Analysis Of In Praise Of The F Word By Mary Sherry

In Mary Sherry’s essay “In Praise of the “F” Word”, she talked about the argument that teachers just pass students based on the students overall demeanor and not if they are achieving the grade to pass onto the next level of education. Sherry is stating that high school graduates and high school drop outs do not acquire the necessary basic skills to be productive in work place for employers. When asking her students in the class to write about an unpleasant experience they had in school. Sherry has learned that students had felt that they have been cheated in their education and some of them believe that they should not graduate or even been held back because they didn’t acquire the skill necessary. Sherry also gives an example of her own son