Dear Administration, with this past semester a certain issue has come up and has gotten all of you up out of your seats. Of all issues ya’ll have to worry about, one issue in particular has jumped to the top of the board and has become a very big concern to you. It has come to your attention that the student body in some cases is regularly attending class. With this issue at the top of the bulletin board, not the teachers nor you is something that yall can fix. This issue that is hitting you right in the face is all up to the student body, it should be their choice to whether go to class or not. As a freshman not going to class, I won’t know what is going on or if I do what I would attain, what assignments I have missed, am I going to fail by not going, but that doesn’t mean I should be required to go to class, it is going to hurt me in the long run cause I am the one paying for college.
Coming up to the end of my first semester of my second year, I have realized by not going to class that eventually when I do attend class I have no clue what is going on. There have been times where I have walked into class that I have not been in a while and as my teacher is lecturing us I have no clue what he is talking about or where he is trying to go with this. One time I walked into my U.S. History class sat in my seat and was waiting for class to start. I started looking around and noticed that all the students were looking at the same piece of paper and it turned out to be a study guide. I had no clue that there was a test that day, but that was my fault no one else and I had to pay the price because of it. The times I do go to class through it is actually very helpful and I have glad for going to class that day. As I was in my Philosoph...
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... with a very depressing issue, one gone to the top of the leading board and has them nervous. They say the attendance policy at the school is getting worse and worse, students are not going to class teachers are complaining and students are failing their classes. I as a student have come to realize that problem, actually i am part of that problem. There are days where I go to class, I know what is going on and what we are talking about, I get the assignments that my teacher hands out turned in and I am doing ok. Then there are days where I do not feel like going to class because I may be lazy, I may have something that is more important, or I may be getting sick but that does not make it the Administrations problem, that is my problem and i will face the consequences later on. It should be my choice to go to class or not, it should not be the Administrations choice.
From the beginning of high school, students strap on their seatbelts and prepare for one of the most vigorous races of their lives – becoming successful. With the rare occurrence of a break, kids are expected to keep on driving as fast and as powerfully as they can in order to get into a “great” college, which would be followed by graduate school and then an actual job that would make a lot of money. In American society, common values include working hard, determination, and being so productive that free time is not even a question. However, this philosophy is taking a major toll on American college and high school students. For at least 40 years, America’s future has been steadily growing unmotivated, tired, and hopeless due to the overemphasis on performing well in school. This phenomenon is appropriately expounded in William Zinsser’s “College Pressures”, which takes a look at the top four sources of tension that cause these feelings of dejection and agitation. After reading this article, I came up with a few solutions to this national problem. It is time to switch the harsh, over-encouraging green light of education to a comfortable yellow one. In order to make this ideal transition, directors of education across the country need to primarily reduce the amount of out-of-class assignments, lighten the grading system, and incorporate days in the school year that allow students to express their thoughts about school and provide useful feedback.
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.
In college, professors will treat their students as adults and nobody is going to force someone to go to class. Professors also don’t tell students exactly what will be on a test. It is up to the student to determine what information from the following chapter(s) could be on the test and to study it. If a student. In college, students are dismissed by the professor. For example, if a student completed a test, they don’t have to wait for everyone else to complete the test, they are free to leave. In high school however, going to class is mandatory and it is very structured. If a student doesn’t show up, the school will call and inform a guardian their child missed class. Students in high school, are pampered. Teachers will extend due dates, prepare students for exactly what will be on an upcoming test, and remind the students of upcoming tests and quizzes. Also in high school, classes are dismissed by a bell or a clock. However, on the first day of school teachers commonly say, “The bell doesn’t dismiss you, I do.” The bell indicates that students are able to leave class at that
There is a shocking dropout rate among college freshmen due to persecution by professors and if the condition persists, America’s economy will be dangerously destabilized. Understanding that the future of the nation is dependent on the upcoming youth for leaders, colleges should want to provide educational opportunities that will insure steady economic growth and prosperity. Unfortunately, research provides evidence to the contrary. Research confirms that one out of every four freshmen drop out immediately after or during their first year in college (Whitborne 26). Some studies declare it is higher than that, probably as high as an appalling 50% in some institutions. These dropouts are not only goof-off, indifferent, and partying students; they are the academically serious students as well (Stephens et al. 5). With this in mind, many researchers are sounding an alarm that too many capable college freshmen are dropping out during their first year at college. Every parent, citizen, lawmaker, and educational institution should be concerned with this information. The antiquated culture of discouragement, in colleges and universities, contributes to the unprecedented dropout rate of capable college freshmen.
Imagine turning into someone unrecognizable and watching as your life rips apart, a life that you worked so hard for, because all hope is lost. You have hit the bottom of “the well of life”, and deep inside this “well of life” you understand it’s all because of students.
In America we start going to school as early as two years old and are mandated by the government to stay in school until usually the age of 18, and after that school is necessary to continue on with to be successful with a career. Most students constantly think of ways not to go to school, and fight every step of the way not realizing what a great thing we really do have available at our fingertips. Students have to pay for education in college, and it is not cheap, but the first sign of a class being cancelled a student with rejoice. I was once told by one of my college professors that education seems to be the only thing that people are happy for when they don’t get the entire worth of what they are paying for. From personal experience I can agree with this joy of a class being cancelled. I have found that I get caught up in the luxuries of life or the feeling of the need to be lazy, and thinking of all the better things (or what I think is better) I c...
High school education is for students to learn the basic information that is needed to prepare them for college. It is critical for students to feel that it isn’t a waste of time for them to wake up and go to high school everyday. Is it right for students to not come to school because they feel high school is a waste of their time? Majority of students has also felt that the courses they are attending aren’t giving them enough information that will be useful beyond high school. Shouldn’t students be in classes that will benefit them in the future? Should students be able to know what might be their strengths, and weaknesses in the courses that are required to be taken for a certain major? High schools should offer useful courses because it
I feel like Public School #23 has a character of its own. In fact it's like a tree, it has roots of strong administrators who make sure we stay grounded. It has a strong trunk of teachers who wish to support us in whatever we decide to do. We have wonderful subjects the branches that make us interested and fill our brains with knowledge and we the students are the leaves. As freshman we start to bud, as sophomores we begin to get full shape and color, as juniors we begin are full shape and size and by senior year we are tired and wish to leave the tree and adventure the world. The shadow that our tree forms is a very respectable one. I am ______ and I want to be your Class President.
One of the key reasons as to why students decide to drop out of community college is because they are unengaged in the classroom. In today’s community college classes, all professors do is lecture. Never truly
Within recent decades, college has become a more easily available path than it has been for the past generations. In a current news release, The Bureau of Labor Statistics stated that, “Of the 2.9 million youth age 16 to 24 who graduated from high school between January and October 2014, about 68.4 percent were enrolled in college in October” (BLS Economic News Release from April 2015). When a student graduates high school, most of them intend to continue on to college. They have the idea that, while there, they can break away from all the general classes and just focus on what they want to learn. However, for almost all students, they find that this is not the reality. Just like high school, they find that they have to take approximately two years in general studies in order to attend and graduate with the major of their choice. General education classes should not be required because a majority of the information learned has already been covered in past years. Most of the courses do not benefit a student 's major, and the total amount of required hours for these classes can become a big waste of time and money.
Some professors in universities and some departments have very tight polices related with attendance. There are many universities and colleges in the world which doesn’t consider regular attendance in their grading part system. Sometime if the professor knows about the excessive number of times the student was absent they will mark the name of student and the final grade of that class is lowered. This topic is an issue of debate all over the world. Some people support this rule while other is against this rule. In this paper, I have presented many arguments in favor of strict attendance policy while some arguments are against the strict attendance policy. Students in college and universities are matured enough to take their own decision (Bastedo,
Throughout my twelve years of school I have realized something. That out of all the classes I have took, I have only truly enjoyed a small amount of those classes. Most classes don’t catch my attention very well or the content is dull and unexciting. That is why I’m looking forward to attending college, so I can find and take classes that actually interest me.
A high school class and a college class are conducted in different ways. In high school, teachers exercise control over the flow of information, while college professors encourage the student to seek out pertinent information. Throughout the year, a high school teacher will remind the student of upcoming due dates and assignment requirements. If a student misses a test or homework assignment, the teacher will provide missing notes or study guides so that the student is kept up to date with the rest of the class. For example; when I was in high school, I missed a week of school to go on vacation with my family. My mother spoke with my teacher before we left and he agreed to let me turn in my homework when I returned to class. Furthermore, my teacher allowed me to make up the single quiz that I missed during my absence. Neither the late homework, nor the missed quiz reflected in my grade. A college professor would have made me choose between a good grade and a vacation with my family. In contrast, the college professor...
Attendance is a crucial aspect of a student’s education. When a student is tardy or absent, this interferes with them receiving the information given in class. Class introductions that include instructions, objectives, due dates, etc. may be missed if a student is tardy and if a student is absent, they may also get behind on their class work and homework. Communication between teacher and students about the classroom management procedures for these two things are important so that students are informed and are able to take the initiative to gather what they have missed which can help avoid them falling behind. If tardies and absences are frequent, a teacher may begin to be concerned and question what could be the possible reasons behind it, whether that be an outside force in a student’s life or something that may be happening in the teacher’s own classroom. Establishing a relationship and reflecting upon oneself as a teacher to why the class might be having
On November 2nd, we talked about our solutions as a group. Going off of our criteria, we talked about changing the curriculum to be more like a college atmosphere. I told them that if students had a classroom with classes set up how they are in college, they would feel more comfortable going into college classes. Lillian wants dual and AP credit courses to be encouraged and feel it would help with having less classes to take while in college. Accalia said that when she transferred here, her GenEd classes would not transfer and now has to retake