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It was unbelievable to try and understand that a school had so many kids who were achieving below average and out of a thousand kids only a couple students were honor students. In my high school I only graduated with about 186, but a lot of them were on honor roll. In my high school I felt as if there was a lot of competition among the students in trying to earn the best grade. Everyone wanted to be recognized for their achievements. Although this one girl at my high school, who was valedictorian, did not like to share her grades that she got with others. Everyone would make a comment to her, but not necessarily bad, about her grades. I can understand why she did not want to tell anyone her grades but she would always do excellent on everything. In the second reading, was about the boy who grew up in a family and did not understand Spanish because he was taught English in school. This would be very difficult if you were not taught your primary language at home and only knew what they were teaching in school. I try and put myself into that position of not knowing English and being taught Spanish in school. It is hard enough for me to learn and understand Spanish. This article brought up a question about does education sometimes have an ending point? If he was not learning about his culture in his family I don’t know if he would ever get the chance again to learn it outside of his family.