Being in a writing class with topics that college students cannot relate to may also have something to do with students not participating in classroom discussions. Coming into college from high school student most realize that since they are in college that topics must be up to par. If topics such as legalizing marijuana, abortions right or wrong?, concussions in sports, regulating the new age of football. These are topics that are important and happening in their generation so why not talk about that? Or talk about the latest apple technology. Also since allot of students athletes attend class professors could use things such as what financial gain or lost does a team take when they franchise a player, or is it wrong for big time and small time collegiate sport athlete not to get paid or gain any benefits outside of their sports scholarship. Even though these are sports topics and may have nothing to do with English but it will at least to get the students to participate in class. Most teachers take attendance by calling a student’s name and for the rest of the class that may have been the only participance that student has engaged in. some things need to change because this happening all over college campuses. Why? Well why teachers don’t make the classroom like and debate type of atmosphere. Allot of classrooms that I have been in personally have been more like a one-sided debate where the teacher is giving information, more group activities, moving around in class, coming up writing on the board, calling people at random, and just using educational types of games. These are just a few, then that would even take care of the students being prepared for class. The other thing I found out students don’t like to get embarrassed in front of their peers. So by them not knowing what the teachers is going to do in class that day it would force them to prepare them-selves for all possible outcomes. By picking topics that are important to students but have some educational background, along with fun activities will make students write better and participate in class more.

grade inflation

Doing a recent survey around A local campus I found some disturbing facts about study habits and grade inflation. On a Tuesday after I passed out 40 surveys 20 to males and 20 to the females, asking these five question: 1) how many hours do you study a week?
2)what's their favorite subject?why?
3) If you found out you were failing two classes, a subject you liked and one you didn't like which one would you put most effort into?
4)do you study or more laid back teacher or a more stricter teacher?
5) do you believe their is grade inflation on your campus?
 Off of those five questions in some areas the stats were horrid and I was in total disbelief. The answers I thought I was going to get was ampere illusion. When being asked how many ours do they study I figured it would say at least 15 but, I got 85% were only studying 8hours that isn't even half of the time that is actually suppose to be spent on studying for full time students. The question of subjects ranged which was good in my eyes so that way a lot of different fields would get explored and we as America could fine more things out in this world. But this is where the survey got interesting because being asked to choose what failing grade would they put the most time to bring up their grade  a whopping 80% of the students said they wouldn't do anything different except pay a little more attention in class, while 18% said they would go harder in the class they least liked because they were less likely to pay attention in class and the final 2 said the class they liked because they liked the subject. This was just a funny question I threw in just to see how students would react and they did not surprise at all because 96% said they wanted a laid back teachers because then school would be fun. This last question was a little risky because schools have lost sponsors and millions of dollars on this subject which is grade inflation. Students on the campus believed that. 50%     Of teachers graded with a curve or grade a little easier, or even just straight out boost grades. To some people that comes off ok but here is where the real problem is coming in after college and were theses students our out trying to fight for positions in the "real world" and that student who really did earn that grade goes up against that more laid back student who's at the disadvantage?

I am lazy

In the article my lazy american students it seemed that the author spoke about me. I am very lazy until its crunch time then i putall my energy and effort forward to classwork like I am suppose to. I don't know why i won't do this ahead of time so it wouldn't be a crunch time but I dont. I think maybe that nerds are the people that should do that type of stuff and most kids that i know from other countries do well here because in their own countries education is a priorty. they look at america education as slow compared to what they are use to. Speaking on my own experience the days when im disengaged isnt because i dont want to learn its more than likely boring on how the teacher is giving the information out. also the being lazy part comes from throughout the years of stuff being given to us(Americans) why would we want to go the extra mile.it is percieved that jocks and no jocks but not nerds have a social life so that tends to get in the way. or its because we as a whole praise the things that don't matter. like who dresses the best who looks the best etc. so if America care about things like that instead of education why should i go the extra mile to be the best when that not gone get me anything but picked on and outcasted from my peers?