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High School Life Essay
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"High School"High school is a place where young teens learn to become mature andresponsible. It is a place where students get trained to take on bigger challenges in life.Obstacles such as college. From my own personal experiences, high school didn't seemthat way. Students were more concerned about getting a passing grade then about whatthey were taught. They would even cheat their way out of high school. This wouldprepare them for college.My freshman year of high school, I was in a totally different place and it seemedquite interesting and fascinating at first. As the year passed by, I started to notice thetechniques students were using to pass classes. It was something I didn't see while I wasin junior high school. Students were cheating on almost all the tests. They would bringlittle print-out cheat sheets to class to use on the tests. Hardly anyone got caught by theteacher. When students did get caught, all they would do is deny and usually the teacherwould just let them get away with it. As Casey Banas wrote in "Why Students AreTurned Off?" "I sometimes estimated that half to two-thirds of a class cheated on agiven test,' Glanz said. 'Worse, I've encountered students who feel no remorse aboutcheating but are annoyed that a teacher has confronted them on their actions" (Banas659). Cheating seemed like the popular thing to do and if you didn't cheat you would beconsidered real foolish.. Everyone in the class knew what was going on and it wasbasically a whole class effort to cheat. Students would discuss what the answers werebefore taking the test and give each other opinions on how to cheat safely. When the testcame back, every student in the class would have a real close score, but the teachersdidn't seem to notice anything at all.Most of the students that go into a certain class usually wouldn't even know whatwent on even after the...
638 words - 3 pages
"High School"High school is a place where young teens learn to become mature andresponsible. It is a place where students get trained to take on bigger challenges in life.Obstacles such as college. From my own personal experiences, high school didn't seemthat way. Students were more concerned about getting a passing grade then about whatthey were taught. They would even cheat their way out of high school. This wouldprepare them for college.My freshman year of high school, I was in a totally different place and it seemedquite interesting and fascinating at first. As the year passed by, I started to notice thetechniques students were using to pass classes. It was something I didn't see while I wasin junior high school. Students were cheating on almost all the tests. They would bringlittle print-out cheat sheets to class to use on the tests. Hardly anyone got caught by theteacher. When students did get caught, all they would do is deny and usually the teacherwould just let them get away with it. As Casey Banas wrote in "Why Students AreTurned Off?" "I sometimes estimated that half to two-thirds of a class cheated on agiven test,' Glanz said. 'Worse, I've encountered students who feel no remorse aboutcheating but are annoyed that a teacher has confronted them on their actions" (Banas659). Cheating seemed like the popular thing to do and if you didn't cheat you would beconsidered real foolish.. Everyone in the class knew what was going on and it wasbasically a whole class effort to cheat. Students would discuss what the answers werebefore taking the test and give each other opinions on how to cheat safely. When the testcame back, every student in the class would have a real close score, but the teachersdidn't seem to notice anything at all.Most of the students that go into a certain class usually wouldn't even know whatwent on even after the...
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