Summary Of Why Students Fail By Mary Sherry

Finally, the trust placed in the students allowed both Erin and Jamie to “raise the bar” of their expectations. By trusting the students are capable and willing to learn in the right environment, both teachers avoided the trap of teaching remedial methods that seem to match their level of comprehension and understanding. Instead, both teachers trusted that their students had a greater capacity to learn than what the school system gave them credit for. It was this trust in the students that allowed both Erin and Jamie to start teaching information that was previously seen as impossible for those students to comprehend correctly and adequately.

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.

Why should we let our kids fail? In Mary Sherry’s article, "In Praise of the F Word," she asserts that students should not be held back in school because of the stigma associated with a failing grade. We need to help kids develop an appreciation for progress over time, rather than immediate wins or losses. We should let kids fail to help them overcome more difficult challenges that they might face in their futures because it allows them to learn lessons, succeed in school, and focus in school.

Mark Rose once said in the essay I Just Wanna Be Average, “Students will float to the mark you set.” This quotation means that in order for students to succeed in there academics they need a teacher who will demonstrate to the students that they believe and have faith they will succeed in there class. In order for many students to reach there potential the teacher needs to be supporting and willing to take the time to help there students and give the encouragement they need to succeed. Students are all at different levels so some will “float to the mark” at a faster pace than others, but some will be lazy, and others will drown. Throughout my life education has pushed me to succeed in my future, and has motivated me and many students through the education system.

“ 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

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

Bruni quotes the President of the National Center on Education, Marc Tucker, “ Our students have an inflated sense of their academic prowess.They don’t expect to spend much time studying, but they confidently expect good grades and marketable degrees”(par.25). From a young age we need to teach these children you succeed from hard work. Many parents have been exempting their children from test and are expecting them to learn? In order for kids to be able to learn what they need to, parents need to allow them to deal with the difficult times.

In an interview with a local elementary school teacher Elizabeth Romero, when asked the question “Why teach at the elementary level versus teacher higher up such as high school or college?” , She responded with the answer “ I believe that in this time of the kids life is the most influential. If I as a teacher can teach these kids the rights things to do and prepare them for the future than I believe that they all can do great things with their lives.” Mrs. Romero began teaching at the age back in 2004 originally teaching high school. She realized that there was only a select few who chose to excel in their studies. In her words “…some were what some would call lost causes but there were only a select few who put real efforts into their studies.” It was at that moment that

Schools in Texas suffer a large amount of dropouts, some believe the students are to blame and other believe it is the teacher’s/school. However, schools are not the reason for students failing out because teachers would much rather support and help their students rather than fail them. There are multiple reasons why students are failing due to where they stand in society, how they are socialized throughout their lives, and the social forces that influence their decisions as students.

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.

The message that Carol Dweck conveys is the power of the words ‘Not Yet’. According yo Dweck, the grade ‘not yet’ gave the students the understanding that they were on a learning curve. After learning about this, Carol Dweck conducted some experiments of her own. She went to a school and gave students a test that was meant to be difficult for them. Students that passed has shown to have a growth mindset, and those who failed had a fixed mindset. Those who failed felt as though their intelligence was put to the ultimate test. When asked what they would do during another complex test, most said that they would just give up and cheat. This proves that once students receive a failing grade, they lose the motivation to learn from their mistakes

These events in the short story can connect to our lives. Students often put way to much pressure on themselves and set expectations that they cannot reach. On top of that teachers and parents are putting expectations on top of our own which causes us to be stressed trying to reach an expectation that is too high. Some student’s put regular expectations on themselves but there parents and teachers put other expectations that make it too hard to live up to. Other students don't have any expectations for themselves which shows how setting expectations can also be really great. If people didn't have some type of expectation no one would learn or care to learn and no one would get anywhere in life. Although expectations can be high and unreachable if we didn't have them we

With this statement, comes the idea that the educational system has cheated these students. Sherry quotes some of her students that she has had in her adult-literacy programs concerning their wishes that someone would have made them work hard during high school. The author then provides an example of the time a teacher made her own son work by threatening to flunk him. She makes sure to address that students can rise above their own problems if they are pushed with the threat of failure. Sherry concludes that the threat of flunking should be used regularly as a positive teaching tool to both, push students and prevent those from moving on when they are not

In an article from the Chronicle of Higher Education titled “What Our Education System Needs Is More F’s”, Carl Singleton argues that the key to American education is giving out more F’s. Singleton believes that giving out a greater amount failing grades will motivate students to learn the required material and push them towards achievement. He argues that the more failures teachers give out, the more students will have to deal with the reality that their lack of knowledge on the subject is the reason they failed to earn the passing grade. He also states that increasing the number of failing grades will force the students’ families to play a more active role in their child’s education. Singleton also believes that a rise in failure would result in more school funding to accommodate the failing students.

“ When you don’t give up you cannot fail” Adrianna Peterson said this quote. To me it means that if you keep trying, you can’t fail. It’s like Michael Jordan when he didn’t make his high school basketball team. But he kept trying and he kept working hard, and look where he ended up. He was one of the, if not the best that has ever played. He got knocked down but got back up and kept trying. Adrianna Peterson tore multiple muscles in his knee, he was supposed to be done for his career. He started working out and working hard, he came back the next season and almost broke the record for most yards in a single season. He came back and became one of the best running back of the century.