Education is Life !

I think education is needed if you really want to be a successful person in life or unless you're that somebody that want to flip burgers for life then go head. Education plays a major put in our lives because if we didn't have knowledge we'll just be dumb basically. It starts off with going to elementary to learn the basic stuff about life like: colors, numbers, your name, and your address, as you move up a grade you learn these things in more details. Then, you start to learn the basic subject like: math, science, reading, and social studies. By then you've moved to junior high which is a lot different from elementary. In junior high trade to 7 different classes a day that prepares you for high school. High school is the same as junior high, but in high school they mainly focus on what you need to graduate. As you can tell education plays a big role in your life. People always want things to be handed to them, but they never do the things to get what they are wanting. For example, education is not handed to you once you get to college the professors are not going to be babying you to come to class or turn in work like in elementary, junior high, and high school did, and that's were people go wrong and drop out because no one is handed them anything so they don't want to get it. That is the reason why we have more McDonalds workers than Doctors because people don't what to take the responsibility to get a good education and do some wonderful with there life, but instead they will rather get paid minimal wage. I'm saying all of that to say that education is very important so get it while you can because getting a good education becomes harder after every year so strive to do your best, and you will be the best.

Why Abolish Grading ?

Why should we abolish grading? So people can have more to talk about us then they had before? I'm speaking in being a black African American because people are already calling us senseless and that we are dumb. To abolish grading will effect us extremely different. I say that because how would we know where we stand in a class? How would we know if we are passing or failing? All we would know is what we make on a test and what if that's not good enough? Like Paul Goodman said in the proposal " There are several good reasons for testing, and kinds of test. But if the aim is to discover weakness, by faking and bulling, if not cheating!" From my point of view I think he was saying test can only discover someone's weakness because they had no time to improve by not getting graded. Also, he's saying testing will abuse peoples knowledge and make them feel dumb because they thought they knew it, but they actually didn't . I think that we cause more students to drop and not even attendant school anymore. I wonder would I be as smart as I am with by just taking test? Test to me is like do or die either you pass it or you fail. Like EOC it's 25% of your grade that's a lot for just one little test to determine if you pass or not. So with all that being said I don't think that grading should be abolished because like he stated in the piece " The work does not suit me, not this subject, or not at this time, or not in this school, or not in school altogether. School isn't for everybody just as well as taking test isn't for everybody. What would education be like if we only took test?