Graduation Speech : School Is Tedious And Insignificant

High school is supposed to be the place where you have fun and a time in your life you’re supposed to enjoy. Movies often trick you into believing that high school is an amazing time in your life and there is nothing but parties and fun. In Bring it on, they portrayed the fun and exciting part of high school cheer-leading, however they intentionally leave out the tough times high school students’ face in school and in their practices. In other popular movies, such as High School Musical the students have no pressures other than the next basketball game. In reality, this doesn 't happen. The constant pressure is affected by the grade level you are in. In high school, students can be classified based on the pressures that are faced in each grade level into the categories of freshman, sophomores/juniors, and seniors. I am here to help you make your high school experience less stressful.

About four years ago, I was just starting my first year of high school. During my previous tenure in middle school, I was basically an average student with multiple C’s and barely passing classes. So when I entered high school, I was not that enthusiastic about it and I continued the trend of not really caring about my grades in the 9th grade. As I became more aware of the opportunities I could get by receiving good grades, I began to actually care more about school and tried to get good grades. I began to do something that I never did before,

I dance 20 hours a week, and found it very hard to keep up with my school work. Many other students have the same problem with their after school activity. If we didn’t have the option of attending a K12 high school, there would be fewer up and coming athletes in the world. In this essay, I am going to tell you why it is a good idea to have a transfer offer from public high school to online high school. There can also be many issues that teens face in completing their school work on time, and correctly. Some students do not have time to do their work in the best effort and skills that they can do, which brings their grade and self-esteem down in a flash if they do one thing incorrectly. Some students do not have time to do school work at

Despite my good grades, school made me miserable. Every assignment that I submitted made me sick to my stomach with worry. The possibility of my work not being good enough for the teacher concerned me, as well

Major changes in my life have affected my high school career, but a large impact came from the death of my father in eighth grade. Before his passing, I was an average A/B student in middle school and even elementary school, which quickly changed in 8th grade when my classes became too hard for me to handle. I decided the best thing for my mental health was to drop out of my higher level classes. This lead to being in standard classes throughout my first year of high school with minimal effort from my part. After constantly missing school, I failed my second quarter. Instead of bouncing back from this, it pushed me down, making me believe I would never be able to recover. Without any motivation, I ended my ninth grade year with a grade point average of 1.4.

The transition from middle school to high school was difficult for me. I’d gone to very a progressive middle school where the students basically got to choose their own curriculum. I’d never had grades or a standard structure of any kind to measure my academic performance. Saint Mary’s, my high school, is college prep so the teachers move quickly, I am graded on everything, and expectations in general are much higher. For all of ninth grade I felt like I had been tossed into the deep end without knowing how to swim, and my grades reflected that mentality. Summer before tenth grade, I knew I couldn’t continue performing so poorly, so I began to study and to try and get a jump start on the next year’s curriculum. When school started I put much

As a child, I always loved school. Sometimes I struggled with the work but I managed to pull through. As I got older and attended middle school I struggled the most with my classwork, I didn’t think I was going to make it because of my grades, I didn’t think any high school would take me. Whenever I step foot into the classroom I always thought to myself, I’m never going to understand the work I’m never going to learn this, but then I realized grades don’t define who I am. I’m more than a letter grade. 8th grade graduation arrived, I was the only one who didn’t receive an award. During the ceremony I felt ashamed, I felt like I could’ve done better and I know I could have. I felt like I let my parents down. But that ceremony opened my eyes, I knew I was smart and I knew I had the potential to learn and expand my education. Freshman year of high school came. I was nervous, I thought I was going to fall back into the same place I was in. I proved myself wrong. All year I studied hard, up long nights, I received tutoring my freshmen year, and I maintained a 3.5 GPA throughout my high school career.

By the mid-term point of Fall semester, I was depressed and ready to give up. I was disappointed in myself because I was still failing despite dropping out of football. My parents refused to let me succumb to the “poor me” syndrome. This was the time to show my strength of character. I needed to prove to myself that I could overcome this obstacle. I prayed to God to give me guidance on how to get back on track. I started staying up later to do the reading. I paid more attention in class. I joined a study group. As I put forth more of an effort, my grade slowly began to improve. By the end of the fall semester, I had raised my “F” to a “D”. I kept my focus during the spring semester. I ended the year with a 77% in the class. Although I didn’t receive an A or a B, I received something more valuable: self-respect and self-esteem. I learned that I must always do what is in my best interest even if there are others who tell me that I am making wrong decisions.

I knew that junior year would be the hardest year of high school. I also knew that being in the top 10% junior year would bring various benefits with it. Thus, I knew that working harder would be essential to achieve this goal. I walked into junior year thinking that I had been fully prepared for anything that I would come face to face with. Soon enough, I realized I was not fully equipped to what was about to hit me. Junior year consisted of countless number of assignments, numerous amounts of quizzes and tests, and countless numbers of essays. Staying up late had been consistently part of my schedule to finish the work. The perfectionist side of me always wanted the homework to be done right the first time which caused me to stay up even later than expected. Occasionally, I also lost my sleep to study for a quiz or test that was to be given the following day. Even though losing sleep had been difficult, it helped initiate significant results, because my grades began to exceed my

I really started to go and develop in the 7th grade. I started to take school seriously. Before the 7th grade, I did care about school but I wasn’t serious about it. I used to mess around with friends in class, do my work sloppy, and not taking time to study outside of school. When 7th grade started, I told myself that i gotta focus on my education because it will prep me for the following school years and develop good habits. During the year, I put school as a higher priority than other things like video games and sports. My grades were good except the one C grade I had in English class. Overall the next two years my grades were great, I had only A’s and B’s in my classes. Once I entered my sophomore year at Puyallup High School, my focus

Several times I went to math class with my work incomplete and being unprepared for my academics, at that point I didn't even care. I was not busy the night before studying test or doing extra school activities I was sitting on the couch watching tv not doing my homework. I had the time for school, and I just wasted it. It got to the point where I was always failing at least one class, and all my grades were terrible. Everyone tried to help me get back on my feet and turn my education around, but I just didn't listen or put in the effort. I honestly didn't know what to do, and I was just lost. My laziness and fear of being a failure consumed

At 17 years old I entered UCLA as a biology major. I had graduated in the top 10 of my high school class, and I had received only A’s since coming to the United States as a Sophomore. With my prior academic performance and younger age, I was overconfident and immature going into college. During my first 4 quarters my social pursuits smothered my academic ones; I lived a very unbalanced life, and my grades suffered. With a 3.05 GPA my first quarter, I was disappointed but too overconfident to embrace the dedication required to succeed in such a competitive academic environment. Furthermore, when confronted with each poor grade report I would bury my head in the sand, and naively convince myself that it will be better next time. My second winter

I had to quit track and cross country due to low grades.  Even after I put running behind me, my grades continued to plummet throughout my 10th grade year. Resulting, in me  going to the Bowie library every day after school and only for me to stay until I finished all of my homework. I would study for  classes, but never felt like I actually grasped the information. I attended tutor sessions with my tutors and only to receive a high C in a class. I stopped making honor roll  and watched from the sideline of races  that I could no longer participate in.

The academic pressures my teachers in middle school were not present at this school. I was a part of the Scholars program, which allowed us to take AP Human Geography freshman year, and I thought it would be more of a challenge. Unfortunately, it was not. Still, the school’s environment is great. The teachers are very supportive and caring, and the community is social and tolerant. The only flaw is academics. I am a lazy person at heart, and since I was not forced to work hard, I ended up procrastinating my work. I knew it was bad to procrastinate, but I did it so well I decided to improve it. I was then able to do work that would take a regular student a day, finished in an hour with the same resulting grade. Since academics were already taken care of, and I had no desire to do much, I ended up not doing many extracurricular activities. During freshman year, life at home became harder. Since my sister was on her way to college, we had to start finding out how we would scrounge up the money to pay. Luckily, my dad has military benefits that helped my sister with tuition, but not the dorming. We were still piled up with bills from the house and insurance from our vehicles, it felt like everything was piling up. In the end, we slowly decreased the bills and costs of school by spreading them out. Everything became steady again and my sister went off to college. This event had helped me see that piling things up

During my first year of high school, I was a very average student with average grades. I did as little work outside of school as possible. I never studied for tests and slid through most of my classes doing only what I needed to pass. Passing some of my classes with a low B or a high C. I was never in danger of failing a class or being ineligible for a sport, but my grades weren’t the best. Sophomore year was a little better in terms of getting the more out of my classes and homework. I had more of an idea on how classes worked and knew what I needed to do in order to stay on top of my schoolwork. I was much improved compared to the year before. I studied for tests more often, but still not always, and I passed my classes with higher grades. Come Junior year, I began with the same mindset and the same strategies as I always had. As the year began, I felt overwhelmed with the amount of work. I wasn’t used to the amounts of homework that I was