Students, Responsible for Learning

Casey Banas wrote the article "What's Wrong with Schools? Teacher Plays Student, Learn to Lie and Cheat" and he explains how students avoid assignments by lying to their teacher making them to believe their excuses and how they manipulate the teachers to do their assignments. While teachers spend time in trying to figure out how to teach properly so the students learn well, these students do not care very much about it. Students are the ones who are responsible for learning and they should be more aware about it. Instead of copying homework or manipulating the teacher to do it and just getting good grades, students should be more interested in learning well what the teacher is saying, not only for the class, but for their personal knowledge as well because they are the responsible for their own learning.

Students must have more control over their responsibility of learning. They should implement other methods such as studying by themselves than just listening to the teacher. Ellen Glanz said "In most classes one sits and listens. A teacher, whose role is activity, simply cannot understand the passivity of the student's role" (Banas 702). Each teacher has a different teaching method and students should get used to it. Moreover, the teachers, apart from having different teaching methods, they have to worry about other things such as how to make the students understand, how to respond, how to be a good teacher, and other factors, so students should not just go to class and sit. Students must be prepared for each class; they should read before and after class, they should be self-conscious about the consequences and their homework must be done by themselves before the next class, so it is easier for them to learn, and for the teacher to teach. It also demonstrates the teacher that they are interested in the class.

When students do not do their assignments they use to lie to their teachers, cheat by copying one of their classmates' assignments, or manipulate the teacher, they simply do not care how the homework is done. Ellen Glanz said "Some students believe that effort has little value" (Banas 702). Many students prefer to copy than putting some effort in learning their courses. Students prefer to do other activities such as play and go to the internet than do activities related to school, because of reasons like those ones students do not learn, they get bad grades or fail. If they spend less time watching TV, playing games, or if they postpone those unnecessary activities, and sacrifice that time for studying, working hard and prioritizing their homework, they could be better students and learn easily. Moreover, copying leads to cheat in the exams. If the student wants to success he or she would practice more and put some extra effort. It is not the teacher's fault if the student fails the class because of its poor grades, it is the student responsibility to study and do the homework

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