This week, you were asked to consider the following and rank them in terms of your future priorities.
Why do you think the group ranked them that way?
How did your priority ranking compare to the group's?
What did you take away about yourself and others through this exercise?
Most people in that class period said being a good parent was most important. I was one of them, then we also had a majority vote of being a positive asset to society. I think the group ranked them that way because they understand the world a little more better. Most people agree with each other and might have the same perspective. Everybody had a chance to think it through themselves and then we had a discussion on them. I didn't expect most of us to have the same mindset on certain things.
ReplyDeleteMy priority ranking to the group was not that much of a difference. Again I didn't expect them to have the same perspective on things cause not everybody agree with most things. The groups had different rankings in between 1-5 but our most important was being a good parents. I see why most of us agreed to things but then again it was kind of shocking due to them being only in the 9th grade.
I would take away the fact that we all have good reason to have things as their priority. I figured about myself is that I wanna do better than I got for myself. I didn't receive the things that we ranked and want to do better for others and it will make me feel better. What I will take away bout others is that they mindsets are about their priorities is something that they really wanna do and they were aggressive about it. They were willing to do everything to get it done.
Most of the class had voted that being a good parent was most important, I was not one of those people as I do not plan on having children though I do see it's importance, just not in my life. The bottom ranked was having a positive impact on society, which as a thought is all well and good but can be achieved through the other goals and personal life may be more important than the rest of society at a given time.
ReplyDeleteMy priority rating was neither the top nor the bottom, it was having a job you enjoy. Some people agreed with that statement, seeing as you would likely spend the majority of your day at a job and if you didn't enjoy it you weren't particularly motivated to do quality work nor would it make your life more enjoyable. Compared to the group in numbers, it was the same as how important an abundance of money was. So, people find happiness in different parts of life, really. Depends on the person.
I noticed that people just want to be happy. Whether that be by having loads of cash or raising someone to improve the world. That's what people, and I, want most out of life. That's literally the meaning of it: to be happy. However someone sees fit. There are ups and down to life, of course, but at the end, it's mostly about what fulfilled it or what made it really worth living.
Most of the class voted that being a good parent was most important, and I see where that is something very important. Several students said it was there least important because they don't plan on being parents anytime soon. I understand that point of view, but I don't agree with it. I'm not sure if I want kids or not, but being a good parent regardless who you are and if you planned to have kids are not should be valued. Not every child is planned, and having a negative out look on how its not important could be damaging to a child later on if said person ends up having a kid. Most of the class said that being a positive asset to society was their least important. Personally, I disagree and I think its very important to be a positive asset to society. If you leave the world you found it, its never going to get better for anyone else. If you make it just a little better, its going to help someone and in turn, you will have made the world a smidge better then you found it. I look at it this way: If I were to be a positive asset now, and later when more people enter this world and are looking for ways to be better, they will have more opportunities to achieve what they want later because someone tried for they to have that so they would never have to try to have what they want or need.
ReplyDeleteI think it has something to do with the age they are at. It sounds weird to say that, speaking I was there 2 years ago but I feel my priorities and believes have changed a lot the past two years personally and I would not have ranked things the same way Freshmen me would've. Maybe similar, but not the same.
I think my priorities were different, especially since I was the only person who stood up for my number 5. I think its important to show your option even if others think you are wrong. A lot of the class also thought having an abundance of money was important, and that was my least. Having a ton of money would be very nice, but its not essential to have a nice, happy life. And that's all I'm aiming for.
I think that others are shyer to share their option for fear of being judged, and that's a skill I hope they learn to overcome. Truly, I don't think that it's possible that no one else thought that being a positive asset to society was their number 5. It felt odd for me being the only one standing, and I did feel judged, which is probably what any others who put mine as their number 5 as well felt as well. But, at the end of the day, I shared what was important to me that's what matters. I think others are scared of showing their true thoughts are their friends too. Such as that one whole table that had the same 1's and 5's. That possible, but I thought it was strange they all had the same importance level and they all happened to sit next to each other.
The group that we experienced said that being a good parent was the most important and the least important was being a positive asset to society. This was interesting because who would not care at all about being a positive asset to society.
ReplyDeleteWhen considering why I think the group ranked the following so, I think we have to understand what class we were in. The AVID class is design to steer students who may not be ready for the outside world. In that class I think that the majority of students come from broken households or home lives that are less than supportive, which may be why they strive to be different from their parents. That also would make sense as to why they don't desire to be positive assets to society. If all they've seen from society is the bad parts, why would they want to contribute to a system that has never helped them, and that makes sense. In saying that, maybe that should be impetus to change society into a place that they want to contribute towards.
My rankings were as following: highest ranked, being a positive asset towards society, and the least ranked, having a job you love. I don't think our current society is very beneficial to everyone in it, and I would love to change it to where everyone is at least okay with it. I want to have a job where I'm helping people i.e. positive asset. I ranked having a job I love at the bottom because I'm okay with having a job I'm indifferent to as long as I'm benefitting society, plus my job is not my life. I'm only there for a portion of the day, but I want that portion to be at least bearable. I think that with this exercise I learned about my thinking juxtaposed to younger people and people who don't have the same experiences as me.
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ReplyDeleteMajority of the class voted being a good parent was the most important. I was not one of the people who voted for it being the most important, I don't plan on having a child later on in the future. I believe that that group ranked it that was because of how they may be treated by their parent, they don't want their future child going through the same events as them.
ReplyDeleteMy priority ranking was having a job you love. I feel like my rankings were different to most people. The most important to me was having a job I love. I chose that because you don't want to live majority of your life hating it, I don't want to go home everyday upset or mad at something. The least important to me was marriage, was because I didn’t think it was as important as the others.
What I took away from myself and others is that everyone will always have their own opinion. Like you can have such a strong belief about something and some people will completely disagree with it. I also feel as though people believe in certain stuff based on their own personal life experiences.
The majority of the class said being a good parent was the most important. I was one of them since I'm already a parent, and making sure that I am the best mother to my son is my highest priority. The majority of the class ranked being a good asset to the society the lowest, it bothered me to hear their responses; they were selfish and immature about the question that was asked. I said being a good asset to society was my lowest because doing what you're supposed to do every day and raising my son correctly makes me a good asset, I don't need to worry about it as much as well.
ReplyDeleteThe class ranked being a good parent the most important and that’s a great thing to know that people want to aspire to be good role models and parents to their children. Since this was a ninth grade class i was surprise to hear that majority of the class wants to be good parents. When i was their age i thought of nothing but self never planned on having kids i’m still kinda self centered but now i think of someone else now.
The takeaway that i learned about myself is that i learned how much i’ve matured over the years of being in high school and my experiences i’ve went through. I’ve notice that what i went and currently going through is strange to others and at a time it was for me as well. I’ve notice that i’m getting more comfortable with sharing that i have a son even if i get judged it doesn’t matter to me anymore. And the takeaways that i learned about others is that everyone will have their own opinions and people can learn to change their perspective on how they view things.