Persuasive Essay On Streaming

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Streaming Stops Dreaming!

The other day in chem, my teacher gave me my year 8 results for entrance into secondary school, which decided how I was going to be “streamed” into my classes. My predicted grades were Merit and Excellence for all of my subjects aside from maths. My math was very very average and with some work could easily have been as good as anyone else 's. So why was I put in a below average class? As a young, optimistic girl this crushed me because I was told, and came to believe I was “dumber than most of society” in everything and that is what I was classified as.

Streaming is what made a bright, blonde little girl think she was going to work in a supermarket... I was to become the Tanya played by Laura Vandervoot in the movie ted.

Streaming in year 9 and 10 should be banned from the New Zealand schooling system. It politicizes the …show more content…

No positivity. No goal. And no idea of how I was going to catch up. I was streamed into thinking I wasn’t good enough, the and had the same attitude towards school as when i lost blinds man bluff. But I had a stable lifestyle with close family and friends. If streaming is in every secondary school, how many children weren’t as lucky as me? How many children would have got themselves into this negative mindset and didn 't have the same support as I did? Other research from (http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/sep/25/school-streaming-pupils-english-primaries)

States that “The data suggest that streaming undermines the attempts of governments to raise attainment for all children whatever their socio-economic status” Students are forced into believing that they are not good enough and therefore accept the fact that they don 't fit into society. We are bullying our children. Streaming manipulates children 's grades and is the gateway into a social hierarchy, which no 13 year old should be put

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