Jim Cooper "Helping"

The Puertorrican people are persons who live to help out whoever they can, it doesn't matter what it is if you need help you will always find someone to help you. Since little kinds we are told to share with our friends and help them out. The educational system does the same for kids when they are starting to get used to learning and testing. In the school I studied students from the first grade through the third grade will be sitting on a collective table. Every activity you do in the classroom is with that group including the test for the material that way instead of having failures you have kids that share knowledge and help each other to succeed.

The term helping a friend out is just an excuse on collage and university levels for cheating. By that time the students should be mature enough to know that it is your effort what is going to give you a grade and not the effort of the “friend” on your side. Is normal that some students learn slower than others or the levels of education during high school were no the ones to set him for success. This is the reason why I think that we should have teachers that dominate both, English and Spanish, so the when a student finds himself stuck on some learning the teacher can be able to help in a more precise way because if trouble is with language there is never going to be good communication between teacher and student, and learning will never be achieved. One important point discussed by Copper is the relations between students and teachers, teachers are meant to be educators and not friends I think the the relation between the students and teachers should be limited to the classroom only and not to bars. By becoming friend with a student the credibility of the teacher can be jeopardized.

I think is a good idea to encourage kids to help out each other but in order to be prepared for the world they need to learn about competition. Cooperative programs should be limited to the first grade of school that way the student looses fear to the teachers and test. Competition should be encouraged from there on for students to challenge themselves to achieve their goals. Competition is also the only way to prepare people for the real world after school, in the university you will be competing with hundreds of students that will take your place on graduated school or on the job that you wanted simply because you did not compete hard enough. Competition is a fine line we should do it to the point the it is morally correct for our benefit but without hurting your opponents. Competition is the key to success combined with a good education mainly in the private school system will guarantee a successful experience during collage or university.