My journey begins with how language affected my life. It all starts off with a conversation that my counselor and I had which changed my life in a matter of seconds due to a couple of comments that were made. Which were “you will be the most successful person in your class” and “You were a floater throughout your high school career” Hearing those statements said changed my life in a matter of seconds because of how affective language can be. Language has affected me in many ways such as a simple conversation my counselor and I had which was how the school had failed me, the positive and negative affect on how a couple of comments changed my life and how the conflict changed my perspective on the counselor and the school.
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I hate giving up on something that I was looking forward to passing. Even though I asked if there was any possible way I could get a tutor or someone to help me with the last few papers, Scarborough says, no, we cannot do that if you do not have the basic skills such as reading your paper out loud and not finding the mistakes. She felt badly about the whole situation and even cried when she got the horrible news before I did. Another thing Scarbrough told me was that I was the hardest working student she ever had throughout her teaching career, and I wished that Scarbrough could have helped me learn the basic skills of writing a paper, and be successful when writing a …show more content…
On the negative side of it, was when the counselor made a comment“ You were a floater and that the school had failed you.” Hearing each of those statements out of a counselor mouth blew my mind because it is rare having a counselors say that “you were a floater” and that the “school had failed you” it hurt my feelings and made feel pointless of why was I even their. In other words I thought counselors were their to help supply students with positive advice and make sure that their high school will be one to
It all started …show more content…
I hate giving up on something that I was looking forward to passing. Even though I asked if there was any possible way I could get a tutor or someone to help me with the last few papers, Scarborough says, no, we cannot do that if you do not have the basic skills such as reading your paper out loud and not finding the mistakes. She felt badly about the whole situation and even cried when she got the horrible news before I did. Another thing Scarbrough told me was that I was the hardest working student she ever had throughout her teaching career, and I wished that Scarbrough could have helped me learn the basic skills of writing a paper, and be successful when writing a …show more content…
On the negative side of it, was when the counselor made a comment“ You were a floater and that the school had failed you.” Hearing each of those statements out of a counselor mouth blew my mind because it is rare having a counselors say that “you were a floater” and that the “school had failed you” it hurt my feelings and made feel pointless of why was I even their. In other words I thought counselors were their to help supply students with positive advice and make sure that their high school will be one to