Motivation.

Or lack there of...

So, as I stated previously , I am currently student teaching. One of my major hurdles to over come between now and May will be motivation. To put it simply, the students have none. I have see more motivation on soldiers that were detailed to sort trash after 30 days in the field at JRTC. I would like to share a short story to demonstrate what I'm dealing with.

John was a student in my 5th Period Algebra class. This was John's 3rd time taking algebra. He failed it his freshman year, he failed it at summer school, and he is currently failing it in his sophomore year. One good thing you can say about John is that he shows up to class every day. Yep, he shows up to class every day, sits down quietly, and goes to sleep... every day. Now on Wednesday John wasn't in class. That was unusual. He also wasn't in class on Thursday or Friday. That was unheard of. This afternoon my mentor teacher explained to me why John wasn't in class. Apparently, John did, in fact, pass Algebra during summer school, but due to an error, it was on his schedule again back in September.

Now let me ask you this, if you had had to go to summer school, wouldn't you have paid at least enough attention to find out whether you passed the class or not???

The one bright point in this story is that John hasn't really wasted any of his time, because his cumulative grades in Algebra since September are 0%. All it seems he missed out on was sleeping in a Geometry class every day...

Whee! 14 weeks till graduation!

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