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The importance of receiving a high education
The importance of receiving a high education
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I am grateful for all my hard work and effort and I have earned my grades during my high school career. Getting good grades had its ups and downs but I could have never made it without the encouragement and motivation from my parents. I learn fast and thought others the work. I have struggled at times to comprehend some lessons and I have spent hours to prepare myself for the test. As to my grade point average it has never been lower than a 3.9. Throughout the 4 years attending high school I have learned so much, whether its learning the derivative of an equation or how to lead a group of teenagers to run a successful virtual business in Virtual Enterprise. I have grown so much in maturity and personality every year and I can’t
wait to see how I will be at college. Attendance Throughout high school I haven’t missed a lot of school. I have missed a few days due to illness and family problems. I hate missing school cause it feels as if I miss so much whenever I miss a day. I am happy of my attendance and I plan to continue to have a good attendance while in college and at my future job. Citizenship I believe that my citizenship in high school has been great and it will affect my future plans. Throughout my four years in high school I have never received any disciplinary steps or referrals and never had phone calls home for bad behavioral issues. My duty as a student is to: get my work done, stay out of trouble, and pass all of my classes. I have succeed my duty and I have been a good citizen at this school, and I proud to say that other students know me as someone who is positive and makes good choices.
My excellence in my grades have resulted in a GPA of 3.7 as I feel that these are the results of all the days and nights that I have spent staying awake studying and completing assignments to the best of my abilities. For me, I consider that skills needed for the future are necessary to possess because it leads to the prosperity of a career. I have committed myself entirely to take all types of experience that will pursue my career as a Master of Business Administration, Finance and Operations. Through my commitment, it develops my leadership skills as I cherish them into my life as a road to success. I have proven that I have achieved a mass amount academically in addition to taking classes a year ahead of the rest of most juniors. Furthermore, this year which is my junior year I am taking a College Now class known as History of the Caribbean. It is an honor to be in a college level class in 11th grade and keep up with the rest of my life and academic
I started high school with a broken heart. My father died when I was 13, not long before I started high school. I worked hard in school not only for him, but because working hard is who I am. He taught me that if you want something you have to go out and get it yourself and what I wanted to do was go to college. I have put myself through a lot in just this past year alone, applying for scholarships nonstop and earning my license so I can finally get a job. I want to be a successful, responsible person so I can make my father, wherever he is, proud of how far I was able to come after he was gone. Yes I’ve gone through a tragedy, but I’ve let it motivate me in a positive way, pushing me to be the best I can be.
During this year at Itineris I hope to be able to be able to try my hardest to progress in my studies. This way I can give myself the best education I can get and actually learn from what I have worked for. My motivation for coming here is the idea that I can do something good with my life and focus fully on academics and not so much on those things that can take away from my education. I can take more classes that will help me with my degree and not as many classes that are just used as a time to play.
My father had fallen ill and was in the hospital for 2 weeks. Coming from a Latino family, I knew it was serious. Men don't go to the doctor unless they really feel like they're on their death bed. And this was my father's turn. But, he is not to blame for my failures because every night that he would call me, his first two questions were always "How was your day?" followed by "Did you do all your homework mija?" As always I told him yes when I really hadn't even opened my backpack. 2.32. The number that signified my first real academic failure. I blamed everyone and anything except for the real culprit. Finally, I realized that this was true all my own fault. If my father had died, I would've had to see him on his death bed knowing I got a 2.32. Yes, I know a 2.32 isn't failing, but the look of disappointment I got from him shattered my world. He told me I shouldn't let things get in my way, school is all I have going for me in my life. He was right. Although he still struggled with his health, I made it my #1 goal to never fall below a 3.0 GPA. I realize that my life doesn't revolve around a number, but it pained me to disappoint my
During my years in high school, I have learned many valuable lessons. I’m proud of the person I am becoming. Life has not been easy, but thankfully I’m a strong hard worker. I started high school with a high GPA, and never intended for it to drop throughout my years. Within the last three years, I’ve moved around, participated in sports, and got a job.
Cliffside Park High School has offered me numerous opportunities. I took honors courses in English, mathematics, and science ever year. In addition, I have taken three years of Spanish as a third language and an advanced placement class for U.S. history. Throughout the past couple years; I have been able to sustain a high grade point average of about a 4.4 (based on calculations made at the end of sophomore year) and make High Honor Roll for almost every marking period. However, my journey to where I am now was not a perfect yellow brick road. Instead, it was a path with many twists and turns that led me through many dark and awful experiences. Juggling all these courses was something I had adapted ...
Attending Early College High School has changed the way I feel about education because now I prioritize my academics. I don’t let any barriers in my life interfere with my academics. At ECHS, I have not faced many difficulties, but one difficult challenge was when I got a terrible grade in my AP Biology class. I was devastated to see that on my progress report card I had a D+. I had never had such a low grade in any class. Many thoughts were running in my head, including the thought that I was never going to make it into college because of that grade. I tried extremely hard to raise my grade, but I could not focus on school because my grandfather had just passed away and my family was facing a very difficult time. Memories came flashing in
Throughout the entirety of my high school experience, my school has prepared me to be what they call, ‘future ready’. This concept was designed to prepare us for what comes next after high school, we were told to contemplate colleges and careers that we’d want to pursue. Growing up, I wanted to be an artist, to share my creativity and to inspire others through my art, but I realized that I needed to more than that, and my hobby wasn’t a realistic career choice. Last year, after months of trying to figure out what I want to do with my life, I discovered my true calling. I spent years complaining about the school system and staff, nagging me constantly to do better, but what I realize now is that they were only trying to encourage me to succeed, to make a difference, and that’s exactly what I want to do. The American educational system is designed to inform and inspire, and that’s how I choose to give back to my country as well.
During my junior year of high school, I often skip classes, sleep on class, and don’t even do any of my homework. By the end of the school term, I ended up with failing all six classes and had my GPA way lower than the passing average. I and my parents had a big fight about the grades that I had and the school even had us sat in the parent center to reconcile our problem with a psychologist. After the talk between my parent, the psychologist, and me, my parents seems changed, they don’t restrain me anymore like before. Even though I still thought that education is not important, but I started working hard to make up all the classes that I failed to get my high school diploma because I realized the hope that they put on me and I don’t want them to be disappointed again. During my senior year of high school, I did not only take six classes, but also working on a program called Cyber High to retake all my failed classes with high grades, and also take extra class to average up my GPA in order to meet graduate requirements.
Exit Exams are an unfair way of determining whether a student should or should not receive his or her diploma. Most students work very hard throughout high school to receive good grades. This should be enough to determine whether a student should pass high school. There are many intelligent students which do not have good test taking skills, exit exams keep many good students from graduating and teachers have to narrow their lesson plans for these types of exit exams. These are all good reasons why exit exams should not be required in graduating from high school.
I have always believed my self to be an excellent student. I have always completed assignments on time, and always studied rigorously. I always considered my self extraordinarily bright. My ego was amidst the clouds due to my scholastic success. Last semester was a wake up call. I thought I would do exceptionally well like always in high school, but I was sadly mistaken. Last semester was my transition semester. I can now say that last semester has by far been the hardest and most challenging semester of my life, and I just barley survived. I just narrowly passed my math and science classes, but upon a tremendous amount of reflection over the Christmas break of my academic challenges and achievements I know what I did wrong, and now know how to fix my mistakes, and I am now in the current phase of bettering myself as a student.
Ever since I started school my parents would always tell me when I would bring my report card with three’s home that it was never good enough and that they wanted to see fours and fives, even though my school did not give higher than a four. I remember one day I came home from 2nd grade with a student achievement award and my grandparents were very happy and proud. Afterward, I felt better and smarter until later when I went to show it to my dad he said “… that is not good enough you should have gotten the student of the month award.” It made me really depressed because instead of thinking he was pushing me to improve, he really thought I was not intelligent. I did not realize he was saying it so it could push me to get the student of the month award. The following month after I tried to get the award by doing all my homework, paying more attention in class and participating more often, I got the award and achieved my goal to make my family proud. I realized that the more I do to better my education the more I go to the next
Hi John, I got your note telling me that you’re going to drop out of school for good because you’re tired of having to deal with school bullies on a regular daily basis. I understand where you’re coming from John, but dropping out of High School is a foolish thing to do John because most starting paying jobs decent jobs usually require at least the minimum of a High School Diploma. or more to work for them. More and more jobs are requiring a minimum of a Highschool Diploma in order to work for them, there aren’t too many decent paying jobs out there that don’t require you to have a High School Diploma for you to work for them. More and more jobs are requiring a minimum of a Highschool Diploma in order to work for them, there aren’t too many
I highly value my education, and I commute about two hours every day to and from school. I went to a private catholic primary school and wanted to continue that education at a similar high school. However, my dad was laid off, while I was in eighth grade. Due to the high price of the private high schools, I decided that it would be best to go to a public high school. I transferred into another school district, in order to go to an academically challenging school that would give me a great educational foundation that I would be able to build upon in college. In the end, I was glad that I made that choice. I’ve made really good friends who have encouraged me to do my best, and I’ve also worked hard at achieving satisfaction with all of my
My journey as a student has always been focused on the path to college and success. Before I even set foot in kindergarten my mother, a college dropout, always told me that “honor roll wasn’t an option” and that I would be attending college in the future and achieving a degree. Most of the time I made these requirements. Most of the time I was awarded honor roll or had a newly edited list of colleges to attend, but sometimes life got in the way of my dreams of achieving success.