Status Means Everything
Boys less concerned about grades than girls?
I read an article on SFGate titled 'Girls Are Taking Over' -- Nerdiness and the New Gender Gap. I decided to review it.
At school, you can hear the boys talk about it all the time. Talking and boasting about how they failed. Meanwhile, us girls talk about the grades and leap for them as are goal. And when we reach it, that is what we boast about. But it used to be the opposite, as the article said. When girls were considered stupid and guys so smart. How did it change?
Well, I take my school as an example. A common middle school that shows the future of the people through how they act. Now, all boys talk and go ,"Heh heh, I got a D in science. I'm so wonderful, aren't I?"
All except one at my grade level. He 's nice, and he works hard for grades, and treats people with respect. But he is scorned as a "girly man" by the boys. Merely because he does his work and aspires to get A's. The guys know this and resent it, so they insult him.
And if the girl isn't good in school and is on the odd side, the boys are scared of her. They stray away. I saw a rumour come through that the jerk from the lower grade classes of 6th grade, had a crush on my friend known for her top grades.
Then the girls that don't keep up their grades like the looser guys. They disregard the nice guy, even though he has good grades and has a considerate attitude. Only because he has a bad haircut.
It is a sign of how are future might be, though I'm only 11. What would happen, I wonder, as more classes pass by? Would this mentality change or not?
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Teacher, What is a Book?
College Students Don't Even Know What Afflict Means
As I talk casually among classmates, I comment, "What's you favorite books?"
Dead silence.
Then someone says ,"I hate books." The rest all nod in agreement. I'm offended.
In the Mercury News, I think Micheal Skube anchored the point. About how college sophomores don't know the difference between fact and fiction, or what advocate means. These are young adults with above a 3.5 GPA.
GPA is never anything but a score of how you do in class. But people put it above S.A.T. scores. It turns out that these people can only suggest 1 name when the read something.
"Dan Brown". The author of "The Da Vinci Code". But it is the only one they know.
I'm in middle school, and I can suggest more names than that. Piers Anthony, Mercedes Lackey, Erin Hunter, Garth Nix, etc.
With all the new technology around, the crowds focus on this. They don't read for pleasure. The only things they would read is assigned stuff. With some people, the go "Books are so stupid," or "Books are boring and out of style."
Students in my class gather into their tiny clans, put the ear buds for their iPods into each other ears, and their eyes give a dazed look. They get their cell phones and text each other.
Not only the tech, but they immerse themselves into stupid social events. I admit, having a good social life is an excellent achievement. But I'd never let it interfere with academic life. The clans I live around gossip about crushes and think that it's such a great achievement.
That's merely the girls. There are only a few boys on the honor roll.
The media as well. They are addicted to television. They like things such as "American Idol", "So You Think You Can Dance?", and even the childish and stupid "Spongebob". I personally think T.V. programming is nothing but childish shows. I watched "American Idol" one night, and absolutely hated it. I've seen "Spongebob: The Movie" when I went to a birthday party. I had never been in such pain.
And lastly, Xboxes. Parents limit time on computer, while giving them video games and XBoxes. I have unlimited time on the computer, but I have to compile games on my own. Guys are more addicted to them, but girls are as well. They like Final Fantasy and Kingdom of Hearts. I myself am disturbed by the fact that Disney characters are intermixed with anime (Oh gods, attack of Daffy Duck!)
They would put aside school any day for these things. And thus they never read.
"College admissions specialists disagree and are apt to label the student with high SAT scores but mediocre grades unmotivated, even lazy," is what Mr. Skube explains.
This is our culture now. Who will change now?
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