Value Of Respect Research Paper

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The little things we learn from our parents, teachers, and friends can be very beneficial to us in life. These simple things can be used to guide us through our daily lives and make overcoming difficulties easier. I have been taught many things by friends and family, but out of all of the things I have learned, I consider the value of respect the most important. The importance of respect was not clear to me until about my last year of middle school. In fifth grade, I was a student at the top of my class. For almost all of my elementary school years, I kept an all A grade average and was very active in activities that the school offered. In most of my classes, I was almost always the teacher’s favorite student: My dedication to completing …show more content…

I kept this same mentality through all of the sixth grade and most of seventh. Towards the end of seventh grade, my peers were starting to change my view on school. They used to tell me that I was a teacher's pet and cared too much about school and that it was going to affect my social life and I believed them. When seventh grade started, I took what my peers said into account. I was still passionate about my school work, but my attitude started to change along with the quality of my schoolwork. I was less attentive in class and I would sometimes catch myself talking back to my teachers. Despite doing this, I would only receive mild warnings and no major discipline. This led me to believe that there would be no consequence to lack of respect to the teachers, as long as I was excelling in my school work. Eighth grade is where the importance of respect became more clear to me. When I entered the eighth grade I was a completely different person from seventh grade. Unlike the previous year, I lost all interest in trying to do my best in school. I paid less attention in class which caused my grades to drop drastically, and I was not respectful to my teachers. These actions caused me to lose a lot of my privileges throughout that school year. My history of not getting into trouble also changed that

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