When I was young I had a hard childhood, I was placed into 4 different schools when I was about five years old. And I had a hard time adapting to those schools until I settled in R.H Dana. I learned and knew how to read since I was three, but as I got older I started learning how to write, and I had time a difficult time on how to be an efficient writer. I wasn’t placed into regular math and English classes until I was In the 8th grade, and since then I was starting to get discouraged ever since I first started to read and write during that time.
When I first started high school, I was ready to take a big step into my education, but that’s when I also started learn how to read and write more and more than I have in middle school. I was taking other classes such as college and career, which was really tough for me because the instructions on every single assignment were very long and very tiring. Other classes I took was history, had helped me learn and remember from the different eras of time …show more content…
In the past, when I would have a test or a quiz I would either procrastinate or not study at all because I didn’t feel like it, but once I did, my test scores and my learning have gotten better. “America’s problem is not that its schools are bad. America’s problem is that summer holidays are bad. America’s problem is that its summer holidays are too long-and this is precisely the problem that sounds like KIPP have set out to solve”(Marita’s Bargain Chapter 9). I like this quote because every year I would always enjoy summer in the beginning, but later on I feel bored and feel the fact that I want to go back to school. American education don’t have bad schools nor bad teachers, they just have too long of a summer vacation. We need to have an equal balance in our life, we need to have a not short summer, but not too long of a summer
When I first started high school, I was ready to take a big step into my education, but that’s when I also started learn how to read and write more and more than I have in middle school. I was taking other classes such as college and career, which was really tough for me because the instructions on every single assignment were very long and very tiring. Other classes I took was history, had helped me learn and remember from the different eras of time …show more content…
In the past, when I would have a test or a quiz I would either procrastinate or not study at all because I didn’t feel like it, but once I did, my test scores and my learning have gotten better. “America’s problem is not that its schools are bad. America’s problem is that summer holidays are bad. America’s problem is that its summer holidays are too long-and this is precisely the problem that sounds like KIPP have set out to solve”(Marita’s Bargain Chapter 9). I like this quote because every year I would always enjoy summer in the beginning, but later on I feel bored and feel the fact that I want to go back to school. American education don’t have bad schools nor bad teachers, they just have too long of a summer vacation. We need to have an equal balance in our life, we need to have a not short summer, but not too long of a summer