Summary Of Fear Of Heights Teachers Parents And Students Are Wary Of Achievement

Galasa Tasisa
Preparation for College Writing 2
Essay #3 In the article “Fear of Heights: Teachers, Parents, and Students are Wary of Achievement.” Author Bob Chase, who is president of the National Education Association, pointed that teachers and parents should more worried about the students who are involved in many extracurricular activities after school. He called these students are the “C” students because they are busy doing activities after school and not engaging in their school work. For that case teachers and parents should worry less about the A student with two or three friends and worry more about the C student with an active extracurricular life. We should be more concern of C students and care less for the A student.

As a matter of fact,
The C students do try their best but the teacher doesn’t pay attention to them, showing the student how to solve the problem. For example, when I was in high school I was a C student always getting C’s on everything. That’s because some of my teachers did pay much attention to me and never asked me question in class. I tried to ask my algebra teacher ways I can improve my grades to B or A. But he just said I should study and pay attention in class. My teacher enjoy teaching the brilliant A workers. I wasn’t sure why am not favored by my math teacher in high school yet I tried working harder than some of the student in my class and I was so furious. So I give up trying to get B or A in algebra and so the next day I just walked into the class and hoped I pass test with what I already know. Many students spend less time doing their school work and spend more time doing other things such as jobs, after school activities. We should help students who get C’s and motivate them to spend more time doing their school assignments rather doing things that don’t involve school things. Teachers and parents shouldn’t pressure their