Ashton Nicholas
Hedgepeth, Instructor
English 101 001
22 September 2014
Attendance Relies on Desire In “So That Nobody Has to Go to School if They Don’t Want To”, Roger Sipher discusses the reasons that school attendance policies should be abolished. Today’s required attendance rules force students to go to school who do not want be there. Abolishing these attendance laws would create great changes in schools. It would open everyone’s eyes wider for the realization that school is a serious place for learning. Students who do not have the will to learn will not corrupt the atmosphere for those kids that intend to gain a broader education. The purpose of grades is to show how well students are learning in their educational atmospheres.
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Students that wish not to learn typically prepare their work to the bare minimum in school because they know that they will be passed along to the next grade until they can quit or graduate. Mr. Sipher said it best when he spoke on the fact that most children go to school because their parents want them to get an education. Students are only attending school because of the attendance law that is placed at schools and because of force by their parents. If there were no longer a rule for attending school, then those that do not want to come would not waste their time. Only the students that want their education would go to school, and the learning environment would improve …show more content…
Students that do not want to learn are a distraction in the classroom. If there were no longer a compulsory attendance law, then those students that are a distraction would no longer be in the classroom to be a distraction. People who do not want to learn should stay away from schools. By ending the attendance policies, it would require those students to stay away if they do not wish to learn. In his essay, Mr. Sipher states: “schools are neither day-care centers nor indoor street corners”. This is a very true statement. Schools are meant for earning an education and if a student does not want to learn, then they should not attend the
Grades do motivate students to do better but, grades cause students to want to get a good grade instead of fully mastering the material. They look at school just trying to pass which promotes cheating on tests and homework. They also will choose the material that is the easiest and choose a class with a professor who doesn’t care to raise their GPA. School is supposed to be about learning and understanding new material to help gain knowledge and a new way of thinking.
Ultimately, by these students tieing their self image to getting the highest possible grade it can lead them to some serious Problems, the students not learning to their full potential, and negatively affect their career. Grades play a role in education but grades should not define a student like it does today.
I agree with Garland I feel that attendance shouldn’t be mandatory because that’s just forcing those who don’t want to learn go to school. Those who are always getting into fights and causing problems shouldn’t be able to attend school. I like how Garland talks about why mandatory attendance is just based upon the idea that every American has the right to basic education. “But as the old saying goes, your rights stop where the next guy’s begin” (620). Garland explains how every student who wants an education regardless of their inabilities should find a way to receive an education. On the other hand, I remember when I used to go to high school and I witnessed how my friends thought attendance was a big joke. My classmates would always show up late or not even bother to show up. Participation points weren’t a big deal in Hope Academy since all of our classes were online. It didn’t take long before the school started to enforce strict rules. If one doesn’t want to attend school, shouldn’t show up. I feel that mandatory attendance is outrageous. One who wants to learn will find a way to receive an education. Mandatory attendance just gives the trouble-makers an opportunity to waste everyone’s time for those who really want to learn. To sum up, mandatory attendance shouldn’t be allowed. Schools are learning centers that provide students education they aren’t centers of entertainments. Garland also talks about school cafeterias and how they serve unhealthy
American society has started to take education for granted. Today it is so easy for most anyone to afford or to be accepted into a college that you wind up with people being here to socialize instead of learn and that leads to a decline in overall performance because it turns the atmosphere away from learning and into more of a four year party before the real world. Society seems to show college as a next step, almost if its a responsibility instead of a choice which hurts not only themselves but at the same time serving as a distraction for the people who are aspiring to do something better with their life. These dedicated individuals deserve better than to be forced into an environment where they are subjugated to a mass of people who would rather party than learn. The real students have enough to deal with as it is but forcing people to go to class would only exacerbate the situation forcing focus driven students to have important cla...
If students do not go to college to learn, then it will actually be a waste of time and money, and they will not get anything out of their career. Pharinet also goes against what she wrote, she says, “There is no doubt that every person has the right to an education.” Then she says, “But not every person should attend college.” She says that everyone should get an education, but everyone should not attend college. Pharinet contradicts what she said.
Graduation from high school is a rite of passage that signals passing from adolescence into the adult world. Life does not end after high school, but signals the beginning of many years as a contributing member of society. Many times, as part of this celebration, seniors have a tendency to skip classes and school days. School administrators frequently recommend that school boards adopt strict attendance policies for high school seniors. These policies limit their absences in the last month of school in order to be eligible for participation in graduation ceremonies. This policy statement will support greater leniency for requirements to participate in graduation ceremonies.
Seeing this, the ability of grades to influence and create positive and negative roles to students remains to be the responsibility of the educator. Given that grades help manifest a standard for students to adhere to, teachers must try to create an environment where they can facilitate and motivate students to do better (Tomlinson, 2001). By using grades as an instrument for development, it can create a positive perception for students to improve and seek connections with instruction and course content.
Grades should motivate the students, but only the ones that
Often grades cause students to cheat for the fear of a bad score affecting their overall grade. Institutions of learning need to turn away from grading scales which do not represent student success well, and turn towards an option that better suits students and faculty alike. Grading scales control students more than they accurately portray the students success. The grades cause students to fear that they will not pass which makes them more apped to do their work.
Perfect grades are what most students strive to achieve. Students seek the validity grades offer them and quickly move on after they receive it. Even though some argue that grades are a motivation behind learning, grades should be abolished because they diminish from actual learning and encourage students to think in unoriginal ways. Grades should be abolished because they diminish learning interest. When graded a student only cares about passing, they don’t care about learning the material well as long as they “get an A.” In “Do Grades Do Any Good?”
The author talks about students asking permission to leave early or come late to class. She argues how students don't notice that professors have already heard all the thousand reasons to justify their attendance problems. She also understands that things may come up at the last minute or it may just be an issue with a work schedule and a mean supervisor. She says is always good to let professors know before hand to prevent distraction during the lecture. However, the student has to take in count that he is responsible for the work missed during the time absent in class or losing points on attendance, even if attendance is not required for the class, the student chooses their class schedule meaning the student agrees to be present in class
While studying or even registering for a class presents a challenge to some college students, the greatest obstacle remains, going to class. Attending college is supposed to signify a new found freedom to make many important choices regarding education without high school mandatory attendance policies. However, students everywhere are coming to the staggering realization that college is not too different from high school. Teachers still take class roll and students are still expected to be at every class on time. What next, hall monitors in the hall? The time has come for action to be taken. Colleges must abolish mandatory student attendance policies for several reasons to be further discussed.
Absenteeism is a common problem encountered by teachers and others who work in the field of education. There are many reasons why some children fall into a pattern of repeated absence from school. In a number of cases, willful absence can be traced to an alienation from schooling due to poor achievement, family circumstances or behavioral causes. In some cases, parents or children simply defy the requirement to participate. This area is one in which the need for partnership between school and family is greatest. While many schools provide successful alternative programs or absenteeism intervention strategies, there will be cases where, despite the best efforts of schools and parents, the children stay away. It is clear that any unauthorized absence is of concern because of the valuable educational time which is lost and because the absence of some children is associated with inappropriate behavior in the community. Different types of absenteeism will be discussed during this essay but the main focus will be directed at truancy in which the causes and remedies will be evaluated.
Nowadays, universities are open place for all people. More and more educational chances have been created for those who want to acquire knowledge from colleges and universities. While registering for a college course seems to be no longer complicated, there still remains an obstacle that has been triggered so much controversy in academic environment: mandatory attendance policy. This policy, which is imposed by some schools or some professors, requires that college student must attend class regularly enough or their exam papers will be extracted some attendance points (that usually count for about 15 or 20 percent of the total grade evaluation). In my opinion, this policy is useless and burdensome to many people involved. University students should be free in choosing which classes to attend.
As children work their way up through the education system one of the most important aspects they are taught is attendance. But why is attendance so important? A study done by David Romer proved that attendance had a significant impact on student’s performances. (Romer 1993, p. 167–74), recorded the attendance of students that were involved in his large, macroeconomics course. He found that the t-statistic on attendance was a 6.2; this implied that a student who attends only a quarter of the lectures on average earns a C, while a student who attends all lectures on average earns a B +. A later study done by (Durden & Ellis, 1995, p. 343–346.), also indicated that attendance does matter for academic achievement. Their data was nonlinear, meaning