First grade

teacher to explain the topic more to me, I felt like I was speaking to Cheshire Cat, and that didn’t help. I would go back to my desk feeling even more confused than before. I hated writing. I only wrote on a need-to-write basis, and only because my grade depended on it. I was always given a boring topic I didn’t care for, never was I taught that there was a way to make that topic mine, a way to embrace it and incorporate it into my own experiences. It seemed…

When coming through the public school system, we often find that students are trying to find ways around actually doing the work, and as teachers (or future teachers in my case) we want to know what drives these students to the point where they can justify academic dishonestly. There are common associations with academic dishonesty students who work part time jobs, students who are only focused on college acceptance, and (at higher levels of education) students who are just simply not prepared.…

rely heavily on after school sports because it’s what they love to do, sports provide life long memories and lifelong friends too. I think that sports should be allowed at school, because after all they are called student-athletes and student comes first. I strongly disagree with Amanda Ripley on that school should just be about learning I believe that school…

colleges all across America GPAs are at an all time high, grade averages are rising, and academic performance is at it 's peek; which we all possess the power to remedy. Few argue that this is a result of a smarter and more driven generation, but in all actuality it 's the direct result of grade inflation. Grade inflation is most commonly known as being awarded a higher grade for an assignment that would have received a lower grade in the past. Grade inflation is having a serious impact upon…

and more difficult work, my experiences of high school became rather overwhelming to me, and I began to receive the lowest grades I had ever received. Although I was offered a tutor, I did not believe that I needed one since I never needed help in any time in my schoolings. Ever since grammar school, I was used to being the smartest person in the room and ecstatic to be the first person in my family to finish high school and go to college. I was soon kicked out of all my honors classes and the…

papers. After fully going over it, I mastered the art of writing a rhetorical analysis, and have not received anything under an eight on recent papers. Also, I was a horrible DBQ writer when we first began writing DBQs in this course. After doing it many more times, I have noticed remarkable growth in my DBQ grades. Moreover, I can successfully finish a timed essay or multiple choice examination without stress. This quarter superbly curbed my writing skills and prepared me the most for the…

everything began to change. In the beginning of 2013 I began tenth grade, just as any average high school student would. Yet by the end of that very year, I realized I no longer fit into the quo of a “typical high school teenager”. It began as a simple pounding, a painful pulse throughout my head. It felt as if someone had taken a knife and…

sports and education. Through countless hours of studying and many sleepless nights, I have successfully been able to maintain a 4.0 grade point average since the letter grading system was introduced in the seventh grade. Along with grades, I was deeply involved in athletics as well; competing in football and basketball throughout my time at Jenks High School. I know first hand how challenging it can be…

Not the best but nor the worst. that was my family, my family always was there for me and all i need to do was get good grades. Even they never really asked me to get all A’s or all B’s. All they wanted was me not getting F’s and everything was fine till six grade . My world had changed for me the school i went for middle was a great middle school but there was one problem. I wasn't prepared for the big change in my life like that , it was really hard for me to switch from elementy with all my…

Grade point average is a metric that measures effort. The amount of effort that a person puts into school is not a measurement of intelligence. There needs to be a culmination of a large number of factors when considering applications for college admissions. There are other factors that must be considered beyond grade point average. Factors like, intelligence, creativity, athletic achievement, and even student personality. Grade point average is a time tested metric. It is an excellent…