Comments on: One Sweet Dream http://students2oh.org/2007/12/17/one-sweet-dream/ The silent majority speaks up Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:12:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: 4ways http://students2oh.org/2007/12/17/one-sweet-dream/#comment-733 4ways Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:07:07 +0000 http://students2oh.org/2007/12/17/one-sweet-dream/#comment-733 I like what you are saying, but I think that to get to the point of being able to take the unexpected you need to be prepared by taking a few of the "expected"s. For example, you need to get through school to know what to do with the unexpected things you want to do in the future, because then you will be unprepared for the unexpected. If that makes sense! :) I like what you are saying, but I think that to get to the point of being able to take the unexpected you need to be prepared by taking a few of the “expected”s. For example, you need to get through school to know what to do with the unexpected things you want to do in the future, because then you will be unprepared for the unexpected. If that makes sense! :) ]]> By: julia http://students2oh.org/2007/12/17/one-sweet-dream/#comment-601 julia Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:28:21 +0000 http://students2oh.org/2007/12/17/one-sweet-dream/#comment-601 I belive as a freshmen that high school is a fun place to be. you can do sports, activities, ect. i even lettered this year which makes it even better. but yeah being in high school is like waiting for the dream to live on your own and kinda in a way be free from parents and school. I belive as a freshmen that high school is a fun place to be. you can do sports, activities, ect. i even lettered this year which makes it even better. but yeah being in high school is like waiting for the dream to live on your own and kinda in a way be free from parents and school. ]]> By: ... http://students2oh.org/2007/12/17/one-sweet-dream/#comment-574 ... Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:53:07 +0000 http://students2oh.org/2007/12/17/one-sweet-dream/#comment-574 thats pretty sweet thats pretty sweet ]]> By: Steven http://students2oh.org/2007/12/17/one-sweet-dream/#comment-570 Steven Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:22:01 +0000 http://students2oh.org/2007/12/17/one-sweet-dream/#comment-570 First of all I think you are right on Lindsea. I think there is so much more to life then the fractions and essays and grades we get in school. But I do believe that a formal education is very important. There is a lot to learn for public schools. But there is so much more out there to learn. Grades have become a way of "measuring" a persons worth. What person can be measured by how much they know about atoms and elements, or how efficiently they can summarize a book? I completely agree with Blair. School is a tool. It should be USED to its fullest extent. It is one of the greatest tools we have. (And it’s mostly free in this great country of ours.) Society takes grades to seriously. They use them to measure a person’s ability and potential. I am not exactly what you would call a highly intelligent person. I talk slow and read slow and am a terrible speller. But I love learning and have had a 4.0 for the past 3 yeas and a 3.8 this last semester. All grades do is measure how well you retain information and how hard you are willing to work. Don’t get me wrong, these are both very important things but I think society is far too absorbed in grades. Schools should find a way to focus more on actually learning, practical skills, and really world applications rather than average test scores. It seams to me that there is far too much we are missing out on, and far more to be learned. Maybe I am way off on this. That’s just how i see it. First of all I think you are right on Lindsea. I think there is so much more to life then the fractions and essays and grades we get in school. But I do believe that a formal education is very important. There is a lot to learn for public schools. But there is so much more out there to learn. Grades have become a way of “measuring” a persons worth. What person can be measured by how much they know about atoms and elements, or how efficiently they can summarize a book?

I completely agree with Blair. School is a tool. It should be USED to its fullest extent. It is one of the greatest tools we have. (And it’s mostly free in this great country of ours.) Society takes grades to seriously. They use them to measure a person’s ability and potential.

I am not exactly what you would call a highly intelligent person. I talk slow and read slow and am a terrible speller. But I love learning and have had a 4.0 for the past 3 yeas and a 3.8 this last semester. All grades do is measure how well you retain information and how hard you are willing to work. Don’t get me wrong, these are both very important things but I think society is far too absorbed in grades. Schools should find a way to focus more on actually learning, practical skills, and really world applications rather than average test scores. It seams to me that there is far too much we are missing out on, and far more to be learned.

Maybe I am way off on this. That’s just how i see it.

]]> By: Average Just Doesn’t Cut it Anymore at Students 2.0 http://students2oh.org/2007/12/17/one-sweet-dream/#comment-462 Average Just Doesn’t Cut it Anymore at Students 2.0 Sat, 12 Jan 2008 05:43:52 +0000 http://students2oh.org/2007/12/17/one-sweet-dream/#comment-462 [...] With the rise of their increasing expectations, there will also be the rise of students who will try to meet them. Just from a casual Google search of “Student overachievers” will result in a number of articles about the rise of overachieving students—students who feel like they need to be “well-rounded” in order to get accepted to a good college in order to be successful in life, as Lindsea has also covered in her post “One Sweet Dream”. [...] [...] With the rise of their increasing expectations, there will also be the rise of students who will try to meet them. Just from a casual Google search of “Student overachievers” will result in a number of articles about the rise of overachieving students—students who feel like they need to be “well-rounded” in order to get accepted to a good college in order to be successful in life, as Lindsea has also covered in her post “One Sweet Dream”. [...] ]]> By: Sarah Richter http://students2oh.org/2007/12/17/one-sweet-dream/#comment-420 Sarah Richter Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:09:55 +0000 http://students2oh.org/2007/12/17/one-sweet-dream/#comment-420 Yes, it's about who you are. Experienced and wise in your current realm, you are a like a young,firm rose bud. As you step out of high school into the next years of your life, the bud opens. The petals of who you are, what you want, where you go, what you do, and why unfold into a fuller bloom. Yes, it’s about who you are. Experienced and wise in your current realm, you are a like a young,firm rose bud. As you step out of high school into the next years of your life, the bud opens. The petals of who you are, what you want, where you go, what you do, and why unfold into a fuller bloom. ]]> By: NovelDame http://students2oh.org/2007/12/17/one-sweet-dream/#comment-388 NovelDame Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:04:31 +0000 http://students2oh.org/2007/12/17/one-sweet-dream/#comment-388 Thank you SO much for writing about this! Being a current senior myself, its been hard to voice my opinion about how the grading scale tests our abilities to be parrots and not what we actually absorbed. I have been lucky enough to have been taught by a handful of teachers throughout my life that have kept my spark for learning alive. I also believe that the requirements to get into college are based on the same repeat-after-me skills that are used in the classroom which eventually deprives the most worthy students of the education they crave. I myself have a GPA of 2.5, which says nothing about the kind of student I am but speaks volumes about my willingness to be a lemming of the school district. I believe that its disappointing to know that some of the most brilliant minds in history (Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, George Bernard Shaw, Winston Churchill, etc.) openly despised school, and still we have not learned from this fact. Apparently we're still not doing something right... Thank you SO much for writing about this! Being a current senior myself, its been hard to voice my opinion about how the grading scale tests our abilities to be parrots and not what we actually absorbed. I have been lucky enough to have been taught by a handful of teachers throughout my life that have kept my spark for learning alive. I also believe that the requirements to get into college are based on the same repeat-after-me skills that are used in the classroom which eventually deprives the most worthy students of the education they crave. I myself have a GPA of 2.5, which says nothing about the kind of student I am but speaks volumes about my willingness to be a lemming of the school district.
I believe that its disappointing to know that some of the most brilliant minds in history (Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, George Bernard Shaw, Winston Churchill, etc.) openly despised school, and still we have not learned from this fact. Apparently we’re still not doing something right... ]]> By: Jim Walker http://students2oh.org/2007/12/17/one-sweet-dream/#comment-384 Jim Walker Wed, 02 Jan 2008 02:37:51 +0000 http://students2oh.org/2007/12/17/one-sweet-dream/#comment-384 I am a special ed teacher in a vocational high school and for most of the students I work with college is not a dream but a nightmare. All around them their parents, siblings, peers talk about how great it will be when they can go to college. Most of the students in the program will not get a high school diploma because they will not be able to pass the state required test for graduation. Some students have taken the test 3 times and have gotten no closer. Every year I see the fear and anger in their eyes as the testing date draws closer. These are good kids who come to school every days and work to their ability level. But every year the systems says, "You're not good enough!" For the students who complete their education in the vocational programs they have a real opportunity to get jobs right out of school. We constantly remind the students that a college education does not make a happy adult. Learning the value of self-respect and taking charge of your own learning will get you where you want to go. I am a special ed teacher in a vocational high school and for most of the students I work with college is not a dream but a nightmare. All around them their parents, siblings, peers talk about how great it will be when they can go to college. Most of the students in the program will not get a high school diploma because they will not be able to pass the state required test for graduation. Some students have taken the test 3 times and have gotten no closer. Every year I see the fear and anger in their eyes as the testing date draws closer. These are good kids who come to school every days and work to their ability level. But every year the systems says, “You’re not good enough!”
For the students who complete their education in the vocational programs they have a real opportunity to get jobs right out of school. We constantly remind the students that a college education does not make a happy adult. Learning the value of self-respect and taking charge of your own learning will get you where you want to go. ]]> By: Lindsea http://students2oh.org/2007/12/17/one-sweet-dream/#comment-373 Lindsea Sun, 30 Dec 2007 04:25:15 +0000 http://students2oh.org/2007/12/17/one-sweet-dream/#comment-373 Yeah, of course you can! I'm glad you liked it. Yeah, of course you can! I’m glad you liked it. ]]> By: linda bjork http://students2oh.org/2007/12/17/one-sweet-dream/#comment-372 linda bjork Sun, 30 Dec 2007 03:13:52 +0000 http://students2oh.org/2007/12/17/one-sweet-dream/#comment-372 Lindsea, May I use your art work of the library stacks? I would like to give you credit when I use the clipart. I am a librarian and I liked your work. So I am asking for your permission. If not - I'll survive. Lindsea,

May I use your art work of the library stacks? I would like to give you credit when I use the clipart. I am a librarian and I liked your work. So I am asking for your permission. If not - I’ll survive.

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