This article is very true. When things get messed up in school i blame it on teachers sometimes...(10th grade) and other times i know it's my fault. Teachers obligation is to lead us on the right path... our responsibiltity is to walk along the path and work hard at what we are learning. If the teacher does not set up the path... then we are unable to follow. I'll blame the teachers for my poor grades if and only if they do not follow their teaching criteria(sp)..example being my sophmore year in high school my chem teacher decided to do the leason plans mixed up. we learned stuff out of order compared to what the county standard was.. when it came time to take the gateway test in 10th grade i could not answer the question because it was on something we had not studied at all. my failure on that test I blame on her. During class i studied exacltly what she taught. i knew all we needed to know of what she taught... but i didn't know what we hadn't been lead to. another example of when i'll blame a teacher is when they give up on the student.. my spanish 1 teacher my freshman year emailed my mom and flat out told he she had seen students like me b4 and that i'd never amount to anything.... the teacher treated me with uter disrespect(sp) the rest of the year. to shove it back in her face, the next year she was fired to sleeping with the basket ball coach on school grounds...hehe i'm sure many of you heard about the Berkmar basketball coach getting fired...after winning 2 back to back state championships... those are the times i'd blame the teachers. just about everything else is student side.