HW 51

school is just another milestone in life you could say, another stepping stone that you have to go through. It also helps you curve what you plan to do in life or want you want to do in life in some ways as well. Sometimes students complain about how we shouldn't have to go to school and how its a waste of time, which there are some days i feel the same way but if you think about it if you never went to school you would never really learn how to read and how to write. which would limit alot of the things you could do in life. One thing that some schools do well at least at our school i feel that it does that is it makes us think for ourselves and also lets as make smart choices later in life. In this paper i will show some of the postives and negetive things about school.



one thing that i dont fully agree on is the time school starts.Since kindergarten I was always forced to wake up early to go to school which I never figure out why. Everytime I have to wake up for school usally the first peroid class I feel pretty sleepy still and awake but not awake at the sametime. I think that if school were to start later that it would not only help people who struggle geting to school on time but it also might help people grades. One school did a survey to see what the students think and what they got back was that if school were to start later they might be able to in joy it more and also it would help there grades. Another piece of research that I heard about was how the brain is not that activey tilll one time, like your brain would be awake but not fully and maybe that's I feel a little lost in my first peroid class cause my brain is not fully activey and how the later classes I feel that I do better because I feel more awake and my brain probily is more activy later in the day than the morning.

The other flaw i think that alot of school tend to have is the students dont feel motivated to learn. i think that the reason to this is because sometimes what teachers would do is they would just teach from the textbook, which alot of students would find really boring and would not find the need to learn. i think Mr. Fanning said it best when he said that our generation was raised up on computers and all these electronics and the way the school system is set up doesnt really fit with how we grew up which makes alot of the things we do in school boring because we cant really relate to it. if the school system were to change a few things than i think more students would be motivated to learn.


http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/motiv.htm
what this article is talking about is sort of a guide to help teachers in some way. because it talks about how some students are motivated to learn and than how there are some students that need motivated from the teachers. more in the article it starts to list some ways that teachers can do it.


http://www.physorg.com/news98892114.html
this article talks abouts how school should start later and in the article they did a survey and it showed that if school were to start later that students who find it hard to wake up in the morning well get better grades because they would have more energy to do that work.

HW 50

Gatto

i agree with alot of what gatto was saying. a few things that he said were how school should not be a place where you hate going, it should be a place where you want go to and learn interesting things in school while also learning about the outside world. another thing that he saids is how homeschoolers have it less bad than people who go to public school because they don't have to endure what we go through.

Freire

From what i understood a few things that he was saying was how teachers are meant to fill the student with content and also how students are forced to memorizes and repeats phrases without really understanding what they really stand for. another thing that he mentions is how the teachers are the ones in control and they are the ones who bestowed the gift of knowledge to the students.


Delpit

one of delpit goals is to try to give African Americans in low income family's a good education. one thing that she saids that i do agree with is ""If teachers make judgments only according to the tests being inflicted on the children by the schools, then they can misunderstand their children's brilliance." which i agree with because students have different strengths in different areas so some students could be a good test taker and some are not and if teachers were to judge just on that than they would be missing some of the strenghts of the students.

Extra Credit : The Class

when the movie started i thought that i was going to see like another teacher being the one trying to help the students out with problems they might have or the teacher trying to save the day in some way, which was sort of true but that wasn't really all that was happening. when the first day of school started we saw that the students were giving the teacher a hard time and not really respecting him that much. the next day one of the students that he had last year that he liked and she always respected him didn't respect him the next day and refused to read when she was asked. which was a big deal for him because he knew that student well and for her to be doing this was odd. Than later when he checked his mail boxes he got a letter from her saying that she still respects him and all but she some what changed and how not to be to friendly with her in a way in class because he will be looking for trouble. i thought that was one of the highlights in the movie. The other major highlight in the movie was Souleymane what started happening with him is that he started acting up in class and there was one day where he acted up so much that the teacher finally got fed up and took him to the principles office. which from there started another chain of events because when the teachers had a meeting about students and grades they talked about Souleymane while the teachers were talking about him acting up in class the student reps were also there but they were talking to each other about other things. the next day in class when the teacher was teaching the ourburst started happening because the student reps told Souleymane about what happen in the meeting which ended up geting the teacher so worked up that he called the student reps Shanks which caused Souleymane to get more upset tryed to leave the class room and ended up by hiting a student in the eye by mistake but caused the student to bleed.


I dont really think that you can really blame one person for what happen to Souleymane because there was alot of things that were just adding to the fire which made Souleymane snap in away. one thing that Souleymane did wrong was geting upset alot and having outburst because if he had never had that first outburst where it got him kicked out of class the rest of the events that followed would not have happen so you kind of have to give him some blame for that. One thing that the teacher did wrong was calling the student reps shanks because i think that was one of the major reason that Souleymane snaped the second time i thin kthat Souleymane felt that he needed to defend them in a way but the way he did it wasn't the right way because he ended up geting in to more trouble. what the teacher than found out later from a student was that if Souleymane were to get kicked out of that school how his father might send him back to the village where hes from, which than from there he did try to defend Souleymane by telling the other teachers that we should not go through with this meeting and also told the teachers what the students told him. But i guess the teachers were just fed up with his behavor that they still wanted to go through with the meeting anyways even if it means for him to get kicked out of school. So the teacher did try to save him / defend him but the other teachers were just fed up with him.


If we were to compare this to SOf i think that we would not see that many simlar things, one thing that might be simlar one be the first day back from school and how everyone usallys not listen to the teacher because its the first day and there trying to get back in to school mode and stuff. one thing thats different is that when teachers are having meeting talking about grades and students i dont think that we have students in the same room because that just caused alot of conflucts because right after that meeting the next day the students that were there went and told the other students everything that happen which started the whole outburst. i also think thats why we dont have students at Sof in a room with teachers when there talking about other peoples grade and other people.

hw 48

The opening scene should show a teacher geting out of bed and geting dressed to go to school. As you see the teacher doing this you would see that the way he's doing it is pretty unlife like because the expression of his face would be sad and depressing as he gets ready he heads out and take the train to school. At school you would see all these kids walking around talking loud as the teacher walks pass some of them a few said hi to him but he didn't reponsed and just kept walking, he than walks in to the office clocks in and heads to his classroom. He opens the door to the class room sits down at his desk and than waited till class started. Students started to walk in some said hi to the teacher and his responds was a simple wave. He than started class teaching from the textbooks like he usally does untill the bell rings and class was over. Some students started talking amongs themselfs and wonder why was he so derepessed and sad all the time so they decide that they were going to try to help him..........



This type of story is sort of like all the movies we watched in andys class but the big difference between the movies we watched in andys class and this is that this time the teacher is the one with problem and its not the students so its like instead being the savior the students would be the one, what the students try to do next is that they try to help the teacher so that he would not be so depressed all the time and maybe change in a good way for himself and also for them.

HW 46 - Research and Writing

the book that i read was called "what are my rights" by Thomas A. Jacobs, JD and the book talks about questions that teens have about there rights. one question that was in the book was "how long do i have to stay in school" there response to that was "different states have different ages for compulsory school attendance. you can call any school district to office to find out what required where you live." it goes on by saying if you stop going to high school you can still get your diploma by enrolling in a GED. another question that was asked was "do i have to go to school?" and the response to that was by law you have to go to school and if you are under age and you are not attending school that your parents will get in-trouble for you not attending. the article i read was http://www.physorg.com/news98892114.html and it talked about how school should start later.


The article that i was relates to my topic because my question was should school start later. what this article talks about is a survey that they did with teenagers, some of the questions that were ask was to they get enough sleep and the response was that they don't and how its usually a struggle for them to get up in the morning to head out to school. another thing that was said was how also if tests/ quizs were to start later in the day how the grades result would be better for students that find it hard to wake up in the morning and don't get enough sleep.

i think if they did a survey and all and it shows that teens dont get that much sleep and also it effects how they do in school i think that they should just push school back a little bit so that teens could get the sleep they need for them to do good in school.