Tavon's Blog

“Cheating Gets You Nowhere”

T.J. Dougherty a former student and athlete at Cabrini College talked about teacher's and coaches favoritism of athletes. He talked about some of his friends being illegally recruited to go to big school such as Pin State, Stanford, and Harvard. T.J. was an active team member in soccer at his school and he noticed that many teachers let them slack off and gave them grades. As far as coaches go he said “they tried to bribe him into performing well on the team.” His coaches would give their players soccer equipment, free meals, clothes and even took them out to eat just to butter them up. As the rest of them took up the offers so did he. It was not until he noticed he would not study for test and would make a bad grade but the teacher would give him a good grade. He could not bear to see the students that had to study so hard all night just to make a B. It was then that he knew what he was doing was wrong. Unlike the others he chose to take school more seriously and began to get more into the books instead of soccer. He now knew that soccer was not more important then your education. This is when he came up with the theory of his paper for his English class “cheating gets you nowhere”. (Click on the Student's Papers link and then scroll down to click on T.J. Dougherty's paper)

This article touched me because I am one of those students that must study hard all night just to make a B. In my opinion athletes are treated differently and are unaware of what not having an education can lead you. Many athletes get big headed because they tend to be the talk of the school and many admire them. In my opinion if you don't have someone to lead you to the right path of not cheating and trying to always take the easy way out that will become a life long habit that will become harder to get rid of. I think as well as teaching the students about education and team sports they should also teach them that challenging your self will help you to succeed. Many have low self-esteem and tend to take the easy way out only because they don't challenge themselves and they fell that what they are doing is all they can be good at. Here is a question to all athletes, if you break a leg, or get injured in any kind of way what will you have to fall back on, and if teachers and coaches have the power to give you all those things don't they have the power to take it all away in just a split second?

Learning post

Reading blogs from fifth greaders got me very interested in teaching. I was very interested in how they could express and even teach me a 12th. greader how to do something. Most people say that younger students have no clue and should stay in a childs place when in fact we could all learn a thing or two from them. I read Ashley blog and she said that she thinks when writing blogs we should be more cheerful and have more humor. I agree because things can get boring when you are going on and on about something. She also said that we should be sure about what we are writing. It is important that we should be a role model and show good grammer. In our intro to teaching class every week we must to a log(an overview of what we did that week), a quote(an inspiring quote), and an article(a current event essay). By doing so it teaches us that we must stay up on what is happening in life today, how life has changed, how to inspire your students, and how to keep track of your class and their activities.

Highschool Rules and policys

This year we have a new principle so the rules have changed. In my opinion some of the rules are streaching it a bit much. Think about how many highschool students on average go to one school, now think about how many go to the bathroom everyday. Our school policy on bathroom passes are that only one bathroom out of the whole school is to be opened. My issure is what if someone gets sick they have to walk all across the school just to get to the bathroom. I know that they are trying to eliminate smoking and other things in the bathroom but it is not fair to punish everyone. I think that they should do like every other school and just take off the doors to the bathroom, there is a brick wall  blocking were you can't see what is going on in their. We also don't have three or four lunches. At our school people are leaving and some are comming at different times. That is ok but my lunch doesn't start until 12:55 that means all day I am hungry until lunch. We also don't have vending machines which means so everyone has to bring their own snacks until lunch. But what I don't get is they know lunch is not long and we have to wait so long for lunch what is the point of even eating at school. Since I have more than enought classes I get out early with work study and a non-created class. I leave school at 1:37 and on that day my lunch is just before I leave. I think we should just be able to leave and get some eat out. Who knows what the system is thinking but you must obey the rules or else.... So I just do what I got to do to get were I want to be. A graduating senior on her way to college.

Hard times in school

Last year we took so many test I began to think that was what school was all about. It was interesting to see how many people actually passed the eleventh grade. I know they say that the eleventh grade is your hardes year but I was not as prepared as I thought I was. Twelth grade is ok but I am ready to graduate. This year all that is on my mind is graduating. Being in school for twelve years is a bit much. I'm not even going to get on financial cost. Every year since tenth grade I have done cheerleading, year year our cost have come up to two hundred and eighyt eight dollars; talk about being broke. Today in time it seems like you have to pay to be a senior. I have to pay for senior dues, graduation packet, cheerleading warmups and shoes, our school pagent etc. We even have to pay for our seats and graduation certificate. Right now I am in det gass prices are going down but who knows how long that will last. I know that if I can get threw this year I can get threw anything. Until I graduate I hope that I can handle everything that is happening this year.