Approaching Education

Education it's apart of all of our lives, and we approach it differently. My education started in a small school A Montessori school, the whole idea is to let kids take there approach on learning and give them more freedom on how they go about their learning process. I think starting off here really changed the way I learn, now that i am in public school I think differently then most kids, or at least that's how i see it. At my school there were no grades so there were no points to get but you had to get  90% or better on a test to pass it and if u didn't pass you had to keep re-taking it until you did pass. That whole idea changed when i got to high school, now every kid is looking for another way to get points. I like to think that I don't do that but when it comes down to it, I do but only in classes that i can't connect with. If I'm not into a class or a teacher doesn't teach they way I learn i have to go out of my way to find ways to learn the material. And if i still don't understand i find myself asking how i can get extra credit. Now this hasn't happened a lot i do well learning on my own thanks to my old school. But every once in awhile you have to attack and fight for those few extra credit points. But common playing a game for points seems a little unnecessary to me, earn your points get something out of it. I want to go on and get a good education and a good job to be well off later in life, who doesn't? So i am trying to take all the classes I can in high school that will help me later in college because in high school they are free. But you can't spend all your time in high school prepping for college and worrying you have to take classes you enjoy, something that makes you happy or you will never get through it. I'm really hoping that all the work I am doing now will help later. I'm doing my best to get good grades but I'm more worried about actually getting something out of what I'm doing. I want to be able to help my children (if I have any) later in life wit their home work and be able to support them because I actually learned and thought about what I was doing in high school while still being able to tell them stories about all the fun things I did. High school does give you a lot of options we have a lot of classes you can take but sometimes people don't have time to take the ones they really want to because their parents want them to take Spanish because it will be useful yeah that's true but is that what their kid wants to take? Parents need to back off a little let their kids grow and do their own thing. I'm lucky because my parents are there for me and support me in what ever I choose, they know I know good from bad and they trust me. The nice thing is they aren't so worried about grades and I don't have to have A's to be a good child, that takes so much pressure off and i feel bad for the kids that have to deal with that. But the requirements at schools are made to be good but sometimes they hold people back like I need to take science because I'm going to be a physical therapist but some people wont and they will never use what they learn in that class, math when will I use that? Maybe to balance a check book but now everything is on the computer so really why do i need to learn fancy math skills? So i think that school sometimes holds you back from other classes that could be helping you.

In school I'm good about asking for help, which seem to help a lot. Most kids are scared to go up and ask a question because teachers are scary. But srating my education interacting with my teachers all the time I got better at talking with adults. The one thing I lack is reading skills, if someone hands me something to read I have to take my time and read the whole thing in order to understand what the points are. I have been working on reading more, over the summer I started reading a lot more books. I have found that it has made me a faster reader. Reading is a really good skill to have it helps you through out your life that's why I have been foucing on getting faster at reading. I'm hoping that all the time I'm putting into it will help me on the ACT. Test taking was something that was hard for me but by the time I got to middle school I got a lot better with the whole rule that you have to get  90% on every test. That whole idea helped me be harder on myself and push me further and further. Back then I freaked out about tests and made about 100 note cards to study. By the time I got to high school everything was mare relaxed on tests and I didn't see the need to study as hard and it worked well for me. Now all I do is look at the study guide and see what i don't know and study that. If teacher ask me to grade myself I sometimes give myself a grade that they say was low but in my mind it was not good enough, I don't know if they are just being nice or being completely honest. I was given the opportunity to go in to honers English next year but i didn't take it because I like how we learn in the regular class, its easy going and makes me enjoy the class. If i don't enjoy a class I'm not compelled to try very hard unless the teacher is good at convincing me, i always do the assignments but not always to the best of my ability. School can help with a lot of things if you don't let anyone hold you back.