Why Students Fail In High School

High school students don’t know how they can succeed in school and improve their academic performance. A student in high school with unexceptionally easy courses could glide through high school with very limited effort involved and receiving mediocre results. The student receives low grades since they are not required or expected to exceed above any standards set by the administration. When that student graduates high school and begins their college career or applies for jobs, they are vacuous and struggle since they only took the easy route throughout their early life and was never prepared. Unfortunately, most students end up in that predicament of not being prepared for their future struggles and fail to succeed since there was never any

For the past few years, many high schools have been gradually lowering the difficulty of their courses and requirements to graduate. These schools have made it easier for students to graduate while still giving no effort in their academic career which leads to struggles in their future. Continuing to lower the requirements in schools allows students to fail and barely meet the minimum. When raising the requirements, it motivates and forces the students to test their true intellectual abilities. Students at Anaheim High School should have higher graduation requirements and more challenging courses in order to succeed academically. In order for these students to be successful academically, the school must raise their graduation requirements. Too many students fail multiple classes and are still allowed to graduate with unacceptable GPAs with mediocre grades from their past four years in school. At Anaheim High School, there is no set requirement for GPAs in order to graduate, which implies that a student could have below a 1.0 GPA and still graduate with the students who obtain high GPAs and worked exceptionally hard to get their diploma. The lack of self motivation comes from the low requirements set

Teaching children motivational skills and good learning techniques at a very young age can have a massive positive impact on how successful those children would be in their future. In the nonfiction article Kewauna’s Ambition, the author explains that her success came from her own self motivation, and the help from an organization that helps troubled kids. The author states “what was most remarkable to me about kewauna was that she was able to marshal her prodigious non cognitive capacity - call it grit, conscientiousness, resilience, or the ability to delay gratification.” (Tough, 2015). He relates the experience and resilience of Kewauna to other teenagers who share the same experience. Many also believe that motivation and willingness to learn is taught by parents, teachers, and peers. The success of students does not solely depend on the school 's ability to provide programs and help, but the ambition of the student alone. In contrast, those methods of teaching skills at a young age don’t always have a lasting effect on the children throughout their entire academic career. At a young age, students may have that extreme motivation of never failing throughout their life and when they get older, that desire to keep succeeding is gone. The overconfidence of possessing high learning abilities could affect the students negatively as they grow older.