So many people earned scholarships to go to college by being involved in sports. So why should we get rid of sports at the high school, just so we can save money? By all means that’s selfish and greedy. Teenagers love sports; it can make them want to achieve to keep their grades up. Some […]

Eyes weary, he gets up out of bed. Dried rheum impedes his vision as he squints to get a good look at the blazing red numbers on the alarm clock. The annoying ring ring ring at 6:30 a. m. has become so common after all these years that sometimes, he wakes up a minute or […]

It is often said that this generation is lazy, selfish, and many other negatives. I would like to argue that it is not our lack of desire or drive to do something it is our inability to do ordinary “grown-up” things. It is not our fault that fresh-out of high school we are cast out […]

“You’re such a nerd!” chants Emily after I gladly accept another essay to review for my peer. “At least I can use commas correctly!” I quip back at her. Goodness, some people. Nothing irks me quite like a multitude of grammatical mistakes. As a future English teacher, I can hear myself reprimanding my students to […]

Students should be able to not waste clothes, express themselves, and get noticed and complimented at school, or anywhere you go. If you don’t want expensive clothes to got to waste, then we shouldn’t have uniforms. Last year I spent fifty dollars on an outfit at H&M, but really never got to wear it. I […]

Every day young adults are challenged with many difficult decisions, one wrong choice could haunt them for the rest of a tennagers life. As children grow up the choices are just going to get more and more difficult and the child will have to think about the consequences before the action. Abstinence will be just […]

After Kevin comes home from his three-hour calculus class, he sits down at his desk. He looks at his teacher’s blog to find the homework he will need to accomplish tonight. “Problems nine through thirty on page ninety seven.” Of course, the one subject he can always count on to have homework for. And it’s […]

The truth is all teenagers want material things, whether it is a whole new branded wardrobe, a sleek i phone, a shiny laptop, the latest music CD, a new glamorous dress for a party or simply money to take their girlfriends out on a date. With today’s peer pressure and cliched atmosphere in schools, the […]

My school is a pretty good school. It isn’t so low budget that it is depressing but isn’t out of control. As I stated my school is a pretty good school. But every school has it’s flaws including mine and one of our flaws happens to be… Cliques.We may not be the cliquiest school around […]

“Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.” – A Chinese Proverb Several months ago, my mother’s friend Kelly came to visit my family for the first time since we’d moved out of the city. Kelly has been my mother’s friend for many years. In fact, they’ve […]

Lunch time! So I guess people think that we are used to eating lunch around other people we sometimes don’t even know…NOPE! We feel so awkward eating with people looking at you (at least that’s how I feel) and then the worst thing that can happen is not having any of your friends there.(No this […]

Reading “Lowering Expectations,” by Collin Schuster, plants a plethora of new ideas into my paper-jammed brain. Could I diminish my scholastic standards? I can barely recoup from an 85 I received last semester. Yet as I look back at this article, what Collin writes rings with more than just truth. Lowering expectations would mean that […]

Dear School Board Administration I have many problems with way in which u decide to call off school for snow days. When it comes to this decision I believe that you oversee many key elements to this decision. When you make your call to if we should have a snow day or not you base […]

The Crucible The play The Crucible actually takes place in Salem Boston during the time of the Salem witch trials. Throughout the story of The Crucible written by Arthur Miller there were many dynamic characters. Some of these characters include characters such as Abigail Williams and Reverend Perris. In my opinion one of the most […]

The end creeps nearer. Soon it will be the end of football season, the last game of the year; the crunch of that last tackle and the cheers of the last victory. Then comes the end of 2009 and the beginning of 2010, that dream for the year to come and cheers to the friends […]

“What did You learn today?”That is a question many parents ask their children after school.Most schools in the United States are falling short of world standards.In other countries, children succeed to higher standards in academics as well as in creativity, which is not a core value in American schools.The Common Core State Standards is not […]

In Thomas Paine’s pamphlet “The Crisis, Number 1” he uses a variety of tones to speak upon his purpose. Paine has a serious tone to help exemplify the situation ahead. For example, Paine states in the first sentence that “These are the times that try men’s souls” (108). By Paine starting off with such a […]

Writer George Bernard Shaw once said, “I am not a teacher; only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead-ahead of myself as well as of you. ” teachers should be willing and ready to educate students. Your mind is terrible things to waste, so why not fill it with knowledge […]

Nothing stops the progress of young teens more effectively or thoroughly than the comparison of one’s self to the classified “cool kids”. We’ve all experienced this stressful, time-wasting obsession and I think we can all admit it got us nowhere. So, the big question when focusing on such a topic is, why do we do […]

A Walk Across America Book Review Recently I read the non-fiction work titled A Walk Across America. It was about a man named Peter Jenkins, who wrote the book as well, and his journey across the United States and the people he meets. His journey begins in New York and works his way across the […]

Without a doubt, each student is different from the next in one way or another. In schools you have many cliques. Two main groups would be the populars and the outcasts. If you were to look at a popular student next to an outcast student, the main distinction between the two would be their clothing […]

The talking of at least one hundred kids deafens my ears. I can barely hear myself think, ruining every bit of peace I have left in my body from my sleep the night before. Looking around I see an infinite amount of people. Some sit on the floor, leaning against the wall lazily, simply hanging […]

Cellphones have become a popular tool for students in this generation. We see lots of people for example, in their offices, gyms, parks, airports etc. using their cellphones for various purposes. Cell phones have proved to help us in numerous ways other than connecting with friends and family. In school, I have seen my friends […]

Homework is a word that rolls bitterly of the tongue of students across the globe. The thought of more mind numbing school work after seven straight hours of boring school. I believe homework is unnecessary. Not only does it waste the precious evening but also creates unwanted stress. In addition, the extra work is proven […]

My review is on a school name Harpool Middle School Harpool has run for 5 years now or maybe 6 and it’s still running this time. The school’s new principle is Jeff S and he is working really great on the school. We have new staffs inside of the school and we’re happy to have […]

Sometimes I feel different. Watching them flock beside me, the carefree pigeons, unburdened by the troubles of the world, I feel out of place. They squack to each other, but out of their mouths come empty sounds, for they have no meaningful words to share with one another. They are, in essence, identical, with cold […]

I don’t know about other schools but I know within the schools that I personally have been to and with people I have talked to at other schools, bullying is a big issue. And a even bigger issue is techers not stopping it!! Now you know just as well as I do that telling kids […]

School. It’s a vital part of our lives as teenagers, and will determine our futures as adults. It is vital to our society and economy in multiple ways. But here in America, do our schools compare with the schools in Japan and China? The answer? No. As I write this article, at least in my […]

When you were young were you excited to go to school? I know I was. School was just so exciting and so new, you could meet new people and learn new things, you thought that youwould know things that your parents wouldn’t. As you get older you got more work, and the work gets harder, […]

There are more than 460,000 NCAA student athletes across the country, and at some point, every one of them made the decision to attend their respective University and participate in their respective sport or sports.However, the age at which each and every one of them made that decision differs greatly. For most, it’s towards the […]