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Your post doesn’t really engage the reading. Most of it contemplates on the first class and the class theme, which is interesting, but you don’t relate that too the reading. You mention the reading at the end, but in very vague terms and you also refer to it as a novel, which it is not. Your posts actually makes it seem as if you didn’t do the reading, which is not good. You need to engage the text more, and there should be quotes from the assigned text in your post responses.
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This semester we are discussing the topic “school isn’t everything.” It happens to be very ironic since Professors usually persuade students to attend school, making it seem like the most important thing for his or her development as a teenager. This idea relates to our class on Monday, August 31st. In class we watched a music video of Kanye West singing a song that is part of his album “College Dropout.” This song was about Kanye singing to kids about dropping out of College and just getting by. It also involves drugs and profanity.
Now although people may believe this song is inappropriate to say to students, it is a positive thing in a way. It gives these students the prior knowledge that there is life beyond school. School for them should be a means to get to your ultimate goal; success. I believe that the selection of this course topic sends the same message. We are all in school to attain everlasting knowledge but it is not everything. The truth of that statement goes so far as to the teacher being able to admit it herself.
We are reading a novel, Secrets of a Buccaneer Scholar which elaborates on this notion of life beyond school. Written by a dropout who led a group in Apple Inc., this novel should be really interesting.