Thursday, January 11, 2007
Controversial Issue??
I would like for you to post your thoughts about the posting of the number of A's, B's, C's, D's and F's out in the foyer of the school. Do you think this policy would actually encourage more students to try and do better in class? Even though no names are mentioned, do you think some students may feel embarrassed? Name one idea you might have to encourage others to do better in school. (Remember to use capitalization and watch for spelling! There is a spell checker on the blog!)
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I think some fun would help. Don't get me wrong, there's some fun games that we play to learn, but that's rare in this school. It's easy to learn something when you can have fun doing it.
And a good way to encourage people to do better is a reward. Maybe if you get all A's and B's, then you get 20 dollars. That should push us to do better and work as hard as they can.
yes,i think it does effect some studenst and embarras them.I think the kids who make good grade should be rewarded and the ones who dont should not be punished but not be rewarded.
I think we could say if we have less than 50 f's in the whole school, we will have a party with ice cream, pizza, movies, and everything. that might get more people to do better. I dont think the f's are that embarassing to people because they dont use names, but a few might be affected.
I think it would make some kids embarrassed because either their bad grade or good grade is up there. Most kids dont want people to know they make good grades because peole might think their a geek. Also bad grades for people that are trying but everyone might think there stupid.
I think in one way its fine but to the few who made D's and F's its sorta embarissing. But I find that people have diffrent aspects to this depending on there grade. the embaressment comes from the knowlege of knowing your A-f is up there for all to see.....not with your name on it but you still feel your one of them.
I think it might of embarassed some students, but that might encourage them to do better. Maybe there should be an assembly saying that kids who made higher grades make more money or something like that.
I think that they should only post the A's, B's, and C's because I noticed the numbers of D's and F's They are not really sumtin to brag about. I think we should do a contest. They homeroom with the Highest grades on each team get like a pizza party or something.
Yes I do think some students were embarrassed, because they don't want there bad grades posted on the walls. Even though we do have A-Cs on the wall, the ds and fs stick out more.I don't want some ambassidor from another school to come in and see like 300 f's and 400 d's just right there on the wall.
I think it probably makes people feel bad and I don't think it helps any. I think they should encourage people and make them feel bad by posting how many people are making d's and f's.
I think that good grades should be posted in the foyer, not the bad ones because the bad ones could possibly send the message that we don't teach well. This would probably cause the students to work harder though. I think only if the student knew it was his/her grade they might be embarassed. I think having more chances for the teachers to see what you know would encourage the students.
I think that the people who have the d's and f's shouldn't be enbarrased unless they can do better than they did.I think it would encourage students because they now one or two of those bad grades up on the bourd are there own and they dont want them up there.My one idea to encourage is to focus on individual student besides focusing on one hole group.
I think that this policy may actually make students try and do better because they do not want to made fun of. I think that students may be embarrsed because they may be the only one with bad grades in their class. I think that tuttoring students with bad grades would be good. Some cannot do as well as others so they need more help than others.
I think we should have the number of A's and B's and maybe C's but not the D's and F's. And if they were going to put every grade on there then they should put the D's and F's in the smaller part. I think it might encourage some people to do better because I think some might feel embarrassed. I think an idea to encourage people would be to announce the people with A's and B's on the intercom.
I do not think it is a good idea to post all the bad grades in big letters. That is basicly applauding the people who are doing poorly. If I where a new student and walked in and saw that we where posting the bad grades, I would be confussed. I would thinm that that was good. I think that the faclty should give awards to the kids who start to bring thier grade up. If they don't care what they make why they be embarassed if they where one of the ones on that list.
I think it wasn't a very good idea to post the grades in the foyer. As a parent, I would not want my child to be at a school with a lot of D's and F's. I would want to have my child to go to a school where they have lots of A's and B's, and a few C's. I do think that posting the grades will make us work harder and study more because we dont want parents and visitors to think that we are a bad school with bad teachers. I do think some kids may feel slightly embarrassed. If you want to do better in school, make sure you pay attention in class, take good notes, and study more and harder.**
No, I do not think it will help because some of the students are trying there hardest and some of the students get the grades they get because they don't care about their grades and if they don't care about there grade then they aren't going to care about that either. Although some students will care and just had a but nine weeks/first semester and will bring up their grades. So I think that it will help some and it won't help some. I think that some of the people would be embarrassed about that number espically if they made the number higher by getting that D or F even if their the only one that knows.
i think it mmite motivate kids to try and bring up those bad grades.yeah i think some students feel embarrassed because they know that they have a bad grade that is probablycontributeing to that twelve or fifteen percent.prizes for whoever makes a or b honoroll
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i think there are to many ds and fs
and not enough as and bs,the students need to try harder and pull up there grades
I do not think we should put the D's and F's so huge and bold and the A's and B's so little. I think it would incourage more people if we just had the A's and B's up there. I think it woeld incourage more people if anyone made an A or B would get like an award. Whoever got an A could get a free homework pass a coke and a sucker. WHoever gpt a B could get a free home work pass.
I think that posting grades does absolutely nothing because as long as no names are mentioned it will not afffect anyone who has made a D or an F. If I had a D or an F and I saw how many D's and F's there were up there but I didn't see my name then I would keep walking and never think twice about it. An idea I had was announce the names of people with A's and B's over the intercom.
I think the wall of grades is a good way to show students how many D's and F's there are in this school to encourage them to do better. They should put up in big letters, just like the D"s and F's, how many A's there are. Some students may feel embarrassed or mabye even ashamed of themselves if they know they are one of the people that has a D or F. I know I would be ashamed. Just like I said before, the number of A's and B's should be put up in bgi letters to encourage other students to want to be one of the people with an A or B.
I think that there should be less D's and F's than we have now. I also think that this policy will help students to try to put an effort to make better grades. I do think that this policy makes some students feel embarrassed because they may feel that they should make better gtades and that they could make better grades, but they are just not trying hard enough. A good idea is if you are failing a class because you aren't interested in it just think of some ideas to make studying for it more fun or just tell your teachers some ideas you might have that would help students study more.
I think that if we didn't put names it would be fine,but if we did I think it would be a liitle embarrising to those that made bad grades. I think that some students look the board and thank that I need to work harder ,but I also think not many people care.If you want to make good grades I would study and work hard. Never give up. I think that it is strange that the d and f's are really big and the a and b's are small. That might mean that we need to get everyone working harder
A good idea to encourage people to do better in school is to let them play some sort of game for makes all a's or b's on their report card
I think that if students who have to lower grades obviously dont care enought to take notes, and study, so they probably wont decide to change their mind just because the schoool put a copy of their grades on the wall. Also, I think that the students that worked hard enough to get A`s and B`s should be in the bolder, and bigger letters. I know that I made all A`s and only one B, and seeing my hard work not being very appreciated was really disapointing. I think that it is good of the school to encourage other students but it all comes down to the students actuallly wanting to do well. As a suggestion, I would say that the school should stay with homework remidiation and some other program like that for classwork and tests. The school should also praise the people who do well more also :].
I think that if we didn't put names it would be fine,but if we did I think it would be a liitle embarrising to those that made bad grades. I think that some students look the board and thank that I need to work harder ,but I also think not many people care.If you want to make good grades I would study and work hard. Never give up. I think that it is strange that the d and f's are really big and the a and b's are small. That might mean that we need to get everyone working harder
I think that it would encourage some people because it would probaly embarrassed thim because parents see that and they are proably woundering why are there so many D's and F's but I don't think that it would encourage everybody. Some people do try there best and still make bad grades and some make bad grades because there lazy and don't care. I think one way to make better grades is to study longer then you have been for an example if you study for 30 minutes then study for 45 minutes or an hour.
I think that the posting of the grades my make some students feel embarrassed. It may make some students work harded, but others may not care about it. Also some have had trouble with school for a while now and may not think they can change it now. To help encourage students to do better in school I would tell them to do their best. Even if they study 15 minutes a day they will see an improvement in their grades every week.
I think that it is a good idea because it is a wake up call to students to try there best to make the best grade they can make. Some students all ready know that they dont have the best grade so it should not make anybody embarrassed. If they were to feel embarrassed they should work harder to make they grade come up. A way that it can make them do better in school is to look at all the F's and D's and say to them selves I am one of those kids that needs to get better.
I think that posting the grades are great except for the fact that the bad grades are the biggest ones so no one sees and praises the people that make all A's and B's. In this school we have about 9 times as many A's as we do D's and F's and I think that posting the bad ones just makes the ones who make bad grades care less than they already do about getting good grades. I think if we post grades at all, we should post the number of students who make every letter grade to praise those who do try. But, personally if I had made an F, then I would be embarased to have and F up there and it would make me work harder and encourage me to get an A. The people that are not making good grades usually do not care if they are so I think that MOST cannot be encouraged to do better. If some could be encouraged to do better, I would just tell them to keep tryig, work hard and study.
I got 2 a's, 1 B, 2 c's, and 1 F. The only F i got was in newspaper. And it is disappointing that I did. It is kind of dumb I did. I hope to start getting a's in your class. It is not right for me to get f's in a extra class. It is a privalage to be in a class like your's. I am getting off subject. Although they do not post names on the wall. so it is not so bad. Though it could ruin our school's reputation with the school board if they saw how bad the grades were. They might fire some teachers with the student's that have bad grades.
i think that the grades out in the hall way do not encourage students to do better in school because as i walk by there i see students laughing as they wallk bad because of how bad our grdaes are and they really dont care that they have nade a bad grade,but there are students whow do care and are disappointed that they have there grade showing in the hallway and they might be inberessed but there are more who dont care then care.
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