An experience that changed my views on education was in highschool. It was when I looked at other people’s grades in school and the effect it had on their classes they took and it compared to mine. I was always a decent student throughout highschool I was like a B average student but I had friends who had honors classes. When I saw the work they were doing versus mine. I realized that they were doing the same work as everyone else just a little faster pace and it made no sense to be in an honors class if I’m just doing the same work. I had a few of these classes in highschool but I stopped doing the work so I can be put in regular classes because the only thing different was the Time they had to do the work and what they had to do. If it was ela instead of 11 grade English they would go to 12 grade English which when I got there realized is not very different to what we were doing before it was how we were applying the skills that changed.
The part about how grades changed my views on education was how easy it was to get B average. At school. It changed the work I did and how I did it. The main way it changed my mind was my process on how to get good grades. I originally got good grades by doing a lot of work and always finishing it fast. But in 11 grade I realized the stress I was putting on myself completing all the assignments made no sense. I changed my mind and started to think as long as I get work done and time and I did it right I would get better grades and I did. I also started to learn faster when I wasn’t thinking about the work that was to be done that day or the next.
