P3. What's More Important?

            I think that I agree with both sides of the stories’ opinions. It is clear that students enjoy having Nicole Weingard as their teacher but is she really doing what she’s supposed to? In some ways, she is but other she’s not. Throughout school I’ve had many teachers that have made class so much fun, other teachers have made it beyond boring, and then there are some that meet right in the middle of the two. I think it’s more important to have a teacher that knows everything thing that there is to know about what they’re teaching. Nicole Weingard made class fun but some of her student’s didn’t get good test results back. It doesn’t matter what grade you’re teaching, grades are more important than how much fun you have in the class. There’s many classes that I would dread going to but when it came to my exams, I couldn’t have thanked my teacher enough because they knew exactly what they were doing and the correct way to teach it for us all to succeed. I’m not saying that the teacher should want to make the class boring, it should be fun but that’s not what it’s all about. Many teachers do both, not every class is fun but it’s not all boring; they split it in half and half. A lot of subjects are hard to make fun with it; some classes you just need to sit there and learn.  Also, teachers don’t always have enough time to teach all the material that they need to. In my position as a student, I would rather have the class be boring but know what I need to in order to do well in the class and on my exams rather than having fun in class and not knowing what I’m doing. I can see people looking into it a little more in the younger grades because there isn’t that much that they’re learning, it’s more about having fun for the younger grades which I understand. But, when it comes to middle school and especially high school, grades and test scores are the most important thing to focus on, not fun.