In Praise of the F Word.

No, this paper was defiantly not about a cuss word. That is pretty obvious given that this is a school assignment. Given to us students by a very proper professor, with better respect for herself. Reading this paper I learned that the word Marry Sherry was referring to was "Flunk" It was very insightful into Mary's opinion on why kids fail in High school and other education. She firstly talks about schools in general then shifts to the teachers and how they just pass the students so they don't have to deal with the bad students any longer. The word "Flunk" does in fact increase the effectiveness of this essay simple because it refers to it as the "F word" which gives it a negative connotation. The "F word" is associated with a profanity in today's society, so, by referring the word flunk to a profanity it automatically gives the word a bad meaning. The author does this because she wants to reinforce the reader that flunking is a bad thing, and that students should try their hardest to avoid it. It always makes the paper more interesting to read when the title and story capture the readers attention.

I think that Mary Sherry's audience for this paper would have to be, the students, the teachers, and the parents. She does a decent job explaining her side of the argument, that kids that are just being passed along to move them out of the way like an assembly line is wrong. That if they don't know the information they should flunk the class, the teacher shouldn't have to rescue them. Yet, while doing great at discussing her side she didn't really touch an awful lot of the opposing argument about why the kids should be passed anyway. I don't know quite enough to back that side of the argument up, but Mary should have interviewed a teacher move in depth. This way she could attempt to know about both sides and not end up with just her personal biased information on the topic. I think that students that don't put in the effort shouldn't receive help to pass the grade or the class. I believe that education is a right to a certain degree then it becomes a privileged. In my Education Across The World class we've discussed that topic quite a bit, saying you have to earn the right by proving you can obtain the knowledge. This also gives me a good idea about what type of research I might have to do to be well informed on my topic for my argumentative essay we will be doing in English 1101.