Instead schools should foster cooperation more often in learning because it is a skill humans would need throughout their lives because this skill helps us survive in our normal life where we interact with other humans, from our homes to our workplace, we cooperate with others to survive and progress (socially or economically) in our life. Now, this doesn't mean we should not compete at all, because that would be impossible, all this means is that we should not compete over matters that would be destructive or self destructive to humans – from one human destroying other human(s) self esteem to one destroying (corrupting) their own character for the sake of winning the competition.
As mentioned above this unhealthy competition stirs up hostility not just between the students, also within the school community. For example, seniors at Sarasota High School were "deadlocked in the race to become valedictorian", Davies's chief rivals became furious when he was announced valedictorian, students buttonholed Kennedy in the hallway, and students even planned on booing Davies. Now, that was just the students. This Academic competition "divided the school and the community" quite effectively according to Kennedy. For, even teachers thought of boycotting graduation. Plus, He had to deal with both sets of "riled parents" who would barely come to a compromise, and here Cheryl Barker mother of Kylie barker was not happy. And, It is not just a few schools like Sarasota who deal with this kind of problem, there are other high schools such as Plano West Senior High School and Valley View who deal with this kind of community problem (Talbot,113-114, and 116-119). Their parallel is that of a divided nation which is not able to progress any forward or is broken into a civil war because of hostility or rivalry within barring it from being capable of competing against other nations.
Has there ever been a time in your life that you just wanted to relive over again because it was so breathtaking? A time that impacted your life so greatly that you just couldn't forget about it. Think back in your life and imagine that moment happening. What was it about it that made it so memorabl...
The teacher said "he is the slow one, you always have one of them in each class. ... Reading this as a class assignment in the fifth grade became an enlightening experience. ... Valedictorian for the Class of 2002, Angela Salazar daughter of Ivan Salazar, wanted to have her speech delivered in both English and Spanish. The district officials felt that such a delivery was in violation of school tradition. One does have to question what tradition is in violation when 65% of the students that attend that school are Latinos and their parents were indeed going to be in the audience that night (...
He graduated from high school at age 16, the valedictorian and only black in his graduating class of 12. ... At Fisk he encountered sons and daughters of former slaves who had born the mark of oppression but had nourished a rich cultural and spiritual tradition that Du Bois recognized as his own. ...
- ---Welton's Four Pillars "Now in my class you will learn to think for yourselves again. ... He is the youngest of his family and has many expectations laid upon him due to the success of his brother, who also went to Welton and was Valedictorian and a National Merit Scholar. ... He couldn't speak to anyone of authority including answering questions in class without sounding insecure. ... For example, after the first day of class, Todd writes "Carpe Diem" on his paper, dreaming of what it would be like if he, too, could contribute a verse and be great like those in the picture. ...
