Auguste Clark Pope Doing School Summary

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In the article “Doing School,” by Denise Clark Pope, “co-founder of Challenge success, a research and intervention project that aims to reduce unhealthy pressure on youth and champions a broader vision of youth success,” asserts that “students feel the need to manipulate the system and devise crafty strategies to get ahead”. Also “students feel compelled to betray friends and deceive teachers.” Finally, “students feel the need to compromise integrity for future success,”(Pope 150). She came up with these claims through researching Faircrest High School. Four students helped in this research project, but soon came up with problems after having the stress of school on their shoulders. Denise explains in her article that how and why these students are ending up with these problems. She soon understands what the problem is; which helps her come to a conclusion.In the article “Doing School” by Denise Pope, she explains how we are creating a generation of stressed out material and miseducated students. This author claims, “students feel the need to manipulate the system and devise crafty strategies to get ahead.” Also, “students feel compelled to betray friends and deceive teachers.” Finally, “students feel the need to compromise integrity for future success”(Pope 150). When she explains that students feel the need to manipulate the system and get sagacious strategies to get ahead some of those strategies are establishing allies and treaties, multi tasking, cheating, and “squeaky wheels.” Well with the research students she explains how they don’t have any friends and that one of the subjects made a treaty with a teacher so that student can still get an A grade and be able to do other school work in that class. Finally, the subjects that were being tested on, compromised their integrity so they could be successful in their near future. They put all of their pride and bravery in their work instead of showing off by speaking the truth about themselves. Well with these claims I have found in the text are relevant to what the whole article explains. With the first claim of how students feel the need to manipulate the system and devise crafty strategies to get ahead. Well that was a question that I turned into a statement. When she states that student make sagacious ways to to get ahead, I don’t think all students make strategies that help them. Some people are naturally smart, but that doesn’t mean some …show more content…
Why is that? Why so you think that students need to compromise integrity for their future success? Is it because of the pressure of stress and having that grade stay an A? Or is it because that the teachers and their grade are in control and they aren’t? What even is integrity? Integrity is the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness. We are told that the grade lies in our hands, but really it's not. It lies in the teachers because if they don’t teach we don’t learn; and if we don’t learn then that grade is something that will burn a hole through our report card. But when we lie that we are learning we have to work harder to understand something that we actually don’t. But why do we lie? If we don’t lie that we are learning maybe we can get help but maybe we can’t. I think we are just scared to find out what will happen

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