“Homework isn’t worth two minutes of time, never mind an hour.”These are the words of Alfie Kohn, an American author who studies the effect of teenagers receiving overwhelming amounts of homework.This work is meant to help students learn their class materials and obtain a better understanding of the subjects taught in school. However, how much […]

I would like to thank you for putting up digital clocks in the hallways. It was a big help, because now I can read the clocks and not spend time figuring out the time. It must have taken time to put the clocks up, but your work is not going unrecognized. I am a senior […]

I dream that someday i’ll be in the navy or become a doctor. I want to go to the navy because when i was in 10th grade i was in the JROTC program and i loved it. I want to become a doctor also because i want to find inner peace and i like helping […]

What is the idea of financial literacy? Financial literacy is simply understanding how money works. However, 17.8% of American students proved to be financially inept, as they could not answer basic financial questions in an assessment provided by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) (Bidwell). Why is the percentage so shockingly high? Why […]

I never realized how close college was. My whole life it seemed far away. I would fantasize about going away to school, carrying around heavy text books, making something of myself. And here I am, a sophmore and I don’t know what im going to do once I graduate. Everything used to be so easy. […]

The learning labs are supposed to be a place of aid and education, but they seem to be more of disorganized chaos these days with the absence of teachers, a lack of teachers comprehending material, and an uneven distribution of students to teachers. These seem to be few of many relevant issues in the learning […]

Many students around the country sit in school and think, “What’s the point of going to school?” Many teachers may even think, “Why do I teach? What am I really teaching my students?” In Eleanor Roosevelt’s brief commentary “Good Citizenship: The Purpose of Education”, she pushes her readers to think beyond the accepted definition of […]

Schools require/assign too much homework to their students every week. With all this homework students get stressed out and don’t have time to do other things such as exercise. Students also aren’t the only ones who want to get rid of homework. Schools assign too much homework. “The average highschool student is assigned 3.5 hours […]

Ever wonder why you as a student of why you as a parent of a student have been complaining or head complaining about there school lunches. Well there are reasons for that just like everything else in this world. The USDA changed new standards for the school lunch program to try to lower obesity in […]

Sleep is one of the most important factors in a student’s health, and shortage of sleep can leave very negative effects on a student’s life. With schools starting so early in the morning, many problems can appear both inside of school and in a student’s everyday life. To help lighten the huge effects of all […]

I believe that the D. A.R.E. program should no longer be active in schools in the U.S. In my opinion, the program is more convincing students to try illegal drugs rather than stopping the use of them. While this program may be a very expensive program, students still don’t understand the full harm of drugs. […]

Sleep deprivation can have overwhelmingly negative effects on both adults and teenagers alike. However, its effects are much more prominent on teens. In fact, a 2010 study of 392 boys and girls published online in the Journal of Psychiatric Research found that those who had trouble sleeping at 12 to 14 years old, were more […]

Walking down these hallways you will see the different groups, like the view from an airplane looking down at all the cities. Everyone has a group they “run with” and that will never change. There is the jocks, cheerleaders, and geeks. You should know that high school isn’t everything. The cliques don’t matter. The grades […]

My ideal school is a school quite unlike any school we’ve heard of. This school consists of a large library and basic recreational facilities. And that’s all. There are no classrooms. The school motto is “I sought not to bring men to me, but to themselves,” a quote by Emerson. The school is built on […]

Imagine a couple students sitting outside minding their own business chewing gum and then all of a sudden a teacher comes out of the school and gives them an after school detention. That’s not fair, what were they doing wrong, chewing gum? That is wrong and should not be happening in school. For example,I got […]

I think it’s important to get a good education in school and try your hardest, and I’ve always thought this. Getting higher grades and passing tests is important but I also think that you shouldn’t stress on getting straight A’s. Every person is different in their own unique way and some of us aren’t good […]

In the US nearly every school devotes two years of science classes to chemistry. In South Burlington, Vermont, however, students take chemistry for only one year. This may not have a major effect on everyone taking chemistry because for those in lower-level classes it is unlikely that their overall knowledge of chemistry will ever be […]

Behavior is how someone acts in both public and private areas and is how people will remember you as a first impression. At Burbank we study topics that make us reflect on what we just read or wrote about. Many other schools don’t do that they just do work right out of the text book […]

To Be Gifted or Non-gifted –That is Not the Question I can distinctly recall walking down the hallway at my elementary school with a group of my friends in fifth grade, discussing a list for an upcoming birthday party that one of my friends was throwing. She mentioned that all of the girls in our […]

A true high school story requires excitement, if it doesn’t, you are telling the wrong story. It requires intensity. It requires a story about a girl falling in love with a boy. Heartbreaks, tears, and in the end coming out stronger then you ever were. It requires making choices for your own. It requires mistakes […]

I believe teachers deserve more pay than what is given because without them we wouldn’t have all these high powered places(I.e. Government, president, congress, army). They even watch other people kids for basically the whole day. Teachers deal with good students, misbehaved children and all they get is minimum wage type pay. Some of them […]

Many look back on their childhood days as some of the best times of their lives. They were young, fearless, and did not have a single care in the world. No worries at all, except for maybe the little homework their teachers gave them. Kids of my generation may not look back with such fondness […]

A lot of people own a firearm or have one in their house. And a big majority use their firearms for a bad use like murdering people. Most people just own a gun because they think it is “cool” to own a gun. And they show it off to their friends because they think they’re […]

Freshman year for a girl can be one of the most exciting times of your life, you feel grown up and free. You see movies like “Mean Girls” and think high school is like that but it’s really not. My freshman year experience was good because I went to school with my older cousin and […]

The school year has ended, and teenagers everywhere are poring out of the schools. Perhaps they are off to start a summer job? Perhaps their families are going on vacation? Perhaps they have great plans to visit colleges, take summer classes, or even get a foothold in the world of business? I look upon my […]

Yale professor Erika Christakis resigned from her job after receiving hateful response to an e-mail she sent out about a controversial campus topic. Halloween costumes has become a debated topic on the Yale campus. Many believe that they can be offensive and stereotypical. Erika didn’t believe that this was a big problem. She thought that […]

Numbers are murderers. They kill souls more than guns. How it is even fair when a number defines your worth, your future and even your existence. Aren’t number were supposed to measure daily stuffs only? From when it started to measure our span of life. They measure how long do we live without being on […]

A lot of schools eliminate the concept of individuality when provided with a community of students. I believe students should be taught to follow their passion not how to be qualified for a 9-5 job. An anonymous survey stated that only 22% of former high school students followed their passion and a majority of these […]

“How terrible you must be so lonely!” “I wish I could be homeschooled.” Their reactions range from the vague, to passionate, to the occasional surprise. After having been homeschooled most of my life I have seen many reactions when I answer that question. “Where do you go to school?” But how should I reply when […]

Do you ever wonder about your personal opinions instead of thinking about other people’s opinion. Many of people around the world about other people’s opinion as if they don’t even have one of their own. People don’t spend enough time on their personal opinions because they are so worried about others. In this article, I […]