Failing a student in a class can be used as a tool to achieve accountability of a student, however the cost of this can be devastating to a student. Failing a student can have long last effects on the student 's outcome in life. School provides the skills to be successful in careers and failing a student could lead to the student not entering the career field they choose. Students should not be failed in school in many circumstances, failing a student can have long lasting problems on the students life. Failing a student at the high school level of education can be repaired by additional classes in a night school or during the summer. However certain classes might not be able to be retaken, based on when the student failed the class. If the student …show more content…
The effects of failing a class can lead to the student requiring to change majors due to not being able to retake the class. As an example a major that requires a high level of math could not be achieved if the student has been banned for retaking the class. However this can usually be overcome by letters to petition to retake the class. If the student fails the class, their overall grade point average will be severely be effected, however having marginal grades already would not help. The large amount of time required to complete college classes is also wasted if the student fails. Depending on the overall percentage, teachers should consider by their own judgment to round grades to passing when they feel that the student has made the effort to participate in a class. While it should not be the teacher 's responsibility to have every student pass in their class, failing a class can set back a student to completing their degree up to year if the classes that are needed are only in select terms in the year. Barriers in learning can cause low grades and failure in class if they are not addressed by the help of
Everyone strives to be the greatest, especially teenagers in school, failing can be upsetting when it comes to failing a class or grade. Failure in school can have a huge impact on a student's future. When students aim for a goal it's either accurate or precise depending on their mindset.
...o do what their told to get a passing grade before they can move on to the next class. Some might think this to be unfair, but sometimes life isn’t always fair. I’ve always been told that to get to the fun stuff, I’d have to suffer through the things I might not enjoy as much. As students, we are expected to read and write about topics we may not find to be the most entertaining. But, we should know that having to do so is not meant to hinder us in any way. It’s all meant to help us grow as individuals and to support and prepare us for a stable and successful future.
Number one rule in the book is “go to class always.” Many students used to go to school because their parents force them to. However, in college, students have the choice to attend the class or not. Some courses don’t have attending policy, so they won’t count students who where absent. This makes student feel more freely to whether attend class or not. Students usually skip classes because they pretend that they are tired or they want to go to a shopping mall. It is very easy to skip a class and give excuses, such as I was in the hospital, I made an accident, or I need to study for a final exam. After skipping a class, students go and take notes from other students who attended and class and copy them. However, this will affect them in their exams because they won’t get high grade as students who attend classes.
Instead, they have to take classes that have close to nothing to do with their major, but are only taking these classes to fulfill the general educational requirements. I believe that taking these classes could potentially hurt a student’s cumulative GPA if getting a low grade. Taking these classes are not just a waste of time, but it is time wasted that could have been used towards major classes. Upon graduation, some feel that they are at a disadvantage because more time could have spent on learning more within their field of study instead of time spent on irrelevant
How to help students who fail, or students who do not achieve up to a certain academic standard, is an issue that probably goes back to the beginning of levels of school for students to progress through. In the U.S. it goes back to the 1840’s where age-graded schools began. In those times children who did not meet a certain standard were retained, or they repeated that grade. Rates of grade retention are difficult to trace in the past as well as currently. In some of these illustrative examples, a state could reduce retention by half in thirty years. However, different states had different retention rates. In 1909 one Massachusetts school district had a 7.5% retention rate while a Tennessee had a 75.8%. “In the 1930’s educators recognized that grade repetition might endanger student’s social and emotional development, which gave rise to the practice of social promotion. As a result of this policy, students were passed on to the next grade even if they were not ready for the work.” (Alkin, 1114) Both social promotion and retention intend to rectify the problem of failing students. However, does either of these two methods succeed? If they do not then what does?
Understanding the different factors that can play a role in a student dropping out is crucial and identifying the indicators of dropping out of school is equally as crucial. The three indicators of dropping out of school are attendance, behavior, and course failure also known as the ABC’s (The George Washington University Center for Equity and Excellence in Education, 2012). Being aware of the indicators of dropping out and knowing what could cause students to drop out can help create a more successful program that
The importance of not failing before reaching the further educational standards that a student needs is great. Although some skills come by experience, preparation is the key to succeeding in college. Mallinson stated individuals that took a course with her “had a few qualifications and some had dropped out of school or been excluded (36)." She further express...
Hindering a student’s performance with a bad grade in the middle of the year can make them give up for the rest of the year. Once a student has received a bad grade they might lose faith in their academic ability. By giving up a student does not reflect their academic ability and their bad grades are not based on what they learned.
Every 26 seconds one of our kids drops out of high school, that's 1.3 million students each year. The main reason for dropping out, the failure to succeed. Society puts an insurmountable amount of pressure on these kids to succeed, however this can actually be extremely detrimental to the students and children.
...udent to monitor their own progress and find solutions to problems as they arise. A college professor will not listen to excuses, nor will the consequences of failure be withheld. For example; I failed a math final by a mere six points, but the rules dictate that a c minus is not passing. It was my responsibility to realize that I needed help with math before I took that final. I had to face the consequences and take the course again.
When students have easier grading criteria, it increases their ability to learn the material instead of focusing on earning better grades without understanding the material. Students sometimes need grading criteria that will allow them to focus on their studying more than focusing on how they will be able to pass their classes with good grades that will not affect their GPA’s. For example, I have taken many classes throughout my college career such as Psychology, Philosophy, and Statistics, some of them I need as major requirements. I took the classes and I have no idea until this moment what I have learned in those classes. As said, I have learned the material for these classes to pass the exams, and forget what I have learned the day after the exam. In this case, I do not blame myself that I have not learned the material as I have to, because I learned it to pass the class with a good grade instead of passing the class with the
A statement from the Huffington Post states, “From a very young age, we are told the importance of getting good grades. Especially in high school, we are told time and time again that our grades affect what college we will get into. While grades are extremely important, people often forget about the importance of learning, not just getting good grades. There is a difference between the grade received in a course and the amount of learning that took place in the course.” Parents and institutions should teach the importance of learning. The society around the upbringing of students emphasizes getting good grades as apposed to getting every detail and aspect mastered. School priorities should be reevaluated and changed for future students
Currently there are many students tried to go to college and finish their degree. But some students don’t know what they should do in college and how to avoid the failure in classes. The failure will happen if you have no real goal or plan to finish it.
I personally feel that it is not completely the student’s fault to why they drop or flunk out. Parents and teachers are to blame for the drop out rate. They don’t hold teens to high standards, and sometimes give up on teens too early. I say parents are to blame because parents are the biggest influence on a kids life and if parents were troubled kids when they were young then they are most likely to have troubled kids, Especially in our economy, kids are into drugs and other criminal activities. Parents don 't convince their children enough to let them know that drugs are um acceptable. Parents don 't punish their kids enough for grades, so kids are school are reluctant to homework and to go to school. There are also parents who just let their kids have freedom and do not show care for their kids ' education or life. But there is
Another major reason that students responded is that they had too much freedom and not enough rules. In other words, they feel that they were able to do whatever they wanted. Therefore, they missed class whenever they pleased because they taught it was not important and that nobody would care. Teachers and school administrators need to be strict regarding to attendance. Students need to see that it is really important to attend school everyday so that they attend in a regular basis. The last major reason that students drop out school is that they fail in school and they give up. According to the report, students said that no one would help them when they were having trouble with something. They did not get any support from most of their teachers so they give up and drop out of school. I think that students who are failing a class are the ones that need more support since they tend to frustrate when they do not understand something. Tutoring sessions and help from the teacher it is very important to help students who are struggling with the material. In this way, students will find the material a little bit