My dream is to go to the army because I’ve wanted to be in the military ever since I saw the greatness in the united states army on Youtube on a young lady and I hoped to one day be a part of it , I want to be the first one of the family […]

CTE courses are Career and Technical Education courses. They’re the classes like home ec, teen living, apparel, carpentry, automotive, etc. Different schools have different things or they go by different names. For example: teen living. In my middle school it went by “Home Ec”, but in my early high school career it went by teen […]

A couple years ago, if you asked me which I liked better “to read on the Kindle or actual books”, I would have answered “actual books” and quickly followed my answer up with the common argument against replacing natural reading with an electronic simulation. As my fellow student at my high school, Natalie R., put […]

Well I am a junior this year and you know what my family has decided that means…… ….. .Its time to pick what I am to go to college for, Without asking me.. What do i want you ask. I want to Act, direct, and Write. But when i said that to my family they […]

There should be school uniforms because there is violence: there is gangs at school that can create fights, violence, etc. There is bullies around the hallways hanging out, so they can fish someone to pick on. People won’t be safe anywhere they go around the school, no matter what. People will be ending up looking […]

God. Who is God? Is God male or female? Is his/her name God or is it something else? How many Gods are there? All of these questions, but nobody to answer them. Who knows for sure if there even is a God? All of this mystery and still so much love, trust, and hope for […]

I ask myself a lot of questions. I ask myself what I’m going to wear every day, I ask myself what to do when I’m bored. But today I ask myself a different question. I ask myself the question most teenage high school students ask themselves. How have I changed and progressed throughout the year. […]

Imagine yourself being a senior in high school and you have just received your admissions letter from the college of your dreams. As you start to open the letter you remember all the late nights and stressful weekends you’ve put into this college. The letter opens and you read those dreadful words that everybody wishes […]

I am sure this aplies for every school, but have you ever noticed what happens when a teacher leaves the classroom? Is it A: everyone sits and reads untill he returns. B: nothing at all happens or C: the classs starts acting like animals. The answer was C,and if your class does A or B […]

Students hold their breaths and their pencils, trapped behind old desks in a gigantic room, for four hours in absolute silence, with the feeling that their lives depend on this one test. A very stressful, expensive, time-consuming test: the SAT. While this monster test comes as a burden on the privileged student, for other students, […]

For many years, our grading system has been based on letters and numbers, A’s being excellent, and B’s being good – or that’s at least how the educational systems views it. For the past few years, we have seen the effect that grades have on students. Sometimes, just gettingB’s and C’s can cause students to […]

It all started from walking into an English classroom my sophomore year at John Dickinson high school. The classroom had posters of Greek mythology, Shakespeare, every major sports team logo in Pittsburgh with magazine and newspaper articles with those teams from the Steelers, Pirates, Penguins, and Panthers. From there I realized how much he was […]

Summer is the time where most students ditch their books and put their brains away, including me. For this summer, I read the book In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. I read the book in pieces which made it hard for me to understand and appreciate its true literary merit. The valuable time that I […]

Adults and kids will argue about issues about who is right but do adults really have the authority to talk down to the kids and make them smaller than they really are? Even though kids are right some times adults do not agree and they try to make us seem smaller and themselves bigger than […]

I don’t think kids should get in trouble for tardiness. Its retarded. If you’re standing in the door way when the bell rings and count you tardy. Then that’s not even reasonable. You’re at the teachers classroom, and the last time I checked, the door was a part of the classroom that they want you […]

I think we should read because it helps keep our imagination. Each time I read a book, I am somehow drawn into it. Like I’m a charactor in the novel. Most teens my age hate reading because it bores them or they just don’t appreciate it. The problem they might have is that they don’t […]

My dream is to become a Licensed Cosmetologist, now how do I make this dream come true ? Here are the steps i will take to make it happen. First I want to graduate High School no matter what ! What will help me graduate High School is to be at school everyday on TIME […]

Watashiwa nigi nai, khiste (I won’t run away, never) I am not a good person, I am in no way courageous and I don’t have the least of respect for the words of people I don’t care about. I am completely overpowered by my pride and my thought of being right in the every little […]

From watching television shows, movies, and living life in general I have always heard that when you apply to college one of the most common essay questions is who do you strive to be in your future after completing your academic term at the certain school in which you are applying to. It may be […]

Dear Engineering Community, It is peculiar to me that people still wonder why women are still largely underrepresented in STEM fields. Really, it is not too hard to comprehend why STEM is lacking women if you take a peek into several science, mathematics, or engineering classrooms. My very first class of college, my very first […]

As an American citizen we are promised rights, but do these rights get stripped and taken when we enter school? We have a right as American citizens to express ourselves, any way we please, but once we enter a school system, we are forced to express “their ways.” We are not able to express our […]

The daily routine of waking up, getting ready, but skipping breakfast. Trying to focus on the test you’re taking, but your stomach is growling. Going all day without food. Sadly, this isn’t uncommon for many people. According to Feeding America’s article “Map the Meal Gap”, approximately 1.5 million people in Los Angeles don’t have enough […]

Nobody wants to be that 35 year old that can’t do his own taxes. To many people can’t do the basic skills that are needed to be a functioning adult. So many students in high school strive to not be the fast food cook at a burger chain or a cashier at Walmart, but when […]

Sweaty desks and slippery pencils are for sure the best part of everyone’s school year. My high school in Franklin Lakes, NJ is listed under the top 25 best high schools in New Jersey, famously known for stressing the opinion that football beats the schoolwork. With so much money, this school doesn’t think twice before […]

Should people participate in “Shut Down Your Screen Week” where schools do not use any electronics for an entire school week? I answer with a wholehearted yes. Technology can be too distracting and addictive for students, so taking five days off helps clear our minds from social media and distractions the internet secretly adds. Technology […]

Pathos, logos, and ethos are rhetorical devices that appeal to our emotions, logic, and morals respectively. Out of these three, ethos is the most effective in influencing our actions as morals are shared among many people and are the things that guide us through our lives—they motivate us to do what is morally right and […]

Should Students take Standardized Tests? Is standardized testing really that important? After all, it is what schools use to measure students’ learning capabilities. But does it really measure a student’s full potential? Or does it provide nothing but stress and pressure? Once you read my opinion on standardized testing, you may want to think twice […]

Schools have many ways different ways that they have power over students. Some people think that schools use their power for good, but others think they use it for poor reasons. Many people who work in schools abuse their power. If a school abuses its power, students can be emotionally harmed which can lead to […]

If we, as a nation, based our curriculum on “relevance” to teens alone, the entirety of the educational system would need to be changed. Should we not teach the classics because of their relevance to teenagers? How does Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and other famous authors relate to teenagers of this century? While Shakespeare is […]

The world without schools would be an amazing place for children but on the other hand no so much for parents, and bosses for jobs. Many kids would be so happy to not have to wake up early in the morning, immediately start their day, do homework, study, learn about many pointless subjects, listen to […]