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While skimming through some interesting posts, one shocking post caught my eye titled Why are kids failing? by Mrs. Davis which talks about how out of 49 9th graders, 21 have low D's and F's. This is extremely shocking to me!! Mrs. Davis talks about how she tries to provide opportunities for her students to achieve higher grades, but students just don't care. By talking to the gifted/talented at risk teacher, she figured out that out of 500 9th graders, 110 of them are failing at least one of their classes, if not 3 or 4. This is astonishing! I don't understand how students can not care about their grades and not even try. Students today are just lazy. We are exposed to many new technologies that can be a huge distraction. Students don't have to debate for long which they would rather do, homework or watching tv. They would choose watching tv, which will never get them anywhere in life. Even though homework can sometimes seem like a pain, you would never be able to understand any concept without practicing it, and homework is just practice on the concepts you had just recently learned. You learn not for school, but for life. If you choose not to learn, then you will not be successful in life. The only way to obtain a successful life is through knowledge which students would obtain from school, if they actually cared. Students are capable of doing the work but are just lazy. In one of my classes, about half the class is failing and I don't understand why. The only way you could fail that class is to not do any work. Around the world, students are failing in their classes because they don't feel like doing their work. I'm sure that some teachers feel like they are waisting their time because they are not able to help those students who don't care. They have to be willing to learn first, before the teacher is able to help, which many are not willing. This saddens me to think of how little people think of education. The United States is way behind many other countries on education which is not good. We are the future generation that will be making the important decisions regarding our country and if we are not able to pass a class because of laziness, what will happen to our country?