Dependency On Teachers During High School, A Reason Why Students Fail In College

Running Head : DEPENDENCY ON TEACHERS

Dependency on Teachers during High School

A Reason why Students Fail in College

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Dependency on Teachers during High School

A Reason why Students Fail in College

If college is the road to success , then high school is the stepping stone to it . High school , being the only level leading to college is always viewed as a preparative step , or a prerogative area for which the students get ready for their big entrance to adult life . But this view

can be seen literally by teachers , and the help they try to give to their students are sometimes too much that it can actually harm them

Dependency on anything is not always a good thing . Too much on the parents and the child will never learn how to live alone . Too much on drugs or medications and the body won 't be able to fight diseases with natural ways . And too much on a teacher and a student would be shocked and helpless

I and my friend Donald went together in the same high school , but we had typical ones you see in televisions : strict on time schedule , heavy on assignments , and never easy to . All homework must be turned in at the start of the class and being 5 minutes late would result to a deduction , or worse , a zero in the score . It was really hard to get an A in quizzes , and even harder in exams

Donald , on the other side of the school had a relatively easy life . He had some teachers that rely heavily on the book , and all assignments can be made simply by copying quotes and paragraphs from it . Some of their quizzes were done in class with their notes freely open , and some teachers would even let them take home the essay parts

Although both Donald and I passed and went to Montgomery College , we grew having different ideals and study habits . I tend to be the academic one , constantly being in the library and researching on the net to be able to meet my subjects ' requirements . However , Donald would rather rely solely on his notes , and sometimes copy mine . He would just listen to the lecture and that 's the end of it

The different environments we experienced during our high school years affected our study habits . Donald became constantly pressured trying to keep up with the fast pace of the lessons . He began rushing his assignments , always asking for help , and got not so good marks on the first semester

I think that spoon-feeding is something that makes a student unable to work on his or her own . It deactivates the capacity to think critically and make choices seriously . And worse , it makes a college student act as if still on the wings of his parents and high school teachers . And as such , school administrators must take notice into the growing dependency trend on teachers . High school instructors are there to help...