At a person’s eighteenth birthday, he or she is now recognized as an adult, with responsibilities and control. Parents had control of their children’s lives up until this moment in time when children becomes adult themselves. Many will try to maintain authority in their children’s lives, but the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) prevent college students’ privacy to be violated without the students’ consents. The legislature allows young adults to find independence from their parents, but it is unfair for the students who are not ready to take responsibility for their own actions. The author makes a good argument against FERPA, which restricts the knowledge of parents about their students’ struggles and difficulties in postsecondary education. …show more content…
Not everyone can adjust to the new lifestyle because many cannot manage their time and control their impulses. Without parental guidance, not all students can be responsible enough to take control of their life and make the right choices. Even the best students in high school can be distracted by the fun, unfamiliar setting with new friends. College can seem like a whole new world, with new possibilities and opportunities to start something new. Excitement can cause a person to get carried away and lose track of time and any responsibility he or she may carry. With the distraction, a student may ditch classes which eventually leads to the student failing. The downfall to college is that with the FERPA, parents are not informed of the student’s educational information. Because parents do not know, parents cannot guide their child back to the right
Transitioning from high school to Middle College requires a surplus of mental strength. In order to successfully transition to Middle College I had stop relying on others and become independent. At first, the thought of leaving my friends and being alone in a new school on a college campus, filled with many students is considered immensely frightening. However, I was
Three main assumptions students have about attending college are having endless freedom, dorm life being better than living at home, and expecting to party every night. Students often assume that going to college automatically gives them perpetual freedom. Although going to college does allow for more freedom, the amount of freedom is not exactly as expected. For example, in college, students have the freedom to choose what they do with their time, but if they do
Incoming freshman or 9th graders, commence out worried about the transition from midde to High School for various reasons. It is beneficial for 9th graders to stay seperated from the High School Community because it will give the freshman’s an opportunity for help and suggestions on how to manage High School Life. Dividing the 9th graders from the High Schoolers, will provide many advantages for not only the counselors but for the counselors as well. For example, in the first week of school, counselor’s are pressured with multitude of schedule changes, especially from freshmans.
The article College Necessity argues that going to college should be a must because families
Margaret Mead, an American cultural anthropologist, says, “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think”. Mead refers to the importance of teaching children how to think for themselves for a successful, future life, rather than instructed based on pure rote memory academics. I have noticed that the presently established educational system, wants all students to think in the same manner and makes education industrialized. Today’s dysfunctional educational system seems to ignores parental rights, have a materialistic agenda, and impose on citizens. For one, the public education system today ignores parental rights.
Deciding on attending a college or university is one of the best choices in life, though we must know our way to get there. Resources regarding entering college are available everywhere, however the question stands: Where do I begin? First-generation students are the ones to struggle the most. A person who already went through the initial process is one to provide the best first-hand guidance. Alas, first-generation students are the first in their family to pursue a college education, therefore they do not have the same resources.
When I’m asked what were the reasons of me joining the Early College Program, I look back at the reasons on why I joined and who had helped me on that long journey. At first, I had little to no interest because I felt that someone like me would not belong. I thought about the pros and cons and there was no cons at all. I stayed up late one night and thought that I could be the first one in my family to go to college! Through the difficult tests and late nights it’s been everything I’ve dreamed of.
After analyzing the data, we recognized a variety of turning points in parent young adult relationships during the first year at college. The first turning point that marked significance with the students was immediately after saying goodbye to loved ones as they were dropped off at their residence halls. The graphs demonstrated a trend in the following months where there was a drop of closeness between the students and their parents. Many students contributed this drop in closeness to adjusting to their new found home. After living with their family for the majority of their lives, the students were not used to being away from their parents and having to make time in order communicate with them.
Imagine that you have just graduated high school. You are more full of life, enthusiasm, and energy than you have ever been. Your four years of hard work have finally paid off, and now it is time for the next step. According to your parents, teachers, and just about every other authority figure in your life, college is that step. However, what if that did not have to be so?
Stress can make smart people do stupid things- it hinders an important part of the brain that influences your decision-making. So its no surprise that upperclassmen tend to look down upon freshmen, whose minds are not for, but against them. Separating the freshman class from the high school community can help put less stress on the minds of the students and ease the transition from middle school life to high school life. The transition from middle school to high school can be challenging. High school is a unfamiliar environment with different and new people.
It’s coming. We all know. We’re all terrified. We’re all excited. (Anaphora) We all want to run away and towards at the same time.
We all look forward to the day of graduation and the day we turn our dreams to reality some find it easy and some find it difficult. I remember being in high school two years ago and thinking about what I wanted to do after graduation as to -- whether I should go straight to nursing school or start off at a community college to eventually transfer to a four year university. In life, lots of students come across transitioning from high school to college to become successful in life and to achieve their goals. Some people find it easy or difficult to transition from high school to college. The reason for this is people fail to realize that high school is way different than college.
As a high school junior, I have complete control over and responsibility for my own education. I choose the when, what, where, and how. With college looming ahead of me, I worry that what I enjoy about school now won’t apply when I’m a fulltime college student. I fear that when I go and sit down in that classroom with a bunch of random people I won’t be thinking about how excited I am to learn. I’ll be focused on getting the work done and passing the class.
They say life after high school will only get easier, but I think they really mean that life after high school will only become more challenging because you then have to go to college; which is an advanced course of high school that will prepare you for the rest of your life. The hardest part, deciding what you want to study and where you want to go. So, where do I want to go? I have narrowed it down to three universities to study in the field of criminal justice: Tiffin University, The University of Toledo, and The University of Cincinnati. But if I had to pick a certain college I really wanted to go too, I would have to say Tiffin University.
The new environment will have new properties and the student needs to adapt to the new places, faces, and routines. Some students share increased levels of depression and absent-mindedness within the first few weeks of the first term. “Students who are passive and mildly depressed prior to leaving home have been found to be those most likely to show raised levels of homesickness following the move to college” (Fisher, 1994). 2.3.7 Homesickness There are many first-year students who experience being homesick.