In the first few paragraphs of the chapter it emphasized one of my biggest theories; that teachers need to make connections for students to the outside world. I really feel that this is important, students need to see that everything they do can affect the future and that especially in high school and even in middle school these decisions aren't like the one's they've made in elementary school where they could all be reconciled and forgotten. Not that students should be held for every single mistake they make because everyone makes mistakes, but understanding every action has a consequence and to be ready for that.
By the time most of us in my area reached high school we had an understanding of this, whether or not we followed through with it well that was our own responsibility. I also feel like this type of tactic should be used in more schools around the world. Again, to make a comparison to city schools vs. non-city schools, teachers in the schools in the area I grew up in didn't spend as much time teaching the students about this, instead they just let the students fail. Maybe that was because there was too many of them, maybe it was because the students didn't care, (not that that is any excuse). However, we had students who "didn't care about school" in my high school too but the difference is teachers up in Maine spent more time trying to connect with those students before they came to the point where there was nothing else they could do for these students. It's really interesting to see the differences, and these differences are so evident to me because my sister went to middle school and half of high school in New Jersey, whereas I started middle school right when we moved here and I had a different perspective of going through middle school and high school where teachers cared more and put more time and energy into their students.
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