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Ben Powell Ms. LeCroy Composition and Grammar 1 October 2009 School: Harder Now or Then I know you think that school was hard back in the day, walking to and from school, through snow and hail, uphill both ways, and all that jazz. Even if that were almost half true, no an eight true, school is way harder now than way back then. We have way more students now than you would have ever imagined back then; you know what that means? There is way less one-on-one time between students and teachers to learn, study, and other educational things. We learn things on much higher educational levels now than when you were in school. We also have technology that didn’t exist back then. I’m not good at anything dealing with computers, but yet, I’m in a computer class. There are way too many kids at our school. Look left, right, up, or down and someone will be in your way. That means that there are also too many kids in the classroom. It is not just 15 to 20 or so kids like you are used to, it is more like anywhere from 20 to 35 or so kids in one class. When there are that many teenagers in one closed in space, things can get crazy. Think about loud, chaotic kids running around, think about how hard it is to work, think, even breath in there. Everyone is not on the same level of education, so when you are ready to move on to the next thing, someone else might not, or visa versa. When you were in school, since there were fewer kids, there was more one-on-one time with your teacher. They could help each individual student and be much more helpful. Now it is hard to find time to help each individual because of the size of the classes. It is very hard to work in these circumstances. Not just any ordinary computer class. You actually have to talk to the computer, just about one of the most annoying things ever, because half the time it decides not to listen or write the complete opposite of what you told it to. Computers are hard. Lucky you, you never had to deal with classes like this.