This goes out to those wonderful students who refuse to take responsibility.
I'm very sick of hearing "it's not my fault." Especially when a bad grade is what they are talking about.
I'll let you in on a little secret: it is your fault. I'm a very strong believer that if a person puts in the effort, they'll succeed. Maybe a certain class requires more time studying or doing homework than another, but school wasn't meant to be easy.
When I hear a student blame the teacher for them not doing well in a class, it drives me crazy. If you don't understand a concept, then come after school, ask a classmate, or look it up on Google, for God's sake! A grade is something you EARN. I'm pretty sure teachers don't have personal vendettas against a students. What you get is what you earn.
Just something to think about next time you want to hand off some blame to your teacher. Or for the next time you want to claim you poor performance in school is "not your fault."
Get off the video games and do your work! I bet ten dollars if you got an A, then that'd be allllll on you! That's just how it works for teenagers.
Change it.
That is all.
I agree teachers do get blamed a lot more than they should . They don't deserve to be blamed for a student getting bad grades. I'm pretty sure they feel bad about it, but what more can they do. This irritates me too when students do this.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't have said it better myself! It seems like too many students have gotten entirely too comfortable with putting the blame on to those who actually don't deserve it. If they simply put in the time and effort it takes to succeed in school, they wouldn't have anything to worry about to begin with.
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