HW 40

ME. Q. What do you think is the main reason behind teachers feeling that they have to absolutley dominate the classroom?
A: I think that it's a combination of tradition and a feeling that without a feeling of fear in the class the teacher won't be respected, furthermore the domination complex seems to be more potent in female teachers.
Q: How important is studet teacher relations i determing grades?
A: Teachers are human, therefore they make personal judgements. I thI ink that if someone shows a positive attitude towards the teacher and creates a bond with him/her they are much more likely to succeed. (Participation is a nice way they like to put it)
Person 2 (student with low grades): Q. Why do you feel that you have done poorly throughout your high school career?
A. Because all of the material that we have learned in school has no relevance in my life, and because I spent so long procarstinating about how school hasn't really done anything for me so at times when I have wanted to care my work ethic hasn't been developed enough to thuroughly complete all my work.
Q. Overall do you think that teachers are fair people?
A. Some of them are but a lot of them seem that they just want to live up to societies expectations above improving the education of individual students.
Person 3 (student with high grades) Q. How have you been able to stay succesfull throughout your high school career?
A. My parents are constantly on me about doing well in school beause their true believers in the "American dream" or whatever and basically if I want to have any kind of social life I need to do well in school, furthermore I think that one thing I've been able to do well is block out all the b.s. that comes with school and try and think of the long term.
Q. Do you think that because you do well in school your social status is tainted?
A. Absolutley, especially with the "party crowd" they seem to equate good performance in school with social mediocrity.
Person 4 (adult) Q. Do you think that the public school system gives an overall fair experience to all parties involved?
A. No, I think that students get bogged down in a bureacuracy and cheap political stats while teachers are forced to teach material that they don't find interesting and their students don't value.
Q. How do you think your school experience matches up with the modern school experience?
A. I think that it's pretty much the same thing. Maybe there's more racial equality in the school system but the economic equality is just as bad if not worse. Also when I was in school there was high stakes testing but not as much from the state much more in school testing.

For this assignment what I wanted to do was compare and contrast how different prospectives feel about school. Generally the feeling that came across the strongest was that people don't feel that their learning very important information. Something that would be interesting to investigate from that would be do that many people really feel that way or is that just something that the media and people around us say. Furthermore another thing that I noticed not only in these interviews but in life is that seldom do you find a student who is inspired to do well in school just because they want to, in other words no outside pressure or circumstances in ones life that would make doing well in school a necesity.