Essay About Being Bored In School

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Derrick Wing
Mrs. Spanos
English 2
March 11, 2014
Students Argue That School Is Boring
Have you ever been bored in school? The problem people have is that students are getting bored at school and ending up dropping out of school. About 30 percent of the students indicate they are bored due to lack of interaction with teachers and 75 percent report material being taught is not interesting. The causes of boredom are that there are not many teachers to help, not a lot of classes that are interesting, and the students think the classes are irreverent. The effects of boredom are that students fail there classes, they drop out of school, they distract other students so they do not learn, and they skip school because they do not want to be there. The solution to this problem is to make classes more exciting, talk about how the stuff you learn in school is important to jobs, give students breaks, do more hands on work, and have more group work in class.
The first solution to being bored at school is to make classes more exciting. To make it more interesting is teachers should not talk all the time and work quietly all the time. Teachers got to know what the students like to get them to listen. If teachers have them listening then they are not bored. Teachers have to play more games that involve education that are made up because if the students are having fun then they are not bored and they will remember what they were learning and students are having fun than the teachers will have fun too. It will work because the point of this essay is getting rid of being bored at school. Another reason it will work is because the more fun students have the better it is to teach them what you need to teach them for the class period. This solution ...

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...e teachers use these solutions it should help with the bored part of schools and help bring up grades. Again these are the solutions to being bored at school. Make classes more exciting, talk about how the stuff you learn in school is important to jobs, give students breaks, and do more hands on work. If you want to stop students from being bored than you should use these solutions to help against boredom.
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