Re: Senior-itis?


Ericka Kammerer wrote:
> eliz_reid@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Cathy Kearns wrote:
> >
> >
> >>The dean of admittance from UC Santa Cruz said every year they have to send
> >>summer letters to tons of students to tell them that their grades dropped
> >>too much, and they were no longer welcome. It's devestating because at this
> >>point there is no backup plan. This is one of those things that seems to
> >>have gotten more strict since I went to college.
> >
> >
> > Eek.
> >
> > Just out of curiosity, what's the rationale for this? If the kid has
> > gotten good grades for all of high school, clearly they can do the work
> > and the problem is senioritis... so why withdraw admission?
>
> Because they see senioritis as a lack of commitment
> that is inconsistent with what they expect out of their
> students, who are supposed to be in it for learning's sake.

That just seems so harsh to me... I mean, I'm motivated by love of my
job to some extent, but I'm also motivated by the fact they pay me. If
they stopped paying me, I'd be less motivated! In my memory, an awful
lot of the work I did in high school had little to do with pure love of
learning and much more to do with needing to do it and get it done so I
could go to college, and after the 'payoff' had been received I
definitely got less interested, although I don't think my grades
dropped to any huge degree.

I guess I should be glad my university didn't know that. :-)

Beth

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