All Of Her Years - Post Reading

I have changed, I'm not the same man as I was before the incident. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was a regular Sunday, I woke up from bed and I started to prepare myself to the big test I had to do in math. It was a big test and I wanted to get a good grade, it was very important to me because it was the final exam of the year. I was confident because I studied a lot and I had no fear from failing or getting a bad grade.

It all began when I entered the class.
I sat at my table, waiting for the teacher to hand over the test so we could start the test. She gave me the test and she returned to her table. I opened the test and suddenly I felt a strange feeling.
I began to be less confident and I feared I might fail.

I went over the math questions and I felt a great confusion and I started to be nervous. I tried to answer the questions but I couldn't. Next to me sat my friend Tom, who was a genius in math.
I was so nervous and I didn’t know what to do, so I tried to ask him to help me with the test. I didn’t think twice, all I wanted was to get a high score. Tom managed to help me with some of the questions  until the teacher noticed me and Tom cheating. She stood up and came towards us, she was very angry and she took my test and Tom's test and she failed both of us.

At that moment I understood that I failed my friend and myself. I felt terrible about the test but more about my friend Tom who failed the test. From that moment I started to be more responsible for my actions.
I was selfish, I didn’t think for a second about what it will do to Tom.
From this day I started considering my actions and their outcome.

Very Good work!

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Daphna

Poem from the parent's prespective

Our wish is that he will clean his room.
Our wish is that he will clean the dishes.
Our wish is that he will throw the trash.
Our wish is that he will finish his meal.
Our wish is that he will not complain.
Our wish is that he will listen to us and go to sleep right away.

Good!

A Letter To The Editor

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       78 Homa And Migdal

                                                             Holon
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The Editor
Eiton Haaretz
106 Chamber Road
Los Angeles, California 
Holon

Dear editor

I must say I enjoyed reading your article " Israel suspends standardized tests"
As a former student I have done all the meitzav exams through the years, I remember myself and my teachers trying to achieve the highest grade on that test.
I studied hard and my teachers were giving us a lot of practice so we could get the highest grade and make our school successful.
I think that suspending the meitzav tests or the standardized test is a great choice, I hated doing them and I remember that all the hard work preparing for them took a lot of our time, time we could have used to study more material and advance in our studies.

What I'm trying to say is that I agree with Shay Piron the minister of the education to suspend the meitzav test because of the damage they cause to the education in our country. Exams are made to test the student's  knowledge at the material he is learning in his class.
But if the exam is concentrating in compressing him(ww.- not clear what you mean) to another student it won't help him to improve and learn from his mistakes.

"In a world based on cooperation, teamwork and creative thought, we’ve enslaved our children to endless memorization that ends with them sitting alone in front of the paper and hoping to get better grades than the person sitting next to them"( you have to write whose words these are, that’s how I felt, instead of enjoying my studies and be interested in what I learn I was forced to learn my material for one cause and that's to succeed in the meitzav exam.

Today if you are not interested in what you are learning you are like a machine, you work hard but you don’t feel that you connect with material. I think the students needs to do more workes and  projects about things they love and understand.
It will be essential and easier for the student because they will learn and enjoy but also work hard to achieve the grade they want to have.

I hope I shed a new light on the subject of your article.

Sincerely yours,

Tom Potter Jones.   

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Daphna

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