High School? It's a Bandwagon Effect
It’s the bandwagon effect!
As a cohort, we are faced with many challenges throughout our daily life at school. We are led to believe that it is a norm to swear, we do it almost spontaneously, and we don’t think about it, it’s almost second nature.
So why do we do it? It’s a bandwagon effect! When we start our transition from primary to secondary school, we are told that we are the ‘babies’ of high school-just like the preps in primary schools. As year 7’s we don’t want to create a bad image as it is going stick throughout our high school life. We don’t want to be the subject of bullying or be isolated from our peers. So what do we do? We try to fit in! Without knowing, we are disrespecting teachers, talking back to them, throwing chairs and tables at them, all for attention from our peers. We try to create an image of either a ‘class-clown’ or a ‘badass-rebel’. The entertainer of the class is always popular, so others try and mimic his/her actions. This leads to the students shifting their attention towards studying to other distractions like talking, computer games etc.
In the blink of an eye, the single teacher is trying to control 25-30 teenagers talking on top of each other, causing the teacher to have no other option but to start screaming at the kids, keep them in for detention or send them to the principal’s office. While the handful of kids who are trying their hardest not to get distracted, are left unattended and stripped of their opportunity to learn.
Parents are majorly responsible for the disruptions, since most of them refuse to listen to the teachers complain about their child and abuse the teachers instead, as a result, encouraging their kids to continue the atrocious behavior. This time also, the teachers are the victims, from the students as well as their parents.
There are parents out there who are serious about their child’s education and want them to succeed in high school to face the real world for better life opportunities. They tailor
As a cohort, we are faced with many challenges throughout our daily life at school. We are led to believe that it is a norm to swear, we do it almost spontaneously, and we don’t think about it, it’s almost second nature.
So why do we do it? It’s a bandwagon effect! When we start our transition from primary to secondary school, we are told that we are the ‘babies’ of high school-just like the preps in primary schools. As year 7’s we don’t want to create a bad image as it is going stick throughout our high school life. We don’t want to be the subject of bullying or be isolated from our peers. So what do we do? We try to fit in! Without knowing, we are disrespecting teachers, talking back to them, throwing chairs and tables at them, all for attention from our peers. We try to create an image of either a ‘class-clown’ or a ‘badass-rebel’. The entertainer of the class is always popular, so others try and mimic his/her actions. This leads to the students shifting their attention towards studying to other distractions like talking, computer games etc.
In the blink of an eye, the single teacher is trying to control 25-30 teenagers talking on top of each other, causing the teacher to have no other option but to start screaming at the kids, keep them in for detention or send them to the principal’s office. While the handful of kids who are trying their hardest not to get distracted, are left unattended and stripped of their opportunity to learn.
Parents are majorly responsible for the disruptions, since most of them refuse to listen to the teachers complain about their child and abuse the teachers instead, as a result, encouraging their kids to continue the atrocious behavior. This time also, the teachers are the victims, from the students as well as their parents.
There are parents out there who are serious about their child’s education and want them to succeed in high school to face the real world for better life opportunities. They tailor