College Essays
I’ve heard high school dropouts and blue collared workers echo the same phrase: “Why spend the money to attend college when everything you need to know is on the Internet?” In the heat of the moment, I could never throw together any response with great impact, but having had time to think about it, I […]
Every student knows it. That time of year when they have a week full of tests. What are these? These are midterms and finals. These tests are supposed to measure your memory of what you have learned that year. But they do not. All they do is stress students out, causing drug usage and cheating. […]
Since No Child Left Behind was ratified, the United States has plummeted in the P.I.S.A. (Program for International Student Assessment) standings in math and science from 18th to 31st. This regulation was passed in January of 2002 by former President George Bush. It is a policy that enforces annual testing to measure student progress. These […]
Early Childhood development is putting kids through an education program before they enter a formal school. Should pre schooling, or programs like ‘Head Start’ be used to teach kids in their early development stages? I personally think so, and I am not alone in this. There are tons of research stating that, putting kids into […]
Ultimately I feel like in today’s economy and world overall, college is more of a necessity rather than an option. Your choices for a career are very limited without a college degree that more than often, you’re forced to get a more temporary “job” instead of a life-long “career.” Even the cheaper community college is […]
iPods, cell phones, and many other electronic devices are not allowed in school. In my school, they can not be on your body but they can be in your backpack, however, they have to be turned completely off. As a result, of being caught with it ringing or on your body, you will receive an […]
Think back to when you were in school. There were the popular kids, and then there were the ones that were not. Did you ever feel out of place? Student-made hierarchies have been in schools for years and are now embedded into society. As students enter grammar schools, they have variations ofhierarchies that were left […]
Wilmington High School is a treacherous and timid bullying pit, where kids are picked on and deceived every day. It is a school run by an insecure principal who lets his students run amuck in the halls. Many of the younger students are afraid to even attend school, and beg their parents to allow them […]
Recently one of the school’s biology teachers switched from the ten-point grading scale used school-wise to a seven-point grading scale. Due to this switch, students will experience a variety of negative consequences. By enacting such a change, students will suffer from frustration that their efforts do not yield the results they would like, a grading […]
Four Years Full of Memories High School: A short four years spent in a school at the beginning of our lives. What makes these four years have such a tremendous impact on us? Maybe it’s all of the homework that we do. Yeah it’s probably the homework, HAHA obviously not. We don’t spend the rest […]
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College exams have the potential to be some of the hardest or the easiest exams that can be taken. For kids entering college, they grew up with books such as How to Survive Just About Anything and television shows like Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide. They were great resources on how to survive everyday life […]
Imagine a person who came from a school that is probably not the best is offered the chance to get a good education, compared to a student who has already gotten some of the best education the country has to offer. How would you feel if you were allowed into a nice college, coming out […]
“Homework isn’t worth two minutes of time, never mind an hour.”These are the words of Alfie Kohn, an American author who studies the effect of teenagers receiving overwhelming amounts of homework.This work is meant to help students learn their class materials and obtain a better understanding of the subjects taught in school. However, how much […]
I would like to thank you for putting up digital clocks in the hallways. It was a big help, because now I can read the clocks and not spend time figuring out the time. It must have taken time to put the clocks up, but your work is not going unrecognized. I am a senior […]
I dream that someday i’ll be in the navy or become a doctor. I want to go to the navy because when i was in 10th grade i was in the JROTC program and i loved it. I want to become a doctor also because i want to find inner peace and i like helping […]
What is the idea of financial literacy? Financial literacy is simply understanding how money works. However, 17.8% of American students proved to be financially inept, as they could not answer basic financial questions in an assessment provided by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) (Bidwell). Why is the percentage so shockingly high? Why […]
I never realized how close college was. My whole life it seemed far away. I would fantasize about going away to school, carrying around heavy text books, making something of myself. And here I am, a sophmore and I don’t know what im going to do once I graduate. Everything used to be so easy. […]
The learning labs are supposed to be a place of aid and education, but they seem to be more of disorganized chaos these days with the absence of teachers, a lack of teachers comprehending material, and an uneven distribution of students to teachers. These seem to be few of many relevant issues in the learning […]
Many students around the country sit in school and think, “What’s the point of going to school?” Many teachers may even think, “Why do I teach? What am I really teaching my students?” In Eleanor Roosevelt’s brief commentary “Good Citizenship: The Purpose of Education”, she pushes her readers to think beyond the accepted definition of […]
Schools require/assign too much homework to their students every week. With all this homework students get stressed out and don’t have time to do other things such as exercise. Students also aren’t the only ones who want to get rid of homework. Schools assign too much homework. “The average highschool student is assigned 3.5 hours […]
Ever wonder why you as a student of why you as a parent of a student have been complaining or head complaining about there school lunches. Well there are reasons for that just like everything else in this world. The USDA changed new standards for the school lunch program to try to lower obesity in […]
Sleep is one of the most important factors in a student’s health, and shortage of sleep can leave very negative effects on a student’s life. With schools starting so early in the morning, many problems can appear both inside of school and in a student’s everyday life. To help lighten the huge effects of all […]
I believe that the D. A.R.E. program should no longer be active in schools in the U.S. In my opinion, the program is more convincing students to try illegal drugs rather than stopping the use of them. While this program may be a very expensive program, students still don’t understand the full harm of drugs. […]
Sleep deprivation can have overwhelmingly negative effects on both adults and teenagers alike. However, its effects are much more prominent on teens. In fact, a 2010 study of 392 boys and girls published online in the Journal of Psychiatric Research found that those who had trouble sleeping at 12 to 14 years old, were more […]
Walking down these hallways you will see the different groups, like the view from an airplane looking down at all the cities. Everyone has a group they “run with” and that will never change. There is the jocks, cheerleaders, and geeks. You should know that high school isn’t everything. The cliques don’t matter. The grades […]
My ideal school is a school quite unlike any school we’ve heard of. This school consists of a large library and basic recreational facilities. And that’s all. There are no classrooms. The school motto is “I sought not to bring men to me, but to themselves,” a quote by Emerson. The school is built on […]
Imagine a couple students sitting outside minding their own business chewing gum and then all of a sudden a teacher comes out of the school and gives them an after school detention. That’s not fair, what were they doing wrong, chewing gum? That is wrong and should not be happening in school. For example,I got […]
I think it’s important to get a good education in school and try your hardest, and I’ve always thought this. Getting higher grades and passing tests is important but I also think that you shouldn’t stress on getting straight A’s. Every person is different in their own unique way and some of us aren’t good […]
In the US nearly every school devotes two years of science classes to chemistry. In South Burlington, Vermont, however, students take chemistry for only one year. This may not have a major effect on everyone taking chemistry because for those in lower-level classes it is unlikely that their overall knowledge of chemistry will ever be […]
