CARE: Being A Student

Being a student entails putting in the right amount of effort and being devoted to having a future. Without the devotion and the ethic, school poses as a challenge to many individuals. However, when looking at a map through the journey of such a long life, school is the very first step to being able to succeed later on. When looking at the richest men on Earth, many are not high school dropouts who couldn’t strive to obtain at least an associate’s degree. They were extremely motivated men who strived to change the world for the better, not simply achieve riches. Taking this to account in my own life, being a student is simply having the positive outlook to change my lives and the lives of others surrounding me. To reach prime position in life, one must first simply want to do better. This will create a flicker in the mind of a pupil to no longer want to be a hardworking student, but to need to be this student. A turning point in numerous lives. This is what will separate the immature and weak from the mature, strong people. Simply a decision made in merely adolescents that will hold the threshold for an entire adventure into adulthood and beyond. It is very possible for a student to get discouraged, singled out from their peers and relentlessly attacked for no apparent reason. However, to have the strength and maturity to fight this evil is what makes a student appear from the children surrounding him.

-Logan Ames

To be a student sometimes isn’t necessarily the best thing. But it’s the outcome of being one which you won’t regret. But a student could also mean so many different things. All of the kids who go to school at Crossroads are students. They’re students from many different districts and cities, students who have gone through hell and back, and students who go to an alternative school so they can catch up on what they’ve missed (if that’s the case). A student athlete, maybe, is a student who is learning and a part of some sport. A student is just basically a person that is learning or being taught by someone a new skill,lesson, hobby, etc.

            Being a student requires a lot of work to get to your level of success. Whether it’s staying up late so you can get in your last few hours of studying for the big final, staying after school late to finish a project with a partner, or becoming frustrated when at first you don’t succeed. Something that might be important to some students is having a clear routine. Like waking up at 6 in the morning, leaving yourself time to eat breakfast, shower, get ready, brush your teeth, and etc. before you have to rush out the door to catch your bus to school. From then on, you go to your scheduled classes and through all 6 or 7 different classes and you’ll learn new material, different subjects, and understand things more in depth while also being assigned class and homework.

-Jordan Trussell

My definition of a student is Jordan Trussell. She is probably the best student at Crossroads and everyone knows it. There isn’t an assembly where she doesn’t get an award or student of the quarter award. That is a rare thing to say about a student! Possibly the only student who has that to be proud of. She's highly looked upon by the teachers and staff members because of her great performance. She comes to school every day, (so she has perfect attendance) she does her work and gets it in on time, and keeps her grades up. She's always on top of things. She's willing to help out teachers when every needed. Jordan is a very respectful and sweet girl in the classroom. I don't personally know Jordan, but I’m observant and this is what I see. I wish I was a student like her (a hard-working student). It's all about motivation or some people might have learning disabilities. Some people might be more motivated than others because of their background. If ones family has a history of not graduated, it could motivate them even more to do well in school and be a good student so they can be the change in their family. Or it could be pressure; pressure from parents and the expectations to be a good student. There are many different reasons to try to be a good student.   

-Alex Chavez