Grade retention

The second one would be so my math grade would improve . The third would be owning a brand new bass clarinet. I would get rid of the unintended responses with the first wish. So none of my friends or family die. Also so nothing like my third wish so I would get a real bass clarinet and not a piece of paper with a picture of a bass clarinet. Also that would be my first wish because I am not good at being specific. My second wish would be so that my math grade improves. Mainly because I get in trouble

Shakespeare died 400 years ago. He is the only required author in the 9th grade Common Core. Why is that? Shakespeare is a world-known English, actor, playwright, and writer. He wrote 38 plays, poems, and sonnets. He is being taught in freshman English classes in high schools, and making these freshmen miserable. Shakespeare should not be included in the 9th grade curriculum because it is hard to understand, not relevant, and meant for the theatre and not a classroom. To begin with, Shakespeare

I couldn't just drop everything and move on, I became lost. I didn't know this feeling because my life was always in control. I had good grades, good GPA and admired by many teachers. I couldn't accept the fact that my life was about to drastically change. At that moment, my biggest weakness, fear, said “hello”. After the

Should Students Get Paid for Good Grades? By: Hannah Erb, Jacob Cochran, Kayla Webster, and Adam Bundy Many kids are out of focus and bored when they learn something new, that could cause them to get bad grades or even punished. If students got paid for good grades and good behaviour, they may try harder in school. This could even cause less students being punished, students can focus more, and teachers wouldn’t have to worry about students not doing their work. Punishment

Throughout the course of my high school career, I have learned that great success can come with failure. As stated by Denis Waitley, “Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.” Waitley’s quote has inspired me to not only learn from my mistakes, but to use them to my advantage by learning more about myself and what I can accomplish

The small changes I have made, have had very low amount of difference from my grades. I believe I did really good studying these last couple of weeks, and my grades have shown because I have a 4.0 in the 2nd quarter. I still think though that my note taking method is a lot more efficient than the ones I tried. I tried using all of these weird methods like taking different kinds of notes such as longer and more detailed ones rather than my bulleted points. In class I still contributed the same amount

to allow students to” look forward with their grades create a more accurate display of progress. This is so wrong for a multitude of reasons. Switching to this flawed system would create far more problems than it would solve because SBG is inferior to traditional grades, SBG is much more disorganized than the current “traditional” grading system, and SBG is unnoticed by colleges. The first fatal flaw of SBG is that it is inferior to traditional grades in certain areas. As the name suggests, standards-based

Cameron M Leads You Nowhere I continued to blush in fear. Where could my calculator be? I received bad grades, averaging a B in every class, except math. In my class, my math grade was the lowest of anyone else, a 72.77%. My dad told me that I needed to get good grades in order to get the things I want. I had promised him that I would do well. I’m all about promising good things. I do it when I feel it is necessary. As my teacher passed out

encouragement, and I lived for the stuff. Later, anyone’s, admittedly less potent, praise could hook me, and so I grew, inebriated and arrogant. After all, only a great person could do the great things I was told I did, or so I thought. All A’s in third grade earned me praise, a trip to get ice cream, and a high strong enough that a dropped cone would not waver the smile that bridged the gap between my ears. It overwhelmed me then but forever underwhelmed me since. Every subsequent rush, every fleeting

Education has always been about the encouragement of improving and learning more.  Each year, it is expected that students will achieve greater things and get higher grades.  At least that was always the expectation Champion High School. Unfortunately,  Ms. Heather Fetterman did not get the memo.  As a ninth grade English teacher,  she taught absolutely nothing and many would feel less intelligent after enduring her class.  Leaving her class every day meant another issue that could not be easily