College Essays
“They say taking part in extracurricular activities can help kids do better in class by improving their participation and concentration skills. A 2008 study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that time spent in extracurricular physical activity does not take away from elementary school students’ ability to do well in the classroom. […]
Your shoulders ache. You wipe off the beads of sweat that cover your neck. Only 10 more feet and you are there. You tighten the straps on the bursting bubble of lead that is restricting your movement and push forward. Finally, you crawl on your hands and feet and drag your lifeless struggling body in […]
The biggest problem faced by students is the overuse of standardized learning inside classrooms to promote student learning. Many of these standardized learning lesson plans written by teachers often exclude the “learning” in standardized learning. Rather than standard learning, standardized learning forces students to complete rote memorization of filling in bubble sheets, any possibility of […]
It is plain and simple, teens face too much stress. As teens we are constantly forced to handle many different things all at once, and this is no easy task. Teachers need to remember that we all have social lives, and with school in the picture this makes it hard to achieve. I myself wonder […]
There are many benefits of starting school at a later time. It could increase the mood of each student. There are many health benefits. Being more awake will increase concentration during school. And there is even scientific research to back up these points. We should begin school at 10:00 and would end at 4:30. One […]
It’s August 20, and you’re sitting on the new stadium seats at your school’s first football game of the season. The air is fresh, the crowd is cheering, and your team is crushing the competition. Yet among all this normal game-day excitement, something is missing. You look around and suddenly realize there’s no band. Where […]
Required to Be a Good Citizen? Volunteering is supposed to be about, well, choosing to help others, right? Volunteers participate in community service because they feel good about the work they do, they like to help other people or feel they are giving back to the world. It’s all about them willingly giving up their […]
Have you ever wanted to just turn back the clock? Done something you shouldn’t have and wish you didn’t? Made some friends you regret meeting? Or maybe you wish you tried harder to achieve something that seemed so miniscule then but massive now. I have been in all of these places and can relate to […]
How do you think it would feel to have someone constantly telling what you can and cannot wear? That is how thousands of high schoolers feel everyday. School dress code is unjust because it limits individuality, promotes sexism, and encourages conformity interfering with the child’s learning experience. The teenage years are some of the most […]
Would you ever give someone you love poison? Giving someone food containing added sugar is basically the same thing, yet people unknowingly consume large amounts of it all of the time. The consumption of added sugar has greatly increased in the U.S. over the past few years, 30% over the course of 30 years to […]
The debate on whether the myths and legends about ghosts are true or false is on going and has come to a point of which it is all opinion. Given all the facts and evidence I strongly agree that ghost is real. The definition of ghost is simply the spirit of a dead person, especially […]
Why do we have them? What is the point? They aren’t going to help us in college, and they won’t help us become better citizens of these United States. All we do is stay up constantly for several months straight to take a five hour test. Most of us stay up the night before to […]
Not everyone should attend college. Today the expectation that every single high school graduate must go to college seems irrational.Starting adult life thousands of dollars in debt does not sound like the start of a path to success. And with the cost of tuitions rising college appears less and less attractive.All high school graduates should […]
There’s been a debate at my School in Delaware.I believe that this debate is falling upon deaf ears of the people who are supposed to monitor our education.These people, I believe, are not doing their job correctly.The reason I say this is because the problem going around our school is to decide whether the students […]
Physical Education Time Should students have more physical education time? Yes I do think students should get more physical education time. I think students should get at least 45 minutes of physical education per day. That is because it helps students relieve their stress. When a student’s stress is relieved they are able to do […]
Every kid growing up watches something based around the idea of being in high school, whether it be on a TV show or in a movie. Watching things on TV makes kids hope and wish for things to be the same way, but they never are. The ways in which high school is actually portrayed […]
Intervention study hall is a new class assigned to kids who have been struggling with their grades. It’s a one period class every other day where there are four to five students in each class, with one teacher. At the beginning of class, the teacher checks each student’s assignment notebooks to make sure they have […]
If the world were the way most educators would have us believe, America’s streets would be clogged with people who decided to skip out on their college degrees, panhandling to feed their illegitimate children. If you asked any of these hypothetical street-lurkers what they regretted the most, they’d turn to you, eyes weary and underlined […]
Hi I’m Maddie. I’m new to middle school- and yes it can be a hastle and can make you feel like your whole life was just flipped upsidedown. Like who needs all that stress??? Short answer:NO ONE So to get through middle school I think about why I am so stressed or confused. Then I […]
One of the things that bothers me most about my high school is how the high school government election process works. The way it goes, if you’re part of the student government and you want to run for office, you can get permission from the head of government to be in the running. Once you’re […]
Have you ever had students sleep in your class, or not pay attention? Teachers believe that they have stayed up too late, but really they had to spend six hours doing pointless homework/projects their teacher assigned for them. The malignant homework causes students to fret about homework which causes them a hard deal of stress. […]
Imagine it is the first week of school. A student loves all of his teachers and classes, but one thing is the whole reason why the whole class is so forlorn. Next period the students will be brooding because they are going to have their first test. This is the case in over 98,000 of […]
I told myself I wasn’t ready. I wasn’t ready to move on, to move out, and to leave. I was comfortable in the life I was living. I had become a passenger on the high school merry-go-round, where I had been for three previous years. I had no problem watching my future go around and […]
So I have been in school for many years and as long as I can remember, I have always put in an art class some how. Now of course, when you think of art, you think of creative freedom or the ability to express yourself, so on and so forth. But then you look at […]
The idea of recent high school graduates putting off college for a year may seem ludicrous and impulsive, but this European tradition is finally catching on in America. Seniors may find it daunting to continue on with their educational plans after recently finishing thirteen years of hard work, with usually another two to eight on […]
Students should be free to type their notes rather than being forced to handwrite them. In the classroom, teachers only have so much time to relay information to their students before the bell rings. This often requires teachers to be quick with their lessons in order to get information through to their students. Students are […]
There is no such thing as a pure desire – a desire free from all faults and flaws and ulterior motives. We are all driven to our breaking points by greed and selfish nature. No one really knows what it means to “make a difference”, or how to “make the world a better place”. No […]
After hours and hours and hours of doing homework a student starts crying. He hits his head on the wall, knowing that he won’t solve the math problem, knowing that he won’t be able to finish his homework for his other classes the next day. So many students suffer every day from doing homework. Should […]
Hell is normally perceived as a fiery place ran by a little red man with horns. I however, have no need to presume what hell is, I have already lived it. Four years of it to be precise! In summary; awkward creatures roam about like vultures looking for prey to pick at, to fit in. […]
Picture this… You are smack in the middle of quartleys week as an all honors student, collapsing with the stress accompanied by the building that is your homework. Suddenly, The Homework Pill is introduced to you and it’s side effects work instantaneously doubling your stress! How are we so lucky to have access to such […]
