Normal is Crazy Now in days isn’t as many teachers who care about their student’s future, but in the novel Normal is crazy by Lloyd Lofthouse, he tells us that there still some out there. Mr. Lofthouse taught at a high school in Nogales. The high school was settled in a town where gang banging was occurring. At the time where he entered to teach there he knew it wasn’t going to be easy, most of his student’s weren’t even interested in school. He believed that if he would push his student’s, they would be more interested in looking forward into going into college. So that’s what he did Lofthouse had tough love for his student’s, he wanted the best for them and didn’t want them to end up on the streets.
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During my school years I’ve noticed that some teachers were like that, they would usually care more about the most outstanding students than the others. Why make students feel less than others? Is it because teachers wanted to see if they would step up or was it just because they wanted to see how they felt about it. Instead of finding a way to make them feel less interested they should be more into helping them out in anything that they can. If I was a teacher, my priority would be to help out my students I wouldn’t want anyone to feel left out, and for those who wanted to learn they could help the rest of the classmates. I rather push my students until they get to a certain point instead of leaving them behind. As a student in high school I would always be told that schools was part of getting a better education. It’s true it is, now I’m attending college and I know that it’ll all be worth it. Mr. Lofthouse students had a different perspective, “We get nothing from school. How’s it going to help us in the future?” (Lofthouse 103) High school gets us prepare to enter college. We go throughout the years learning different things, and once we get to the end, then that’s when we figure out what we really want to do in
As a teacher he wanted the best for his …show more content…
During my school years I’ve noticed that some teachers were like that, they would usually care more about the most outstanding students than the others. Why make students feel less than others? Is it because teachers wanted to see if they would step up or was it just because they wanted to see how they felt about it. Instead of finding a way to make them feel less interested they should be more into helping them out in anything that they can. If I was a teacher, my priority would be to help out my students I wouldn’t want anyone to feel left out, and for those who wanted to learn they could help the rest of the classmates. I rather push my students until they get to a certain point instead of leaving them behind. As a student in high school I would always be told that schools was part of getting a better education. It’s true it is, now I’m attending college and I know that it’ll all be worth it. Mr. Lofthouse students had a different perspective, “We get nothing from school. How’s it going to help us in the future?” (Lofthouse 103) High school gets us prepare to enter college. We go throughout the years learning different things, and once we get to the end, then that’s when we figure out what we really want to do in