High School Goals

High school is a trying time for many students. It pushes kids to develop critical skills that will help them assimilate in academia, as well as the working world. Too often high school is perceived as an assembly line controlled by bureaucratic government types that brand homogeneity and ineptness on students through the regurgitation of common core ideas and lack of accountability. High school is a place where students come to satiate a desire to further themselves. Though everyones desire for success is similar, they're goal may not be. For me personally my academic upbringing helped lay the scaffolding for my secondary education. All through schooling and especially in high school my parents instilled upon me a standard of accomplishment that many other students did not receive. I believe this is caused by both of my parents being …show more content…
One looking from the sociological stance of the conflict perspective would say that my success is solely based on my willingness to be subservient given such a bull headed enforcer that was my vice principle. They would look at the myriad of disciplinary actions put into effect on many of the students and the blanket of petrification that led to strict adherence to school policy and academic fortitude. A person studying my academic success through the guides of the Functionalist perspective would see something entirely different. They would state that my relationship with other students and staff collectively proliferated my academic success. They would take a look at the different aspects of my school and how they come together and function. Persons from an Interactionalist perspective would perceive something entirely different from the conflict or the functionalists. They would take a look at all the interactions I have with fellow students and staff in order to explain the causation of my academic success as a