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
...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.
Students understand the consequences of low grade averages, so they constantly evaluate grades by keeping up with their averages. Low grades cause academic probation. During the probationary period students are encouraged to focus on applying themselves to bring grade averages up to standards. While focusing on averages, students are able to change their study habits or learning styles for instance; some students learn by hands-on-training and others by reading comprehension. The grade scale can determine if a student needs further instructions or tutoring. One the other hand, students study habits play an important role in their grades. If a student makes the wrong decisions about studying and preparing for class their grades will suffer drastically. Study habits need to be evaluated and processed for tips to succeed.
Failing is not an option for many people this means that they will do anything they can to get good grades and keep them there. For many people getting by is just fine and some just don’t care at all, normally collage is where people get weeded out. During this time in life most adults know the meaning of failing and what consequences it will have, number one being the loss of money for the class that must be taken a second time. However sometimes one might fail due to distractions or problems
College students work hard assuming that they will get the grade they deserve but this is not always the case.
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).
Countless students are not mentally prepared for the responsibility that comes with obtaining a college education. For example, college instructors usually assign homework and projects that take up much more of the student’s time than the assignments that were given in high school. In addition, if a student lacks the skills to make a schedule and to allow ample time for studying and completing assignments, then his or her grades will suffer, causing the student to fail or drop the class. Also, numerous students move away from home during their first year of college, whether it’s to live on campus or off campus, and without the consistent reminders that they used to get from their parents, many students may not make a point to remember important deadlines, due dates, and may miss school or become tardy. After repeated absences, late work, and incomplete assignments, a student may realize that college is not ideal for them and end up dropping
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.”
Grade retention, better known as “staying back”, “being held back” or “repeating”, has been the topic of much debate within the educational system. The controversy which surrounds this long-standing issue has been reinforced by such topics as the recent endorsement of academic standards. Research indicates that “the rate of retention has increased by approximately 40% in the last 20 years with as many as 15% of all American students held back each year and 30-50% held back at least once before ninth grade” (Dawson, 1998). These discouraging statistics pose copious problems within a school system. The difficulties can be appreciated at the organizational level, as well as inside the classroom and, most troubling, within the individual students. The consequences, both positive and negative, reverberate throughout the school system. Grades retention is an issue which requires a prodigious amount of examination and should be considered carefully and thoroughly.
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.
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
Because of the importance placed on how students perform on the standardized tests, teachers tend to alter the strategy; they use to offer instructions and also the content in the curriculum, so students can perform better on the tests (Karr-Kidwell, Meadows and Stacie 4). The tests discourage students who do not perform well even if they were performing well in their schools. For example, students perform well in their schools but this performance is not the same in the standardized tests. Most people who get good grades in school end up failing after they seat for the standardized tests (Boaler 503). The academic system fails to address poor performance in schools and concentrate more on how schools are rated in relation to the standardized tests. Students keep failing in schools, and they become less successful in life because they did not receive the help they needed in
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
Nowadays, most schools of today 's society often provide students with poor study skills, which preventing them to earn desirable development in education. The major concept of studying is education, so if the problem continues to accrue, students will be having no opportunities to develop their knowledge, to get a degree, and as a result receive a high-paying job in the future. Statisticians claim that the number one cause of college dropouts, are the use of bad study habits.