Sitting in my algebra class, doing my homework every night, I realized that there is a lot of busy work involved in this teacher's curriculum. I don't like busy work and I don't like wasting my time. I don't like the fact that teachers were giving me work just so they could put grades in books. So I basically decided not to do my work and copy it. Why not? I listen in class and I understand the stuff, so for all of second semester I never did one assignment, and passed with a happy A. This was fantastic. That summer I took Biology. Copying homework was one t

After sophomore year I become a pro at what I did. Repeat did. At this point I had learned how to pass classes with minimum work. For some reason, the way school was supposed to go, didn't apply to me. I think it was because I thought too much about why I should do the work. Now junior year started. The most important year in high school. I was called into my counselor's office and was basically told what chances I have at which colleges. Something had hit me right there and then. If this person knew so much about colleges and how to get in, and how to be successful, then why is she a counselor? Maybe she loves kids, okay, but that is the only reason I could come up with for her to want that job. All she does for me is put me in my classes and summons me when I am a problem, but not once was a called in for merit or recognition when, really, I have done wonderful things at this school. I decided not to care about what my counselor said to me. The belief that good grades will take me far vanished completely. Now I just pass for credit. What the school fails to notice is that there are more acknowledgements for bad things students do then good. Motivation is the key for wanting to work hard. When people are constantly disciplined from grade school and up, they get no chance to explain their position. They except the punishment and learn to be tossed around. If you can't stand up for what you know is right then you will always just be another face in the crowd. "You're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't." William Hiatt.

I don't know how clear this all is, if it makes any sense, or if you understand it, but from all my experiences, I never leave without a lesson. "Knowledge is power. I am a thief. I want to steal all the information. For what? For power." Higher Learning. My dad has told me that I have lost control, I have no direction, and he wonders where his A student went. The school tells me that I have gone down hill and that I lost my chance at good universities. My friends tell me that I am a slacker, lazy, and that they see me running a casino or doing some con artist business in the future. I am the product of a superficial school system. A system that not only basis it's grades on actual knowledge but upon negotiations as well. As long as these negotiations are made grades mean nothing. What matters is what you know and actually learn. If can do what you want to do, then do it. If you can't, learn how. Even this essay, I could have gotten someone to write it for me or found one somewhere on the Internet. I probably could have gotten a good grade too. But much like the education system needs to be reformed, in more then one way, so have I. You haven't heard about my senior year yet. At first I was continuing my pattern from prior years. But one teacher acknowledged what I was doing. I decided to do all my work legitimately. This is proof that teachers can influence their students to be better, not only academically, but in the sense that they should put effort into their grade, sometimes. As a final thought you should think about what you are working for and what you want to do it for. Don't let school get the best of. If you hyperventilate over a grade relax, in this system you can always talk your way up.

I see teachers as people. Some people see them as everlasting machines, always here to help you and explain to you when you don't understand things. A teacher is a person who works. Not for the money, so I've heard, but for the children. They breathe, eat, and you might even see them at a restaurant or the market. You might not see the point of all this and how it relates to education but there is one. What is a corrupt system? If a student works hard and gets an A he earned it. If a student cheats and gets an A, does he deserve it? Yes. Why? A story I heard once explains it all. A man pays eight dollars to go see a movie, another man sneaks in from the back, he doesn't pa

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