Blog Post 4

“Good students” according to commonsense in the Kumashiro reading, they are students who are perfect in the eyes of education. They don’t question teachers they retain all information, and they have good attitude. As a student being able to reach that expectation is nearly impossible. It is unfair for there to be that high of an expectation since student cant and will not spend their whole day retaining information that does not seem practical. I know personally if I am forced to learn something that will not help me now or in the future I will not learn it. If its not practical to what I am doing it is just a waste of my time and the educators time to try and mold me in to a “good student” when it is not going to help either of us. I felt this way all though high school and university when we were made to take useless classes that everybody dislikes and either retains and understands it or doesn’t understand why we have to take those types of classes. As a Future Educator I will never put that expectation of my students to be a “good student” nor should any educator.

Students who do fit the mold of “Good Student” have the privilege to have the time to complete their studying every day and assignments. Those types of students don’t have the amount of responsibilities other have. For example a student who lives alone, works full time, and goes to school full time and that’s not including household chores they will need to complete as well as cooking for themselves. This may seem mainly directed to university students but this could also be the case for some students in high school. These types of students will not have enough time to put their full effort into every single one of their assignments. “The Good students” do because they don’t have those types of responsibilities they can go home where they live with their parents who buy their food and pay for their school and put the same amount of time and effort into every assignment.