Quick Write (Responses)


1	Please select your grade level.	What do YOU believe is the purpose of school? (In your opinion, is this the same as or different from your parent's or teacher's view?)	Answer Focus	Same as Adults?

2	7th grade	I think the purpose of school is to help us become independent for ourselves so that we can take care of ourselves in the future. to prepare us for the big world so that we know what to do and how to do what we want to do. a school's purpose is to teach us thing we can use later on in our lives so that we know what to do in some cases. A school also provides a safe environment.	Life Skills
3	7th grade	I think the purpose of school is to get an education, so you can be able to have life skills. Also, so you can be prepared for future jobs and the rest on your life where you have to use the things you learned in school in order to get through situations. Some things not everyone needs to know, but others do, so everyone has to learn about it even if it might not apply to the rest of your life. I think the purpose of school is the same thing as what my parents and teacher think because school allows us to be prepared. Being prepared means we will be ready for the future and even college, which will be a lot harder than Middle School. A good education can get us prepared for what is to come. Without school, in certain situations and jobs we would not know what to do.	Life Skills	Y
4	7th grade	The purpose of school is to learn and interact with others. Learning will help us in the future with college and jobs that impact others. Interacting with classmates allows us to be social and learn on our communicating for the future. When we interact with classmates it is getting us prepared for our careers and how we interact in public. I think that this is somewhat similar to what parents and teachers have to say because they always talk about having a good education and how important school is.	Life Skills	Y
5	7th grade	I think the purpose of school is to learn and get better. What we learn in school is important to our later life. School teaches us the basic things that we have to know for life and college. This is the same as my parents view because they believe that education is important and that these things that we are learning are important. Sometimes school can be boring but life is not always going to be fun and we are learning new things. School is good for the reason of teaching kids how to do the right thing and teach them the right way so that they will be ready for life. School is not always something that we want to attend to but it is important that we try our best to and when we are there we put effort into what we are doing.	Life Skills	Y
6	7th grade	The purpose of school is to get you ready for your future, but everything we do in school I don't think will benefit us in the future. I believe school is a environment to get your ready for when you get older, but we are learning information from the past that will not benefit us in any shape or form; we learned about the renaissance in social studies which doesn't do any good for us in the future. I believe we should come to school but only to learn the things necessary for our future. I think you guys should give us time to work with the grade level above us so we could maybe like understand the concept of seventh grade and ask for help for people who have already taken this grade, but we should be able to pick our partners.	Life Skills
7	7th grade	I believe that school is a place for students to come and learn. Not only do they come here to learn math, reading, ect, but to learn life skills such as socializing, and working in groups. It is a place were children learn responsibility, but don't have all the pressure that they would in the real world. Schools is a place to expand on what you are good at and to make friends. School is a place to do things you enjoy by joining clubs. Without school kids would know how to socially interact with each other, but with it they are given a chance to do so in a safe place. We learn to collaborate with teachers, students and friends. I think my views on what schools is are similar to what adults would be.	Life Skills	Y
8	7th grade	I believe the purpose of school is not only to get a good education, but also to be able to work with people you know so that you can work better. Getting a good education is very important, and so is working with people you work well with, are comfortable working with, and can stay on task with. If you are working with someone you are comfortable with but you cannot stay on task, then you are not getting the best education you can get. If you are working with someone who you work well with, are comfortable with, and you can stay on task, then you are getting the best education you can get. School is important because without a good education, you will not succeed as well in life, and you may not learn from mistakes. This opinion may be the same as some of the teachers but not others. Some may want you to work individually to do your best, and others may give you the choice. I believe students should work with others, or get the choice to work alone or not because then we can chose how we succeed in our education.	Life Skills
9	7th grade	The purpose of school is to learn, and help you when you get older and you have real life problems. School is a learning environment where kids learn math,science,lang.Arts etc. because we learn these things is because we can establish this process to what you do when you get older and have kids of your own which you have to help them learn the same way you did as a kid. learning is really important in many ways, it's a life skill that you have and which that can apply to your interests and what you like to do. Whatever it may be there's always the learning skills you learn at school that incorporate into your daily life.	Life Skills
10	7th grade	I believe that school is were you can find new things. by finding new things I mean that i can find new friends and get educated with new things. I can learn how to work in a team or learn new things about new people. I also think school is about finding a group of friends who will help you with your school work and with your feelings. I think school is a place to discover your life. I think some parents and teachers think school is just and education building but it is more it is your future, your past and your present. School is my life and it is because of my friends and teachers and the education I get.	Life Skills	N
11	7th grade	I believe that the purpose of our school is to be in a fun and safe learning environment where we can get the most out of our education. The school's purpose is also to be as productive as possible so everyone that attends can have bright futures. School is also about teamwork and helping each other so we can learn more. School is also preparing us for our lives when we are older. We can excel in school by talking about questions, compromising and most of all helping each other as we would in a real job. This view is most likely the same as most teachers and parents.	Life Skills	Y
12	7th grade	I believe school is about learning, and growing. And when it comes to learning you learn different subjects, and you learn how to act, and since you come to school for so long this really impacts your life. Since my mom is a teacher in the district, I think she believes the same thing I do. Everyday I learn, everyday she learns, and everyone grows. I think coming to school is just to learn and grow, I do not believe there is any other reason to show up. There are so many different ways to learn and grow.	Life Skills	Y
13	7th grade	i think the purpose of school is to open your mind to new things, and expand your thinking. Also to learn new things, about how things work, major events, and to expand your vocabulary. I think my parents and teachers think the same way as i do because school is important, we need it so we can make a living, and we learn something new every day that we are here.	Life Skills	Y
14	7th grade	The purpose of school is to learn new things and make new friends. I think we should learn about current or new things that happen everyday instead of going to social studies and learning about things that happened in the past. Learning about things that happened in the past can't really help us with our future.	Life Skills
15	7th grade	I believe the purpose of school is to learn things that you will need throughout one's life, but its also to meet friends which are people that have the same intrist as you or someone to talk too. School is something that will help you get through life easier and without so many difficulties. School also helps you develop social skills that can be used during something like a job interview. The things that we learn is school today can be applied to many different things during one's life.	Life Skills
16	7th grade	To educate students and teach valuable skills that everyone as an individual will need to know as they grow and get older. School, in my opinion, was made only for educational purposes. We read, solve math equations, learn in science, learn about history etc in social studies, and then there's the more social classes such as health, physical education, art and those kind of classes. School is educational and provides a way for students to become social and get out of the house and learn and do things. Most students, including me, don't exactly like going to school sometimes. But we all know that we need to and that we are lucky to have such good teachers and such a good educational program. We need school to gain knowledge so that when we go out into the world, we'll be ready.	Life Skills
17	7th grade	I think my parents believe that school is so I can get and education so I can go to a good college, and get a job. I think school is a little bit more than that. Its a place you go everyday to learn. I think my parents look at the bigger picture of things, but I focus on the everyday of school. School is a place you come to learn, and think. I think my teachers believe that what is taught in school is important to know when you're an adult. School i feel like is so much bigger than learning, it's about critical thinking. It's kind of hard to explain, but school is important and i think we are lucky to live in a place where we can have an education	Life Skills	N
18	7th grade	I think the point is to be successful in the future. I think is that and i think that's what other people think too. I think that even if school is stressful, and will get even more stressful, that eventually once you graduate high school you have a choice of what to do and how you want to go on with life. All your years of school count and they decide on what you want to do and can do. You can go to college and get a good job, but that all depends on your years in school. No matter what you end up doing, your grades and behavior all have and effect on it.	Life Skills	Y
19	7th grade	continuing on my answer. School is for seriousness and Most of the time when teachers think something is fun for there class, they usually screw it up, so theirs no point. I also think we could get out of school earlier if we just learned. Although I do enjoy the occasional bill nye episode, in all seriousness, I am sure we could learn something similar from the book. a lot of people think that this viewpoint is strange, but It makes sense. I we just stuck to seriousness, school would most likely be over faster.	Life Skills	Y
20	7th grade	I think the purpose of school is to learn and become educated for the future. It is to learn more and to pass your knowledge down to others. It is a good way to get into a good college and to get a good job. Education is crucial to your lifestyle. Without it we would be stupid little monkey people and wouldn't have advanced at all except for the looks. I think this is sort of similar and different as the teachers. I personally think the teachers think of it as a way to earn money and partially to teach and get more kids educated. My mom is a teacher but she really is a good example of what I think because she teaches teachers how to be teachers and she passes her knowledge down of being a teacher to other teachers to teach the children and the cycle goes on like that forever. This is what I think about education and how crucial it is to our lives.	Life Skills	N
21	7th grade	The purpose of school is to educate you so that you can grow up and raise a family but also to educate you but using the learning posses we use in school children are forgetting what they learned in school. I feel as if we need to develop a new strategy for the learning system so that we can actually learn and remember what we learn in school.	Life Skills	N
22	7th grade	I think that we are here to advance in our skills in all of the subjects. We are also here to learn life and social skills. Also, I think that being in school can give you the opportunity to make friends while staying fit like in track. By being in track, I learn how important it is to stay fit because some of the greatest people that I have ever met have been in track and cross country. I believe that this is the shortened version of how my parents see it and how my teachers see why we are in school.	Life Skills	Y
23	7th grade	I believe that the purpose of school is to get smarter, learn to interact, become social, find friends, and get other skills you will need in life. To me school is a good place to make mistakes and learn from them so you don't make them in the real world. School can get you into a good college so you can have a better education for a better job. I think in my parents or teachers point of view for school is that they just want you to get smarter and learn study and test skills. They probably want you to learn how to do things in life like get a job, pay the bills, and be stable. Also, they probably want you to get into a good college for a good education as well.	Life Skills	N
24	7th grade	To educate the new generation on how to succeed in life. If the new generation can't succeed then the world doesn't succeed. In the future the new generation will be running things so schools need to teach children how to do it right. Also if a child is successful in life it will allow them to appreciate life more. Maybe if you teach children well enough they can help improve the world. School teaches kids how to interact with other people too.	Life Skills
25	7th grade	I think the perpeses of school is to peerpare you for the outside wolde and what most people will need when the go into a job and find ways for information to stike into people head instead of forgetting it after you take you final test in that subject.	Life Skills
26	7th grade	School is not just to teach us things and take tests, but it is also teaching us things that we will have to know in life. I think to our parents and teachers they could agree because they are all trying to get us ready for life and our futures to.	Life Skills	Y
27	7th grade	I believe that school is a place where we should be learning. Where students get the chance to succeed at what they are good at. Although it can be stressful, especially with the homework and then having to go to activities after school, it is still somewhere I like to enjoy talking to friends and learning about new things. School is something that can be a struggle to go to and work but without school we wouldn't be the society we are today. Schools main job is to teach kids to get them ready for their future careers and lives. Parents opinions on school are probably a little different although they did go through school opinions change over time. I used to hate school as a kid but as I got older I grew to like it. Parents probably think that we have to go to school even if we aren't feeling the best because it's getting us ready for our futures. Teachers probably have the same opinion in school as most students do. They probably don't like doing the work but they enjoy watching kids learn and helping kids.	Life Skills	N
28	7th grade	The purpose of School in my opinion is to be educated so that we as kids can choose the jobs that we might want to have in the future and ultimately give us a better chance at life. Schools are supposed to teach children how things work and help them learn what their future jobs might include. Schools are supposed to give children the opprotunity for greatness. Schools are supposed to help people who are falling behind what they are supposed to be learning and if schools don't then the children might not have the same chance as other students/ children might have.	Life Skills
29	7th grade	i said school can make us better, to be a better person or doing good on job i think the school doesn't give enough help for those people from other countries, i heard that other schools have ESL. and i was confused about homework and can not understand what are	Life Skills
30	7th grade	The purpose of school is to get a good education as well as life lessons. Many may say school is only for the purpose of education, however since we are put together with many other kids of the same age, we are forced to learn a lot of tough life lessons. Whether it's with girls or boys, or even coaches or teachers, there is always going to be some type of drama that you have to learn from and get through. School is hard for me a lot of the time because of the people. I've had to learn a lot of lessons early and pretty much that trust should not be given to everyone from only about 9 years of school. School is just about learning in general. It's about problem solving, and learning how determination and the willingness to push through any difficulties is so important in life. Not only do I get a very strong education about science, math, language, and all other subjects, but school teaches me about life and helps me to find out how I can deal with some problems I absolutely will have to deal with in my adult life as well.	Life Skills
31	7th grade	It is to teach us and prepare us for the rest of are life's out of school	Life Skills
32	7th grade	I believe that the purpose of school is to give us life situations and to teach us right from wrong, in order to help us in collage and throughout life as we get older.	Life Skills
33	7th grade	The purpose of school is to get prepared for what is to come later in life. it is not that different from mister brancazio's "I like real world" personality. It is definatley the same as my parent's opinion	Life Skills	Y
34	7th grade	I believe school is helpful although i don't like school everyone needs school. Us students may not see that school impacts us but it does. School is preparing us for our future. We need School for our jobs and our lives. Schol is very important. My parents agree.	Life Skills	Y
35	7th grade	I think the purpose of school is to learn. I believe this because the teachers and staff are preparing us for when we are older and what we will encounter. With great teachers and staff, we will be prepared to take on the role of being adults and will be able to get through even the toughest of challenges.	Life Skills
36	7th grade	The prurpose of school is to prepare you for life, for college, and for a family as well as your personallity. This makes you a better person overall, I beleive this is the same as my parents opinions as well as my teachers veiw. Because they want me to be a better person.	Life Skills	Y
37	7th grade	I think that the purpose of school is to prepare students for the future. School allows us to experience real world problems that we may come into contact with. I think that my opinion is the same as may parent's or teacher's view.	Life Skills	Y
38	7th grade	I think it is for us to learn and be ready for the real world	Life Skills
39	7th grade	School is there to teach you what you need to know to be successful in life.	Life Skills
40	7th grade	i believe that the schools purpose is to teach us important thing that we will later use in life	Life Skills
41	7th grade	I believe the purpose of school is to mimic what students with experience in the real world. Also to expland you brain and develope god life long skills. I think it is the same as my teacher's and parent's veiw.	Life Skills	Y
42	7th grade	I think the purpose of school is to help us learn everything we need to know for later on in our life and to get us prepared for what is ahead of us.	Life Skills
43	7th grade	School is for education, and learning for your life after you get out of school. It shows Collages, and your later boss how good you listened, and how well you did over all. We have school so we have a good life, home, and food for when we grow older.	Life Skills
44	7th grade	I think that the purpose of school is to learn critical thinking and prepare you for your future life ahead. Social Studies is for social skills, Reading is for reading, writing, and grammar skills, Math is for solving real world problems, and science is for new discoveries.	Life Skills
45	7th grade	I believe that school is meant to teach kids about how to live on your own. I believe that it is preparing you for college and just living alone. Without school kids would have no education about how to deal with things on your own. In my opinion school does have a purpose, and is not just to wake up early and do useless work. I am not completely sure, but I think this is the same point of view as my teachers and my parents.	Life Skills	Y
46	7th grade	I think that the purpose of school is to help us solve problems. This is different from my parents point of view.	Life Skills	N
47	7th grade	I think that the purpose of school is to learn about the world and to prepare us for future years and our adult life. I also think that the reason we go to school everyday is so that we can be ready for what life throws at us. To be honest, I'm not really sure what the teachers think. I know what my parents think because they tell me about how they feel, but some teachers have different opinions about school.	Life Skills
48	7th grade	The definition if it is an institution for educating children, but that is not what you asked is it? School is a place where students go to be motivated to dream big, then it destroys are dream and tells us to be realistic. School supports individual thinking, but anytime we try to be independent we get punished. School is to teach us, but school gives us grades that tells us that we are not good enough. Us students come to school so we can learn how to be social, yet we are never allowed to speak. Sorry if you don't think this is the truth, sorry if this is a little harsh or unfair in someway, and I am sorry for speaking my mind because in school our thoughts are not always important. Teachers and parents thin k come to learn, but you should never judge a book by its cover.	Life Skills	N
49	7th grade	I believe that school is a big help for children and young adults because they should be taught everything they can be by their teachers so they can get somewhere in their lifetime. It is one of the most important things in the world because without it, who knows what the world would be like. People would never be taught anything and there could be less jobs.	Life Skills
50	7th grade	I believe the purpose of school is to help prepare us for when we enter the real world. The world that without school we might not be as advanced as we are now.	Life Skills
51	7th grade	To be honest, I find the soul purpose of the school is to educate us so we aren't clueless about the world we live in. I feel as though there is a second purpose, though. I feel the second purpose is to feel comfortable in social gatherings. In public and private schools, you always deal with people you may like or dislike. Examples are group projects, students must get comfortable doing their own work or else the one person doing all of the work is used to feeling dependent and not trusting others when it comes to their grade... personal experience. My parents believe it's just for education, so we're kind of different on our views.	Life Skills	N
52	7th grade	It help us learn thing that might help us in what we will do when we get older. Also it helps us decide what we want to do. This also helps become smarter in what we do, like if you are working at the job you like you can go back to school to get more beater or a higher ranking at your job. although many don't like school it is a very important for the life in front of us.	Life Skills
53	7th grade	I believe the purpose of school is to prepare kids for the future, because kids are the future of the world, but I think we need to change how we do things in every school across America. I don't know if my parents or my teachers have the same opinion but I believe we all have our own opinion about school and it's purpose.	Life Skills	N
54	7th grade	I think the purpose of school is to introduce students into subjects that they might like to learn more in depth of when they grow up. I don't believe in how you have to learn certain subjects like math and language arts because there are things that you don't necessarily have to learn that could get in the way with other things a student is learning. I also think that school should be a totally different way than how it is now because I feel like some parts of school aren't really fair to students. Some things are how we are assigned homework that doesn't really help our learning, and how we don't learn more important things in school like self-defense and surviving in the wild. My mom and me both have different point of views on homework. I think most homework is pointless, but my mom thinks that it does help you.	Life Skills	N
55	7th grade	Are you kidding me?! I actually talked about this with a friend earlier this week and I could say so many good reasons. I mean it gives you a plan for what you may do in life. It helps you discover talents and your careers you may do in the future. Also, you get smarter. I asked myself when would we need to know some of the math we learn later in life such as variables. And then I thought about different careers such as construction and they don't know the side length of the house they will build. Everything has a reason! I honest to god love Harmon and I am not saying this to butter you up or anything but the last day of school in 6th grade I cried because I was going to a new school because I got held back and I wrote a letter to every teacher. There is so much you can learn and gain from school and without it you may not be prepared for what life is going to be like in the future.	Life Skills
56	7th grade	To teach us information that is useful for our future. It also has the job of educating the next generation and possible correcting mistakes made in the past. Preparing students for the difficulties of the near future where they will be completely independent is the job of teachers, and successful students are often pupils of clever teachers. To some parents, school may just be a kid-free time to themselves, but teachers and responsible parents view school as a learning process.	Life Skills	Y
57	7th grade	The purpose of school is to be able to have an educated life to teach on and educate future generations.	Life Skills
58	7th grade	To teach us how to live life in the future, teach us things we will need to know in the future, and learn to work with others.	Life Skills
59	7th grade	To me schools purpose is to teach kids about stuff that can help them in life.	Life Skills
60	7th grade	The purpose of school is to teach you and prepare you for when you are by yourself or with others in the world. It also teaches you interactive and social skills required for the world. So to answer your question school is important because it prepares you.	Life Skills
61	7th grade	I think that the purpose of school is to prepare you for later life, and to make sure that you are ready for whatever comes your way, and have the ability to research and solve anything you face. I think that This opinion dose not very much between people.	Life Skills
62	7th grade	It helps you learn material needed for you to get through life and it helps with your abilities in different fields of work	Life Skills
63	7th grade	Our purpose for school is to get us ready for life, like letting us get ready for what is going to come our way in life. Also the main reason we go is to get ready for testing which is what the whole school year is leading up to. This is different from my teachers and parents.	Life Skills	N
64	7th grade	I think the point of school is for kids to learn new things and it will help them develop for the future in collage and out of collage. I think it is the same because they both want you to learn new things that will help later on in life	Life Skills	Y
65	7th grade	I believe that the purpose of school it to prepare you for what life is going to throw at you when you are older. This is kinda the same as my parent's and teacher's view.	Life Skills	Y
66	7th grade	It is to learn new things that you will use later in your life. Also the things you learn will be used in whatever career path you choose to take.	Life Skills
67	7th grade	I believe that the purpose of school is to learn new things. It can also prepare you for the real world and how to live in it. In my opinion this view is the same as my parent's and teacher's.	Life Skills	Y
68	7th grade	To learn the main things you need to know for when you grow up and to help others learn things too. This is kind of like what my parents/teachers think about it but they think bigger things come out of it.	Life Skills	Y
69	7th grade	I think the purpose of school is for kids to learn and get an education, so they'll will be prepared for the world when they get older. I also think that my parents and teachers have very similar thoughts about the purpose of school.	Life Skills	Y
70	7th grade	I think the purpose of school is to give knowledge to kids and get them ready for life.	Life Skills
71	7th grade	I believe the purpose of school is to educate children so that they will be able to get good jobs, and to prepare them for the real world.	Life Skills
72	7th grade	I think its a waist of time because we could do it online, my parents would probably think it makes us smarter, teachers get us prepared to do one test and they might think saying the same thing over and over again would teach us, it could be easier	n/a	N
73	7th grade	My view is that some of our clasess will never help us in the world (scocial studies, art, science).	n/a
74	7th grade	I think that school is something for you to get a good education, and to learn new things to help prepare you for the future. Learning from school will help you in your job that you will have in the future. It will prepare you for all kinds of different jobs, and things you would like to do in the future. It let's you learn all kinds of things you would not know without being at school. Teachers and parents want us to have a good education to learn, and I have the same view as they do. It teaches you all kinds of lessons, and important information that will be useful to your future. Without school you would not have a good education at all, and it would not prepare you without being here every day.	Prepare for Next Steps
75	7th grade	I believe school is to help you learn skills that you will need your whole or in your later life. My opinion is the same to my teachers' ans parents' point of view. The only thing I wish is that we could more time to take a break from learning and go outside and relax and not feel cramned in a desk and room all day.	Prepare for Next Steps	Y
76	7th grade	to be able to make it in the world and have knowledge on what to do.	Prepare for Next Steps
77	7th grade	I think that the purpose of school is to prepare you for the real world. Also the purpose of school is to learn, and for you to have a lot of knowledge about the world. Another thing that school is for is to have fun, play sports for the school, and for you to have an amazing future. Then lastly schools teach you the consequences, and reality of real life.	Prepare for Next Steps
78	7th grade	So we can learn and use our knowledge that we used in school for jobs, and everyday things. Same because our parents know that we should be learning and that they know this because they went through it too. Our parents want us to keep on learning and learning so we can get good jobs, and so we can be successful in life. People may get stressed out of school work but you need to do it so you can learn more and expand our brain knowledge.	Prepare for Next Steps
79	7th grade	I think education is a good thing, it helps me and gets me ready for my life after childhood. Although I disagree with some of the topics. I need to know this information so it just helps me in every way. I think state testing is useless we aren't gaining any income from it and it is just for the school. It is kind of ridiculous that we have too try to get a good grade on these tests, but it doesn't mean anything too us it just benefits you guys. School is really boring sometimes and I get stressed out about it, so I think there should be more things to have fun with.	Prepare for Next Steps	N
80	7th grade	School is for us to learn all the necessary things for life and to prepare us for further education. School helps us learn about everything that we might need to get a job in the future. It shows us what we are interested in and what we are not interested in and might help you when choosing what you will do in your future. We need to go to school and learn so that we are able to get a job when we are older, so that we will have a steady life when we are older. School also helps you make friends so that you have someone to talk to if you are lonely or sad.	Prepare for Next Steps
81	7th grade	School is to teach us thing we don't already know, it also will help us for college, and it will help us in the real world with our jobs. My opinion is different to a teacher or parent, it can be a boring, I also think we should have a little more time in between classes.	Prepare for Next Steps	N
82	7th grade	I believe the purpose of school is to learn and get educated for important jobs in the future. If we didn't go to school we would not have jobs. I believe we go to school so we can graduate, go to collage, and get a job so we can support our family. The pay checks that all our parents get is to get money so we can get our daily needs and someday with the education that we have learned from school will get us a paycheck so we support the daily needs for our children in the future. I think my opinion is the same as my parents and my teachers view of it because they both think school is important because if we didn't have it we wouldn't have jobs.	Prepare for Next Steps	Y
83	7th grade	I think the purpose of school is training to get a job and have a career. Also to teach us life lessons and discipline. I also think they make it really tough on us so we get used to it. When our career comes around one day we are ready and it will be easy.	Prepare for Next Steps
84	7th grade	I think school is a place where I can learn and develop my sense of thinking so that when I enter the real world I will know how to behave and act. It is also a place that will affect my whole life, if I am able to do well in school I can get into a good college. If I get into a good college than I will find a good job and my life will continue from there. The reason I come to school is to get an education that will help me live and do well when I am free to do anything as I get older. I can imagine that this opinion is similar to those of my parents and teachers because they would not have us go to school 5 days a week if it would not help us through the rest of our lives.	Prepare for Next Steps	Y
85	7th grade	The Purpose of school is to teach people generic things before graduating so they can succeed in life. In the future, the kids that graduated and married will have kids and will help them succeed in school and life as well. It goes in a cycle that will never stop. School helps kids get jobs that we can not figure out on our own.	Prepare for Next Steps
86	7th grade	To educate kids to make it far in life. From school kids also learn how to be motivated and be able to work with other people. Because of school you can go to college and learn how to do many other things and eventually have a good job that you will live off of. School can teach students how to be polite too and educated. Students don't usually realize how much it helps with their life and they aren't thankful most of the time however when the person accomplishes a bunch of great things like making it through college, they will be very thankful and pleasured.	Prepare for Next Steps
87	7th grade	To prepare you for your future like when you either go to collage if you do, or for when you live on your own someday and when you have a job. I think it is also for skills that do not involve ejection like social skills with others.	Prepare for Next Steps
88	7th grade	To educate kids to make it far in life. From school kids also learn how to be motivated and be able to work with other people. Because of school you can go to college and learn how to do many other things and eventually have a good job that you will live off of. School can teach students how to be polite too and educated. Students don't usually realize how much it helps with their life and they aren't thankful most of the time however when the person accomplishes a bunch of great things like making it through college, they will be very thankful and pleasured.	Prepare for Next Steps
89	7th grade	So I can go to a good college and get a job. So I can get a good learning experiences.	Prepare for next steps
90	7th grade	I think the purpose of school is to get smarter and to get better jobs and life's later on. Also in school i want to graduate from aurora and go to collage and then hopefully i want a job and a great family. this helps us to get better life's later in life	Prepare for next steps
91	7th grade	I think the purpose of school is to get you ready for your life because you need education to get a job and you need a job to have food and shelter. It is important to have education because it helps you get what you need in life. I think my opinion is the same as my teacher's and parent's point of view.	Prepare for next steps	Y
92	7th grade	I think that the purpose of school is to get a good education and so you can go to college.And that can set you up for life in general.I think that my parents views and teachers views are basically the same as mine.Basically the point of school is to set you up for life.I know that school is not always my favorite place to be but I know its important for myself.	Prepare for next steps	Y
93	7th grade	To get a good job or to succeed in life you need the building blocks first to get there. I want to be doctor and in order to become a doctor I will have to really well in school to go to a good college. In my opinion I love school, it is so awesome some days when the activities we're doing is something I'm really interested in. I feel to make the purpose of school a little bit better could be something non academical like the school lunch. I feel like with newer kinds of foods more people will be engaged and will learn better and just have a better purpose in school everyday. Every time we have a long break, I love it at first, but then I begin to miss and I really want it back. I really don't know what I would do without school in my life.	Prepare for next steps
94	7th grade	I think that the purpose of school is to prepare and learn. For example, middle school is like training wheels. It teaches you how to study and learn. It is preparing you for the future ahead. School in general, is about learning and exploring new things. For gaining new intellegence, and showing what you know in many different important subjets for the future ahead. (ex: high school, college, your future life and job, etc.) In our early days (elementry school, middle school, high school, etc) school takes up most of our time, to help us gain new information. So, school is just to help you learn and explore new concepts of life.	Prepare for next steps
95	7th grade	I think that the purpose of school is to help you get into a good college and a good career. My career it seems is going to be really important to me because I want to be a teacher and kids are really important to me. I am already doing volunteer work at the gymnastics gym I go to. I help with the preschool kids and I think that schools will really help me get into UCLA (my dream college) and become a successful teacher in my lifetime! I really want to get into a good college that has a good education program so that I can become a great teacher when I am older. I also want to be a successful gymnast because I have worked so hard and I really believe that I can do college gymnastics, it is a dream of mine. My two life goals are to become a successful gymnast, and a EXCELLENT teacher!	Prepare for next steps
96	7th grade	I feel that school is just preparing us for our future jobs and life when we are older, but in some classes and activities we do i don't fully understand how they help us in the long run. My point of view may be a little different but also similiar to my parents and teachers.	Prepare for next steps	Y
97	7th grade	I believe that we are in school to prepare for when we graduate and turn into adults. I think we go to school so that we can get a good job when we grow up. Also, I think school prepares us how to socialize. School is about both education, and socializing. Without the socializing skills we need, I think it is harder to communicate with on another, and there might be some misinterpretations. In my opinion, my parents wants me to do good in school so that I can go to a good College, and get a job. I think my teachers wants us to learn the socializing skills we need as an adult, and also prepare us for adulthood.	Prepare for next steps	Y
98	7th grade	I think its so you can go to a good college so you can apally for the most jobs and actually find a stable job so you can support yourself and your family and to learn when talk and when not. I don't think people agree with me because most people I know don't believe in college but I do.	Prepare for next steps
99	7th grade	I think school is about learning and growing. If we didn't have school, then we wouldn't be able to get jobs, go to collage, be smart, etc. I also think that school is about having fun too. I think it is the same opinion as my parents/teachers because we learn a lot, but we also have fun sometimes. I think school is very important.	Prepare for next steps	Y
100	7th grade	I believe schools is So we can learn and succeed in live, and not be a failure. It is a bit like my parents, but they really want us to succeed and do good in life. I think the teachers get really mad when they see kids who can try and succeed, but instead are fooling around trying to make their friends impressed. Teachers just want every student to succeed and pass that grade so they really want 100% focus.	Prepare for next steps	Y
101	7th grade	I think it gets you ready for life ahead and then to r retirement.	Prepare for next steps
102	7th grade	I believe that the purpose of school is to educate kids with knowledge that will be used all through life. It should be things that are going to be what help me in the future. I also believe the purpose is to get us ready for collage and our jobs that we have once we grow up. I think school school is a great place to learn things because there are so many people that will help us with it, which is very good.	Prepare for next steps
103	7th grade	The purpose of school is to be able to learn and go to college. That is what most of my teachers and what my parents think to. This is the reason why most people get a job because they have always been a good kid. Also school is a way to learn more then just education but how you should act. If you act bad and are always getting in trouble it well be hard to live a good life. Also the teachers goal is to make the kid the are teaching improve from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. Teachers are very important because we need them to teach us. Also both my parents are teachers and they both try to get there students smarter then what the student was at the beginning of the year. It just depends a]on how bad a student wants to get better. If a student has a awful work ethic then they will never be as smart as most people because most people want to learn and find out more. The people who work hard are the people who have money with a good family and friends. Also parents can be very important because with homework they help out a lot.	Prepare for next steps	Y
104	7th grade	The purpose of school is to educate us for later in life and to get us ready for later grades	Prepare for next steps
105	7th grade	To get an education, socialize and learn new thing, we need to get a good education to get a good future of job	Prepare for next steps
106	7th grade	I think the purpose of school is to get you prepared for higher levels of education until you graduate which gives you more education which helps you get good jobs. I think education is important because if you want to make more money than you have to have a good education which all starts with elementary/middle school.	Prepare for next steps
107	7th grade	I think the purpose of school is to build your education ability up, so you can have a successful life when you are in collage, and then when you get out of collage. In my opinion I think this response is what parents and teachers think also.	Prepare for next steps	Y
108	7th grade	To learn new things so as you grow up and get a job you can be successful at that job. In order to support your family and yourself as you grow up you need a job and school will help to get you a good paying job. I think this is similar to teachers and parents views.	Prepare for next steps	Y
109	7th grade	To build a foundation for some jib that may later come up that you like.	Prepare for next steps
110	7th grade	I believe that the purpose of school is to get a good education so we someday can get good jobs to support ourselves and our family.	Prepare for next steps
111	7th grade	The purpose of school is to learn and get better in your education. It will also help in your future to see what college to get into or what classes to get in high school.	Prepare for next steps
112	7th grade	To prepare myself for getting a career and starting my life as an adult. Going to school may also teach you how to make decisions for the future. Our education with basic subjects gives us ideas of how we can make our lives in adulthood.	Prepare for next steps
113	7th grade	I think the purpose of school is to try and challenge yourself. The better grades you get and the better you do probably the better college you will get into. The better college you get into than probably the better overall education you have. All of this education built up into your last years of college can get you a really good degree which could get you a really good job, which could than predict how much money you get. Basically how you do in school determines your success your whole life.	Prepare for next steps
114	7th grade	I think the purpose is to go to school and to get a good job when you are older, and also that it will help you learn more of the things you would probbaly never learn without school, and you will be succesful in life	Prepare for next steps
115	7th grade	It is to prepare us for when we get older. Also when we grow up we can get a good job so we can support us and maybe a family.	Prepare for next steps
116	7th grade	The purpose of school is to get good grades to get you to high school and college ,but not really to get knowledge. I just don't feel like that's the purpose of school anymore. I feel like school is just to get a job and money. It's preparing you to go to college and start a job. I don't really know how anyone else views school.	Prepare for next steps
117	7th grade	To prepare you for your life and so you can go to college and do good in life.	Prepare for next steps
118	7th grade	The purpose of school in my opinion is to learn and build up skills for future purposes. If you want to get into college you have to be successful in high school, and if you want to have a dream job you have to be smart and work in school. School is great because you meet new friends and learn new things, but I do think that the curriculum should change. We should learn life skills, instead of things we will forget about in 5 years. My parents believe that school is very important in being successful. My dad is more supportive of be getting good grades, while still being an athlete. While my mom thinks that me getting an education is the best thing in life. If you don't receive an education you can't do anything great.	Prepare for next steps	Y
119	7th grade	in my opinion the purpose of school is to learn and get good grades for college	Prepare for next steps
120	7th grade	The purpose of school is to learn things for your future. Studying the different subjects will be used in our later lives, so school is getting us ready for college and our future.	Prepare for next steps
121	7th grade	I believe that the purpose of school is to learn things and help prepare us for life after college and high school. School also gives us basic things that we need to know in life. Also, a good education helps us get into a good college and after that get a well paying job. In my opinion, my view on school is basically the same or very close to my parents and teachers point of views on it.	Prepare for next steps
122	7th grade	I think the purpose of school is to get a good education so you can go to a good college to one day get a job. You want to have a well enough paying job to support yourself and maybe even a family. To do so, usually degrees are required to get a good job, and the only way to get a degree is to go to college. My parents and I view it the same way. We both look at it as important, and that it is worth my time and effort. It is only going to get harder as I get older, so I need to start preparing for it now! :))))))))))))))	Prepare for next steps	Y
123	7th grade	I believe the purpose of school is to learn, and educate youth so that they can get jobs, and succeed in life.	Prepare for next steps
124	7th grade	I think the purpose of school is about learning so you can be successful in life. You can also get a good job by learning what we learn today.	Prepare for next steps
125	7th grade	The purpose of school is to get a good education so you can go to a good collage and get a good job.	Prepare for next steps
126	7th grade	I think the purpose of school is to learn things so when you get older you can use knowledge from school to help you get a job. I'm not really sure what my parents or teachers think about what the purpose of school is.	Prepare for next steps
127	7th grade	The purpose of school is to get us ready for college and our future. School teaches us different things that may be used in jobs.	Prepare for next steps
128	7th grade	I think the purpose of school is to make you smarter and prepare you for being an adult. All though a lot of people don't like it, it is very important if you want to get a job and live a happy life. I think that my idea of school is the same as my parents and teachers.	Smarter	Y
129	7th grade	I think that the purpose of school is to educate, but in most cases it ends up with a lot of work that isn't really enjoyable. I think that school should be a more positive place because most people will agree that they don't like school. The purpose is to be educated in a good environment, but the education needs to be something kids will want to do, and the environment needs to be a place where kids want to go.	Smarter	N
130	7th grade	A place where you learn and they teach you things that you need in life and it is boring. I don't like that we have to wake up so yearly. School is a place where they bore kids everyday because we do the same stuff everyday. Also it would be different than my parents point of view because they always say school is better than work.	Smarter	N
131	7th grade	That we are here to become a smarter person than we were yesterday. School is hard for me but I still like it. I like all of the people that work here and my friends. are here to become better people so when we're older we can get the job we've always dreamed of and get the house, the car, and everything else we've ever dreamed of. Our teachers just want us to try our best. Sometimes we get bad grades but they don't always mind. What's best to them is us trying our best. Sometimes we don't feel like coming to school. Sometimes for me it's the most boring thing on the planet, but I still agree to doing everything my teachers ask me to. Sometimes I slack off and I know that. But I still want to do good in school.	Smarter	Y
132	7th grade	To learn and get knowledge for success later in life such as when you get a job and life situations. Because life will be harder without knowledge. You need a job to get money and care for people and you need smarts to get some jobs	Smarter
133	7th grade	To Learn and make friends, go to recess and eat lunch and having no homework because we already learn about it in school and do school work so whats the point of doing homework.	Smarter
134	7th grade	To learn and develop immense social skills and topics one will need to know/use in the near future. Many pay attention to grades. Grades are a factor that determines whether one covers the topic well enough to move on, or one needs to study more. Adults may have a different viewpoint as they are concerned about learning skills and imputing them into life. Personally, grades are what I pay attention too most, as I would not like to have a 3.6 or below.	Smarter	N
135	7th grade	I think the purpose of school is to learn new things so you can be prepared when you have a job. You probably go to math because you need to know math skills for your job or social studies skills, or language arts or science. You could also go to school to meet new people like friends. Or to play a sport to became a proffesional sports player and you can learn that at school. But I think school does extra and likes to make you bored and give you pointless homework and you get bored easily.	Smarter
136	7th grade	I believe that the purpose of school is where kids could learn about new things and get an education about many different things. Its also setting you up for later in your life. At school its where you get to meet new people and make friends and socialize a little bit. You can learn many other things from people to. Parents and teachers also like for their kids to get an educations, and help you get set for life from the things that you learn from.	Smarter	Y
137	7th grade	I think the purpose of school is to learn but also socialize at some points in the day. It is really boring to just sit in a seat for six hours and just learn. The change i would like to see is more free time like a longer lunch maybe. This will give us a longer time to rest in between class and get mentally prepared for the next class. I think this would improve the grades of the students and also they would grow to like school than dislike it and not want to go every day they wake up. This would be a big change and would make are schools better for everyone.	Smarter
138	7th grade	I think that school should be a fun place to learn, and have fun in the classroom. To have nice teachers that won't get mad at the little mistakes you make that are easy to learn from. You should ask questions, and have a supports room for every subject, and a main support room for help in general. One thing that I think that should be more aloud is to have a snack during class, since in class I myself will get really hungry and want to eat something.	Smarter
139	7th grade	The purpose of school is to learn new things. Parents have us go to school, but when my sister or I need help on homework, they get re-taught on the topics we are learning. Things have changed through the years, so I think they are learning as well. My teachers learn knew things as well. If they just taught topics to students, they would be very bored, but when they learn from us, it is a better experience for them.	Smarter
140	7th grade	I Believe that school is a place that was formed for learning, not only to learn knowledge, but also how to function in a society. It has formed us how to do this, but I think it could be in a better way. Some classes I have are so boring, I don't take in anything from the class, which basically is the opposite of what we are trying to do. We need to have fun activities and different ways to learn, or we might not be able to learn anything at all. The previously introduced class was so boring, I got a C- on the most recent test and I don't blame the questions! I didn't know anything about the topic because the teacher didn't put much effort to make it memorable!	Smarter
141	7th grade	to get a good education it can helps us in life	Smarter
142	7th grade	I believe school is a place where we're supposed to be educated on topics such as History, Math, Language Arts, etc. whilst trying to be helpful and fun.	Smarter
143	7th grade	i know a lot of people have different reasoning for school, students thinks its to learn and others think there is no reason for school. Parents want it for their child so they can have a education and get a good job when they grow up. Teacher think its for the best so they know these things for when they grow up & so these things will help them when they grow up.	Smarter
144	7th grade	to learn about basic things needed in the real world, not to have fun or anything else, just to learn.	Smarter
145	7th grade	I believe that the purpose of school is to get educated. The education will help us grow smarter and help us get good jobs in the future. School can also help you with your listening and speaking skills. I feel that it is the same point of view from a teacher or parent.	Smarter	Y
146	7th grade	I believe that school is for learning, even if I don't like it. You learn about all sorts of stuff like math, social studies, science, and language arts. All of these are for me to get to know what subjects I like and what I don't so I get a job that I like and go at too. For me math is the easiest and my favorite and the job I want to be is an electrical engineer and you need to be good at math to do that.	Smarter
147	7th grade	I think the propose of school is to learn and have fun at the same time. My point of view is probably different than teachers because they want us to know the topic perfectly i think, but I think we will learn it in different years to come and in different grades to come. I think it is the same as my parents because I think they want school to be fun and not to hard. I also think that theirs is the same because even if you fail a test then you can see how to improve and how to do better at the same thing. I also think when you are younger that grades dont matter, but ss you get older they will because they go towrds collage and you need to work harder.	Smarter	N (Teachers) Y (Parents)
148	7th grade	I believe that the purpose of school is to learn new things and to get a better understanding of topics. How to ask and answer questions. Also, to communicate with others. Another purpose of school is to be successful in the future. My opinion is probably different from parents or teachers.	Smarter	N
149	7th grade	Well school helps you throughout life when your out of school because it makes you more smart and so you have a good degree for College. I think that students see school as a boring and horrible thing but teachers and parents just want to make their kids and students smarter and better. Without school none of us would be this smart. Most of it comes from school and how we learn things. You can see school as a bad thing or a good thing. Some people can't go to a school because of certian causes, like money, health reasons, etc. So we are somewhat lucky to have school. I bealive that school can b boring and a horrible thing but when you think about it, it really isn't you get educational value and it can be fun at times but overall school can be bad or good in either ways.	Smarter
150	7th grade	To learn skills in many different subjects that will benefit our futures. All subjects can benefit many things that people need to live. An example is if you want to become a scientist, taking science class can help you with that job and make it easier. No matter how small, every lesson in every class counts as a beneficial factor for everyone's future.	Smarter
151	7th grade	To me school is about learning and getting and education. But there are also extras to making school fun. Such as making friends and going to sit down at lunch with them and talk to them. There are also classes that make the day fun as well like P.E.	Smarter
152	7th grade	I think the purpose of school is to learn. We don't get very much time to socialize with others so I'd set its main purpose is learning. Not saying that I would like to make a significant change because we do get some time to talk to our friends etc.	Smarter
153	7th grade	I believe that the purpose of school is to become educated in all different field so that you are prepared for life. By learning different things it gives you options of what you can do when you are older. Without education we would be even more unknowing as cavemen. I would say I have the same viewpoint as my parents and adults in general. Some people who never were educated are sad that they weren't and believe that they would have been better off if they had learned and went to school. Education gives you an understanding of the world around you. If I wasn't educated in somethings I would be so frustrated that I don't know the answer to why something is the way it is.	Smarter	Y
154	7th grade	I believe the purpose of school is to educate kids for their future. This is the same as teachers and my parents view. My parents and I hope (probably) my teachers want me to be as educated as I can for my future job whatever that may be. Students ask what things they don't understand and could have a better understanding of it. School is to better educate someone so the rest of their life is effected in a hopefully positive way. School also is somewhere to develop social skills with other human beings. Good luck with finding out what to do to make school better for others and including myself.	Smarter	Y
155	7th grade	I believe the purpose of school is to be educated by your teachers and friends. When we go to school, my opinion on going would be to get help by people with what you need help with, and to advance in subjects to get better at those. If you don't understand something, school is the place to go and learn and it helps us with important future times, such as in college. I also believe the purpose of school is to make friends with people who share common interests or are in classes of someone's, and it helps with what you might want to do in your future for a job.	Smarter
156	7th grade	School is to help us learn and get ready to go out in the real life, but what I don't understand is why we have so much home work if we come to school everyday. We come to school for 7 hour or more out of our day. Adding on home work after school that can take any ware from 3 to 6 hour a day. If some kids do not under stand what they are doing it can take them a longer amount of time to do there homework. That is 13 hours out of our day and there are only 24 hours in a day. People have to get 6 to 10 hour sleep a day that can be up to 23 hours in your day taken up already. That leaves you with 1 hour of free time to go outside, but kids have to have at least to have 2 hours outside each day so kids are not getting enough time outside because of the homework they have to do after school.	Smarter
157	7th grade	To educate us on stuff that we want/should learn.	Smarter
158	7th grade	To learn and to achieve.	Smarter
159	7th grade	The purpose of school is to learn information you will use for a long time, and make friends that you will hopefully have for a long time. I also think that school makes you manage your time accordingly.	Smarter
160	7th grade	I think the purpose of school is to learn new things everyday. I think my parents and teachers say the same thing. We go to school to learn new things so we can get educated and get a good job.	Smarter	Y
161	7th grade	It is to learn more and become more successful in life! School is a great way to learn about the outside world.	Smarter
162	7th grade	I think school is were you learn new things, and review things from previous grades, that you will use later in life. I think it is the same for teacher's but they are the ones teaching it to us, and with them teaching us they learn new strategies to teach us.	Smarter	Y
163	7th grade	I think school is for teaching children education. Are parents probably want us to go to school to get a education and get a job and education.	Smarter	Y
164	7th grade	my purpose of school is to take in information and learn new topics, ideas, events, and skills so i can have success in the future. A parent thinks the purpose of school is so your child can have a good life or so you know that they won't have to struggle in the future A teachers purpose of school is to pass on information to the next generation of adults and make sure they do their best to give the kids what they need to know in the future	Smarter	Y
165	7th grade	I think the purpose of school is to learn and see your friends.	Smarter
166	7th grade	I believe the purpose for school is to educate the young and pass on knowledge.	Smarter
167	7th grade	School is preparing us for the future and helps us learn about what will happen. The more we know about the subjects, the easier life will be for us.	Smarter
168	7th grade	To learn. You learn to get a job so you have a good life for the future. you also might have some problems that you can solve with what you learn.	Smarter
169	7th grade	The purpose of school is to learn, explore and have fun. In school you don't only learn important things like math and reading, but you also learn about yourself and who you are. In school you also explore different ideas and things you didn't think you would like but then liked.	Smarter
170	7th grade	School is all about teaching kids information and most of the stuff is never going to be useful and very little will be used later in life. My parent has the same view, but I think teacher's views are that every little bit is useful	Smarter	Parent-Y Teacher-N
171	7th grade	I think the purpose is to leare things for when your older	Smarter
172	7th grade	I believe the purpose is to have fun but at the same time laern	Smarter
173	7th grade	i think it is it a big thing in life that is needed so that we can be smart and do things in life. School is a great help with things you don't get because then u can just ask for help.	Smarter
174	7th grade	To come here and get a good education for our future and not so we stay at home and rot by playing video games and watching tv.	Smarter
175	7th grade	to laern and have fun	Smarter
176	7th grade	I believe the purpose of school is to learn different topics. I also think that it is preparing you for life of knowing different topics.	Smarter
177	7th grade	The purpose of school is to educate you so you are able to learn new things and have a future for when you get out of school. same as what my parents think because they are the ones how told what it is all about.	Smarter	Y
178	7th grade	I think the purpose of school is to learn.	Smarter
179	7th grade	To learn things with your friends and to have fun with your friends while learning	Smarter
180	7th grade	I believe that the purpose of school is to learn new things every day , and having school to be stress free could be great , but that would never happen .Because of all the bullying and talking behind people's back is going around , school is not as fun or even enjoyable anymore.But school should be only for learning and not breaking down other peoples confidence.	Smarter
181	7th grade	In my opinion school is where I can see my friends and learn about stuff that I did not know about yet. I think its different because teachers are the ones teaching you so they already know the stuff were being taught. and in are parents point of view they might feel the same about school as I do or different it depends on weather they liked school or if they did not.	Smarter
182	7th grade	I think the purpose of school is to teach kids so that they become smart people when they grow up, I think this is the same point of view as my parents and teacher.	Smarter	Y
183	7th grade	School is a place to learn and get an education for the future. I'm not sure what my mom and teachers think about though.	Smarter
184	7th grade	I believe that the purpose of school is to learn so that you can be successful, but we should be able to take the classes that are what we want to do with our lives.	Smarter
185	7th grade	my view of school is we come here to learn about things about the world and we come here to become suffcle in life.	Smarter
186	7th grade	to teach kids about math and how to read so that they will know how to read and write when they are older.	Smarter
187	7th grade	What i believe the poorhouse of school is to learn the subject and to learn to be respectfull and to meet fieinds. my mom thinks the same	Smarter	Y
188	7th grade	I believe the purpose of school is for education and learn what you know. School is a good place it helps you learn so you can become smart or go to collage.	Smarter
189	7th grade	so kids will know how to do math and so when they are older they can teach there kids how to read and write.	Smarter
190	7th grade	I think that it is to learn i do not think that we should get as much homework or test and the air test i think are just not good.	Smarter
191	7th grade	I believe he purpose of school is to get a good education. I think this is important, because people who may not attend school are not as knowledgeable. I made up a quote after spring break when I saw my friends giving souvenirs to eachother: "The souvenir for education is knowledge". I said this because I am lucky that I get to go to school and have an opportunity to learn new things everyday!	Smarter
192	7th grade	In my eyes i think of school for kids to learn and have no homework	Smarter
193	7th grade	to educate the public, the same	Smarter	Y
194	7th grade	I believe the purpose of school is education, and making friends.	Smarter
195	7th grade	I believe the purpose of school is to learn.	Smarter
196	7th grade	I think it is to learn which is the same and different from my teachers because we do a lot to just get ready for tests and we just try to do good on tests andwe learn a little bit of the time but I don't feel like we are just learning we are just getting information to just do good on a test and we do a lot of stuff that I don't quite see how it will help us in our future. Some of the stuff we do will not always help us in the future so I do not really understand why we go over it.	Tests
197	7th grade	i don't know half of the stuff we learn wont really help us when we are 18
198	7th grade	I don't really like school because people do not understand me.