Your ability to express your knowledge accurately determines your value as a student in the form of a grade point average. At The Lawrenceville School, an elite high school, that pushes hundreds of students to academically achieve. Student’s, correctly distinguished the single most important concern is their GPA. For as long as anyone can remember a Lawrenceville education was centered around grades and the lengths students will go for an A. Stress levels of students are truly concerning; and all for what? A grade? It’s absurd the amount of attention comes from a grade on a paper. An entire life depends on how well you do on your English paper. High standards and academic pressure only leads to failure; causing a depressing future full of minimum wage jobs and criminal activity. How can young adults be expected to apply themselves and reach out of their comfort zones to attack a …show more content…
Teachers and students will be able to focus on more important issues and that’s deciding who has the most fun! Without grades, there is an array of cool new opportunities for Lawrenceville. The transition of grade-less classrooms will present an atmosphere centered around relaxation and student requests. Students will be given the power to change whatever they want as long as it makes them happy. Happiness will become a reoccurring theme for Lawrenceville and eventually lead to changing the name of the school to The Lawrenceville fun School. Everyone will envy our amazing institution. In order for the revolution to be successful, classrooms will need to undergo monumental change. In order to maintain student happiness, class’s will start at eleven and end by three. Allowing the students to stay up late with their BFFS without being forced to wake up before sunrise. Each class will have couch’s and flat screen televisions so the students can relax during class. Since there will no longer be any need for tests, papers, and homework, students will be able to give divided attention with no worries of a bad outcome. Teacher’s will be encouraged to show movies and playing loud music so the students will feel comfortable and in order to have fun. For history, we can all hang out while the teacher tells funny stories about the specific history, and if you don’t cover everything, it’s no big deal cause it’s