You miss a day of school. You come back, and your teacher tells you that you missed a test. Now you’re obligated to go to one of the many resource rooms that EGHS offers.
The idea of having resource rooms for all the subjects we take at school is a good idea. Students are able to come in during their free period in order to receive help in areas where they are still weak.
At the same time, students with poor grades are placed in these rooms as well, and other students come in frequently to make up tests and quizzes.
The resource room is supposed to be a place of peace and quiet where we are able to concentrate on our work. The key words to our previous sentence are “supposed to be.”
Recently, when we walk to any of the resource rooms we are met with chaos.
There are teachers who are yelling at students to quiet down. A hoard of reluctant students who have been placed in the rooms are causing an uproar. Not to mention the constant chatter of students and teachers who are only trying to help each other.
And what about the quiet kids who are actually trying to get some work done? Especially in the math resource room, they constantly have to deal with loud students who are completely off task.
This is the opposite of a quiet place where we can study or take a test in peace. There should be an alternative option for students who are to take a test they missed and for students who come into the resource rooms for help.
Hypothetically, if we live in a perfect world where we are all mature young adults, the resource rooms would be a quiet place for studious scholars.
Realistically, we are teenagers, incapable of restricting ourselves when placed with our peers. Expecting teenagers to focus when they have little instruction and are surrounded by their peers is simply unrealistic.
Self-control may be the solution to the problem posed above, but there is also the matter of students who are reluctantly put into these resource rooms. These students are placed forcefully into resource rooms because of their bad grades.
The problem is not the students in the resource rooms or the staff who are in charge of them. We need an appropriate place to take test quizzesand/or essays that we missed.
Perhaps another classroom or another part of the school can be used strictly and only for students who need to take assessments.
A smarter solution, however, could be turning the AP resource room into a test -taking room. The AP resource is a privilege given to AP students by the administration.
At the moment, it is feeding our natural teenage instinct to goof off.
This would benefit the whole student population if it were turned into a place solely for making up tests, while the other resource rooms should be used for strictly getting help in those specific academic areas.
This way the students who need a quieter area to take tests will now have a place and students who need help can still attain it. It’s a win-win situation.