SMS Problems of The Year

Grades

Being in Sunridge Middle School for three years now, you learn that there are a lot of flaws and problems in this school. For one, air conditioning. It gets really hot in the school especially towards the end of May and beginning of June. But of course, after the 8th graders this year leave, the school will be getting air conditioning. That’s just one problem, but it does seem to be a problem for all the students, 6th through 8th grade. This year SMS has a new grading system, and in my opinion, I don’t like it one bit. Instead of having one grade and have everything you do in class be based on that one grade, you have two grades, a personal management grade and an academic grade. This year I have been slacking on my homework because personal management doesn’t affect my academic grade. If we had only one grade like last year, then I would be on top of things and get my homework done every night.

As I went around asking students what the biggest problems in SMS are, I heard a lot about the new grading system. When I asked Kyra Ford she said, “The personal management. We should go back to the old grading system like last year. I think that Mr. Yoshioka could help out easily and he should change it back to the old grading system.” Another problem is laziness, which the new grading system has a connection with. Domanic Stovall said, “Students don’t do their homework. Now that we have two grades, our personal management grade is based on our homework. Since students don’t really care about their personal management, they get lazy and don’t do their homework.”

All in all, SMS isn’t a perfect school. It has it’s flaws but it does have some positives. Like next year they will be getting air conditioning, which is good. But the new grading system needs to go, and that’s not just my opinion, it’s most of the students’ in the school’s opinion. Sunridge is a great school and I hope everyone else thinks so too.