Liz Mandrell Analysis

Have you ever felt completely overwhelmed but grades? This feeling is one far too common among students. Liz Mandrell, AP English teacher, after hearing her students distress over keeping their GPAs up sought out to try and test to see if grades where a crucial part of the learning process. When you’re a kid learning seems so enjoyable, it’s rare to meet a little kid who doesn’t love school. The appeal of learning new things is so great that kids will work to learn for the sole purpose of gaining knowledge however that shortly begins to change; as you get older and classes start growing in level of difficulty the importance of keeping good grades begins being stressed by parents and teaches alike.