In the documentary the directors asked the first interview person what he was pressured into doing; “going to a school dance drunk to look cool.” Teens now days are doing anything to fit in and make themselves noticed by their peers (note it being “Peer Pressure”.) The youth in our generation has a lot more access to a lot more illegal things. We have the technology to get things that are illegal for our age, drugs and alcohol. The demand for all of this is because some of the kids that have given into Peer Pressure, because they have very little self esteem and they want to fit in and do everything that the “cool kids” are doing. We need to have it where all of the kids now days be in something like an after school sport or club and so they don’t have the “extra free time” to do all of those things. If we did that then all of this would most likely go away and everything would be so much better for everyone. Majority of the time all of the kids are doing this to fit in and get that extra thrill of doing something that their not supposed to do. If all of the ages were lowered to around sixteen then that would take care of majority of all the kids giving into peer pressure.
J.V. Ms. MacKenzie English 11 9 November 2010 High School behind the Scenes Critical Review In the documentary “High School behind the Scenes,” the authors claimed that almost every high school student has been peer pressured into some negative action. My argument is, not every single high school student has succumbed to negative peer pressure. There are students who have never given in to being pressured about drugs or alcohol or ditching class and those are our class leaders. The people interviewed in the documentary gave those specific examples of times when they were peer pressured. Can students be peer pressured into raising their grades? Can students be peer pressured into helping out with school functions? The definition of peer pressure is pressure from one’s peers to act in a way similar to them. Take the valedictorians and class leaders. Could they pressure their friends to strive to get grades like theirs? If schools’ valedictorians accomplished subtle hints at doing better in school, graduation rates could potentially go up. Is that not what teachers and administrators are trying to accomplish? By getting students involved in raising those rates, the good pressure could outweigh the bad and drop the percentage of teens that commit substance abuse and keep more kids in class. A successful way that peer pressure can be a positive influence. As a result, not all peer pressure is negative.
A Critical Review: High School behind the Scenes. CLAIM: Schoolwork and grades should always be first priority before sports. EVIDENCE: In the digital documentary High School behind the Scenes, one of the interviewed people says, “Sports won’t be there all my life, education will.” Most colleges require a certain grade point average for players to be able to participate in their sport. Although most college’s grade point averages are typically low Elmira College claims, “Varsity and junior varsity student-athletes must maintain a GPA of 2.0, which is monitored after every term, in order to be eligible to participate” LOGOS. Just because Elmira’s grade point average is only 2.0 63% have at least a 3.0 (www.elmira.edu/athletics). According to NCAA, “Eight in 10,000, of high school senior boys playing interscholastic football will eventually be drafted by an NFL team.” Judging from these statistics most likely not even one guy on your schools football team will continue their sport career after college (ncaa.org). Since not everyone can count on sport careers to support themselves for the rest of their lives its best that students focus on schoolwork and what they are majoring in. ETHOS. Without a degree it’s harder to find a job that offers a higher amount than minimum wage or $7.24. In order for Americans to support themselves we must look father into education for success later in life rather than just sports.
J.H. Mrs. Mackenzie English 11 November 11, 2010 Peer Pressure: A Critical Review Peer pressure can truly make you do things that you normally never would have thought of doing. Ian Kinear's uncle was pressured into stealing a car and getting high or even sex all on the same night. How many people actually plan on doing something like this? None. No one ever plan on drinking or stealing or getting high just like that, most of them are pressured. According to the Kaiser Foundation, "approximatley 50% of 12 to 17 year olds are pressured into having sex". Some of those pressures can be considered rape. People get pressured into many things such as that and as the amount of teenagers grow, so does the smount of peer pressuring, As stated by The National Household Survey, "the use of marijuana has risen 275% from the years '92-'97." The numbers keep rising and will continue to rise. Another good statement was that "no one wants to do things alone." Which is true. Normally if one person gets pressured into it, a chain reaction will start and more people will be likely to continue the trend.
High School is the first step into adulthood and is preparation for future life. Teens are now starting to deal with work, school, friends, chores at home, pets, extracurricular activities, etc. Many kids have to face problems and “stress” with school and may be more prone to harm for themselves and others. Some teens, however, may have more put on them and don’t know how to handle the work load and may be more easily influenced. Having Jobs, schoolwork, and chores all put onto a student may make them more stressed and looking for an “easier” break and that may be why they are more easily influenced to do drugs and alcohol to get a “break.”
Peer Pressure is the main reason people do thing they normally wouldn’t do. When an interviewee was asked if they though what they did was wrong when they were peer pressured into a situation they said yes. When asked why they stated, “It wasn’t the right thing to do, and it was worth getting in trouble either just to make myself look cool.” The fact that kids still wouldn’t make that decision after they were already peer pressured into just shows how much peer pressure influences kids. People are constantly being pressured into situations just so they can look cool. An interviewee even stated that, “All my friends were doing it and I thought I’d be cool to do it because they told me to.” Another interviewee talked about how they were peer pressured into ditching class. When discussing it they stated, “I wasn’t so sure if I should or not and my friends were like it’s not a big deal, we’ve done it before.” These are two great examples of how kids are constantly being pressured into certain situations just so that they can look cooler to their peers.
Some people say that grades are affected by playing sports or being in extra curricular activities. This is not true. The people in these activities have less time for homework but they also have to have good grades because either their coaches or parents will not let them do these activities with out good grades. People who play sports are forced to have good grades. If the people who play sports are slacking on their grades, they will not be able to play any longer. Grades always have to come first. They are more important than sports. More people will get jobs from going to college rather than getting a job being a pro sports player. The people who go to college and play sports must also keep their grades up. People who play sports in college must maintain at least a 3.0. That is passing with B’s. That really is not too hard to do. People just need to learn to prioritize their lives. As one of the people interviewed in High School Behind the Scenes said “Sports won’t be there all my life, education will.”, this is a very true statement. People should be focusing on their grades way more than they should be their sports.
Students often have trouble keeping grades up due to responsibilities they have outside of the classroom. Interviewee said “I have to prioritize myself, get my homework done before I go to bed... sometimes I end up staying up late at night” this is due to the sports that he plays, he has to manage practices and homework each night. This is the same way with students who have jobs. Personally, I have a very hard time with my grades this year. I’ve never struggled with my grades up until this year, when I have to balance my good grades with my new job. It is hard these days, with everything being more expensive, money is also a new issue to me and I know to a lot of my friends, too. And by everything, that includes colleges. The only way to get into college today is to either be Bill Gates rich, or to get in on some kind of scholarship, otherwise you can kiss the college life goodbye and work at McDonalds for the rest of your life! The many things highschoolers have to deal with these days can be very stressful, and sometimes overwhelming. Sometimes all that is needed is a little break, since there’s only so little time to get everything done that needs to be done. Maybe teachers could lay off the ‘every-night’ homework *ahem* math department, since the students often have other responsibilities to take care of. Education is most important, but so is the well being of the students.
M.M. Ms. Mackenzie English 11 14 November 2010 High School Behind the Scenes documents the things that effect the life of your average high school student. For some reason teenagers are thought of as the laziest age group, why is this? High school students no doubt have a lot to juggle. An average student must handle increasing and more difficult school work, normally at least one, maybe multiple, after school sports or activities, and constant family responsibility. This is not even including more elective things that many students do like after school jobs, volunteering, hanging out with friends, tutoring, or applying to colleges. This is good though! People who participate in extracurricular activities are almost three times more likely to have a gpa of 3.0 or above than those who do not (http://nces.ed.gov/pubs95/web/95741.asp). Plus, the responsibility that teenagers learn from after school activities helps them have a better and more trusting relationship with their parents. A lot of these teenagers do all of this and finish with a sense of accomplishment and pride, making them and their parents happy.
In this documentary, the interviewees ask about peer pressure. Peer pressure is when someone tries to get you to do something that you don’t necessarily want to do. When someone gives in to peer pressure, it’s generally because they want to be cool or fit in with the group that they’re hanging out with. Peer pressure is not always a bad thing. If a student sees another student doing something productive, they might get inspired to try harder at certain things. Even something as simple as someone wearing certain clothes because someone they think is cool is wearing them is peer pressure. Everyone in high school has dealt with peer pressure, whether negative or positive. A lot of the time student’s will be peer pressuring their friends without even noticing it. For example, the girl who was interviewed for ditching class stated that her friends told her, “it’s not a big deal”, but chances are the girls weren’t purposely trying to negatively impact her life, they just wanted to hang out.
This was a very good documentary and it was presented really good. I think the claim was that peer pressure is really bad to get into, and that you do have a choice wether to follow it or not. I like the evidence that was portraid. It had a lot of really good interviews, along with facts that were given. However, the music at the beginning of the document was not very related to the topic, i thought. I think it could have been a little better/more on topic. It was really well shown that kids, especially teenagers in High School get led into peer pressure really easily, and that isnt very good. I also learned that once you get lead into peer pressure, and you get caught doing something you're not suppost to be doing, can be very bad and regretting. Going to jail for one moment of pleasure isnt worth it. Great job though making this documentary. I greatly enjoyed it, and i thought that it was very informal! Good Job!
I enjoyed this documentary thoroughly. it really got the message out about that many teenagers that are in middle school and high school are pressured into doing things that they dont want to do. the claim in the documentary was that you have a choice in what you want to do and you shouldnt be forced into doing anything you dont want to do. i thought that the music made the documentary that much better because it made the situation less tense and allowed for a relaxed atmosphere. the information displayed was very informative and in my opinion this was the best documentary. good job fellas.
Throughout middle school and high school, students will be peer pressured into things they don’t want to do no matter who there friends are or what school they go to. They will do things they would normally say no to just because they want to be “cool” and to have a lot of friends and be accepted. It can start off with things like smoking cigarettes because everyone is doing it and its what people think is “cool” and it can progress into more serious things like: stealing cars, smoking weed, sneaking out, getting drunk at parties and things like that, and these kids don’t even want to be doing these things, but they feel that if they don’t they wont be cool because of it . Another thing that students may not want to do is have sex in high school, but some people think that if your still a virgin you aren’t cool and they can be forced into something they aren’t ready for, some people want to save it for marriage and they just get made fun of for it. People will end up having sex just because its cool and everyone does it when in fact it is a very personal thing. Peer pressure is something that will always be around us no matter what even when we’re older, we just have to learn when to say “yes” or “no” in certain situations.
Peer pressure! i enjoyed this video! This happens to everone all the time its a thing i think we all overcome in life. Thiz video showed great evidence. If u want something you got to make it happen n not let dumb things like peer pressure get to you and always make sure u do right becuase then u gotta put up wit the consequences.
K.H.A.
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English 11
7 November 2010
Peer Pressure: a critical review
In the documentary the directors asked the first interview person what he was pressured into doing; “going to a school dance drunk to look cool.” Teens now days are doing anything to fit in and make themselves noticed by their peers (note it being “Peer Pressure”.) The youth in our generation has a lot more access to a lot more illegal things. We have the technology to get things that are illegal for our age, drugs and alcohol. The demand for all of this is because some of the kids that have given into Peer Pressure, because they have very little self esteem and they want to fit in and do everything that the “cool kids” are doing. We need to have it where all of the kids now days be in something like an after school sport or club and so they don’t have the “extra free time” to do all of those things. If we did that then all of this would most likely go away and everything would be so much better for everyone. Majority of the time all of the kids are doing this to fit in and get that extra thrill of doing something that their not supposed to do. If all of the ages were lowered to around sixteen then that would take care of majority of all the kids giving into peer pressure.
J.V.
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English 11
9 November 2010
High School behind the Scenes Critical Review
In the documentary “High School behind the Scenes,” the authors claimed that almost every high school student has been peer pressured into some negative action. My argument is, not every single high school student has succumbed to negative peer pressure. There are students who have never given in to being pressured about drugs or alcohol or ditching class and those are our class leaders. The people interviewed in the documentary gave those specific examples of times when they were peer pressured. Can students be peer pressured into raising their grades? Can students be peer pressured into helping out with school functions? The definition of peer pressure is pressure from one’s peers to act in a way similar to them. Take the valedictorians and class leaders. Could they pressure their friends to strive to get grades like theirs? If schools’ valedictorians accomplished subtle hints at doing better in school, graduation rates could potentially go up. Is that not what teachers and administrators are trying to accomplish? By getting students involved in raising those rates, the good pressure could outweigh the bad and drop the percentage of teens that commit substance abuse and keep more kids in class. A successful way that peer pressure can be a positive influence. As a result, not all peer pressure is negative.
M.C.
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English 11
November 9, 2010
A Critical Review: High School behind the Scenes.
CLAIM:
Schoolwork and grades should always be first priority before sports.
EVIDENCE:
In the digital documentary High School behind the Scenes, one of the interviewed people says, “Sports won’t be there all my life, education will.” Most colleges require a certain grade point average for players to be able to participate in their sport. Although most college’s grade point averages are typically low Elmira College claims, “Varsity and junior varsity student-athletes must maintain a GPA of 2.0, which is monitored after every term, in order to be eligible to participate” LOGOS. Just because Elmira’s grade point average is only 2.0 63% have at least a 3.0 (www.elmira.edu/athletics). According to NCAA, “Eight in 10,000, of high school senior boys playing interscholastic football will eventually be drafted by an NFL team.” Judging from these statistics most likely not even one guy on your schools football team will continue their sport career after college (ncaa.org). Since not everyone can count on sport careers to support themselves for the rest of their lives its best that students focus on schoolwork and what they are majoring in. ETHOS. Without a degree it’s harder to find a job that offers a higher amount than minimum wage or $7.24. In order for Americans to support themselves we must look father into education for success later in life rather than just sports.
J.H.
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English 11
November 11, 2010
Peer Pressure: A Critical Review
Peer pressure can truly make you do things that you normally never would have thought of doing. Ian Kinear's uncle was pressured into stealing a car and getting high or even sex all on the same night. How many people actually plan on doing something like this? None. No one ever plan on drinking or stealing or getting high just like that, most of them are pressured. According to the Kaiser Foundation, "approximatley 50% of 12 to 17 year olds are pressured into having sex". Some of those pressures can be considered rape. People get pressured into many things such as that and as the amount of teenagers grow, so does the smount of peer pressuring, As stated by The National Household Survey, "the use of marijuana has risen 275% from the years '92-'97." The numbers keep rising and will continue to rise. Another good statement was that "no one wants to do things alone." Which is true. Normally if one person gets pressured into it, a chain reaction will start and more people will be likely to continue the trend.
A.S.K
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English 11
November 14, 2010
Behind the Scenes of High School Critical Review
High School is the first step into adulthood and is preparation for future life. Teens are now starting to deal with work, school, friends, chores at home, pets, extracurricular activities, etc. Many kids have to face problems and “stress” with school and may be more prone to harm for themselves and others. Some teens, however, may have more put on them and don’t know how to handle the work load and may be more easily influenced. Having Jobs, schoolwork, and chores all put onto a student may make them more stressed and looking for an “easier” break and that may be why they are more easily influenced to do drugs and alcohol to get a “break.”
J.C.
ReplyDeleteMrs. Mackenzie
English 11
14 November 2010
A Critical Review: High School Behind The Scenes
Peer Pressure is the main reason people do thing they normally wouldn’t do. When an interviewee was asked if they though what they did was wrong when they were peer pressured into a situation they said yes. When asked why they stated, “It wasn’t the right thing to do, and it was worth getting in trouble either just to make myself look cool.” The fact that kids still wouldn’t make that decision after they were already peer pressured into just shows how much peer pressure influences kids. People are constantly being pressured into situations just so they can look cool. An interviewee even stated that, “All my friends were doing it and I thought I’d be cool to do it because they told me to.” Another interviewee talked about how they were peer pressured into ditching class. When discussing it they stated, “I wasn’t so sure if I should or not and my friends were like it’s not a big deal, we’ve done it before.” These are two great examples of how kids are constantly being pressured into certain situations just so that they can look cooler to their peers.
A.D.
ReplyDeleteMrs. Mackenzie
Period 3
13 November 2010
High School Critical Review
Some people say that grades are affected by playing sports or being in extra curricular activities. This is not true. The people in these activities have less time for homework but they also have to have good grades because either their coaches or parents will not let them do these activities with out good grades. People who play sports are forced to have good grades. If the people who play sports are slacking on their grades, they will not be able to play any longer. Grades always have to come first. They are more important than sports. More people will get jobs from going to college rather than getting a job being a pro sports player. The people who go to college and play sports must also keep their grades up. People who play sports in college must maintain at least a 3.0. That is passing with B’s. That really is not too hard to do. People just need to learn to prioritize their lives. As one of the people interviewed in High School Behind the Scenes said “Sports won’t be there all my life, education will.”, this is a very true statement. People should be focusing on their grades way more than they should be their sports.
E.D
ReplyDeleteMrs. Mackenzie
English 11
14 November, 2010
Students often have trouble keeping grades up due to responsibilities they have outside of the classroom. Interviewee said “I have to prioritize myself, get my homework done before I go to bed... sometimes I end up staying up late at night” this is due to the sports that he plays, he has to manage practices and homework each night. This is the same way with students who have jobs. Personally, I have a very hard time with my grades this year. I’ve never struggled with my grades up until this year, when I have to balance my good grades with my new job. It is hard these days, with everything being more expensive, money is also a new issue to me and I know to a lot of my friends, too. And by everything, that includes colleges. The only way to get into college today is to either be Bill Gates rich, or to get in on some kind of scholarship, otherwise you can kiss the college life goodbye and work at McDonalds for the rest of your life! The many things highschoolers have to deal with these days can be very stressful, and sometimes overwhelming. Sometimes all that is needed is a little break, since there’s only so little time to get everything done that needs to be done. Maybe teachers could lay off the ‘every-night’ homework *ahem* math department, since the students often have other responsibilities to take care of. Education is most important, but so is the well being of the students.
M.M.
ReplyDeleteMs. Mackenzie
English 11
14 November 2010
High School Behind the Scenes documents the things that effect the life of your average high school student. For some reason teenagers are thought of as the laziest age group, why is this? High school students no doubt have a lot to juggle. An average student must handle increasing and more difficult school work, normally at least one, maybe multiple, after school sports or activities, and constant family responsibility. This is not even including more elective things that many students do like after school jobs, volunteering, hanging out with friends, tutoring, or applying to colleges. This is good though! People who participate in extracurricular activities are almost three times more likely to have a gpa of 3.0 or above than those who do not (http://nces.ed.gov/pubs95/web/95741.asp). Plus, the responsibility that teenagers learn from after school activities helps them have a better and more trusting relationship with their parents. A lot of these teenagers do all of this and finish with a sense of accomplishment and pride, making them and their parents happy.
K.Y.
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November 18, 2010
In this documentary, the interviewees ask about peer pressure. Peer pressure is when someone tries to get you to do something that you don’t necessarily want to do. When someone gives in to peer pressure, it’s generally because they want to be cool or fit in with the group that they’re hanging out with. Peer pressure is not always a bad thing. If a student sees another student doing something productive, they might get inspired to try harder at certain things. Even something as simple as someone wearing certain clothes because someone they think is cool is wearing them is peer pressure. Everyone in high school has dealt with peer pressure, whether negative or positive. A lot of the time student’s will be peer pressuring their friends without even noticing it. For example, the girl who was interviewed for ditching class stated that her friends told her, “it’s not a big deal”, but chances are the girls weren’t purposely trying to negatively impact her life, they just wanted to hang out.
This was a very good documentary and it was presented really good. I think the claim was that peer pressure is really bad to get into, and that you do have a choice wether to follow it or not. I like the evidence that was portraid. It had a lot of really good interviews, along with facts that were given. However, the music at the beginning of the document was not very related to the topic, i thought. I think it could have been a little better/more on topic.
ReplyDeleteIt was really well shown that kids, especially teenagers in High School get led into peer pressure really easily, and that isnt very good. I also learned that once you get lead into peer pressure, and you get caught doing something you're not suppost to be doing, can be very bad and regretting. Going to jail for one moment of pleasure isnt worth it.
Great job though making this documentary. I greatly enjoyed it, and i thought that it was very informal! Good Job!
I enjoyed this documentary thoroughly. it really got the message out about that many teenagers that are in middle school and high school are pressured into doing things that they dont want to do. the claim in the documentary was that you have a choice in what you want to do and you shouldnt be forced into doing anything you dont want to do. i thought that the music made the documentary that much better because it made the situation less tense and allowed for a relaxed atmosphere. the information displayed was very informative and in my opinion this was the best documentary. good job fellas.
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English 11
Peer pressure: A critical review
Throughout middle school and high school, students will be peer pressured into things they don’t want to do no matter who there friends are or what school they go to. They will do things they would normally say no to just because they want to be “cool” and to have a lot of friends and be accepted. It can start off with things like smoking cigarettes because everyone is doing it and its what people think is “cool” and it can progress into more serious things like: stealing cars, smoking weed, sneaking out, getting drunk at parties and things like that, and these kids don’t even want to be doing these things, but they feel that if they don’t they wont be cool because of it . Another thing that students may not want to do is have sex in high school, but some people think that if your still a virgin you aren’t cool and they can be forced into something they aren’t ready for, some people want to save it for marriage and they just get made fun of for it. People will end up having sex just because its cool and everyone does it when in fact it is a very personal thing. Peer pressure is something that will always be around us no matter what even when we’re older, we just have to learn when to say “yes” or “no” in certain situations.
Peer pressure! i enjoyed this video! This happens to everone all the time its a thing i think we all overcome in life. Thiz video showed great evidence. If u want something you got to make it happen n not let dumb things like peer pressure get to you and always make sure u do right becuase then u gotta put up wit the consequences.
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