At first glance, it seems that student success is easy to obtain, attend your classes, complete your work, study the material, and you’ll succeed, Or at least that’s what students often believe. Students always view success as an option, you either want to, or you don’t. The research makes it clear that it is not so black and white. A student’s mentality towards student success can be morphed as we excavate further into research such as essays and documentaries. An analysis of the research leads us to believe that Anaheim High Schools can improve student success only if The amount of time invested in schools is increased, An emphasis is put on student effort rather than natural talent, and schools promote student involvement in extracurricular …show more content…
When you grew up with two loving and caring parents. Privileged people see the path to success as a straight road, when in reality, it’s more like a rocky mountain slope with rock debris hitting you the further you walk on it.These so called “critics” just look at numbers and statistics, They don’t see the human faces behind the numbers, they Don't see the daily grind some kids have to endure, not just at school, but also at home. In the non-fiction written “Kewauna’s Ambition “ by Tough Paul, Tough claims that all students achieve success through grit and self discipline, he conveys this idea when he wrote, “ call it grit, conscientiousness, resilience, or the ability to delay gratification- all for a prize that was, for her, almost entirely theoretical.” some may find Tough’s argument as disagreeable, he may think success is easy to obtain if you just work hard enough, but it's never that simple. If there was any appropriate metaphor to describe success, it would be soup, just like soup, education calls for a recipe, just not as exact. The recipe for student success calls for many ingredients such as Student motivation, Parental support, and teacher involvement. If any of these ingredients are left out, it can quickly turn into a recipe for …show more content…
After conducting, analyzing, and reflecting on research, It seems clear that Success cannot be created simply by placing books in front of a student and commanding them to start memorizing. Like a seed,The mind of a student needs to nourished and well maintained, so that it may blossom into a mind that craves information. Research can give us a good indication of what does, and doesn’t work. We must pay attention to the latest research and modify accordingly. If a research paper claims that more homework correlates with higher amount of stress in students, we shouldn’t disregard the claim, more research should be executed on the matter, and If changes need to be made, then make them. However research should not be heavily relied on, as it just composes numbers and statistics, research can fail to embody the human elements such as emotions.It may sound cliche, But if a student is to be successful, Students teachers, and educators must invest more in school time, extracurricular activities, and the mental health of the