Analysis Of In Praise Of The F Word By Mary Sherry

In the passage “In praise of the F Word”, the author makes some really great points about education and failing. Throughout the passage, Mary Sherry criticizes the way teachers teach. She says students aren't really learning or earning their diplomas that are being given to them at the end of their senior year. The author states that a way to get students to actually learn and change the meaning of their certificates that they're being handed is to put the fear of failure in them. Having students engage in one-on-one conferences with a teacher, could be a way to create awareness that the student is failing. Whether the teacher breaks down the overall grade into different sections (quiz, tests, assessments, etc) or just shows them the final course grade. With the student being shown that they have the possibility of failing they’ll have more ambition to fix what needs to be corrected.

“ In praise of the F word” by Mary Sherry, the author has her point that flunking students is a way that can help students do better in school. Flunking students can be helpful in getting them motivated and lead to success in their education. Students who don’t want to put in effort because they are lazy, a troublemaker, or good student that gets just passed along to next grade deserve to fail. Is it not going to be easy for students to be successful in their education. The students need to try hard to get to their goals. The students have to pass through failure to have the motivation to do better in school. If more students go through the teacher’s threats of failing, the students will want to put in the effort to able

A bold title from a promising author was what persuaded me to pick “Still Needing the F Word” by Anna Quindlen. I am familiar with her work, her commencement speech at Mount Holyoke College being my latest read. As usual, she didn’t disappoint. Throughout this essay, her use of sardonic language cannot be ignored as she touches on deeper issues within our, contrary to popular belief, “pre-feminist” world. As she mocks the world’s oversensitivity towards the use of the “F-Word,” Feminist (if you were wondering), she analyzes the status of women’s rights in modern times through the lens of a study on female undergraduates at Duke University. Now instead of stressing to be the “perfect homemaker,” women must obsess over “being the perfect professional,”

Sherry writes, “Their validity will be questioned only when their employers discover that these graduates are semiliterate” (487). In this section of the essay, the author is making the point that the students who passed throughout school without fear of failing, are lacking proper education. According to Sherry, these students are invalid due to their lack of effort put into their academics and inattention within the classroom. Later in the essay, the author adds to her claim by stating, “They will also discover they have been cheated by our educational system,” she refers to these students who lack in the classroom. Sherry believe that the students who have not been feared into thinking they are going to fail, will only be unsuccessful later in life. On the other hand, many

The “F” word stands for Failure. Failure is when kids don’t work to pass a class. The article talks about how teachers should use failure as a tool in the class to gain students’ attention. Teachers normally don’t threaten to fail students, but if they did then students would be motivated to get their work done on time. In my opinion, the teachers should use this tool to keep the class on track omit they are more than likely not to fail.

In “In Praise of the F Word” Mary Sherry focuses not on how the difficulties that the students have to face affect their performance in school, but how the “fear of failure” compels them to work. Sherry believes that diplomas are meaningless; because most passing students did not master the work. Additionally, some high school graduates told her that they do not even know how they get the diplomas. She believes that the fluning policy is “an expression of confidence by both parents and teachers” (Sherry 560).And we should give the students the choice to be success or fail. Sherry falsely assumes that flunking a student will make the students perform better at school.

In Mary Sherry’s essay “The Praise in the “F” Word” she discusses a technique that should be used to motivate students to do better in school. Sherry argues that the threat of failure motivates a student to apply themselves in school in order to succeed. Students who have a healthy fear of failure tend to be motivated to do better because something they desire is a risk. Many high school teachers have also awarded students with a passing grade although they actually deserved a failing grade simply because of pity. The fear of failure is the best tool to use on students in order to help them succeed and to push them for a brighter future.

It's always this crappy teacher we have, and we feel like they just don't like us. I was in eighth grade I just felt like Mrs.Wilkes hated me, but after all, she was the best math teacher ever.

I hope that this was just a one day thing and that I was just a rare unhappy person. Along with that I learned that there are different sides of children that a teacher may never see unless that leave there class unattended for a couple hours and suddenly walk in. I saw kids do things that weren’t inappropriate but would be frowned about by a teacher in a class room. Things such as texting to the person write a crossed the room from them. Or teasing there best friend because of wearing something, come to find out it was because the friend that was the teaser wore the something last week. A teacher would see that as you being a bully. No matter how good of friends you

Going to public schools have allowed me to discover many different types of students. As a student at Warren Central High school, I have had the opportunity to interact with different types of personalities and attitudes at the school. Also all students do not act the same way. In addition, everybody comes to school for different reasons. Some students think school is necessary while others think it is unnecessary. At Warren Central High school, I have observed the three different types of student: the lazy ones, the work-alcoholics, and the sociable butterflies.

I had a teacher in eighth grade that really frustrated me. Some of my older friends had her the previous year and had warned me about the difficulty level of this class. I was still determined to excel in school, so I took the class and hoped for the best. Upon meeting this teacher, I could immediately tell that she was different than others in the building. Since this was an advanced level curriculum, she expected more from me than most of my others teachers did at this point. I told myself that I would not let my nerves get to me.

This also taught me that it is acceptable to fail, as long as you focus on succeeding the next time. Demonstrated by my later passing grade, I changed my study habits to focus on getting a better grade, and I got the result I was hoping for. Hard work and determination led me to be able to say that I did it; that I

When it comes to students, we cannot overgeneralize in what way they should be learning because not every student learns at the same speed of the others. Consequently, there are many method teachers have been using over decades. Have you ever heard about flunking as a positive teaching tool? If you have and you agree to this method, you are not quite sure what it means. I don't agree with this teaching tool because of all bad effects that students have by using this method. Notably, fear, stress, depression and more dropping outs of school are the main reason why flunking is not a positive teaching tool. Conversely, my opponents believe that flunking is a positive teaching method. They believe by treating students to be flunked, they will

In her essay, “In Praise of the ‘F’ Word” Mary Sherry argues that failure should be used as a teaching tool in schools. Many people today view failing students as a bad thing to do, when in reality failure can motivate students to do well and teach kids that they can’t slide by in life. This is why failing students’ needs to be reevaluated and turned into an affirmative teaching strategy. As children grow older they become more exposed to failure. By implementing failure as a teaching tool, children will not have such a rude awakening when it is time for them to grow up. This is why teachers need to use failure as an affirmative teaching strategy because the current school systems are failing in educating students and because of its many benefits.

For the most part, this class period had little to do with any of the themes we had touched on class previously, but I would like to make a point that I did learn a lot on the how the power system works in a public school. Also, I will admit that I was uncomfortable that the teacher used me as a guilt/scare tactic when they got out of hand that day. In my position, I know that I observe and help out in the classroom but it was odd for me to be used to exact punishments. I am not there as an authority figure exactly because I am an adult,