Today I read, It Take a Whole Village [or High School] by Karl Fisch. This was a very inspiring event that took place at Heritage High School. This goes to show how much a community of people can achieve by determination. Even though Heritage is our biggest rival, it is times like these that make a realize what an amazing school they are.
On April 16-20 2007, Heritage High School accomplished something that helped the World. On that week, 1,637 students gave 14, 014.43 dollars this raised 102, 50k bags of rice for starving people in Sierra Leon. One student traveled to Sierra Leon to help distribute the rice and learn about the people living there, it was said that the screams and cheers when the food arrived was unbelievable. This is simply amazing that Heritage was able to come together and help out a struggling nation. Why can't all of the high schools do this?
At Arapahoe High School we have been helping out less fortunate people as well. Toys for Tots is the most recent activity to help people that are far less fortunate than us. Arapahoe exceeded the goal of giving 1000 presents to children kindergarten - 5th grade. Raising about 1900 presents is something that our school can be proud of. This is an incredible accomplishment and is helping kids who may not get anything on Christmas except that. ALL schools should have fundraising for people who are struggling. Helping others out is a great feeling and if all schools had fundraisers and came together we can help the world little by little and start to make a huge difference.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Sunday, December 9, 2007
PLN 25
Today I read Why are Kids Failing, this post talks about a teacher that has done everything to try and help her students but they still do not cooperate. Mrs. Davis, a 9th grade teacher has lowered the standards for her 9th grade class. She is doing her best to try to get her students to succeed and realize the importance of grades, but they still continue to slack and let her down.
Failing is a difficult thing to do. As long as we do our homework and do our best most likely we will have a acceptable grade. Mrs. Davis has done multiple things to merely try to get her students to do there homework but it its not successful, she asks the question why are kids failing?
Being freshman, some kids don't realize how important our grades our. Some kids believe that its just the beginning of high school and we can do whatever we please and grades aren't an issue. This is completely untrue, grades in high school, all four years determine our future. I believe that this may be why there has been so many difficulties in her class. I also think that teenagers do not have the determination to work on their grades and succeed. It has gotten so bad that she had to lower the standards a lot and they still won't do what they are supposed to. All they have to do is do there homework, if they do bad, they can redo it until they get 100%, how hard is that? I do not have the opportunity to do anything like that, a lot of kids don't and these kids are taking advantage of it.
We all get what we deserve, and the teenagers that refuse to try to succeed in school will realize they messed up. No teacher likes to see there students fail, but there's only so much the teacher can do. Its on the students shoulders to decide to do there work or not and if they don't, they will regret it. Mrs Davis' tactics are good, and the students need to work on their attitude toward grades and spend more time working on school work.
Failing is a difficult thing to do. As long as we do our homework and do our best most likely we will have a acceptable grade. Mrs. Davis has done multiple things to merely try to get her students to do there homework but it its not successful, she asks the question why are kids failing?
Being freshman, some kids don't realize how important our grades our. Some kids believe that its just the beginning of high school and we can do whatever we please and grades aren't an issue. This is completely untrue, grades in high school, all four years determine our future. I believe that this may be why there has been so many difficulties in her class. I also think that teenagers do not have the determination to work on their grades and succeed. It has gotten so bad that she had to lower the standards a lot and they still won't do what they are supposed to. All they have to do is do there homework, if they do bad, they can redo it until they get 100%, how hard is that? I do not have the opportunity to do anything like that, a lot of kids don't and these kids are taking advantage of it.
We all get what we deserve, and the teenagers that refuse to try to succeed in school will realize they messed up. No teacher likes to see there students fail, but there's only so much the teacher can do. Its on the students shoulders to decide to do there work or not and if they don't, they will regret it. Mrs Davis' tactics are good, and the students need to work on their attitude toward grades and spend more time working on school work.
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