Students are Our Future Congratulations to the Senior Class of Taft High School, 2014. I would like to thank you for giving me this opportunity to come and be your guest speaker. The speech that I am going to give today will influence your life in many ways. You have the choice of taking the following statements for granted or listening and follow these simple steps that I am going to give to you today. There are many ways students entering Pierce College will succeed in their academic performances and many ways to fail as well. I am going to discuss with you the process of failing at Pierce College and not being able to get to the place you are all expecting. A bad student behavior consists of poor habits, traits, characteristics, and academic performance. There can be many reasons to failing in college. One reason is that college is simply a big change from high school. Students who were once good students may find their grades slipping in college. There are many reasons why some students don’t thrive at a university and begin failing their courses and in my opinion these are the major reasons why they fail. Most of students do have a lower expectation of the workload that will eventually stress them out. I’m going to give you direction and guide to the way not to behave before class, during class and after class. Make sure you do not do any of the followings and prepare yourself for a good start in Pierce College. Before coming to class, students tend to not review their notes for a quiz and they wait until the last minute to do homework. Doing homework is very important in achieving better grades. For example, if someone is taking an algebra class and doesn’t do the homework assignment for his or her benefit, it would be very hard to get a better understanding of the lesson. If students waits until the last minute to complete an assignment and doesn’t understand anything he or she just did, this could be a serious problem for one, especially f there’s a big test coming up. I used to have a big problem with waiting to the last minute to do an essay until I stated seeing how procrastinating affects my thinking process and my grades. Students tend to not review their notes or their study guides for an upcoming test or quiz. Instead they deal with other things in their social circle and forget about it and that affects their grades on test and quizzes they take. Some students tend to pretend they are reading their note but they’re just skimming through the pages and think they know everything well but it’s not always as simple as you may think. Some students have a false conception of thinking they don’t need to review their notes before coming to class. For example if the student has been not paying attention in his or her history class and has the notes from a friend to study. He or she will fail to do so and forget about the test the next day because they weren’t always paying attention and that could be a problem. It’s a false conception of thinking the lesson is not important During class, a cause of poor grades is failing to ask question or participating and addiction to drugs. People who fail to ask questions are always the ones who are confused or left with their mouths open when test time comes around. Have found out that being hesitant about making sure I understand something results in poor grades. There were times when I didn’t understand certain concepts and was afraid to ask questions, and the results ended in disaster. Eventually I begin asking questions and got better outcomes. Don’t be afraid to ask questions. Asking questions can prevent surprises when a student gets a test back and also prevents poor grades. Addiction plays a major role in today’s society specially marijuana there are many students who do drugs in their classroom while their teaching isn’t paying attention to them. For example I had this class in Taft where the teacher was always busy on his computer and never paid attention so students that sat by the window had electronic cigars and use to smoke in class and the teacher would not even know this and so they were so busy they couldn’t focus and do their in class work and would result in poor grade and they would lose their concentration and not participate during class. Addiction affects the brain very harsh and can cause major difficulties in students being. After class, Parents play a major role in their Childs education and their friends affect them many ways. Not paying attention to your child is one the worst things you can do to their ego, it affects them directly and indirectly. One affect of not paying attention to your child is an increased problem causing attitude in school. Children that don’t have proper attention at home are bond to try and seek some attention, and what better place than their school. The child could be obnoxious, always talking about of term or answering the teacher’s questions wrong just to get the reaction of the teacher and then the reaction out of the students. Friends have a big impact on them. It all depends on what kind of group of friends you hang out with. Friends influence you by putting pressure on you and trying to make you do something you never done before. There are two different kind of friend the ones that want the best for you and will do anything to help you reach your goals or the ones that are at the bottom too and don’t care if you fail back on your goals they just want someone to be with them while their doing things they are not spouse to do and cause trouble only because they think they are cool. That’s why the older we get the less friends we have because we learn to keep the ones that will help us and have our backs. For example students tend to more like to have friends that are popular and those ones are usually the trouble makers and that tends to makes you receive poor grades.
Sometimes students just don’t get bad grades sometimes students bring bad grades on themselves. When a student gets caught up in the party life he or she will be asking to receive bad grades. When one student gets distracted from his or hers main goals and the sight of why he or she is even in college it means there are not trying in their best of their ability and just would rather fail then even try. In my opinion all we need to do is spend more time informing the youth of America about the importance of a good education. With positive influence towards the education system for children’s role model, there is almost zero chance of failure. One drawback to grades is that grades can make a student lose motivation when a student receives a bad grades he or she feels a sense of disappointment and this disappointment can affect future grades. My advice to you is try to be the best that you can and try hard as you can because college is a big part of your life. If you ignore these steps that we talked about you would do just fine in school, so I hope you all the best in school and wish all your dreams come true and again thank you for the time you give me to come up here and talk to you for a little while. Congratulations to the class of 2014 see you around Pierce College.