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¶ … School can be either a very uplifting and inspirational place or a daunting place which serves to discourage the student. I am on the verge of completing my college educating and receiving my degree. Other people have not been able to have this achievement. Some people have had issues in life which has prevented them from a straight line through education and have to perform what may be seen as unnecessary tasks to prove their educational aspirations. In "The Second-Chance Club: Inside a Semester of Remedial English," authors Eric Looker and Sara Lipka write about a class of students who have to take remedial English and who are not particularly pleased about having to do so. There are many differences between my regular college course and remedial English, but there are also similarities between this remedial class and my own. My class is for credit so I seem to care about it more, the students in the remedial class have more external problems that might hinder their performance, but the thing that we have in common is the fact that by taking the class we are improving ourselves and preparing for future successes.
In the remedial class, they are not receiving credit for taking the class. However, they are required to take...
The students are on the whole not well behaved and even show disrespect to the teacher. The authors write, "Some students aren't trying. They come late and play solitaire. One day just four have done their homework" (Hoover). At a regular college class, this kind of behavior would absolutely not be tolerated. In my classrooms, I have seen some students who are unprepared or who do not pay attention to the instructor, but this is always the exception rather than the norm.
The different students discussed in the article all have back stories which explain why they were not successful students before. Some of them have had personal issues or family problems which stopped them from succeeding. Others simply did not want to put in the work to succeed. One story, that of student Dominique Parrish was very enlightening for me. "Growing up on…
Works Cited
Hoover, Eric & Lipka, Sara. "The Second-Chance Club: Inside a Semester of Remedial
English." The Chronicle of Higher Education. Washington, D.C.: Chronicle of Higher Education, 2013. Print.
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