Dear Other Students, What the heck is wrong with you?!! You’re rude, whiny, and immature. You try to boss around the teacher, use the most vulgar lanuage in a classroom, and whine like little kids saying that everything is just so hard and so tough even when an assignment only has 10 questions! Don’t even […]

High school can be really tough, between school, after school activities, SATs and the drama that is bound to happen, it can be very overwhelming. Personally, freshman year was the hardest. The school was so big as were the other kids and the school work was unbearable. One person who made a huge difference for […]

A long-awaited spring day finally beams on earth. The sun shines, bees buzz, bushes bloom, and the meadow murmurs in a pleasant breeze. The smell of air clearing after a spring drizzle floods people’s nostrils. On days like this, who would not want to escape outside? Pleasant weather provides numerous opportunities for taking walks with […]

Back in middle school, the school held an art competition themed ‘Oceanic Wonder’, giving us about a week’s time to prepare. Participation was mandatory, and being the accomplishment-obsessed enthusiast I was, I began my preparation right away. I came up with a draft wherein a placid ocean mirrored the intense blue-black night sky bejeweled with […]

The education system is well known for its many flaws – students fail and drop out left and right, even those why try their hardest are not guaranteed success. For years people have analyzed these problems and looked for a solution, to no avail. In a situation like this there must be someone to blame […]

Have you ever wondered if students enjoy wearing uniforms to school? For us it’s the most awful thing to show up to school in. I don’t agree with wearing uniforms, they can be uncomfortable, costly, and attract bullies. First uniforms are uncomfortable and can irritating to the skin. They distract you from learning as your […]

A newly recruited employee sits in the center of a sleek, minimalistic, common office space. An overly enthusiastic office manager had informed her that this new open workplace was one of the initiatives taken by the company to increase worker satisfaction and promote a sense of unity within the business. As she takes in her […]

Learning for learning’s sake . If looked closely at the statement , it is apparently noticable that the statement has a very deep meaning and implication within itself . Is learning for the sake of learning , for the love and the joy of learning , or should learning be guided towards getting good grades […]

After managing to finish school, academies, and the piles of homework, students fall asleep far more later than when an average teenager is supposed to. So, why should only kindergarteners get nap time? In my opinion, middle and high schoolers deserve more sleep than the younger to keep a daily cycle and a healthy growth […]

Some adults might say uniforms are nice to have so everyone looks and feels the same. But this is a free country we should be able to wear what we want to wear. What do you think? From the article do the clothes make the student. people say there uncomfortable to wear. In my opinion […]

Parents of sleepy middle-to-high school kids are pushing for a later start of classes in schools. Schools should change the start time of classes and let teens get more sleep. Sleep deprivation is affecting their grades, and most teens are not getting the recommended amount of sleep each day. Although all schedules would be changed, […]

How often have you found yourself staring into space as a result from boredom during a class lesson? Maybe it was because you were stuck and confused; was it because you didn’t understand half the words coming out of the instructor’s mouth? Or maybe it was due to the fact that you knew everything there […]

Last time I checked, all men and women were created equal. I mean, it is in the Declaration of Independence, right? So why do we, white people, want to deprive the minorities of their chance to learn? Because of our racist acts in the past, we have destroyed many of the minority races’ chances to […]

I am sitting in class. Why am I here? Some students attend school to Converse with their friends; others come for food, to have fun, or to just learn. I am one of those students who come to school to learn. At my school, I know that one student who enjoys being disrespectful towards the […]

“The ones who live for themselves find it easier to follow their dreams.” — Ran Mohan Growing up and getting the white picket fence, wrap around porch and a newly remodeled kitchen is a pretty accomplished feeling, I’m sure. But what happens when you wake up one morning and realized, “What does any of this […]

Sitting at a desk, staring at all the piles of work left to do while yawning, rubbing my eyes and wondering when I will finish.Is homework just getting shoved in our brains or is homework helping us with school and the upcoming future?Is homework making students lose sleep?The list goes on.My experience, health side effects, […]

The legacy of a persons life, a million piece puzzle that joins every word you say and opinion about you maybe some bigger and more intricate than others, but in every puzzle there is that one section that you will find the most interesting. For some it is the action, for some the comedy, but […]

Did you know that the Japanese school year is 60 more days than the U.S.’s school year?There has been lengthy debate on who’s education system is more efficient the U.S’s. or Japan’s.Japan’s educational system is more efficientthan the U.S.’s because, they spend more time at school, they have more educational options after school, and they […]

High school students should study science,math and english. Tupac was born june 16,1971 in East Harlem. His mother was part of the Black Panther Party, he is heavily political and was inspirational to not only all black people but as to other races. Tupac was a contradiction because he was like an angel,kind,thoughtful,he enjoyed helping […]

Tasty and delicious verses healthy and nutritious. This has been a big and widely talked about controversy lately. If you haven’t already guessed it– it’s junk food. Should junk foods be allowed in schools? You decide. There are plenty of arguments behind an answer. The pros and cons are endless, but personally I believe that […]

In school, the biggest problem to me is not teachers, not crushes, but peer pressure. Peer pressure causes kids to act like others because they think that they are cool when actually the most cool person is yourself. Cool is a relevant term also like cute, awesome, average, and dorky. These words are used to […]

On July 19, 2010, the New York State Board of Regents adopted the Common Core Standards, essentially adopting an institution that, as dictated by its own name, hold all students, regardless of race, family income, or disability, to the same self imposed standard that is supposed to prepare students to succeed in college, career, and […]

Bullying; a word and action we’ve all known and seen before. What’s so “cool” about it anyways? People and their clique all seem to get praised by others for putting someone else down. Why? Because they’re not into the same things as you or they don’t wear the latest fashions? People seem to put bullying […]

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world,” says Nelson Mandela, the former President of South Africa. The world’s greatest priority, should be education, it is our guideline for the future; however, this generation’s learners must be taught in a different manner than they have been. We now need […]

I wouldn’t say that there is a clique problem at this school I would say that there is a major, out of control problem. There are so many different cliques, the preps skaters, people who don’t talk much, people who are always together, emos, Goths, nerds and the wannabes. No matter what happens one person […]

The ages of early childhood to adolescence are very important stages of human development. People are learning new skills and discovering their expertise. The key to a successful education is an open minded and rewarding teacher. Each student is different in the way they learn and find their interests. It is crucial teachers try their […]

The right to education is a right that every man, woman, or child should posses. My question is why are people still being deprived of one right that the United Nations (UN) representatives from every country has promised the whole world? 115 million primary school aged children do not go to school and that could […]

what and who is intelligence? is it the perfect student? the student who gets strait a’s, the student in the front row by choice, not becuase they made a bad decision, is it the perfect attendance student? or is it the student on the very back row in the class, the one whos has his […]

Dyslexia Dyslexia is a rear learning disability. Dyslexia is the name for specific learning disabilities in reading. Dyslexia may cause problems with reading comprehension and slow down vocabulary growth. Dyslexia may result in poor reading fluency and reading out loud. Children and adults with dyslexia simply have a neurological disorder that causes their brains to […]

Sitting behind a computer, typing away, many people feel anonymous. It is as though the world is at one’s fingertips. As one presses “post,” consequences aren’t considered. Besides, the First Amendment protects our right to speak freely. However, in the case of high school students, the digital age seems to be constricting their voices. In […]