Over the course of the last 100 years technology has increased and improved. It has done so to the point in which restricted and immobile communication devices have transformed into what is known today as the “smartphone”. This innovation can give an individual access to anything they could possibly dream of, leading to the question […]

Many short vacations are way better than one long one. No two ways about it. There are shorter periods of school, so students don’t get tired and inattentive as fast. The teachers get more breaks. And during one long break, lots of knowledge can be lost. With many small vacations, students would feel more rested, […]

Great Expectation is a famous novel written by Charles Dickens. It tells about the life story of a poor orphan called Pip. Through his characters’ different emotions, Dickens reflects the society of his time. One particular unifying emotion used is guilt. Although guilt is normally assumed to be a negative factor in one’s life, it […]

Here’s something hardly anyone speaks of, anxiety.There’s so many different things to say but during school when you’re passing about 200 maybe 300 kids and your anxiety what do you do? Nothing, what is there to do? Nothing. So you walk to class right? Well I don’t understand how teachers don’t see or understand, well […]

One thing I notice about my friends – my peers in general – can be summed up in the phrase: “I’m, like, so tired.” Some of us need to get up as early as five to catch the bus. My alarm goes off at quarter to six. In schools across the country, early start times […]

Truancy is a problem across the United States. Kids missing school are enjoying their time off until that letter hits their mailbox. Their families go through a lot just to get them out of that situation. There are fees if your child does not attend the court dates, community service and even jail.On any given […]

My mother and father both studied foreign languages at Irmo High School, a public school. Some people might say that learning a foreign language only in high school is sufficient instruction. Today, however, Mom cannot recall how to conjugate a verb in French, and Dad only pretends to know German. Foreign language instruction must be […]

Just a few years ago I embarked on a journey to my family’s country Togo. For the first time in my life I would get on a plane and visit a new country. I was impatient for the plane to arrive but I really didn’t want to be in a plane crash. After an hour […]

The waking up of teens and teachers on weekdays gives you a sense of timeless routine in a world where the routine is different every day. The tying of tennis shoes, to the sound of early morning practice on the track field. The whistle-blowing three hours before school starts, giving a sense of purpose to […]

You groggily reach over to your nightstand to turn off your alarm clock that is screaming in your ear. Wake up! Wake up and get to school! You don’t want to be late! it seems to be hollering to you. I don’t want to, you think to yourself. It’s only six-o’-clock in the morning. I […]

It seems that everything is switching from tangible to virtual. Letters have turned to email, photography is in your computer, and money is accessed through a credit card. One thing that has not changed for the majority of the world is homework. Perhaps it’s because the main advertisers of this controversy are children’s graphic shirts, […]

When I was accepted into highschool, I was given the privilege of owning a laptop for schoolwork. When I am at home, many of the entertaining programs that are usually blocked on school grounds are open for use. This tempting situation allows for me to be able to access any form of entertainment that distracts […]

I’ll start with my sexe, female. We are a beautiful kind, loving and irrestible creature. So it seems. Some are exactly that discription, but it seems harder and harder to find a girl like that anymore. Let’s be realistic, girls, you all know it(well most of you do)you are all petty, selfish,hypocritical and back stabbers. […]

Have you ever felt stress? Depression? Or had suicidal thoughts? In the university of Yale,students had to lose some of their free time and happiness to gain some admission to the school. Having them lost their happiness students are acquiring terrible life habits that have led to weak mental health and terrible grades (Proulx).First time […]

Imagine waking up to that annoying sound from the alarm clock, having to force yourself up and walk toq bathroom. You don’t want to be late for school, do you? How will you ever stay awake and gain the learning you were supposed to? Schools starting at an early time (7:30 or less) can’t get […]

This content contain some bad comments about teacher, this is specifically for teachers who are not actually teachers but just making the honorable profession a huge money making profession. Of course every teacher is a common human and need money to spend their life, but they get their money in the form of reward by […]

Every writer has only one rule to follow. And, no, the rule is not grammar, sentence structure…nor capitalization. If Charles Dickens and Shakespeare could bend these without spontaneously combusting, so can I. My only duty as a writer is to write my own work, and no one else’s. Easy, you say. Not so. There will […]

If you think about it, school is backwards. When we are in preschool, we are forced to take naps in school even though nobody wanted to. But now that we want to take a nap in school, they don’t let us. When I was in preschool I tried everything I could to get out of […]

The weather taunts me. The eighty-degree sunshine beckons from the other side of glass windowpanes, peeking out from behind curtains and slipping between cracks in the doorframe. It calls for me to join it, to bask in the atmospheric warmth, but I have a seemingly endless list of reasons to reject its summons. History presentation, […]

In his unanimous opinion for the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling, Chief Justice Earl Warren firmly declared that “in the field of public education…separate but equal has no place.” Since then, on the face of it, America’s public education has undergone radical changes- skin tone became just as irrelevant and hair color […]

Everyone goes through school, however not everyone sees it the same way. School can be a blessing or a curse or anything in between, it all depends on the student’s point of view. It’s almost like people walk through the halls with glasses on that lets them see school in a slightly different way than […]

My topic would be about lunch restriction here . i believe that every student should be able to leave campus to eat because we are old enough to have the responsibility to make it back in time for class and not to skip. We have eaten school food since kinder and i would say that […]

Rushing eagerly to my room after getting home from school, I eagerly flip my laptop open, click on a new browser, and navigate to my school’s grading portal. As my eyes scan this virtual spreadsheet, I see a smattering of ‘As’ and ‘Bs’. I am content with my academic progress thus far. In the competitive […]

The very fact that you even opened this note means that you can read. Yet how many of you actually know how to read at the level you are supposed to? How many more are not considered literate? To answer that question, we must first know what literacy is. According to Wikipedia, which then references […]

I know how it feels like to wake up one morning and feel like you want to wear sweat pants all day long. I have had uniforms at my school since my freshmen year in high school. Like many others, I was opposed to wearing school uniforms because I was afraid of blending in and […]

Above any other quality, I would consider myself to be an expert student.Throughout my fourteen or so years of schooling, I have basically mastered the ins and outs of every little aspect of the pre-collegiate student.A lot of this comes from my understanding of the concept of common sense; whether it’s talking my way out […]

A phrase used so often it has become a normal phrase which is used all the time. It is used in both a serious manner and in a joking way. It is a phrase which no one should ever say and never hear no matter whether it was a joke or not. “Go kill yourself” […]

Have you found your niche in life yet? Don’t you want to do something you love for the rest of your life that will definitely make you happy? Then get educated! You see, whether you never got a chance to graduate or dropped out for whatever reason, it’s not too late! It’s definitely a fact […]

Monday morning rolls around and I throw on my clothes, NOT wanting to go to school. Walking into my first period class, I see that my teacher has the same thoughts, yet she doesn’t complain. The cheerfulness she shows gives me energy, and I actually learn something, even in my Monday morning slump. The trouble […]

Have you ever wanted to be on a high school Tennis team? What about a high school ping pong team? High school is about trying to experience and undertake everything you can to know if you like it or not. Students have the freedom to try many different things without having to alter their whole […]