Why Students Fail In Tenth Grade

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Everyone fails at some point in their life. I failed when I was in the tenth grade, in spite of the fact that most kids fail or fall off in ninth grade I did not, as a matter of fact, I did my work stupendously in ninth grade but when I transitioned to the tenth I stopped caring. Throughout my life previously I had been a great student getting good grades and I was regardful of all the rules that I had been given, but I never got any recognition or praise for it. I was cooperative to it up until the end of ninth grade, once again I had gotten more than satisfactory grades, but all I was told was that I could do better. After that point I stopped caring about everything due to that fact that I felt unappreciated; I stopped doing homework, studying, and overall caring about school. …show more content…

My teachers, who knew me and knew that I could do better, were concerned about me, but I wasn’t concerned about anything but , what I then saw as my road to acceptance , and a rebellion. After my second quarter report card came I realized that I couldn’t keep sabotaging myself to prove what I now saw as a ridiculous point, though my grades weren’t necessarily bad, I knew that I could have done way better had I tried; I was a smart, determined, self-oriented girl and anyone who couldn’t see that was missing out on someone amazing so I did what I had to do. I did all make-up work that the teachers allowed me to and resumed doing homework and studying, and by the end of that school year my grades were up to par

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