Their are many different aspects of teaching. Someone can teach you how to do something whether its learning math, how to drive, or even cooking. The most inspirational teachers, are the ones that teach a more important aspect of life. For Mrs. McClure, it came natural. Cleburne High School is one of the many schools […]

Dream is something that you want but most people fail to achieve it. Not literally a dream, by dream I mean like goals. Most people fail to achieve it because they’re not committed to it a.k. a being lazy. My dream has many different routes to get to it. My route is to retire from […]

The International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma is a highly prestigious, respected program of study for high school students that are in average seventeen years old, but required to think like twenty-year-olds. Of course, the amount of advantages that this program brings is close to limitless, since the IB is designed almost flawlessly to keep the students […]

I has been so sure of 18 years of my life, I knew exactly where to go, who I would see, what I would be. I had been so sure. But I had taken all of it for granted, I had thought those times would last forever. I wish they would, because the unknown is […]

Uniforms have been the primal subjects of de-bate in schools for many years now. But why are they debated? What are the costs associated with them? And do they really help the education sys-tem? Over the past decade the issue on whether schools should have uni-forms has come up many times. In fact, President Bill […]

What sort of things have you heard about homeschoolers? Might it be one (or more) of these? 1. They are hermits or something 2. They only are able to socialize with siblings 3. They don’t know how to dress 4. They are just…weird 5. They have no life whatsoever. 6. They are Mormons or religious […]

“Life is what we do and not what we are” – the above statement is quite true for everyone. This quote means that it is not position that matters, rather it’s the action which matters the most. Life is something which we make out of. And this is the real art of living. Life is […]

DOWN WITH AUTHORITY FIGURES! Tired of all the pointless rules and guidelines that we have to follow in school like serious how is having different colored hair like pink purple etc distracting . If you looked in the past our parents and maybe even our grandparents did wild things with how they dressed , yet […]

A few minutes before my bus’s arrival, I am still trying to decide what to wear. Many thoughts race through my head. Will they tease me because of my clothes? What will others think? Is this against the school dress code? It would be so much easier if we had school uniforms! Besides saving time […]

Grazing my fingertips across the underside of the desk, my finger ceases its movement when it comes upon an unwelcome barrier. I have recently retired my pencil so that it lays in rest beside my completed test sheet, and in an instance of boredom and lack of silent activities to take part in while others […]

Success is based on how well an individual performs and their work ethic. A person cannot expect to be successful in life if he/she will not put in the work and determination. That’s why procrastination can be a deadly virtue to have. The main idea of procrastination is to put off work until the last […]

As an 8the grade student, I have bought lunch too many times to count because it was easy and convenient. Yet, I never theought about what I was eating until I took up running and began to focus more and more on my eating habits. It was then that I realized just how bad thee […]

Students think of winter break as a time to relax, hang out with friends, enjoy their family time, and be away from school. Most students don’t think of winter break as a time to study for finals. With Arrowhead’s current finals schedule they are on the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd of January. Since the material […]

Who Needs Clean Clothes Anyway? I ran down the stairs of my dorm building at Arizona State University, slinging my laundry bag over my shoulder and taking the steps two at a time. My phone, which I had since regretted putting at full volume, blasted out the familiar guitar solo to “Carry on Wayward Son” […]

It’s all over the news: kids are spending a lot of time on homework. And, according to some, it’s way too much. With the current emphasis on high-stakes testing, educators are trying to do more with less, which can result in an overabundance of schoolwork outside of school. Some critics say there is no evidence […]

If I had a chance to change one thing about myself it would be my self-confidence. A quote by anonymous source claims, “Self-confidence gives you the freedom to make mistakes and cope with failure without feeling that your world has come to an end or that you are a worthless person.” I seem to have […]

Imagine you’re taking a math test, but you just can’t concentrate. The solution could be a piece of gum. I think students should chew gum I know from experience that a piece of gum helped me stay focus on my homework. I know it sounds silly, but it has been proven that if you chew […]

Every school is different in some sort of way. Whether they have a smaller amount of students or larger amount of students, whether they excel in academics, or are amazing in athletics. But one thing that they have in common would be how the kids are. All the different cliques/groups and how they treat eachother. […]

Although the civil war was over there were still many difficulties during the reconstruction plan. Some like The Ku Klux Klan group and the Jim Crow Law. All of this is based on one thing how african americans rights were denied during the reconstruction plan. Honestly I think the Jim Crow Law is unfair. The […]

Being a student is hard in its own ways. You’re young, and yet you’re given a lot of errands to run. You have lots of responsibilities to take care of, such as your siblings, your own workload of multiple assignments and projects and even sometimes, your family. This is not counting all the time you […]

Many schools, at this this time, require their students to wear a standard uniform. Schools claim that uniforms make every student equal. But, what schools aren’t taking in to consideration is the large amount of students who want to be looked at as an individual. Wearing clothes that fit their style and personality can do […]

Single sex education has attracted greater public attention since published in 2006. Leonard sax founder of single gender schools he had a son going to 2nd grade and on that first day he got a phone call home and his son’s response to this was. “I was trying to impress a girl” that’s what encouraged […]

To me, academic integrity refers to the concept and process of learning and advancing ones education. This means a person sets goals to do well in school and in higher education. At the beginning of the school year, each student has standards that they hope to achieve over the course of a semester; whether if […]

High school students should study literacy and reading. That’s when tupac comes in, tupac was a lot about his reading and his writing. Why do you think tupac’s lyrics from his music is spot on. Tupac loved school because it introduced him into reading. Unlike other students they don’t like going to school they rather […]

Dictionary.com defines literature as written works: fiction, poetry, drama, and criticism, that are recognized as having important or permanent artistic value. Most college professors would agree, that Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte is more of a stimulating literature than Snooki’s biography from “Jersey Shore.” And in terms of material content, there is infact a big […]

School rules. Not the rule where you can’t bully people. That one I understand. Not the rule where you can’t destroy property. That one I understand. Not the rule where you can’t steal. That one I understand. I’m talking about different rules. When you really think about these petty human ideas, you start to realize […]

What’s stress? Stress is something you can’t touch or see, but you can definitely feel it. Stress can be caused by many things like homework, projects, essays, and finals etc. Sometimes stress isn’t caused by school it could also be stress from home. In Stress can really get on your nerves, the author says that […]

Learning should be fun. Incorporating up and fun moving activities will have more kids entertained and willing to learn easier. In Fires in the bathroom, Porsche states “. . We want to be more involved. My best teachers have us up and doing experiment, working in groups, playing games.” In other words Porsche and many […]

Waking up in the morning for stuents is one of the hardest things not only because you have to wake up early, but you have a day ahead of having to sit down in a quiet room and everybody is taking notes and then the next day comes along and is the same and the […]

Heads are tightly fitted into the undersized mortarboards, arms are shimmied into the silky sleeves and butterflies arise in the stomachs of those who are about to make a transition in their life. Only thing different this time? It isn’t me. I see pictures posted on all forms of social media from events preceding the […]