, or P.E.. My mind was always to preoccupied with the world around me. My friends, girls, hangouts and video games.
In my senior year at Woodland Highschool I barely graduated. I was failing one class, history. My final grade luckily, was a D-. The reason for this horrible grade was because I never showed up to class and never studied for any of the tests. I just didn’t care enough about school then. I asked my teacher at the time, Mr. Bernard, why he gave me a passing grade when I clearly deserved a fail. He said,
“I don’t want to see you back here next year, your smart enough to graduate, you just need to put …show more content…
I seriously contemplated the reasons for this the rest of the school day.
When I was walking home from school I thought back to what Mr. Bernard had said to me, and wondered, if throughout this whole highschool experience I had made a terrible mistake.
Nevertheless it was too late now. Graduation was a week away.
When reading David Brooks essay “Support Our Students”, I was reminded of how important school is to me now and how different I felt about it back then. “The important task is to help students graduate.” (Brooks P6) I found that Brooks purpose for this essay was to get students to graduate from school not just to enroll. Brooks argues that President Obama’s
“Community college plan”… to “Reduce two years of tuition costs to zero,” (Brooks P3&4) is not solving the problem of student drop-out rates. In turn Brooks argues that we should “scrap the Obama tuition plan” (Brooks P9) and focus “strengthening structures around school instead.”
(Brooks P14)
In paragraph 10 Brooks gives an example of one of the structures that we should strengthen. Focusing are exspenses.
Im finishing up my fourth semester at Woodland Community College at the moment …show more content…
Thats why I agree that focusing community college directed funds towards students living exspenses would help out so much more with maintaining the hardships of juggling a job and school.
Another example I would like to point out is the structure of child-care Brooks mentions.
I don’t have any kids myself but a lot of my friends and classmates do. Luckily
Woodland Community College has a child-care facility and it’s right on the edge of campus. I have talked to a lot of my classmates that are single mothers and they all say that having the child-care facility is a godsend. They also mention that furthering their higher education wouldn’t have been possible if not for it. And I agree. Sometimes life throws unexpected surprises at you. Thats why focusing funds on living exspenses like child-daycare where “a quarter of college students nationwide have dependent children and even more at community college,” (Brooks P13) would be better allocated on supportive structure rather than tution.
In conclusion I agree with Brooks argument on how Obamas tution plan should
In my senior year at Woodland Highschool I barely graduated. I was failing one class, history. My final grade luckily, was a D-. The reason for this horrible grade was because I never showed up to class and never studied for any of the tests. I just didn’t care enough about school then. I asked my teacher at the time, Mr. Bernard, why he gave me a passing grade when I clearly deserved a fail. He said,
“I don’t want to see you back here next year, your smart enough to graduate, you just need to put …show more content…
I seriously contemplated the reasons for this the rest of the school day.
When I was walking home from school I thought back to what Mr. Bernard had said to me, and wondered, if throughout this whole highschool experience I had made a terrible mistake.
Nevertheless it was too late now. Graduation was a week away.
When reading David Brooks essay “Support Our Students”, I was reminded of how important school is to me now and how different I felt about it back then. “The important task is to help students graduate.” (Brooks P6) I found that Brooks purpose for this essay was to get students to graduate from school not just to enroll. Brooks argues that President Obama’s
“Community college plan”… to “Reduce two years of tuition costs to zero,” (Brooks P3&4) is not solving the problem of student drop-out rates. In turn Brooks argues that we should “scrap the Obama tuition plan” (Brooks P9) and focus “strengthening structures around school instead.”
(Brooks P14)
In paragraph 10 Brooks gives an example of one of the structures that we should strengthen. Focusing are exspenses.
Im finishing up my fourth semester at Woodland Community College at the moment …show more content…
Thats why I agree that focusing community college directed funds towards students living exspenses would help out so much more with maintaining the hardships of juggling a job and school.
Another example I would like to point out is the structure of child-care Brooks mentions.
I don’t have any kids myself but a lot of my friends and classmates do. Luckily
Woodland Community College has a child-care facility and it’s right on the edge of campus. I have talked to a lot of my classmates that are single mothers and they all say that having the child-care facility is a godsend. They also mention that furthering their higher education wouldn’t have been possible if not for it. And I agree. Sometimes life throws unexpected surprises at you. Thats why focusing funds on living exspenses like child-daycare where “a quarter of college students nationwide have dependent children and even more at community college,” (Brooks P13) would be better allocated on supportive structure rather than tution.
In conclusion I agree with Brooks argument on how Obamas tution plan should