Ashton Nicholas
Hedgepeth, Instructor
English 101 001
22 September 2014
Attendance Relies on Desire In “So That Nobody Has to Go to School if They Don’t Want To”, Roger Sipher discusses the reasons that school attendance policies should be abolished. Today’s required attendance rules force students to go to school who do not want be there. Abolishing these attendance laws would create great changes in schools. It would open everyone’s eyes wider for the realization that school is a serious place for learning. Students who do not have the will to learn will not corrupt the atmosphere for those kids that intend to gain a broader education. The purpose of grades is to show how well students are learning in their educational atmospheres.
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Students that wish not to learn typically prepare their work to the bare minimum in school because they know that they will be passed along to the next grade until they can quit or graduate. Mr. Sipher said it best when he spoke on the fact that most children go to school because their parents want them to get an education. Students are only attending school because of the attendance law that is placed at schools and because of force by their parents. If there were no longer a rule for attending school, then those that do not want to come would not waste their time. Only the students that want their education would go to school, and the learning environment would improve …show more content…
Students that do not want to learn are a distraction in the classroom. If there were no longer a compulsory attendance law, then those students that are a distraction would no longer be in the classroom to be a distraction. People who do not want to learn should stay away from schools. By ending the attendance policies, it would require those students to stay away if they do not wish to learn. In his essay, Mr. Sipher states: “schools are neither day-care centers nor indoor street corners”. This is a very true statement. Schools are meant for earning an education and if a student does not want to learn, then they should not attend the
Ultimately, by these students tieing their self image to getting the highest possible grade it can lead them to some serious Problems, the students not learning to their full potential, and negatively affect their career. Grades play a role in education but grades should not define a student like it does today.
If students do not go to college to learn, then it will actually be a waste of time and money, and they will not get anything out of their career. Pharinet also goes against what she wrote, she says, “There is no doubt that every person has the right to an education.” Then she says, “But not every person should attend college.” She says that everyone should get an education, but everyone should not attend college. Pharinet contradicts what she said.
Grades do motivate students to do better but, grades cause students to want to get a good grade instead of fully mastering the material. They look at school just trying to pass which promotes cheating on tests and homework. They also will choose the material that is the easiest and choose a class with a professor who doesn’t care to raise their GPA. School is supposed to be about learning and understanding new material to help gain knowledge and a new way of thinking.
Graduation from high school is a rite of passage that signals passing from adolescence into the adult world. Life does not end after high school, but signals the beginning of many years as a contributing member of society. Many times, as part of this celebration, seniors have a tendency to skip classes and school days. School administrators frequently recommend that school boards adopt strict attendance policies for high school seniors. These policies limit their absences in the last month of school in order to be eligible for participation in graduation ceremonies. This policy statement will support greater leniency for requirements to participate in graduation ceremonies.
American society has started to take education for granted. Today it is so easy for most anyone to afford or to be accepted into a college that you wind up with people being here to socialize instead of learn and that leads to a decline in overall performance because it turns the atmosphere away from learning and into more of a four year party before the real world. Society seems to show college as a next step, almost if its a responsibility instead of a choice which hurts not only themselves but at the same time serving as a distraction for the people who are aspiring to do something better with their life. These dedicated individuals deserve better than to be forced into an environment where they are subjugated to a mass of people who would rather party than learn. The real students have enough to deal with as it is but forcing people to go to class would only exacerbate the situation forcing focus driven students to have important cla...
Grades should motivate the students, but only the ones that
Often grades cause students to cheat for the fear of a bad score affecting their overall grade. Institutions of learning need to turn away from grading scales which do not represent student success well, and turn towards an option that better suits students and faculty alike. Grading scales control students more than they accurately portray the students success. The grades cause students to fear that they will not pass which makes them more apped to do their work.
Seeing this, the ability of grades to influence and create positive and negative roles to students remains to be the responsibility of the educator. Given that grades help manifest a standard for students to adhere to, teachers must try to create an environment where they can facilitate and motivate students to do better (Tomlinson, 2001). By using grades as an instrument for development, it can create a positive perception for students to improve and seek connections with instruction and course content.
The attendance fees at Granger High are ridiculous and many students and teachers are against them. The administrators say that these fines are helping attendance, but if they were actually helping then why did we have to get rid of second lunch because of outstanding absences after lunch? I believe that we should get rid of the fines because they are stressful, can get expensive, and hold us back from graduating. Attendance at school is pretty bad and has led to attendance fines to be enforced. The attendance is still pretty bad and the fines are growing out of hand and causing many problems for students and faculty.
Perfect grades are what most students strive to achieve. Students seek the validity grades offer them and quickly move on after they receive it. Even though some argue that grades are a motivation behind learning, grades should be abolished because they diminish from actual learning and encourage students to think in unoriginal ways. Grades should be abolished because they diminish learning interest. When graded a student only cares about passing, they don’t care about learning the material well as long as they “get an A.” In “Do Grades Do Any Good?”
The author talks about students asking permission to leave early or come late to class. She argues how students don't notice that professors have already heard all the thousand reasons to justify their attendance problems. She also understands that things may come up at the last minute or it may just be an issue with a work schedule and a mean supervisor. She says is always good to let professors know before hand to prevent distraction during the lecture. However, the student has to take in count that he is responsible for the work missed during the time absent in class or losing points on attendance, even if attendance is not required for the class, the student chooses their class schedule meaning the student agrees to be present in class
Have you ever thought about dropping out of school before you were 16? But you can’t because of something called compulsory attendance law which states that you must attend school until the age of 16. In primary school even just missing eight days each school term you would be missing a year of education. However, according to “So that nobody has to go to school if they don’t want to” by Roger Sipher believes that anyone that is not serious about school is preventing others from learning and should just drop out at any age. Even though these may be the case in some schools some kids just need more attention or have too many commitments.
Teachers unknowingly know the reason why students stay home and it’s not because they are sick (most of the time). Sometimes students are overwhelmed with stress that they become so lethargic and are sick of teachers giving them a ton of work (I know I am). There is no doubt that students seek to succeed; teachers, to
Absenteeism is a common problem encountered by teachers and others who work in the field of education. There are many reasons why some children fall into a pattern of repeated absence from school. In a number of cases, willful absence can be traced to an alienation from schooling due to poor achievement, family circumstances or behavioral causes. In some cases, parents or children simply defy the requirement to participate. This area is one in which the need for partnership between school and family is greatest. While many schools provide successful alternative programs or absenteeism intervention strategies, there will be cases where, despite the best efforts of schools and parents, the children stay away. It is clear that any unauthorized absence is of concern because of the valuable educational time which is lost and because the absence of some children is associated with inappropriate behavior in the community. Different types of absenteeism will be discussed during this essay but the main focus will be directed at truancy in which the causes and remedies will be evaluated.
As children work their way up through the education system one of the most important aspects they are taught is attendance. But why is attendance so important? A study done by David Romer proved that attendance had a significant impact on student’s performances. (Romer 1993, p. 167–74), recorded the attendance of students that were involved in his large, macroeconomics course. He found that the t-statistic on attendance was a 6.2; this implied that a student who attends only a quarter of the lectures on average earns a C, while a student who attends all lectures on average earns a B +. A later study done by (Durden & Ellis, 1995, p. 343–346.), also indicated that attendance does matter for academic achievement. Their data was nonlinear, meaning