Analyzing Classroom Disorders By Dr. Ken Shore

The main reason I chose to write this essay, besides the fact that it's 35% of my overall quarter grade and without it I would be academically ineligible, is the simple fact that I thought it would be ironic and humorous to write an essay/research paper based on how much I really didn't want to write this paper. In hindsight I also may have been a tad bit curious to how much teacher involvement is reflective of effort perpetuated by students in addition to the rapidly increasing lack of motivation and care with minor assignments. It's actually kind of funny how much effort is shown by a majority of students when an essay is worth over a third of your grade. I can't tell you how many tweets have gone out expressing increasing stress and desperation

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Dr. Ken Shore uses an online outlet to express a few solutions to the overwhelming problem seen every year by college bound students. Although many MD's may disagree, "Senioritis" is a chronic disease seen in both Male & Female students between the ages of 17 and 18 attending their senior year of high school. The only cure known to man is a very time consuming one: Graduation Day. Now with a bit of background the audience of this elaborately constructed experiment with be able to properly understand its contents, a great example being Dr. Shore's solutions to academic apathy. The Doctor begins his essay with a small explanation of a very general example of academic apathy. "A motivational problem is not always easy to define, although teachers usually have no trouble recognizing it: The unmotivated student is the one whose attitude toward schoolwork screams, "I don't care!"" Shore continues by saying that the only motivation expressed by the student is the motivation to avoid the school work its self, no motivation towards actually completing the task is shown by these academically aggravated adolescents.

Shores solutions are listed as follows:

1.Interrupt the cycle of

Setting unrealistic goals, or goals that are possibly too far for any normal teenager to attain can be just as detrimental to a students effort as any other type of negative influence. With that being said the conclusion can be drawn that adults have to take a portion of the burden upon themselves, this accountability will leave students with the idea that they have someone to work through this with instead of having to face it alone (Accountability from teachers will be addressed in the analysis