Quick Response: Chapter Four

This chapter stuck out to me because of the pressures put on students to blend in and be "cool" for not achieving in school. I saw this a lot at Madison. I feel like a lot of the students are generally apathetic towards learning because that's what is accepted and cool to their peers. It is sad to see a school where generally the students do not strive to achieve because that is the norm. I feel like this was drastically different from my high school where generally the students did want to achieve and go on to college. Student apathy has been my biggest problem at Madison and the thing that made the biggest impression upon me while I was there. As an aspiring teacher I want to take the rest of my time here to learn strategies to combat this personally and ways that I can better relate history to my students.