First School Assignment

Powerful questions:

• What percent of students actually go to school to learn?
• Why is a college degree needed to become a bank teller?
• How does physical harm from teachers in school affect level of education?

Ideas:

• College is just another four years of our lives wasted.
• Some teachers at SOF are tired to see students after school because they are tired of playing nice in front of them.
• Maturity and the structure of school have a high correlation; therefore, students are unable to decide on a major at an early stage.

Experiences:

• I go to school to chill with friends.
• I do not know as much about social studies as I should know.
• I am brought up to think that college will teach me everything I need to know to get a career.

One reason why I look foward to school is because my friends are in school. This, I believe, is one of the reasons why some are unable to do well in school. Because their friends are in school, they focus on socializing with their friends rather than getting the most out of their education. On the other hand, some are positively affected by their friends in school. Because their friends are in school and working for their education, they are influenced by their friends so they work for their education. Others are led into a life in which education do not play a role.

This is not a good thing. Students are forced to sit in classrooms for more than six hours a day and all they focus on is relaxing with their friends. If students are able to redefine the purpose of school, then they will never get the most of their education. And if Obama wants to increase the time in school, the level of education would not increase because it would just be more time sitting at desks (and I could use those few hours sleeping).

I think this behavior starts at a young age. Some kids enjoy school because teachers have the time to take them to the park while their parents do not. They learn to connect with other kids at school during recess and look forward to seeing their friends the next day. As students, we all hate the thought of homework and approve the thought of lunch or break from classroom. And as this behavior continues, we will miss the important lessons and become troubled in the future. In order to break away from this behavior, I believe that we must change our point of view on school so that we can actually make room to learn new materials.