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Kurt Wiesenfeld Is Failing A High Education Level Report Card?

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Recently, our university grade 12 English Class studied/ interpreted content relating to the concept of failing a high education level report card, which is overseen by professors of post- secondary education . Kurt Wiesenfeld has compassed a precisely considerable activity on analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of earning considerable marks in a report card. I personally believe that Kurt had done an embarrassing job at explaining the ventures of his student's private/ personal life that relates to their daily education lifestyles. I have learned a lot from this essay as in comparison to the others before; this is the result of great explanations and reasoning which were provided by the illustrator of the article. Things that I have learned from the article relate to …show more content…

One day, one of Kurt's student desperately says that " I wonder If there's anything I can do to improve my grade?"; this question made me feel like a high school student who desperately wants to earn good marks in his classes. It is understood directly by the illustrator of the article that a person must face the hectic schedules of school lifestyle to better involve himself into the conduct of a school pupil. Kurt is very dramatic when he mentions that ' there's a weird innocence to the assumption that one expects ( even deserves) a better grade simply by begging for it"; this alleviates the readers of the article to consume that article is written with great grief and sadness. I believe that it's a very un-ordained idea to believe that a person can simply change his grades by begging for it, in front of his/her teacher. In fact, trying such things can cause a person to get in heavy trouble and can allow heavy consequences to occur, and be caused. Apparently, Kurt mentions that he is responsible for "someone losing a scholarship, flunking out or deciding whether life has a meaning" or

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