Whether I like them or not, I admit that I find comfort seeing people I know in uncomfortable situations. When I say uncomfortable situations, I mean taking the FCATs, taking the SATs/ACTs, picking up my new school schedule, or just coming back to school after a long break. Once dropped off at pre-school, I would […]

Throughout a student’s life, they learn and take very many classes that are supposed to help them prepare for their future as an adult. However, by the time students graduate high school, they still do not have an understanding of how the real world works. Because of this, schools should have a mandatory life skills […]

Many people put off the thought of college until their junior or senior year of high school, i’m here to tell you now that this decision is one you should stay far away from. From personal experience, i saw that my brother and sister started late and that finding a college they wanted to go […]

As it is reaching April 1st there will be a lot of fear among students. It is the final notification of colleges across the country and I am afraid. All throughout my life I was taught that I need to get good grades so that I can get into a good college and that good […]

It seems to have become a common belief that a sufficient amount of sleep is a luxury a lot of people can’t afford. But Recently, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been encouraging education policymakers to start middle and high school classes later so students will get a sufficient amount of sleep […]

Dreams keep people motivated and are a consistent reminder to stay focus. My ultimate dreams is to go to college, graduate, then be a nurse practitioner. After high school I would like to get accepted to a four year university, preferably CSU East Bay, or any UC. After I complete my general education, I want […]

Day after day I sit in my second period class, constantly glancing backwards at the clock hoping it will advance faster. My teacher stands in front of the class droning on and on about some tenuous type of algebra that makes absolutely no sense to me. I look around at the faces in my class, […]

Hey, So I know that high school can suck bigtime, and I’m still in high school right now (a senior) and I can assure you that my high school years are the worst. I’m the eldest of 2 kids so I didn’t have an older brother or sister to tell me how to survive this […]

High school students are assigned, on average, 3.5 hours of homework per day or 17 hours per week. With sports, extracurriculars, and part-time jobs, students lack the time to do their homework and they certainly don’t have time for a social life. They go to school from 8 to 3, go to practice, if they […]

Many people make fun of teachers for several reasons, only one of which I will say here: they don’t make enough money. Is it a teacher’s job to get rich, or make tons of money? No, it’s not. It’s a teacher’s job to give the gift of knowledge to their students, to repeat the knowledge […]

How do you feel about having about orchestras? Do you think that that our school should have one? Is the band enough, or do you not really care? My high school’s fine arts program is way too small! The concert band has about forty members in it. Most schools have over a hundred. The choir […]

Dear School, Thank you for making sure I always have something to do. And I mean always. From 6pm to 2am, you always seem to make sure I am busy either doing homework or stressing about the homework I didn’t do. I aspire to be as consistent as you. Thank you for always keeping me […]

Today’s American society is one with a primary focus on academic success. Within recent years, the role of the economic downturn has hard-pressed the need for excellence to the boarder of impossible within educational institutions. With the difficulty of excessive unemployment rates even in percentage of college graduates, the pressure to do- not just well- […]

We live in a world in which people only seem to notice mental illness a moment too late. The suffering becomes evident on the day of the memorial, when candles and people clutter a sidewalk, honouring a soul they had no concern for a week before. Pictures of the forgotten youth get plastered to a […]

Teachers these days suck. I will admit that some of them know what they are doing, but others are so boring! All they do is sit there and talk to you the whole class. Yes, some people like that because they can then do nothing the whole class, but to me I feel like I […]

Dress CodesImagine having a child that goes to a Junior High. Then imagine them attending a school that has a strict dress code or school uniforms. Now do you think that is fair to him/her? Uniforms don’t let you express yourself freely and openly. What I think, is that students should be able to show […]

School is back in session. Some students may still be unable to shake the feeling of summer. It can be tough to get back into the mode of attending school again– waking up in the morning, completing homework assignments, and managing their time so that they can study and fit in other activities that are […]

High school students dropping out is a very common thing in our society, but it is also unorthodox. High school dropouts sentence themselves into a life time of failure. It is because of high school dropouts that most of the cities and schools are low on money. Depending on the amount of high school dropouts […]

On January 26th, 2012 the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food, and National Service put out a summary of the new regulations for school food. Overview: “Schools must increase the availability of fruits, vegetables, and fat-free and low-fat milk in in schools across America… These recommendations were largely made by Institute of Medicine of the National […]

Is it the hormones? Or is there just something wrong with me? I don’t know much about this from a MAN’s point of view, but it seems to me that our emotions always get the best of us, especially in the stages of adolescence. Come on! We all know what it feels like. For absolutely […]

An issue that has had a noticeably large impact on my life recently is the amount of homework I am assigned every night. Homework is given with the general intention of giving students extra practice outside of class and the opportunity to work on what they are learning. It seems to me that this “extra […]

One of the most awaited moment in school life- Absence of a teacher in class. This is the time when a classroom can change into a parliament, jungle, market or even a mix of everything! Gossip, food, naughtiness, laughter and craziness overrules books, law, discipline and silence. The most perfect time to relax and enjoy […]

Homework, Sports, Clubs, Community Service; kids do all of these things and more in a short seven day week. Where on the schedule is going to the movies with friends or sleepovers on the weekends? NO WHERE! A typical junior high students’ day consists of getting up at 5:30 to 6:00 in the morning, going […]

In 2015, about 20% of students opted out of standardized exams. That is approximately three million children from primary through middle school. With that many students opting out, it is time to think: What is the importance of standardized tests? Just about every school in the country administers standardized tests to their students. Lasting nearly […]

We do have rights. Even if we may not have too many, but we still do have rights. And yet we find our rights taken away by parents, teachers, principles, and more. I find this very disturbing because us teenagers are more capable of making choices for ourselves than people give us credit for. First […]

What if you went to your kids room and it was dinner time. The kid was because doing homework. Your kid stays up all night doing homework doing homework. You tell the teacher to stop giving so much homework. Teacher says that will not be fare of the other kids. So the kid doesn’t have […]

It was the spring of 2007 school concert and my fellow band members and I were all excited as we waited patiently for the curtains to open. The chatter of family members and friends on the other side of the curtains was being heard throughout the hall. As I looked around I could see my […]

Senior year in high-school is one of the most influential times in a person’s life. In senior year, students become mature young adults. After years of learning math, science, english, etc. , they finally feel intelligent and ready enough to graduate. Senior year is also when the decisions about college are made. College determined one’s […]

So you are probably thinking that I’ve lost it by saying that exams can be fun, but in my opinion they can be. I remember last year my friends and I were doing our Junior Cert and I have to admit that it was one of the most enjoyable things I have done with them. […]