SCHOOL TIMES How was your day at school? Tiring? Yeah, I feel you. Students say they keep falling asleep in class and missing important notes. The school hours should be changed because kids don’t get enough sleep; teens’ brains don’t wake up until later in the day, and when school starts later students could take […]

A ton of people in influence me in my life. Some people influence me more than others.Mr.lazo,my art teacher,influences me a ton.Some teachers do to, but its nothing like Mr.Lazo does. He influenced me by doing and saying loys of things. His jokes,his jokes are so funny and he makes me want to make more […]

Attacks on the U.S. Constitution are coming from all sides. The New York Times opened its op-ed page to several liberal professors of government: one calls our Constitution “imbecilic,” another claims it contains “archaic” and “evil provisions,” and a third urges us to “rewrite the Second Amendment.”

As a sophomore at a small diverse private school in Memphis, Tennessee, I have seen about 176 seniors complete the college admissions process. Although, all of the students in my high school are very different, I cannot think of one student who was thrilled to begin the college application process. By the end of first […]

My dream is to become an elementary school teacher. I know I may have to encounter a lot of obstacles and hardships in order to proceed into the next level, but it doesn’t hurt to try and pursue what you want. The thought of becoming a teacher is easy, but actually getting there may be […]

Graduation day – shaking, nervous, ready to venture out of the high school world. This is the beginning and the end of a journey to what our lives will ultimately come to. Next year, we won’t be back, but now we’ll be heading off, starting at the bottom of the chain again. The whole stadium […]

Should college athletes be paid to play sports? Many studies have shown that paying athletes may not be the best of ideas, many say it will ruin the whole point of going to college which is to learn and if they get paid some of them might not go to class because they might feel […]

Picture it. An individual, let’s call them Anna, is sound asleep in her college dorm room when suddenly that all too familiar sound of her annoying alarm clock sitting near her bed wakes her up from her sleep. She hits snooze and debates if she should roll out of bed and get to class or […]

Grades can affect your life in so many ways in your future life like a job or sports. School is very important in our lives it gives us the education to make our future better and get into a good college and get a high paying job. In school a lot of things could happen […]

What if you were in a class that was to easy or too hard for you? That is what standardized tests are for. They help to place kids in classes that help them the most. Standardized tests also help to see how much kids know by testing them on their knowledge. Standardized tests also help […]

Why must we go to school? You want to know why? It’s because so we can get an education and be able to get a decent paying job. I admit I do not like to go to school. This is because I honestly think it’s boring and sometimes I think it’s a waste of time. […]

I’m on a College Budget. Five pajamas, two flip flops, and a some sweats are now the necessities. I used to spend one hundred dollars on a pair of J’s, but now I can only afford to pay for some PJ’s. I always wondered how do one begin budgeting, but now I am here living […]

Bully is what teenagers feared most. Nobody wants to be a victim of bully. Bully is so common these days. Every now and then, there will be cases of bullies being reported in the newspaper and it will be a ‘hot topic’. What is even more disappointing is that this had become a trend and […]

College sports players are going through college without paying, and they have bad grades. While the rest of the student are paying for college and getting good grades. The colleges are not following their rules. The rule says,”To be eligible for a Division I school, you must complete 16 core courses, and earn a minimum […]

Homework, is it really a good thing, or is there such thing as too much. Homework holds some important values. For one it helps you exercise the skills you previously learned during the day. Let’s say you’re learning algebra and you have a test in a couple of weeks the homework would help prepare you […]

Imagine walking into school every day to find students tormenting and abusing and victimizing another young, defenseless student all because of his or her clothing choice. Kids across the country go through school constantly looking over their shoulders in fear of a verbal or physical attack. Do schools not hear the weak wails of these […]

Many schools rank their students based on intelligence to get the students motivated to do better in school. The school can do this in a variety of ways, from shooting the parents an e-mail, to giving the students slips of paper with their personal ranking on them. The districts believe that this will encourage people […]

Everyone is different and smart and also less knowledgeable in their own ways. I feel very strongly on the subject material that is being taught in school these days. We, as students, should be taught things that apply to everyone, or that are at least less specific to certain topics. For example, to qualify to […]

We spend most of our young lives dreaming of the future and wishing to be older. When we are young we dream of becoming ballerinas and firefighters, moms and dads, teachers and train conductors. We walk in our parents’ shoes and we try on mommy’s long pretty dresses and we wear daddy’s massive shoes. However, […]

Truer words couldn’t have been said any better in the article ” We Need Less Homework” by Aidan R. Aidan believes that “our students need a smarter, better education, not hours of busy work every night.” In fact, when students hear the word, homework, they either roll their eyes or even make a loud groaning […]

In my opinion the school uniform is better without then with. From having dress down day the school will corporate much better without uniform, due to the fact that people can come to school comfortably they will be willing to learn more and stay more awake in school. Not only that they say uniforms help […]

An Individualized Education Program (IEP) is a document made by teachers with the input of the parent for student who requires special education services or has a disability. This can cause many kids to be put in a separate special education classroom. A child may get an IEP from how they learn, how they act […]

Introduction I strongly believe that every teenager should strive to put maximum effort into his or her school studies as it opens the door to a plethora of opportunities and makes one more enlightened. However contrary to many people’s beliefs, I do not believe that school necessarily determines one’s future success or failures. From personal […]

Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character” ( http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm). That is not what is happening in colleges all over the United […]

i think im a very crappy writer sometimes mostly because it seems like evryone does alot better. blah.. …. this was alot easier in eigth grade.

Single-sex education is a controversial topic and holds many reasons why it benefits and does not benefit students. Some say, single-sex education creates gender stereotypes among the children about the opposing sex. Others say, single-sex programs get rid of the stereotypes that hold children back from taking part in advanced academics. The following will respond […]

The topic makes parents’ of high school students cringe. They see it right before their eyes: Thousands and thousands of dollars in debt piling up for their children and never ceasing, like a flowing river.The piles of paper with costs and expenses encoded on them, taunting parents with every penny they hand over.However, this will […]

Some schools are switching from textbooks to tablets.Alot of highschools are trying to get the money together to do so. I know Sonora Elementry school has been trying to get tablets for there 5th to 8th grade classes. People have been devating if it is a good idea to use tablets instead of textbooks. Some […]

Mr. Gross is my favorite teacher. He teaches world history, health, current events, and P.E. He is very funny, and cares about his students. He is a great teacher and I pretty cool for grown up. Mr.Gross is a really funny teacher, he likes to joke around with all of us. He will make something […]

How do you measure the skill of a man? Because I passed a class, that means I can? ‘Cause I mastered writing, I can teach it? I got a Master’s in some things, so I can speak it? For a school to work functionally, the students within have to have a desire to learn. If […]