At the beginning of the story, the son feels smarter than his family. He feels this way because he has had more education than them. As it states in paragraph 7, “I sighed. “Them things got no basis at all in science.” I’d been going to school for a while, you see, and thought I knew just about everything. . .”
He had a successful high school career; captain of the football team, Senior Class President, and voted “most likely to succeed” and “most popular” by his classmates. In an interview of Dorothy MacDonald, she described how
He goes on to explain how street smarts and academic smarts need to go hand to hand and work much
Graff explains how kids with street smarts aren’t interested in traditional education and consequently don’t do well in subjects of school studies. In his essay Graff states, “I was your typical teenage anti-intellectual-or so I believed for a long time. I have recently come to think, however, that my preference for sports over schoolwork was not anti-intellectualism so much as intellectualism by other means.” (Graff 245) Graff thinks the education system is not benefiting from students’ street smart because students cannot use the cleverness they have for what interest them and apply it into their school work. I agree that by using what a student already knows will not only help benefit their learning experience, but it will also keep the
Why you Don’t Need to be Smart to Get Good Grades Sophomore year, AP U.S. History. My class was writing a Document Based Question (DBQ) over Christopher Columbus and the Age of Exploration. (A document based question is an essay where you use factual evidence given in the form of documents to write an essay). I knew nothing! My mind was blanker than the vacuum of space itself.
The Dumbest Idea Ever by Jimmy Gownley has a character by the name of Jimmy who plays an excellent role showing someone who faces a tough conflict, resolving It through perseverance and defining his character by his fight to overcome. Jimmy comes face to face with many conflicts throughout the story. Yet, with strength and perseverance, Jimmy found his way through. One of Jimmy’s biggest issues was his teacher's perspective on comic books.
In the rhetorical analysis essay, “Grade Inflation Gone Wild,” Stuart Rojstaczer addresses that United States higher education has gone downhill. He states in his essay that students are not being academically challenged anymore. The lack of perseverance from the students and faculty has made it easier to pass classes and maintain a good GPA. Stuart claims that, “Grades continue to go up regardless of the quality of education” (68). He believes that grade inflation is a huge issue in our society and that something should be done about it.
The superintendent intends to send him to a delinquent school for trouble makers but he ends up getting sent to a school with very smart kids by accident. This school is called (ASD) the Academy of Scholastic Distinction. Donovan notices that the students here are very smart and that their IQ level is very high as in genius. Donovan meets a boy and a girl named Noah Youkilis and Chloe Garfinkle whose IQ is more than 200. They both don't like the academy they are in
As a student, he was very intelligent, but started to fall behind. He had to repeat sixth grade,
“Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto is about a boy named Victor in seventh grade who has a crush on Teresa, another student. Victor likes Teresa so much, he embarrassed himself while trying to talk to her. “Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto is a good book to recommend to middle school readers because it is relatable and entertaining. “Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto is a good book to recommend to middle school readers because it is relatable. Since “Seventh Grade” is about having a crush, many middle schoolers would be able to relate to this story since middle schoolers also have crushes.
Fresh Off the Boat is a very nice TV series that is airing on ABC. It is currently on its second season and has been airing since 2015. This unique comedy is a memoir of an Asian- American man by the name of Eddie Huang. FOTB recalls his childhood growing up as a hip-hop head 12-year-old who had to move across the country from D.C.’s Chinatown to a white suburb in Orlando. The show is produced by Eddie Huang himself and directed by Lynn Shelton.
Mrs. Hughes held her students to a high standard, especially the Pre A.P. students. She would remind them repeatedly that in the eleventh grade the students would be completing A.P. work instead of Pre A.P. work. Overall, Mrs. Hughes’s classroom had set rules that almost every student abided
Writing is a language. If we take simple words and bluntly put the phrases into paragraphs, it defies the meaning of this broad dialect. I, Abigail Platon, will not only understand this odd, foreign language but make it my own while painting a picture with the power of correct grammar and lines of beautiful word choice. The only way I can find a gateway to this dream is through, one, hard work on my own and, two, in Temple City’s English Honors class. Through this program, I can achieve the goals I desire to complete, either in the academic year or the “foreseeable” future.
Have you ever wondered how grades actually do help students throughout their career in school? Yes, many do believe grades do not help, can cause stress to students overall making them perform at a lesser level and sometimes some believe that school isn’t even needed at all in a child’s life. Grades can affect a student’s learning and constant low grades can bring them down and their mindset of just being a below average student. However, grades do help students by showing the student’s progress in school whether they are doing good or bad and grades give a goal to get a better grade by trying harder to get that grade a student wants. First, grades show progress to everyone besides just the student.
Albert Einstein once said, "Everybody is a genius... But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid". Unfortunately, most school systems depict this quote. They judge a significant amount of the population by their ability to answer a few questions. They rate them with letters and numbers, and force students to be represented by these letters and numbers for the rest of their lives.
