Therefore, firing a teacher for failing students is untenable particularly since it is the student's responsibility to seek help if he/she does not understand the concept and since there are uncontrollable external factors. ... It is essential that students get help when needed since the real world doesn't coddle, ask about problems at home, care if the individual thought a deadline was flexible, or cut the student some slack if he/she had a cold or a stomach ache. ... Therefore, that is the reason why districts should start augmenting teacher's salaries so that they can str...

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• Approx Pages: 5
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the hopes of getting a head start in college, I took AP and Honor classes and worked hard to maintain a high GPA. ... My aspiration to become a physician has greatly been motivated by my personal experiences which have helped me build the knowledge and leadership skills required for medical school. ...

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Perhaps instead of dreading reading chapters, writing essays or solving lengthy equations I once thought were meaningless wastes of time, I would have viewed them as checkpoints aimed towards perfecting my own literary practices. ... What I failed to see at that age was that this was the start of becoming a literate person and I was only just at the beginning of a long journey involving the understanding of literacy and appreciating the value it holds. ... At Sashabaw Middle School I was building on the base literary skills I had developed at Pine Knob, at this point my motivation behind attem...

• Word Count: 1640
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate