How Not To Get Into College By Alfie Kohn Analysis

I have spent the past 4 years of my high school career being what Alfie Kohn describes perfectly in his article “How not to Get Into College”: The Preoccupation with Preparation. I would with a shadow of a doubt in my mind consider myself a grade grubber. Aflie Kohn defines a grade grubber has a student who has pressures on them to give up everything they love in life to focus on their grades to get into the college of their dreams, and this definition suits me perfectly. Alfie Kohn argues that students in various levels of education, only focus on grades that they need to achieve, rather than actually learning and retaining the learnt content. I believe this problem is a reality for me: as the pressure of attaining a good grade, and the constant