I want more information on this claim because I feel like it's a really bold claim and is only true in some situations. I think in a lot of classroom settings a lot of the teachers don't even know your race so I wonder if this article is going to talk about race in the sense of it simply being your skin color or that the black students aren't as financially stable as the white kids and that's the reason they don't do as well. I will keep reading the article and see because thats something that caught my eye when just skimming.

This is true in some cases. I think a lot of it depends on the person, my moms friend for example has her masters and she is barely making over minimum wage at her job and my other friends dad barley even graduated from high school and he is the general manager at maitia Chevrolet in Sacramento and he is making a lot of money. So I think that this claim only applies to people who really want to work hard and get a good job once graduated.

I have seen this with my own eyes and it is really sad. When I was a freshman in high school and I saw all the seniors graduate and most of the ones who went to a community college after high school are still there to this day. Even the JC system is set up for only high income students even though our whole life we have been taught that the JC system is always a path because it is less expensive.

I don't know how I feel about this. I feel like every aspect of school is just compliance and learning how to make good grades. I think that yeah, project and community based learning help with our social skills and all the aspects mentioned below but I feel like we do all of that just to still get a good grade. As a student, I love doing group projects more than just sitting and hearing a lecture but at the same time I feel more productive listening to a lecture.

I believe that most times hidden curriculum is more beneficial than formal curriculum. Things like social skills and cultural messages are used for the rest of our lives every single day. What we learn in math fades after a while of not leaning it and is not that important if in your job, math is not needed. This relates to me now. I feel like the education system is so bad and it is pointless. However, I know college is needed to "get a good job" or whatever we were told. I think that it is very beneficial in the sense that this is a lot of peoples first time being away from home and meeting new people and I think that part of college teaches us a lot.

My mom ALWAYS told me to make a to do list when I was in high school to plan out my day and goals. It was really helpful when I did it and I think I'm going to try to start doing that now because it really kept me on track and I was a lot less stressed then I am now.

I like how he titled each pillar. It catches my attention

This is a really bold claim and it is really inspiring to read. He makes it seem like getting an A is way more simple than we have been taught. This reminds me a lot of my 8th grade year. My science teacher had a very strict plan on what we had to do in order to get a A and made it seem very easy but it wasn't. This is interesting because it seems so easy. I want to keep reading.

I would love to have an event where a few alumi come back to school and speak to us on their experiences and just some advice.

I have met a lot of people here but a lot of them have been commuters or people I have just talked to once. I think it encourages people getting into the community here but a lot of the events the school puts on aren't necessarily about that.

This seems really important because a lot of the time when I am taking notes I find myself just writing what the teacher wrote on the board and not even really comprehending what the teacher was saying. I feel like taking your own notes is very important.

It is as simple as that and I think that sometimes people like to expand too much on this idea of your learning style when all reality we can all learn in different types of situations. This for me means that even though I struggle in a setting where I am in a class lecture, I can still be successful.

I have been going to school since the age of 5 and I have had teachers who really understood me and I grasped concepts no problem in their class and others that I haven't. I think that it takes more than just "tailoring their instruction" when it comes to certain students. Some students need real one on one help or for parents to get involved or some students can just understand the material in any situation. This sentence stood out to me because I believe that some teachers don't take teaching as serious as it needs to be taken and this effects children in the long run. Not one learning format is going to help every student be successful.