Teachers?

[pastorables]

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080422/D90740K80.html

Teachers,

The article states that this kid is a straight A student. How does this challenge you to view your more intelligent students in relationship to their character?

pa

[MrDanger]

It doesn't challenge my view at all. Some of the best (grade wise) students I have are the most unstable I have. Also, a lot of them are under such incredible pressure because they feel they have to succeed to have an identity. If they don't have the top grade in class, then they feel they are a failure.

[Shellie]

Doesn't change my view. This has been going on a long time. It seems that more often than not, the straight A students are the ones getting into trouble.

[Alan]

Doesn't change my view. This has been going on a long time. It seems that more often than not, the straight A students are the ones getting into trouble.

Any ideas as to why that is? Are the "smart" kids not challenged enough? What about those who are smart, but just goof off and coast through school because they aren't challenged?

[Shellie]

Alan wrote:

Any ideas as to why that is? Are the "smart" kids not challenged enough? What about those who are smart, but just goof off and coast through school because they aren't challenged?

You know, I don't know if there is always rhyme and reason to it. I do feel that like Mr. Danger said, some have so much pressure on them to perform that they just kind of "lose it."

Other times, I feel that they are not challenged enough. In any given class, I have to teach in the middle of what I have. I have those that probably could teach me and then I have those that I lose altogether no matter how or what method I use to reach them.

I don't know that we can pinpoint it. Sometimes, I feel that it is simply that we have a huge problem with lack of discipline in America and that it is becoming more and more evident regardless of grade levels in school.

[pastorables]

Some of the best (grade wise) students I have are the most unstable I have.

I suppose times have changed more than I realized. When I was in school, a student's character and grades seemed to go hand in hand. I was in the top 5 in my class and possessed the highest GPA among the boys. Of the top 10 students in my class, most have been very successful in life's choices, i.e., one pharmacist, one computer programmer, one naval pilot (major), etc,...

In those days, it was the students with poor grades who were burning down the schools.

Times sure have changed.

pa

[one love]

that is kinda what has taken people by surprise is that a lot of the upper middle class straight "A" students are the ones breaking and going postal. It is definetly a change now there is still the problem of the usual rough kids that dont want to be in school and are in gangs or drugs etc. but that is also in the other class as well.