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- TGriffin
- I have been a language teacher (ESL/ELL, French) for 30 years. I have taught in public and private schools, immersion programs, refugee programs, adult/continuing education, elementary, middle, and high school as well as university. Currently I teach ELL at a high school somewhere in New England.
I think making friends and help other people is more important for me.Because if I have some proem I can find my friends to help me with.
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ReplyDeleteI think the most important is being kindness and community service because that makes me feel better than having an A in an exam, because if I make friends I have more people that can help me with my problems and with the grades. You can always make your grades better but if you have an opportunity of making friends but you lose it because your grades you are going to fell bad because people sometimes need someone to talk to and be empathy and kindness usually make people be better in their grades, so be kind is better for your life.
ReplyDeleteI think making friends and help other people is more important. But also the importance of learning, because if you learn, there will be a good work. Both are equally important.
ReplyDeleteI think having good family and friends is more important.Even though more people think money is the most important.In my eyes family and friends are kind of treasure.When you have good friends then will stimulate you to be better. Then you will get good greads and getting to the good college.You life will be very nice,You can share any bad thing to your friends they can give you some suggest.So I think friends is the most important in my life.
ReplyDeleteGetting good grades and going to good college is much more important than only making friends. Of course a good relationship is important, but not the most important thing to me. Some people think that making friends is the important part to be successful. However I think the number of your friends is depends on you are successful or not. For example, if you have a lot of snacks, you will have a lot of friends around you. And I'm the one of the people around you that don't have any snacks. I'm sure that you don't want to be friends or give snacks to me because I have nothing to give back to you. I'm pretty sure that you will be the real friend with the person that has enough snacks like you or even more than you and he will be glad to be friend with you because you guys can share or change the world snacks with each other's. That will make you more comfortable. That's the reason that I think the most important thing is to improve ourselves in stead of only have friends or just hang out with friends and do nothing. That's the kind way to waste your time.
ReplyDeleteI think making friends and have a good relationship are more important. If you have lots of friends or a good relationship, you will get more important experience to you than only have a good grade in high school. And a good relationship will also give you a positive effect to face to live and school work. Human beings are social animals. You can not live alone without the other people. Everyone should work together to make each other better and help the world better.
ReplyDeleteI think making friends are more important than getting a good grade. Well grades are important, but if you don't have relationships only keep study and study you might feel boring in you life. When you have friends you can study with them, they will gif good advice for your work.
ReplyDeleteI think making friends and getting good grades are both important. The most important thing is getting good grades and making friends as well. You can't because of you want to making friends so don't work hard, you also can't just study but don't have any friends. So is not hard to make friend or getting good grades, the real hard thing is make this two things as well.
ReplyDeleteI think making friends and getting good grades are most important.Because even you don't have a good grade at school,you have good friends can help you.When most people like you,you can live easy,and they will support you to do something.
ReplyDeleteI think both are important for me . For academics, if you get good grades and go to good college , this may influence your life in the future , this can let you have a better life or provide a good life for your parents. For community service, this can let you make more friends , when you feel unhappy, you can talk to your friends, this is the best way to let unhappiness go , friends also are important when you step into society, so I think I will not lost anyone of these.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion,both of these are very important.But good grades is the premise of everything. You need improve yourself by studying. I can learn how to be honest,how to make friends during studying.Hence, good grades is the important thing.At the same time, making friends is also very necessary. Making friends has a good influence for your psychological healthy. It can make you active and good at communication.So you need improve and grow in both ways.These are both positive for your development.
ReplyDeleteI think that both of them are so important having good friends helps you to have good grades. Friends can help you studying or maybe practicing with everything that you are bad at and you can also help them with everything you can. Friends are for your whole life you will always have them and they will always have you but I also find important getting into a good university, that's why we are studying in school to have a great future, for a better life. And it also counts the community service empathy and kindness. Actually universities are trying to find students with participation on community services and this kind of staff. Nowadays all counts.
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Oct 26, 2016
I consider that both of these two things are important. I wonder what would happen if a person only make friends and never care about his grades. The result won't be perfect if we can't balance these two things. As a student, we should focus on academic more anyway. But friends can help us with the school work. It's the better to have both, because it can make you a sort of better person. Somehow you can always learn something from your friends, like doing homework on time, organizing your homework and so on. In my opinion, making friends and getting good grades are both important.
In my point of view, I think It's more important for a student make more friends than get a god grade. Because, your score or acamedic studying isn't all of you. But making friends can makes you feel better when you are sad. And doing community service can makes you feel a sense of achievement and makes everyone else have a great impression of you.
ReplyDeleteSo this is why I think have more friends and doing community service is more important.
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ReplyDeleteFriends and grades are really important in our life. In my personal perspective, friends are more important than grades. Are grades that important for you education? Yes, they are. It is how a teacher determine rather you are a good student or not. Good grades can lead you to a good university, but what about friend? They are also important as well. Good friends can make you positive, they can teach you so many things that you can't learn at school. In another perspective, you friends can change your personality. For example, if you have a friend that likes to sing a lot, then you might learn from him. You might ask him how could he sing that well and start to practice singing. In my point, grades can demonstrate that you are a good student or a bad student, and your friends can make you into a good person or a bad person.
I think make friend is important.sometime,friend can help you to dosomething ,you can talk with your friends.If you get into trouble,your friends can help you.your friends can bring you happy .
ReplyDeleteI think making friends is a hundred times more important than getting good grades because good grade only helps you to go to a better school, but making a lot of good friends will help you a lot when you graduate and start your own career. Many successful men even didn't graduate from high school, but they finally succeeded by their high intelligence and the large friendships with a lot of successful people.
ReplyDeleteI think having a good friend is the most important, because a friend will try to help you when you are in trouble. They can promote your growth, they will remind you when you make mistakes, let you correct their mistakes, they will help you solve the unconditional learning problems, and when you fail to encourage you to test, let you find Confidence. Let you become more excellent.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, making friends and getting a good grade are both important, but they are not equal. We really need both. As a person, if you only focus 100% on you grades, and don't talk or go out with anyone, you will feel lonely. Also, if you just want to make friends and do not care you grades, you can't go to a good college or your dream is hard to come true. I mean we don't need to choice one, we should make a balance. Talk and go out with you friend can make you relax during the school days. If you get in trouble, a real friend can help you solve it and accompany you. Also, we can have a competition with our friends to improve our grades so that make us be a better person. All at all, we need to make friends and also we need to focus on our grades. They are both important for us
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, having friends is more important than getting good grades. Good grades can only show that how hard you study, but good grades can't show what life you have. Like me, I can't live without my friends because they are one of the most important parts in my life. I need friends to talk to and play with. If you are lucky, you might have a friend who really cares about you. He will help you whenever you need. That must be better than you get good grades. And there's one more reason you have to know. If you are not good at studying, your friends will give you help to make your grades better. All in all, having friends is much more important than getting good grades.
ReplyDeletei think both of them are important but if I choose I will choose getting good grades now. Because now we are in high school grade is really important for you, grade can decide where you go for college. In college you will meet people from everywhere and somebody can actually help you. That's really important for your future. But focus one grade not mean you never talk to people. You should do the normal socialize such as making friends hang out with people. But the first thing in your mind is your grade.
ReplyDeleteThis is the first to make a person very difficult decision, because I don't know how to choose, because they are equally important in your life, but if I had to give up one of the things I want to give up the friendship, because you will get a lot of friends when your achievements to a certain extent, when you reach a certain academic level, your friends will do the same as you are clever people.
ReplyDeleteI think both of them are important,you need a good grades to apply a good university, but if you don't have friends,that is so bad,you must be familiar with people,so you must have friends.You need communicative ability,and intelligent head,weathly knowledge,all of them are important,that is a most basic how to be a good student I think.
ReplyDeleteSometimes you can be a volunteer to help others,that's good,and I think this is also important.And now You know how to make friends,to help others,and you can also study very well,Isn't that the best result?
I think the most important thing is friends grades is important but if you don't have friends you can always be success you need them's help ,be friendship make friends is the most important things to be success ,one day when you finish your dream they can share joy with you.
ReplyDeleteI think the both of the are important but always you have to balance the situation I mean you can have a lot of friends and be active in the social media but at the same time you have to know when stop for a while and focus on the academics. My dads used to tell me you have time for everything you just need to organize well this time and will can do whatever you want, hang out with your friends,study, play ball etc... You just need organization. Because if you just focus on the academics you won't have friends and you will become an unsocial person but you will can go to a great college. In the hand if you just focus in your friends and the social life you won't get the grades you need to go to the college and you will became mad with yourself this is why you need to find the balance between these to things.
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Oct 27th, 2016
There is a question about what should students focus on school-- making friends or getting good grades? The reaction of it varies. In my opinion, they are both essential, but if I must choose one, I would like to say getting grade. Well, the objective of school is to make students well including grades and ability of social community. Altogether is to improve students, but there is no doubt that the major one is academic-- because school has class 5 days a week. So the mission that students come to school is to get knowledge most likely. But, friends are important too. You can learn from friends, you can feel warm from them.
Both of them are very important. But I think getting good grades and focusing more on academics, test scores,and getting into a good university. It is time to study right now. To be a student who needs to study hard and attend a good university and have a good future and life. You also can do kind things and make friends after you finish university. Focus on study not mean you are not kindness or you don't like making friends. But good grades is more important to a student.
ReplyDeleteIt's important to have good grades, but it's also important to have good friends.
ReplyDeleteGrade are the result of study. It depends on how hard you work. It is really important to have good grades. It will helps you to get into good school, and get a job to support your future. In China, if you do not have a good grade, everything you did, every hard-working, every day and night that you spent on studying is useless. Grades are the most important thing until you get out of the college. In United States, grades are not as important as in China, but it is also a decisive factor for your study. Good grades do not mean you do well on everything, but it means you do well on study, and you do well on one of the most important things when you are a teenager.
You cannot ignored your grade, and I think you cannot ignored your relationship between the people around you, too. Friends are a very important thing of your life, not just during your young time. We all know the importance to have a good friend. If someone just study study and study, never talk to others, never do things with other people, this guy's life must be very very boring. If I do things like that guy, even I get a fantastic grade, I will still feel I do not get the things that I really want. Humans are community animals, you cannot live without friends. You cannot just live on your own. That is impossible. Friends also can change your life ( whatever it is good or bad ). Having friends is a blessed thing.
So...... I think get good grades and have friends are both important. They are both important in a person's life, too. Study hard, and join some social activities. That's how I ( and how a teenager ) should do now.
Good grades is a good step how get to university. It is important to have school education. But if you finish university you can't expect everything will be okay. However university isn't everything. Many famous persons never finished their university. Steve Jobs, Eminem, Bill Gates, and other people. Friends are important. They give you love and hope. You can tell them your problems, share love with them.
ReplyDeleteI my perspective, I think having better grades is better. I mean, if we get good grades, we will have a really good job in the future, and we will be able too make friends when everything is done. But know we are preparing for the future, and is not always good to have lost of friends, because they can be a huge distraction, and you will get bad grades. Is ok too have some friends, or at least one. They can help you through your live, but as I said, is better to get more friends when all your studies are done.
ReplyDeleteI think having friends is better than getting good grades because if I only focus on studying, I would miss and lose many things. Also, only focusing on studying is boring and lonely. However, when I stay with my friends, it is more fun. Also if I have many friends, it is good for me and my future.
ReplyDeleteThere is no doubt that getting good grades is the most important thing for us. As a student, we should focus on some assignments and tests, there things can account students' GPA. If the students have a high GPA, they will go to a good college. In the future, they will get a good job and make money easier. In my opinion, whatever you are a student or adult , everyone has responsibility to think about the prospect. How can they take good care of their family?How can they guarantee the living conditions of the family？So the first step is getting good grades and go to a good college. This is undoubtedly logical that they will get a good job and make more money to make my life comfortable.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like a really difficult question but is not that hard to awnser. Some people think that having friends is more important, others think that getting good grades is the essential thing about high school if you want to go in a good University.
ReplyDeleteIn my point of view both things are important. I mean this is not a choice, I get really good grades but I also have a lot of friends. Friends are really useful in life, especially here that we don't have our parents, your friends are who take care of you when you are having a bad time. In my case I'm doing an enormous improvement in my maths class thanks to Monica (my friend from Poland) because she is helping me. I really don't understand anything in class, so when I come back to the dormitory she explains me the lesson again and she makes sure that I understand it all . So thanks to her I have an A in my total grade on maths. But obviously I'm not saying that if you have friends you will pass the exams. You have to make good choices, if you need help with studies try to make relationships with people that can help you. And then you also have other friends which maybe are not that good in studies but they can give you good experiences.
However life is not about passing exams. You are who makes your life, so you are the first one who has to grow as a person. Friends help you with this process and studies are useful for your knowledge. So I think that both things are really important.
I think both are all important. Getting good grade is an important thing to be a good student. But beside of that, people should also developed their empathy kindness and community service to become a better person. You just can be a perfect person when you achieve these two things.
ReplyDeleteI think getting good grades are more important. we are student, so we need to get good grade in school. It is the most important thing for us. Making friends are good, but we can't let our grades are decrease. we can make friend, but you need to have enough time to do your homework. I think grades are the most important.
ReplyDeleteI think getting good grades and having more friends all very important to me, when you study you need be focus on class but when you done school you need social with you friends, when you not in school you can contact they .
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10/27/2016
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Mr. Griffin
Having good grades and friends is awesome. Sincerely I wouldn’t be able to choose
between those. I think if you get both things, you would be a “complete person”. Saying this, I meant that you would have everything for being happy. There are so many reasons why is good to have good grades. It´s an open door to future opportunities. For example a scholarship
for university. It also can lead you fun opportunities like playing sports, because if you fail you wouldn’t be able to play. Otherwise I think that having friends is the best thing ever. If you have real friends, everything gets easier. For example if you need help with homework, talk to someone about important things or even to cheer you up, they will be always there for you. That’s why I think if you have both things, you have everything for being happy.
Firstly, It is always important to have a good balance between the two. However, I prefer the best one which is called having friends section. Being sociable is important than others. If you cannot make friends, you will be alone . Believe in me , no one wants to be alone. No one wants to feel loneliness. Imagine that, you are student who has perfect grades but not have enouh friend. Only a good grade is not mean everything at all. Also, If you ask for me ,it is really nothing. Secondly, people should not be impressed by money, degress, good grades and test scores. They should be impressed by kindness , integrity, humanity and generosity. One more thing is, people should learn to respect all kind of people because everyone is fighting a battle on their own. Last of all, test scores will not save the world ; the beauty of empathy and kindness will.... SAMET FEYZIOGLU
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion the most important thing is helping other people, do community service because you will grow inside. Ok, good grades are very important and you can have a fantastic job, a lot of money, the best house and car, yes, but that won't make you happy. In the future you will want more and more things because the new car has made so you have to buy it, you won't be satisfied with the thing you already have.
ReplyDeleteAnd by helping other people and being nice with your friends you won't be satisfied with just helping one or two friends, you will want to help people that aren't your friends and more than one or two. They will love you and be with you not because of how much money you have or your grades, they will want to be with you because you are a good person and nice.
As a student, you should concentrate your healthy first. If you were bad health, you have to focus on your body condition. Second, you should pay attention to your grade. Getting a good grade, you will go to a well-known university, and you think that my parents are proud of me.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, getting good grades is very important than just making friends. It doesn't mean that show empathy and do community services are important, however, during my first school year in TA, getting good grades is the target that I really want to accomplish. When I focus on academics, test scores, it always can help and encourage myself to improve my current performance. Then I will get a lot of chances to change my life. I know is not always easy to do well in school, challenge tasks are always waiting for me everyday, but after I improve my score to a higher level, I'll be able to communicate with lots more people based on what I know and also know more from them and will make more friends, and have ability to help others as well.
ReplyDeleteI thinks getting friends is more important to me. Because I can getting friends now. If I older I getting friends more harder. Many people go to company. But we must learn. We must get a good grade. Make friends in school and meet after few years.
ReplyDeleteFor me, I think friends and good grades are both important. There are no conflict between having friends and getting good grades. In my perspective, good grades depends on the attitude of a person, which means if this person is positive and goal-oriented, this person would be attractive for others to come to be friends with him. Friends are important too. They are an essential part of a person's life. Good friends enable a person getting benefits forever which mean they give you power are energy to support you. So both are important and I can't lose them.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion good friend and good grade are both important. If a people only have good grade, they maybe don't talk a lot, because they spend most of the time on doing review. Also only have friends but don't have good grade usually don't have a good future. Friends always learn things with people, so when we have some problem that we can't solve we can ask friends, so if a person have friend he may have a good grade because his friend may help him a lot. Also in the future, in the business world friend may help a lot. So in my opinion, both friend and good grade are important.
ReplyDeleteThanks, everyone, for your comments on friends and grades. Most of you value friends (and the social qualities of empathy and kindness) over grades, though some of you point out that the primary job of a student is to do well in school. A lot of you emphasize the importance of having both an active social life and a studious academic one; in fact, friends can help a student get better grades, you say. Interesting observations.
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Be honest, this is tuff question. School work is the most important job for student, but friends are also in the top of my list. I didn't just chose just one of them, because t both of them are really important. It is hard for a Student to became successful without either one of them. For example, if I have a great achievement on one subject. I may have a very good pay job, or may not. A good career not just need mine personal academic ability, it also need a good social ability to communicate with my colleague and boss. In the other hand if a person have a amazing personal charisma, but not good at paper work. His boss will like him, but not gonna put him in a important spot in the compline.
In my own opinion,both academic grades and social ability are impotent to me.
I think both of them are very important for me or for a student. If I want become a successful, I can't without one of them. I need know enough knowledge and to learn the way how to make friends or how to survive in the world.
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