High School's Mistakes

“Average? Who wants to be average?” (Rose). During my high school experience, I went through a ton of stress trying to figure out my path to educational success. I was a decently good student with grades consisting of C’s to A’s. Dealing with problems in high school made me realize what I should had done to obtain a proper education. Author Mike Rose of “I Just Wanna Be Average” and article writer Jessica Lahey of “Teaching Math To People Who Think They Hate It” both state solutions to my problems. During high school, I was not very interested during lecture and had a love and hate relationship with math. How I would improve my experience is to do more hands on activities and to learn math in a different way.

The idea that the American education system requires its students to attend school for a full 13 years is absurd. The average student does not need 13 years of high school to be prepared for graduation and college, and those who do require that much attention most likely would not succeed in college anyways. In the typical high school, students and teachers waste more time focusing on sports and social issues rather than actual schooling. When one truly realizes how many days are wasted at sporting events or on silly pep rallies and activities, then it becomes clear why it’s a waste to attend school for such a large amount of time.

Students who are becoming freshmen often ask “what’s it like to be in high school?” High school is not what you think. Freshmen don’t get pushed in lockers, there's not that one popular girl who shoves other students books out of their hands, and the cafeteria is not the most embarrassing place to be. High school is not an amicable. If you really think high school is a amicable place where students smile at each other, think again. Here is some advice from my high school experience.

High school. This one word can mean either the best days of your life, or the worst. It depends on how you dealt with the obstacles thrown at you. During the past few years of high school, I can honestly say that I have changed a lot, not just physically, but mentally I have becomes strong enough to ( ).In my experience, these circumstances shaped me into the positive and intelligent individual I am today.

The educators in the documentary, “Rethinking High School: Best Practice in Action,” claimed that authenticity, collaboration, and challenge are the three core principles that are needed in our school system to achieve better teaching and learning. I agree with the statement, especially when we are talking about urban schools.

The United States has been a power of the world for quite some time, and high school is an important factor to the success of the nation. High school is supposed to prepare students for the real world while providing those students the opportunity to experience a multitude of different things, but nowadays the system is not providing all it could. It is important that students learn essential skills as well as acquire the knowledge to live on their own and parents recently are not much help either. While “The status dropout rate decreased from 12.1 percent in 1990 to 6.5 percent in 2014” (U.S. Department of Education), it still does not dismiss the fact that students are not prepared. High schools in general,

Throughout my high school years my grades were terrible. I struggled in all my classes. Until they put me in a community school from their i started to stay after school finishing all my work i even made it back to regular high school. I also went from a 2.03 to a 3.2.

My high school experiences have become imprinted into my memory and parts of me. I changed entirely from the first day I walked in as a freshmen to the last day I walked across the stage with my diploma. Not only do I look different but I act, think, and understand differently. I realize now that an individual’s character is largely constructed by other people’s opinions, unwritten rules, and a subliminal hierarchy. The reality of high school makes it difficult to escape the ideal image of a perfect student, friend, respectful significant other, and model child. With all these different forces pulling students back and forth, the primary goal is to be accepted; despite how much change one must undergo. From my high school experiences I know how to deal with labelling, peer pressure, alienation, and cliques. Thus my former high school social lessons and knowledge allow me to reshape my perception, values, and self-image to this day.

My high school experiences have become imprinted into my memory and parts of me. I changed entirely from the first day I walked in as a freshmen to the last day I walked across the stage with my diploma. Not only do I look different, but I act, think, and understand differently. Our identities are a process of social encounters with different groups of people, contrasting systems, and self-defining moments that we face in high school. I realize now that an individual’s character is largely constructed by other people’s opinions, unwritten rules, and a subliminal hierarchy. The reality of high school makes it difficult to escape the ideal image of a perfect student, friend, respectful significant other, and model child. With all these different forces pulling students back and forth, the primary goal is to be accepted, despite how much change one must undergo. From my high school experiences I know how to deal with peer pressure, alienation, and cliques. Thus, my former high school social lessons and knowledge allow me to reshape my perception, values, and self-image to this day.

Growing up, I had always been an excellent student and enjoyed going to school. However this changed, when my parents got a divorce when I was in 8th grade. The result was that my father abandonned and left my mother, my younger brother and I. My father was the source of income for my family, as my Mother is a stay at home mom, so when he left it runined us financially. It was so bad that for nearly three years while I was in high school, we never had our own home and were bouncing around living with different family friends for as long as we could before moving in with another group of family friends. My response to the divorce was to give up on school. I stopped trying and barely managed to pass 8th grade. My bad academic habits followed me to high school where I began to care even less and less about academics. My mother, brother and I moved right before the start of my freshman year. I went into highschool not knowing a single person. By chance, I made friends with the skater crowd.

I attended a Christian school for most of middle school and all of high school, I had inspiring teachers and positive friendships. After high school I though what I wanted was to go to a giant public state university, and have the 'traditional' college experience. I applied to the University of Alabama, Ole Miss, and LSU, and was accepted into all three. I spent months creating pro and con lists for each option. In the end, Ole Miss won. I sent in my deposit and fill out my housing application. I was going to be an Ole Miss rebel, but it did not feel right. I pushed it down till I

I am very satisfied with the grades that I have received all four years during high school. During my freshman year I really struggled getting good grades because I was really unmotivated and I would never do my work because I didn’t like the new environment that I was in. Once my sophomore year hit, my objective was to maintain all a’s or b’s. I was really ambitious to get good grades. Up to this day I have had great grades and my grade point average has never been lower than a 3.5. After a while of managing my good grades, I realized how easy it was, all I had to do was to study and do my homework. I will continue to use my knowledge that I learned from school in my future.

In all America there are many students who fail high school because they didn't pass their class. I might be one of those students. I have walk around the school for the last few and asking students if they are failing any classes. It turns out that more than 42% of those students are failing the English class and I am one of them. Even though I come to school do my work and try in all my classes I still find myself in a deep hole of failure. Mrs.Stigger I deserve a better grade in your English class, because having a better can can help me graduate. Another reason is that I will show my little brothers and sister that if you graduate high school you be whatever you want.

One of the most roaring topics in our country today: Is a college degree worth it? Through the past generations college was not mandatory for the average person to receive a career. Now because of increasing employment rates a college degree is the only way to maintain a steady income. Many students after highschool have to decide rather they will attend college or start a job that is not guaranteed to support them. Now many people have different perspectives  about furthering their education, some let the hard work and high debt outweigh the success they will have in the end.

Hey there! I’m Hadas Klinger, and this is my second year in being a grade representative. I love fries, youtube, and stepping on crunchy leaves. Most importantly, I love being a part of student council. I get to watch the joy on my peer’s faces when I give them free hot chocolate and hand out free candy. High school was something that I always feared, and Student Council helped me get over my fears. I always have a smile, and I try my best to go the extra mile. The most important thing I’ve learned from high school (so far) is to keep staying positive because it doesn’t matter how many bad days you’ve had, it’s the good ones that you will cherish.