Attn: Everyone doing poorly in classes.

• Sunureu13 wrote on 2011-01-20 06:11
  Put in more effort. Study harder and longer. Ask teachers for assistance. If you're failing a class, you're either mentally handicapped in some way and/or shouldn't be in that class in the first place, or you're not trying hard enough.
  
  Discuss.
• Cynic wrote on 2011-01-20 06:13
  -Blinks-
  What if it was an outside cause and you have/had no control over the situation?
• EndlessDreams wrote on 2011-01-20 06:15

  Quote from Cynic;297805:

  -Blinks-
  What if it was an outside cause and you have/had no control over the situation?

  
  
  Then, you probably shouldn't be going to school anyways. Only very few people have these types of situations. For them? Sucks to be them. Life is unfair.
  
  I hope this outside cause doesn't include Mabination...
  
  Sometimes, talking to the professor may help you arrange around the tests or whatever to be better schedule you.
  
  Still, there should be no reason to FAIL a class. It is actually pretty hard to fail one if you actually studied.
• Phunkie wrote on 2011-01-20 06:25
  I agree!
• Ithiliel wrote on 2011-01-20 06:46

  Quote from Sunureu13;297802:

  Put in more effort. Study harder and longer. Ask teachers for assistance. If you're failing a class, you're either mentally handicapped in some way and/or shouldn't be in that class in the first place, or you're not trying hard enough.
  
  Discuss.

  
  
  That's not always the case. Asking teachers for help doesn't always guarantee that they'll help you, especially if said teacher seems to disagree with everything you said throughout the class. Before you even say otherwise, she kept failing me for no reason. I reached out and asked her for help and her response was to scoff at me say, "You didn't read the directions" and walk away. After that I looked at a fellow classmates who had an A to see what I was suppose to do and found out I had done it correctly.
  
  

  Quote from EndlessDreams;297808:

  Then, you probably shouldn't be going to school anyways. Only very few people have these types of situations. For them? Sucks to be them. Life is unfair.
  

  
  
  As someone who is teaching/becoming a teacher I have to disagree with you. A majority of the kids that I have taught and work with tend to have quite a bit of situations happening in their life that are interfering with class and schoolwork. Just because a student is failing does not mean they're not trying, sometimes situations just get the best of people.
• Cynic wrote on 2011-01-20 06:50

  Quote from EndlessDreams;297808:

  Then, you probably shouldn't be going to school anyways. Only very few people have these types of situations. For them? Sucks to be them. Life is unfair.
  
  I hope this outside cause doesn't include Mabination...
  
  Sometimes, talking to the professor may help you arrange around the tests or whatever to be better schedule you.
  
  Still, there should be no reason to FAIL a class. It is actually pretty hard to fail one if you actually studied.

  
  
  Uhmm.. it is easy to fail a class when you have no time to study due to living on the street, LOL.
  Some people just have hard lives and, no matter how hard they try, can't find the time to study.
  
  I think it's admirable to still go to School despite everything. Otherwise, you're kind of giving up on yourself.
  I myself have went through more sh*t in the past few months then many people have had in a few years. So forgive me for sounding rude, but yeah.. you should rethink that opinion.
• silentselene wrote on 2011-01-20 06:53
  A certain class of mine does team tests. It's where the difficulty of the test is cranked Up To Eleven, and you have 4 people to solve it. Thing is, if one person misses the answer, points are deducted from the team.
  
  There are like 3 smart kids in the class. Me included.
  
  FML
• Shanghai wrote on 2011-01-20 06:55

  Quote from silentselene;297858:

  A certain class of mine does team tests. It's where the difficulty of the test is cranked Up To Eleven, and you have 4 people to solve it. Thing is, if one person misses the answer, points are deducted from the team.
  
  There are like 3 smart kids in the class. Me included.
  
  FML

  
  
  That's pretty creative. :o People usually do poorly in school because they think it's not fun, and they think it isn't worth their time. You can't really change the mentality of someone aganist something they hate. Talking to teachers like other people said, doesn't usually work when you have really hard teachers who could care less about your grade and your after-school.
  
  If anything, the best way to do better in school is to stop playing Mabinogi and games in general. But who wants to do that?
• Ithiliel wrote on 2011-01-20 07:01

  Quote from Shanghai;297862:

  
  
  If anything, the best way to do better in school is to stop playing Mabinogi and games in general. But who wants to do that?

  
  
  You know I found that games never distracted nor took away from my schoolwork. It's all a matter of finding balance.
• Shanghai wrote on 2011-01-20 07:05

  Quote from Ithiliel;297864:

  You know I found that games never distracted nor took away from my schoolwork. It's all a matter of finding balance.

  
  
  For some people, they can never find a balance. Everyone's different in commitment.
• Ithiliel wrote on 2011-01-20 07:17

  Quote from Shanghai;297866:

  For some people, they can never find a balance. Everyone's different in commitment.

  
  
  Hm. Yeah this is very much true. Some people just don't care enough to make that commitment.
• Chillax wrote on 2011-01-20 07:20

  Quote from Ithiliel;297864:

  You know I found that games never distracted nor took away from my schoolwork. It's all a matter of finding balance.

  
  
  It's easy to find a balance in high school and lower. It's way harder to manage your time in college.
• Ithiliel wrote on 2011-01-20 07:24

  Quote from Chillax;297871:

  It's easy to find a balance in high school and lower. It's way harder to manage your time in college.

  
  
  Mm well I haven't had a problem with that either and I'm halfway through getting my BA.
• EndlessDreams wrote on 2011-01-20 07:56

  Quote from Ithiliel;297852:

  
  That's not always the case. Asking teachers for help doesn't always guarantee that they'll help you, especially if said teacher seems to disagree with everything you said throughout the class. Before you even say otherwise, she kept failing me for no reason. I reached out and asked her for help and her response was to scoff at me say, "You didn't read the directions" and walk away. After that I looked at a fellow classmates who had an A to see what I was
  As someone who is teaching/becoming a teacher I have to disagree with you. A majority of the kids that I have taught and work with tend to have quite a bit of situations happening in their life that are interfering with class and schoolwork. Just because a student is failing does not mean they're not trying, sometimes situations just get the best of people.

  
  
  I highly doubt that majority of the kids have situations happening in their life that they have absolutely no control over. Very small minority of students have crippling mental disabilities. Majority of the kids with "situations" is usually due to making bad choices over and over. Yes, there are also bad teachers. You will see a lot of them at the college level. However, even in the hardest of classes with the worst of professors, there is always the few people who are getting very high As.
  
  

  Quote from Cynic;297855:

  Uhmm.. it is easy to fail a class when you have no time to study due to living on the street, LOL.
  Some people just have hard lives and, no matter how hard they try, can't find the time to study.
  
  I think it's admirable to still go to School despite everything. Otherwise, you're kind of giving up on yourself.
  I myself have went through more sh*t in the past few months then many people have had in a few years. So forgive me for sounding rude, but yeah.. you should rethink that opinion.

  
  
  If you live in the streets, chances are you can't go to school. Majority of the public school systems requires you to pay some kind of land/utility tax for you to even attend school. Yes, there are very bad schools out there. However, once in awhile those bad school produces a few very good students.
  
  Of course, at the college level, there are stuff like student loans, and people willing to help you financially through scholarships, as long as you make the grades. College needs discipline for a person to succeed.
• Tokiko wrote on 2011-01-20 08:16
  If you're hungry eat food and if you're thirsty drink water.
  Seriously, what's the point of this topic?