Hey everybody here are a couple of my composition papers for you to read and give feedback on. Hope you enjoy. This is proof of how hard my classes are sometimes.
Working with Teachers
During this school year I have been working full time as well as taking 17 credits at school. All though at times this can be hard it is very rewarding. My schedule has been working out really well, but I feel like next semester it will not go so well. They want to hold College Keyboarding class on Monday morning and I work until 9:30 a.m. on Monday morning. The teacher is trying to work it out so my schedule will work out with my job. My teacher said that it will be ok to miss half the class while I’m at work, but to come right after work. I don’t think that a teacher should be saying this because, why would I want to miss out on my class?
You think that a teacher would be trying her best to get me to be able to attend class. Some of the teachers in school sometimes act strange and hypocritical. One set of rules applies to one student but not the other. I feel like all of the rules should be the same for every student no matter what their excuses may be. I am always attending class and have never missed, and it seems like they are harder on the ones that are in class all the time. This may be because they want us to set a good example or to get good grades. I accidentally made the mistake of not paying attention in class and one of my teachers called me out about it. Talk about making a student feel like a complete butt in a room full of strangers. The key thing to do would have been to pull me aside and talk to me after class about not paying attention. I can see that the discipline area in this school is way different then in high school.
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Sometimes when I’m in school there are days that I feel like I can’t please anybody, I also wonder if teachers ever get this feeling. I know that teachers have a lot on their plate, and that they have been in our shoes once as well. So why can’t they be more understanding to the girl that has two little kids, the boy that is also in high school, or the young women who works full time and is married and trying to make a better life for her and her husband? I’m definitely trying to understand the teachers and also give them a chance. When it comes to constructive criticism I’m all for that, but understand a student’s situation before you criticize. I’m not blaming just one teacher they all have a certain quirk that is strange to me.
There is one class that I’m in that I feel like I’m getting positive feedback, and that is Composition. I’m not the best writer as you can see and I fell like this teacher has been patient and more than fair with grading. I don’t feel that I’m sucking up, I’m just happy with this class and being able to be a good writer. I don’t have the best participation in class discussions and this is because I’m very shy. I always have been shy and I fell like that will never change. I have been more outgoing when it comes to talking in class than I used to be. I often wonder if this is the reason that teachers are often hard on me. Why do they have to make a shy person feel uncomfortable? Never being the one to say much, I also feel like it is hard to describe words and make them sound good. I don’t have a lot to say either, my friends have always complained about that, but I just tell them that I am a good listener. Could this be another reason that teachers act strange towards me.
Was there some kind of oath that a teacher would sign after they graduated that said, “I promise to be weird and strange and hardly ever understanding to my students.” Not saying that that really happened but why are they so difficult sometimes? One minute they can be your best friend and then next they don’t want to have anything to do with you. We all have bad days, but are teachers every other one. I
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think that a teacher should be like a parent. They would want to see their student grow and succeed or is does that kind of thing only happen in high school. Knowing that teachers have been in the same boat that students have, so they should be understand.
The grades that students get in college depend on our future and are jobs that we will get someday. I’m not asking for a hand out and sympathy from a teacher; I’m just asking for a hand up and a compliment once in awhile. Reassurance from teachers and teachers that push a student to succeed are the teachers that I want. Some of the teachers know how to respect and reward a student but others could care less. Having to learn new things in school is a full time job, and learning each teacher in school is also a full time job. The questions that are constantly going through my mind are how should I act or behave in this class? My parents have taught me a lot about being respectful and standing up for myself, but how can I do that when some teachers don’t? It probably seems like I’m asking a lot of questions in this essay, but college seems to be very confusing to me and the teachers are also very confusing.
From all of this I hope to gain the understanding of teachers and people in the career that I am pursuing. Maybe the way teachers act sometimes is a strategy of what we will be facing in the real world. I don’t want to be considered a suck up or a brownnoser someday but I want to be able to get along with everybody, including the teachers and students. I have the sense that teachers will either make or break a student’s college career, and I have to learn to accept what kind of teachers I have been handed. Maybe I shouldn’t get so worked up about teachers and the way they act and just take them as they come. Hopefully someday soon I will understand what they are looking for and what they want for me and also what they are looking for in me.
My True Driving Teacher
I really enjoy driving, but other people on the road worry me. My dad always says, “You have to be driving everybody else’s car while you are out on the road.” I believe that this is true because, I constantly have to be watching what other people are doing, and guess their next move. Sometimes it feels I have this big sign on the front of my car that says, “Please pull out in from of me.” Other drivers on the road just seem like they got their drivers license out of a Cracker Jack box, and seems like they have no respect for the other drivers on the road. I definitely have road rage and I think that I inherited that gene from my dad. My father drives a semi and I give him lots of credit for being out there every day, and dealing with the traffic. I know I could never do what he does and not get in an accident or make some other driver mad.
My father taught all of his kids including me to be responsible and defensive drivers, and I learned a lot more from him than my Driver’s Ed teacher. My dad probably taught us the wrong way to handle dumb people on the road, but sometimes you can only deal with so many idiots out there. Dad told me I either learn how to drive a stick shift or I’m not getting my license, and by God I learned how to drive. Being able to drive a stick shift is something you will always know how to do. My whole family is truck drivers. My brother, my mom, even my grandma. Yeah that’s right my Grandma. She is 66 years old and can get that big Peterbilt up and down the road. I respect and admire all of the people in my family who drive truck. They put up with a lot on the road, and spend many hours in the truck providing for their families.
I hate how it is always the truckers fault when there is an accident involving a truck driver. Let me tell you something, truckers deliver everything that a person uses from day to day. When you are out on the road don’t crowd a truck, give them plenty of room and thank them for the job that they are doing. I consider my father a professional truck driver and the rest of my family as well. They are good at their jobs, and deserve our recognition and respect.
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