Flunking students in school is controversial because the purpose of attending school is contentious. The strongest counter-argument is it is expensive to flunk students, which is suggesting that the money spent on failed students could be used for other things. However, in my view, this point is wrong because although it is expensive, it allows students to learn life skills to earn higher paying jobs. Therefore, I maintain that students should be flunked.
To begin, students should be flunked because repeating grades allows them to learn the skills such as hard work, motivation, and determination that they may have missed the first time. Proving that students who just get through high school by cheating the system do not learn the skills, Sherry states, “High-school graduates and high-school dropouts pursuing graduate-equivalency certificates will learn the skills they should have learned in school.”
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In the opinionated article “Flunking 3rd-Graders Can Do More Harm Than Good,” David Callaway persuades school members that flunking students is a poor decision because of the impacts it has on the schools. Flunking students requires excessive costs. Inciting why flunking students is detrimental to the schools, Callaway states, “Forcing a student to repeat a grade costs an average of $10,000 per student per year.” If schools are having to sacrifice extra funds to hold back students, they are taking money that can be used to assist other struggling students. If the money is taken away from the struggling students, then the amount of students failing will increase. Then the amount of students that need to be flunked also grows which in the end, inclines the total amount of funds spent on students repeating grades and leaves little to no funds for other
In reality, leads to student saying that the financial cost was worthless, ending up with a job that is especially not what they went to school
Our education system is failing and in his essay “What Our Education System Needs Is More F’s” Carl Singleton writes that nothing else will right the ship or fix this issue except for his proposed solution which is to simply fail more students. As a matter of fact “by the dozens, hundreds, thousands, even millions” (Singleton 1) is how he describes the failing grades should be distributed. He claims that illegitimately passing students has existed for the past two decades and even implies that it stems further back than that with many teachers in the school system today “who never should have been certified in the first place.”(Singleton 1).
The Consequences of Grade Inflation When students arrive at university, professors expect them to understand the material to an exceptional standard. The problem is that grade inflation is occurring more regularly in secondary schools and universities across the country and when these students’ marks are sent to universities or colleges, the student may be given multiple scholarships for something that he/she should not have earned. Grade inflation is conceived between both students and teachers, meaning that the students are given higher grades when they have inadequate learning, reading, and verbal skills, while the teachers do not have to grade as many papers as they should in the real curriculum. There have been multiple examinations that have confirmed that grade inflation is very real and still occurs today. Students seem to think that they do not need to put forth much effort in school to do well, and grade inflation encourages this thought.
In contrast, there’s people who have pondered the question why do kids cheat in school? Some students blame family, coaches and teachers for pressuring them to do better and maintain a C plus average (Maecovitz 70-71). Some kids cheat because they want good grades, but are too lazy or busy with work to take the time to study with the teacher or to learn the materials (D’Aray 1). Other students cheat because they don’t kn...
However, such accusations such as laziness and entitlement, although common, have been prevalent amongst those of college age as proven in “A’s for Everyone.” Shepard had investigated the cause behind this and had put the blame on grade inflation in the years prior to entering college, the pressure to get superb grades due to high tuition costs, and most importantly the belief that “effort” constitutes a grade bonus. However, if one has entered the school system in America, one could see the relative ease in which one could improve their grades through inordinate amounts of extra credit. Multiple students have heard and even seen fellow students ask their parents to even come in for meetings of which equate to blaming their child’s poor grades on the teacher and harassing said teacher to allow their child, soon to be a hardworking, productive citizen of society, to get the “grade they
In “Texas improves school funding but still trails states,” even though Texas is one of the biggest states in the nation, yet they rank 40th in terms of money spent per student. The sheer amount of student population should be enough inventive to increase school spending because Texas teaches more students that surrounding smaller states, therefore, Texas takes on a bigger impact on the educational and economic impact on the country, and smaller surrounding states. During economic downtimes, a reduction in state aid to school is inevitable; a reasonable solution would be to bring funding back to the original numbers when the economy improves. That is easier said than done when the state only approves a $3.4 billion increase even though they previously cut back spending by $5.4 billion years earlier. Nearly all aspects of the public education system are poorly funded. Texas teachers are below the national average for salaries. With a state as large as Texas, funding for schools should be a top priority.
Many high school students do not want to hear the words, “you are going to fail”, but as will be seen that is exactly what they need to hear. In the article, “In Praise of the ‘F’ Word”, Mary Sherry states that students are not getting a good education and teachers should enforce the “F” word, meaning flunk. Sherry argues that students, especially high school seniors, are not getting the proper education they need to succeed, as many do not have the basic academic skills and are not well informed about those skills needed for their lives after high school. Furthermore, teachers should introduce the “F” word to their students and give them the realization of their future being in their hands.
Well first, kids should not have to spend all their time on testing. If kids spend to much time on testing soon enough, they will get tired of it and not do there best. Also if kids stay up all the time trying to study for these tests they won’t get any sleep. Without sleep how will they be able to focus. Thats why kids should not have to spend all their time on testing.
Giving students a grade that they have not earned hinders the youth’s future educational success. A number of schools are no longer giving a grade of zero on assignments, tests, and exams completed by students. While other school districts continue to give students the grade that is adequate for the work they have done or have not completed. Giving students the grade that equals their work is designed to show students where they need to improve. Many school boards want to stop giving out zeros for work that hasn’t been turned in and give a grade that rages around the “D” area keeping children from falling behind in their classes. By allowing student to pass through the school system the educational board is raising their graduation and success
Students should be paid for having good grades. According to Psychology Today, the United States has fallen behind other nations in education. In addition to this, approximately one in four students in the U.S. drops out of school before graduation. The main reason for this is that students have little to no motivation. Students are either bored with school, or they are distracted by the other things that go on in their lives such as sports, jobs, friends and their own family life.
For the student, there is either a social or an economic incentive to be gained by cheating [MacGregor, 2012]. However, cheating, more specifically, cheating during exams or in graded assignments gives the students who cheat an unfair advantage over those who remain honest and study hard to excel in the same examination or assignment. Grades are reflection of knowledge and competence gained through learning. Therefore, acts of academic dishonesty undermine the validity of student learning. This, in turn, has effect on academic system in two ways – 1. It reflects poorly on the academic standard or quality of education being imparted by the institution from where the cheating student earned his/her grades and 2. It also interferes with faculty’s ability to correctly diagnose gaps in student learning for the purpose of both re-teaching current students and re-designing instruction for future students [Passow, 2006].
This placed much of the burden of recognizing academic talent on the high schools. 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.
Misunderstanding, pressure, and laziness are not good reasons to cheat and the effect of the consequences are not worth it. You can end up with an F, in detention, written up, kicked out of school, and with marks on your permanent record. There is no way to justify cheating, no matter how hard people try to. No matter what happens, students will continue to cheat, it is inevitable.
Modern students face many pressures for academic success. They are often unwilling to disappoint their parents or spouses. Some fear that not cheating will weaken a student’s ability to compete with their peers. They rationalize their unethical behavior, unwilling to accept a poor grade, consequently justifying cheating as the only means to that end.
Harris Cooper, a researcher on homework from Duke University, claims that too much homework causes stress. In this I paper will talk about the damaging effects homework has on a child, how homework causes students to dropout of school, and some ideas for an alternative to homework.