Requirements for class are irrevocably difficult to fulfil. Such as showing up to class, doing the endless amounts of homework; school is a ticking time bomb for failure. If you show up late your teacher cripples your self esteem by reminding you, PUBLICLY, to show up on time. Teachers say this even though they are fully aware of the social expectations of students to share events of past weekends, and plan for future ones. Avoiding being late is like avoiding failure in math principals. Homework every night? No thank you.
Classes are established failure. If a kid misses a day of class, how is he supposed to find out what he missed? Ask the teacher so he/she can acknowledge the fact that they were unexcused and absent from the previous class? No thank you. Homework concentrates like a whirlpool all funneling into the same day, graduation.
English twelve might be the only requirement for your grade 12 year, which SOUNDS easy, (to the untrained ear). Having only 3 options for passing this course is not enough! The three options consisting of: home learners, taking the course online, or taking English in school. Having such few options really makes it hard for kids to get the resources needed to achieve a passing grade. Princess Margaret's two English teachers are only here an hour before school every day! This makes it very difficult to coordinate an appropriate time to arrange such things as: rewriting assignments, getting missing work, or making up for missed classes. Kids finish their grad year shocked to find out that they're missing English twelve! No graduation for you, my dear friend. Perhaps 2 spares, 2 art blocks, and 2 peer tutor blocks weren't the most logical choice after all.
Another thing that makes passing classes very difficult to achieve, is all of the distractions in modern day society. How are kids supposed to focus on what the teacher is saying with the knowledge that some pretty lady or handsome boy is talking to them in their pocket, whether it be over facebook. texting, or BBM. I question a teachers common sense with their constant reminder of putting your phone away while they're muttering "where is your 'head' at?"
To sum up the school system's expectations, they are completely outrageous. Kids are so accustomed to having a phone in their hands, it's an aberration from the norm to disallow them. Expectations should be reaccessed and evaluated to take all these points into consideration. Maybe having a text based lesson would be more appropriate for this day in age. That is the truth about the school systems expectations, I'll "ttyl tho, pc out."
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