Learning through Failing by Jonah Dillard

When I first started high school I thought that we were going to just chill and play all the time. The second week of school I had a complete change of mind. When I first got in class, the second Monday of school I got kicked out for talking and playing around. That week I got kicked out everyday for the same thing, and a little cursing. At first I thought the teacher was just being mean, but then I thought about it and said to myself, “It was me that was doing all the wrong.” From then on, I started to do my work and stopped talking so much in class. Even though I failed the class, I still learned something by taking it and failing it.

I learned that if you want to have fun in school you should do your work and not talk during class. Then you can finish your work and when you finish that then you can talk and play around a little bit. I think if I had never taken the class I would have never learned my lesson and I would have failed a lot of classes and wouldn’t be on track for graduation.

I think freshmen will now know what not to do. They can put my advice into effect because your freshmen year is the most important, because if you fail that it’s really hard to catch back up. To me, I think this is great advice to you guys and girls, because it’s true that your 9th grade year is the most important. That’s when you take the kind of hard classes like Algebra 1, Health and Physical Education, and Physical Science which are the classes that people have had to repeat a lot.