Do Good Grades Matter Summary

When comparing the article “Students, teachers dealing with greater academic demands” and the video “Do Good Grades Matter?” one thing you will notice is stress. Students and teachers both deal with stress constantly. The article really focuses on the stress students got throughout school and stress teachers go through trying to teach throughout the school. The video really focuses on the stress students go through to get good grades. Students and teachers both go through stress daily. Worrying if the teacher will give homework, worrying that students didn’t do the homework, and much more. This article wants other people to realize the number of stress students and teachers go through nowadays. It is much different than when they were in school. Students

Most likely if you don’t have good grades you won't get a job because someone else had better grades. Good grades in high school help you get into the college you want to get into. Different colleges have different requirements in order to get accepted. Students worry that if they don’t do well on a test they will have no chance to get into the college they want and won’t get the job they want. The article and the video do have a lot of good information from credible sources. Such as surveys by expert organizations and by people who understand the topic and have a comment on it. In the article, the author tries to connect stress to people’s health. The author claims that it impacts their heart rate. A high heart rate is very bad for people. It can cause more damage to a person. The video suggests that stress of the students will lead to greed. Because the students want so badly to get into a good college to get a good job and all they have to do is get good grades. They want it so badly they don’t realize that grades should not be the number one priority of a person. The video claims that good grades in high school are important in high school but not in