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Campus for all Foothill High School has a system for motivating
students to push themselves and get good grades. If a student has
a 3.0 or better, he/she earns a red card. If a student has a 3.8
or better, they receive a silver card. Red cards have the chance
to go off campus every Wednesday and Silver cardholders have unlimited
off campus lunch privileges. Every Wednesday, the “card holders”
have the chance to get candy and be entered in a drawing for goodies
(money, restaurants and movies.) It puts all the grades on an equal
playing field, without separating upper classmen from lower classmen.
Best of all, it presents an incentive for all students to try their
best.This year, as a junior,
with parental permission, I have the privilege to go off campus
for lunch. I have been patiently waiting to have this privilege
restored for over a year.
.I think it is an awesome incentive
to encourage students to put in the extra effort and push themselves
to achieve better grades. The only flaw I see in this system is
that half the school is excluded. |
Ninth
and tenth graders at our school are denied the right to earn their
own off campus privileges, or any reward for that matter. |
What
gives juniors and seniors a right to go off campus? Are they more
mature than their younger classmates? Personally, I do not see how
students, in the summer between their sophomore and junior year
gain so much maturity. You cannot convince me that all juniors and
seniors are more mature than some of their younger classmates
New Tech is different. We embrace
thinking outside the box and shun traditional public school methods
of education. Stereotyping younger classmen as immature is a traditional
way of thinking. As a different school, we need to give all a chance.
In the business world, it is against the law to be biased against
one’s age, race, and etcetera. Our school replicates a business
environment, yet we still give preferential treatment to one grade
above another. Our school has high expectations of students. Instead
of shutting off an opportunity to prove oneself, let us embrace
this opportunity, for one and all. |
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This
issue was “fought” last year and I presume that it will
be an ongoing battle this year as well. The two parties have separate
views.
Administrators feel that freshmen
and sophomores are sometimes not mature enough to handle unsupervised
off campus activities. The students, or those I have talked to,
simply don’t see the logical reasoning in it.
They understand some students
are immature, but is that alone an excuse to punish everyone? |
