The Importance Of Hard Life

Initially, for many students, college can be extremely demanding and strenuous. When a student has other things going on outside of school, their college priorities can be put on the back burner. Lives are volatile, and that can affect one’s performance in education. It is easy to get caught up in life and to forget the responsibilities of college. However, do “hard lives” justify excessive absences, rewrite opportunities, late papers, and/or plagiarized work? Being that, some students claim to have a hard life, they may think they deserve an advantage. Having a hard life, though, is disputable. Students should be completely aware of what is expected of them when entering college. They should know what needs to be done, and when it needs to be done. Claiming to have a hard life is just an excuse students can use to …show more content…
Missing one day may be crucial to the student’s grade in the class. It can cause the student to miss vital information. Most colleges do not allow excessive absences. Actually, many college classes only allow a certain amount of days that can be missed. Missing more days than allowed by the instructor can outcome in failure. Culpepper states that it would be the teacher’s failure to accept chronic absences because of the student’s hard life (Culpepper 331). Moreover, altering opportunities for students, could, in turn, make them think the teacher will always be lenient towards them. This could cause the student to deliberately slack off, and to take advantage of the instructor’s generosity. No matter the situation, every student should have the exact same opportunity. For the system to be fair, this is the only way to go about the situation. “If we unconsciously assume our student’s inferiority while pursuing those goals, however, we risk lowering our standards rather than teaching our students how to meet them” (Culpepper