Grade

give the average grade to the ones who gave all the right answers, for being good parrots. I’d give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.(R.)” Being graded in schools is not a new trend. From Kindergarten to seniors in college, every student is graded in their classes based on a set of criteria given by each teacher and is evaluated by how each student meets them. But, how far can a grade go? Grades are…

Whenever you receive my final transcript from the University of Alabama, you will notice I received a grade of a “D” in one of my final courses. This is the first and only class in my life I have ever received a grade lower than a C- in. I have a genuine explanation of why I have done so poorly in this class for the semester. I had an emergency surgery in November and was in an excessive amount of pain that lasted until December, which caused me to miss a lot of days this semester. My professors…

What makes college classes much more different from high school classes? Is it the deadlines, school work, teachers, time managing, or maybe all of the above? Many students figure it out during the beginning of first semester, they’re slowly being drained with class work, exams are coming their way and learning so much new information at once begins to get to them, trust me I can relate right about now. Students begin to realize this isn’t high school anymore, it’s much more serious now.…

As of this moment in time I do not know what I will do with these situations I am presented with. How I made my decision was very rational, but also impulsive,one day me and my friend were sitting at a diner and we started to discuss how my 11th grade year was going so I told him it was going very well and I…

In the classroom of interest, the grade level being taught is third grade with the students’ ages varying from seven years old to nine years old. The location of the school is in Gainesville, Florida and is called Stephen Foster Elementary School, which is a public magnet school, composed of grades kindergarten through fifth. Forty five percent of the students at Stephen Foster Elementary School are African American, 32% of students are Caucasian, 8% of students are Hispanic, and the rest of…

Honestly, I am not a very motivated person. I tend to try hard in school for the sole purpose of receiving an A. I never had thought of learning as an activity, but rather a priority. A priority that exists once again, for the purpose of getting an A. In my head, if I received an A, I would feel secure and my life would be able to move along smoothly. Receive a B, and my whole world would stop. Sadly, it seemed almost impossible for me to receive even close to a B when it came to writing. I had…

She said her grandparents were extremely unhappy with the decisions. In High School Haley excelled with a grade point average that was above a 4.0. She participated in Tennis as a sport. Haley’s mother was a lab technician, and worked a lot of hours. I asked about her father and what he was like. Haley then went on to tell me that he was the manager at the…

According to the Child’s Defense fund website, the U.S Census Bureau claimed that in 2015, 43.1 million people were poor, and one in three were children. As this website stated, “about 20% of children were poor in 2015, compared to 12.4% of people ages 18-64 and 8.8% of people ages 65 and older” (childrensdefense.org). Poverty is when you have insufficient amount of income to obtain even the basic needs to survival, such as food and shelter, for you or your family. Children living in poverty…

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.…

judged based off of just his slightly low grade average compared to the classes he was taking. Testing is his strong suit, and didn’t show that he didn’t try in class but doing nothing but worksheet and writing papers in his advance classes in high school wasn’t how his brain functioned. The education system needs the testing information when it comes to test elementary to high school, but does that show every student’s strengths are shown though their grade point average and falls short on the…