do good grades matter are they important much of our young life is spent in school getting
an education so that we can hopefully get a good job and hopefully live a happy life you're born
and then given a few grace years to become a functional little human being and as soon as you
learn to go potty poof away you disappear from the comfort of your parents house to a kindergarten
where suddenly you can't do just anything you want knowledge is forced upon you and then after
a while you get these scary rectangular papers that show whether you remember what the teacher
was blabbing on about or not this is not to say that education isn't important it is particularly
through our formative years since it familiarizes us with what is known of the world and helps us
think of ways to improve on it in high school for instance there's a health class where we
learn all about hygiene and this reinforces what our parents told us about not eating food off the
floor the food picks up bacteria and this could get you sick history teaches us about what has
happened before and how we can avoid the mistakes our forefathers made like slavery because we
now understand why it is wrong we comprehend the natural world around us through geography and the
one within our biology classes so one could make a strong argument of why most education systems
around the world need a complete overhaul however with the way our society is structured school is
the place children go to to get all the vital information needed to be a functional adult once
your high school or your college spits you out into the real world since you were a young kid
you probably heard all about the importance of good grades study hard to get into high school
where you should strive for good grades it will take you to a good college where you will get
a very marketable skill like lawyering and at the end of which you'll get employed and have a
great starting salary this gets you on your merry way to the coveted upper middle class where your
parents raised you or it could be a way for you to make it and improve the lives of your family
members and your own in today's video we talk about whether or not good grades matter and just
how much you should be bothered if you aren't getting straight A's all the time the answer is
you shouldn't be too worried but that doesn't mean that you shouldn't be aspiring to do well in class
why good grades are important don't dismiss your parents motivation to see you get your grades up
even if their methods may get on your nerves good grades are important insofar as getting you into
the path you want to get even if it isn't an academia let's look at faith for example her
head is always in the clouds she enjoys writing and creating worlds beyond this one where she has
total control if she had a choice she would spend all her days reading books like Harry
Potter soaking up its magic watch movies and see what a real life Hogwarts could look like and then
sit behind a computer and build their worlds her mother won't have any of that of course so every
morning she has to wake up and go to school having done her homework well and to completion what
faith might not realize in her thinking that is so narrowly focused on her writing is that it for
high school GPA is good she gets to pick a College of her choice a good GPA means that she can have
her pick of the best schools the teach writing in the whole country and who will her tutors
and lecturers be the University that produces the best writers must surely have a staff of the best
writers for anyone looking to get into graduate or a professional school good grades are a no-brainer
there is a minimum threshold that one must meet to get their masters student debt in college can
be avoided altogether or reduced to a large extent when you have good grades scholarships and other
types of funding are earned by those who are proficient in class and those who do well in
sports and other activities such as clubs and honor societies if you aren't a great athlete
the best bet you have to get a scholarship from the college you're applying to or from
other sources is by doing well in class apart from benefiting your higher education good grades also
help boost your confidence since you spend a lot of your time in school a lot of your self-worth
will be centered on how well you do in class your school social life and your performance in
extracurricular activities the better your grades are the higher your sense of self-worth performing
well in school is also a way of proving to you to the society and a future potential employers that
you're capable of performing tasks efficiently and a completion without needing a lot of supervision
in school you're given assignments that should be done within a given time if you perform well in
a particular subject this may mean that you put in the study time to gain the necessary
you did your assignments and you attended your classes so what does the employer see let's say
for example that you got a job at a drive-in what your employer will see is an individual capable of
taking orders from customers processing them as you have been trained to do to get the money and
to do all this with minimal supervision as will be shown by whether you turned your assignments
in or not the amount of money that you earn once you're employed is also in part determined by your
grades according to research 65% of employers will look at your GPA before employing you granted a
minimum mean of 3.0 is the usual requirements it still doesn't mean that you should not care about
this grade the career path you land on determines your earning and this is determined by the college
you are in and the high school grades that got you there however good grades are not everything truth
is some people get a's without putting in any effort at all while others get B's when they've
pushed themselves to the brink education is not about getting a certain grade or number on your
transcript it's about making positive steps every day no matter how tiny they may be therefore if
you've studied well and gotten a B congratulations now ask yourself why did you not get the full
grade is it something you can improve if so putting an extra effort in the next one if you had
put in the best of your ability pat yourself on the back and enjoy a small reward for your efforts
good grades are not a measure of success which is not to say they aren't important your academic and
financial future is somehow tied to how well you perform in high school and your higher education
the latter especially if you want a career in academia however you don't have to necessarily get
straight A's to be successful grades are sometimes a measure of how much effort you're willing to
put in to get a result and not much else at least from an employer's point of view thank you so much
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