HW 40

Part A - Interviewing

1Q) Do you think school is based on hierarchy?
1A)Me: Yes i believe so because of course teachers have higher priority over students and then principals have more power than students and teachers. Like always when ever you make a complaint to the principal about a teacher the principal never believes you and takes the damn teachers side...

2Q)Is school mandatory?
2A)Mom: Yes school is mandatory because without an education your not going to become anybody in life, your going to be like these hoodlums who hangout in the middle of our block selling drugs and end up in jail or dead.

3Q)Are we our teacher's puppets?
3A)Uncle: Well from what you explained to me i can somewhat kind of see that you kids are controlled by your teachers just like how puppets are controlled by their ventriloquist or by their puppeteer. But in all teachers do control their students by making them do their homework or they'll fail.

4Q)Why is school so boring?
4A)Cousin(High school grad.): School is mostly boring because all you basically do is sit on a chair in a class for 50 or so minutes long and do nothing but hear the teachers talk about boring stuff that nobody ever cares about. And your there just listening in school for 8 hrs straight. It gets boring after a while and they wonder why students never do their homework because classes are damn boring.

5Q)Why are you graded by how good you do on test and homework instead of being graded on your willingest on trying?
5A)Friend: Because teachers are there to try to make you fail and to make your life a living hell. They don't care if you pass or not they care on their pay check in the end. If you fail you fail if you pass you pass. If you get held back they don't care their still getting paid. (Person had a rough week i asked for a sincere answer.. guess not)

Part B:

I really think that students shouldn't be graded on how good they do on test or on homework that they do but on their willingest to try. For the simple fact because if we fail test and score low on homework that means that we will fail that class which sucks for us students who don't understand anything that's going on or who try to understand but the teacher doesn't explain the work well enough. It happens to a lot of students which is why a lot of students have summer school,missing credits, or sadly get left back which sucks for a lot of them.