We have a pushing problem

It was an average day in my AP English Language class, when the question was presented to me.

“Do you think students are being pushed too hard in school?”

There is no easy way to answer this question. Every class placement is decided in an organized fashion.

There are three types for core classes: Regular, PreAdvanced Placement and Advanced Placement.

Each placement has a different scale used to find

the student grade point average (GPA). Each placementy has its own difficulty

level. Regular is very basic, and AP is a more indepth, higher level class.

I’ve participated in each of the placements before.

In a regular classroom, there are students who try, and usually they are moved to higher placement classes because teachers see potential in them.

Regular classes tend to be more thoroughly explained and at a slower pace.

In regular classes, I have noticed more distractions and greater lack of control in the classroom. One could say this is the teacher’s fault, but is it really their fault when the students don't put effort in

trying to learn?

Regular classes need to begin trying harder. Not harder in a sense of making the work more difficult, but rather by puting more effort into the regular students

students.

Help them get up to code and improve the curriculum.

Teachers should crack down harder on disruptive students and push them to learn, too.

Many wonder when the schools become so divided when it came to learning, why some kids are behind versus why some are ahead of the game.

Students aren’t being pushed too hard in school.

They aren’t being pushed hard enough, and they aren’t being pushed in the right direction.