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Transition From Middle School To High School

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Challenges of Transitioning from Middle School to High School “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” Said John Dewey, a very successful philosopher in the 1920’s. To get through life you need education; to get into college, to get a good job. The most important rules to a successful education are: focusing on what is important, not getting involved in drama, and knowing that you aren’t entitled to anything in life. If you stick to this, you’ll fly through high school, just as you did middle school. Rule one: focus on the important things. Right as you get into high school, things are thrown in your face; notes, homework, quizzes, etc. It is essential that you are prepared for all of this. High school moves fast …show more content…

Drama gets you nowhere but into trouble, and some people, unfortunately, find this out a little too late. High school is just like middle school in some ways; competition for popularity, looking the cutest, being the richest. Some people never grow up, and teachers know this. Don’t try to be like everyone else, do your own thing. Realize that those people won’t be anything when they graduate. They’ll be just like everyone else out there, trying to get through life as easiest as possible. They’ll never know that if they had tried to focus more on school and less on other things, they would have no problem in the real world. Instead of getting involved in drama, get involved in other school activities, such as OSA,NJROTC, Horticulture Club, Yearbook, FFA, Art Club, and many more! Things like these look amazing on college applications. The more you’re involved in and stay in, the more colleges will like you. “An educated person would listen to all, and do what suits him best. It is highly impossible to fool an educated person for it would take reasoning and logic to get him in the trap. Educations keeps you from being trapped in advisories that are no more fruitful than digging your house for the pot of gold.” (Vidyarthi …show more content…

You don’t play varsity sports because you think you’re ‘popular’ enough too. You don’t get good grades or favored by teachers because you think you deserve to. From now on, you have to earn everything you get. It doesn’t get handed to you. Teachers won’t wait, and they will certainly not hold your hand through all of it. Just because you’re popular doesn’t mean you’ll get into Harvard or Yale. If you mess up; do drugs, party, get expelled, it’ll all carry onto your transcript for college. They’ll see that you are a trouble maker and you don’t commit and then they won’t even bother looking at anything else. You have to get good grades and receive all of your credits to even graduate. This is the time to pull yourself together and focus on life. Your actions now will determine your whole life in the future; either with a great education, an amazing job and a beautiful family, or sleeping in your parents basement, working at McDonald’s with barely enough money to support yourself. “When the people of a nation are educated, they’d definitely carve ways to be self sufficient. An economically independent society is the stepping stone to combined productivity that leads to a economic growth of the nation on a whole. Now you know how those countries are doing so well for themselves?” (Vidyarthi 2015). “With evolving lifestyles, steep inflation rates and luxuries transcending into needs, it is only impossible for a family to depend and

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