There’s been a debate at my School in Delaware.I believe that this debate is falling upon deaf ears of the people who are supposed to monitor our education.These people, I believe, are not doing their job correctly.The reason I say this is because the problem going around our school is to decide whether the students […]

Physical Education Time Should students have more physical education time? Yes I do think students should get more physical education time. I think students should get at least 45 minutes of physical education per day. That is because it helps students relieve their stress. When a student’s stress is relieved they are able to do […]

Every kid growing up watches something based around the idea of being in high school, whether it be on a TV show or in a movie. Watching things on TV makes kids hope and wish for things to be the same way, but they never are. The ways in which high school is actually portrayed […]

Intervention study hall is a new class assigned to kids who have been struggling with their grades. It’s a one period class every other day where there are four to five students in each class, with one teacher. At the beginning of class, the teacher checks each student’s assignment notebooks to make sure they have […]

If the world were the way most educators would have us believe, America’s streets would be clogged with people who decided to skip out on their college degrees, panhandling to feed their illegitimate children. If you asked any of these hypothetical street-lurkers what they regretted the most, they’d turn to you, eyes weary and underlined […]

Hi I’m Maddie. I’m new to middle school- and yes it can be a hastle and can make you feel like your whole life was just flipped upsidedown. Like who needs all that stress??? Short answer:NO ONE So to get through middle school I think about why I am so stressed or confused. Then I […]

One of the things that bothers me most about my high school is how the high school government election process works. The way it goes, if you’re part of the student government and you want to run for office, you can get permission from the head of government to be in the running. Once you’re […]

Have you ever had students sleep in your class, or not pay attention? Teachers believe that they have stayed up too late, but really they had to spend six hours doing pointless homework/projects their teacher assigned for them. The malignant homework causes students to fret about homework which causes them a hard deal of stress. […]

Imagine it is the first week of school. A student loves all of his teachers and classes, but one thing is the whole reason why the whole class is so forlorn. Next period the students will be brooding because they are going to have their first test. This is the case in over 98,000 of […]

I told myself I wasn’t ready. I wasn’t ready to move on, to move out, and to leave. I was comfortable in the life I was living. I had become a passenger on the high school merry-go-round, where I had been for three previous years. I had no problem watching my future go around and […]

So I have been in school for many years and as long as I can remember, I have always put in an art class some how. Now of course, when you think of art, you think of creative freedom or the ability to express yourself, so on and so forth. But then you look at […]

The idea of recent high school graduates putting off college for a year may seem ludicrous and impulsive, but this European tradition is finally catching on in America. Seniors may find it daunting to continue on with their educational plans after recently finishing thirteen years of hard work, with usually another two to eight on […]

Students should be free to type their notes rather than being forced to handwrite them. In the classroom, teachers only have so much time to relay information to their students before the bell rings. This often requires teachers to be quick with their lessons in order to get information through to their students. Students are […]

There is no such thing as a pure desire – a desire free from all faults and flaws and ulterior motives. We are all driven to our breaking points by greed and selfish nature. No one really knows what it means to “make a difference”, or how to “make the world a better place”. No […]

After hours and hours and hours of doing homework a student starts crying. He hits his head on the wall, knowing that he won’t solve the math problem, knowing that he won’t be able to finish his homework for his other classes the next day. So many students suffer every day from doing homework. Should […]

Hell is normally perceived as a fiery place ran by a little red man with horns. I however, have no need to presume what hell is, I have already lived it. Four years of it to be precise! In summary; awkward creatures roam about like vultures looking for prey to pick at, to fit in. […]

Picture this… You are smack in the middle of quartleys week as an all honors student, collapsing with the stress accompanied by the building that is your homework. Suddenly, The Homework Pill is introduced to you and it’s side effects work instantaneously doubling your stress! How are we so lucky to have access to such […]

Pete: Can you believe it? Sarah: Yeah I can. Pete: I never thought I would make it. Sarah: I do, you can sing as beautiful as Michael Jackson can. Pete: I’ m not that good. Sarah: Mr. Kennan picked you for the solo, didn’t he? Pete: but, Sarah: but what? Pete: I’m really not that […]

Almost all student achievements are defined by grades; these grades are used to determine a student’s value in the eyes of colleges. Most students, usually in their junior and senior year of high school, have to take one of the most the SAT, a test designed by the College Board to determine a student’s college […]

“Friends, you and me… you brought another friend. .. and then there were three… we started our group… our circle of friends… and like that circle… there is no beginning or end.” This quote by Eleanor Roosevelt seems to capture the essence of groups. In my eyes a group is a bunch of friends who […]

Dear School Board: I hear that our principal is making the students at AHS wear dress code. I can not tolerate this, I went to St. Charles my whole elementary and middle school years, and the students there had to wear dress code. I was so happy to go to AHS because I didn’t have […]

What do John Green’s Paper Towns, JK Rowling’s Harry Potter Series, and Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird all have in common? Yes, they are all heartfelt stories with a strong female lead, but what is the base of each of those novels? They are all narrative and have authors who had their first sparks […]

You want your students to feel safe in school, right? Then get surveillance cameras! Hello, I’m the chief of Atascadero Police Department. I thank you principals of SLO County for spending your time to see me on the subject of surveillance cameras in schools.Surveillance cameras have been helpful to police to solve crimes,so why not […]

Everyday millions of teenagers across America sit down at lunch to enjoy a wonderful meal, and everyday food is splattered over the faces of our youth because someone can’t close their mouth when they eat. Our table manners we once had died along with Elvis. Once while eating soup, a nearby friend started in on […]

Middle school: the most dreaded three years of your life. Stress, anxiety, and depression all wrapped into two unspeakable words. Three years filled with massive amounts of homework, negligible drama thought to be life-threatening, and sleep deprivation affecting not only you, but your classmates too, which, of course, creates an immense amount of anger towards […]

“He made his way down through the ruins of an old Apple orchard, black and gnarly stumps, dead grass to his knees. He stood in the door of the barn and listened. Pale slatted light. He walked along the dusty stalls. He stood in the center of the barn bay and listened but there was […]

I believe in the power of books. I believe that they can provide education to all who read. There are lots of things left untouched by today’s simple school curriculums. There are more things that can be learned in school as well as outside the classroom. What can help us with learning these things? I […]

A study conducted by National Sleep Foundation found that 60% of children under the age of 18 complained to their parents that they were exhausted during the school day. According to their parents, 15% of those kids fell asleep during class. Students dread coming to school every day because they are sleep deprived. Most high […]

Schools today are pushing kids to try and figure out what they want to do in life and what percautions they will take to reach that goal. But in reality more than half of teens in highschool today have no idea what they want to do, or are just in it for the money. Don’t […]

Throughout the school year as kids sit in their homerooms casually conversing with their peers the principle talks on the intercom about SAT’s. But what is SAT’s? What’s so important about this test? -SAT also known as scholastic aptitude test is a nationwide test that determines a student’s academic placement. They are one of the […]