Six Flags or Lowell High School?
Hampton Beach or ELA & math classes?
Sleeping late or catching the bus to school?
Doing your work now or doing it in a hot, smelly classroom in July?
Attending summer school is a choice.
Granted, at the end of the year, if you have not done your work, Mr. Holtz will send you to summer school whether you like it or not. But it will have been your choice.
If you are not an active participant in school - not listening, not doing the work, not trying - you are choosing to go to summer school. It is completely in your control.
School is set up to help students get to the next level. We have systems to figure out who’s not understanding and how to best support them. We have people - Mrs. Rake, Mrs Motolla, Mrs. Lord and more - to help and encourage you. We have systems of assessment, reteaching, review and revision to help you reach your potential and level up.
What we don’t have is a way to get people to choose to participate in their own education. We have no way to instill drive and motivation inside your head and heart. You need to do that part. And, even if you don’t really feel it, fake it ’til you make it. In other words, just do your work and learn to enjoy the satisfaction the comes from accomplishment.
We’ve just started the 4th quarter - it’s near the end of the year. This is your last chance to show Mr. Holtz that you CAN and WILL become a full participant in your learning.
It’s the bottom of the ninth, the two-minute warning, the end of the game when you’ve gotta make your free throws. Now is the time to choose Six Flags, Hampton Beach and sleeping late over going to school and not having a summer vacation.
It’s really all up to you.
Choose wisely.
