Education
May 21, 2019
An article talks about a woman named Amanda and her daughter Sophie, who have quite the experience with school uniforms. Amanda has two kids who started school at their local Prep to Year 12 public school. At this school, the girls were required to wear a certain dress and the boys had a short/shirt option they were
- April 25, 2019
Imagine you move to the United States from a foreign country and speak a foreign language. You get dropped off at an elementary school and it’s a whole different world. Children and teachers communicating in English, books filled with English, homework in English, and you can’t even get a break for lunch as the menu
- April 15, 2019
It is Tuesday, October 23, 2018, just another day for Megyn Kelly, a talk show host, journalist, and former anchor. She starts her day off like many others, at the set of Megyn Kelly Today. She has Jenna Bush Hager, Jacob Soboroff, and Melissa Rivers on as guests and she is fired up to talk
- March 6, 2019
4:45 a.m. That is when the alarm goes off for Morgan to start her day. She begins by opening her groggy eyes and is not motivated to start another school day. Once again, she thinks day in and day out, “Why do I even go?” By 6:05 a.m. she gets on her bus and starts
- February 21, 2019
Money, it is what makes the world spin. Like it or not, money fuels people. Why would you work for hours a day, five days a week, if it did not? You are always tired, always stressed, so when your paycheck roles in, you feel you deserve it. Now think about students. They also work
- February 13, 2019
Lord of the Flies is literally the worst book ever. It’s hard to understand and once you are able to comprehend it, the story appears to just be about a group of boys who go kind of crazy when their plane crashes on an island. They are left without adults and rules. My English teacher
- February 8, 2019
Back to school shopping is something many students both love and hate. It signifies the end of summer and beginning of school, but students also get to buy fancy pens and markers that will almost certainly not be used for educational means. From pencils to notebooks to highlighters, there are many things students need for
- June 8, 2018
How is my worst grade in fifth grade spelling when I am top in class? How can I solve complex math problems but I sometimes cannot to read simple words? How do I make connections and figure out patterns in books that others cannot see but also take the longest time to read it? While
- June 5, 2018
School. What a wonderful place, right? Full of learning, fun, friends, and… Notes. Lectures. Tests. Homework. Sleeping during a lecture while taking notes. More homework. Studying for tests. And… All of the above. Again. And again. On a daily basis. Insert long, drawn out I’m-dead-inside” groan here. We all have things we’d much rather be
- May 31, 2018
What is your stereotypical Marching Band Geek? Weak, thin, and clumsy, broken glasses and always seem to be holding their instrument? Well if you think that, then you are probably right. Many band kids seem to appear that way to the general public, but if you take a more in-depth look at your band kids,
- May 31, 2018
According to The Daily Signal, JoAnn, a mother and a wife worked at Hardee’s for 21 years. She was hired in 1984 and made a starting hourly wage of $4.25. Years later in 2005 she had worked her way to a mere $8 an hour, with an increased wage of only $3.75. With no
- May 29, 2018
We’ve all heard about electronics in schools, whether you are a parent who has been called repeatedly about your kid being glued to it in class or one of said students, it has been present. The Chromebook has been regarded as a way to revolutionize learning, but it also has a slew of consequences. Kids
- May 16, 2018
The promise of being free, life with no parents, you are free to make your own decisions. Legally when you are 18 you’re considered an adult, expected to be able to make conscious decisions whether something will have a positive effect or bad ones. The legal age to consume alcohol is 21, although when you
- May 16, 2018
Mark 16:15 “and He said to them, ‘Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.” This is one of many bible verses telling christians to go out and spread god’s word, But where do we draw the line? Who gets to decide especially when the Supreme Court has ruled that Creationism has
- May 14, 2018
Summer. Three months of sunshine, sitting by the refreshingly blue pool, and eating melting chocolate ice cream on hot summer days. The inevitable stress of school disappearing with the cold weather. No more dreadfully long seven-hour school days followed by hours of seemingly pointless homework. Waking up to the delightful sound of birds chirping outside
- May 14, 2018
I’m a very high maintenance teenager. I’ve been this way since I came out of the womb quite honestly. Everyday myself, and many of my other teen counterparts wake up at the crack of dawn to get ready for school. I wake up at 4:45 am before school in order to get myself put together.
- May 4, 2018
Collapsing in tears and overwhelmed by the increase of school demands, high school teenagers like Carolyn Walworth constantly long for sleep. During school days she fights to stay awake in her morning classes, nodding off every few minutes struggling to focus. Like many other teens, she must climb through piles of homework before finally crawling into
- March 27, 2018
Students in classrooms complain of having to sit in classrooms all day. A story from ideas demco about changing the seating in classrooms is, “With 7 different types of seating available, it took about 2 ½ weeks for students to try all of them.” She gave students many different options. The story continues, it states,
- March 23, 2018
In a Huffington Post article titled “Honor Roll Student Banned From Graduation Because Of This Shirt” explains that an honor roll student from Hickory Ridge High School was picking an outfit when she decided to wear a shirt that showed her shoulders. The school administration did not think this was appropriate for school, so she was asked to change. She
- March 22, 2018
Franz Kafka, an author, wanted his writing to be burned after his death because he was worried people would hate his work. Kafka wrote during the 1900s and was severely under appreciated. He would write a few books and pour everything into his work while he was alive, but they would get no fame until
- March 16, 2018
Attention, the school you are attending is now going to have school all year round. If you are reading this you are probably going to be a little mad at first. You also probably think that this means that you are going to be in school longer, or that we have to do more work
- March 8, 2018
Have you experienced what it is like to be a high school student in the society today? Well, it is a tough bust, high school students today are suffering from the pressure of grades, sports, sleep, social media, and keeping up with a social life while going to school an average of five days a
- February 27, 2018
Many public school students on average only get about 30 minutes or less to eat their lunch. Because of that about 1/4 of students lunches will not get eaten and it will get thrown away. School lunches should be longer for many reasons, but the main reasons that school lunches should be longer is because
- February 23, 2018
In 2010, California State University, Northridge came out with a web page displaying their Psychology students’ definitions of creativity. The entries date all the way back to fall of 1997 and continue until the spring of 2010. Most of the definitions are just a simple sentence and some are only three or four words.
- September 26, 2017
My Experience With Boys I go to a summer camp every year. It’s sentimental to my family, my grandparents met there when they were young. My aunts and uncles and my own father have all gone to the same camp. All of my siblings go and we have fun every summer. And each year I
- May 30, 2017
What is AVID? Advancement Via Individual Determination, (AVID), is an organization that helps prepare students for college. AVID helps students become more organized by using a planner and helps students write and answer higher level thinking questions. AVID changes people’s lives, and in this video you will see how. How has AVID Helped me? Before
- May 23, 2017
In October of 2006, just a few weeks before her 14th birthday, Megan Meier hanged herself. She had been talking to a boy named Josh, who she had met via MySpace, for about 5 weeks when he had suddenly began to send messages stating that he heard Megan was mean to her friends and didn’t
- May 1, 2017
Image created by Eric Bailey seriously, “OH MY GOD Becky, look at her butt, it is so big!”. As a high school student, in the hallways many conversations exist but of the many times I’ve walked down, talking about butts is probably one of the most common subjects or at least talking about someone else. Entering
- April 18, 2017
“Old School” by alamosbasement Doors slamming, chairs rocking, footsteps falling none of these things are out of the ordinary until you add in the fact that they were all done with seemingly no people. One in every five adults claim they have seen a ghost according to a 2009 Pew Research Center survey. Most people’s minds
- April 6, 2017
Alex Rodriquez had been getting a lot of attention for all the wrong reasons. The article from Biography tells us about Rodriquez’s suspensions due to the use of steroids. The Major League Baseball player has been known for his skills on the ball field—he’s the youngest in the league to hit 500-career home runs—but recently
- March 3, 2017
Photo by Adrianna Calvo In 2003, Rogers High School in Minnesota completed a major construction project. The renovation included many new classrooms and a new two story building. A running track was added on the top floor of the addition. As DLR Group states, it costs about 34 million dollars to build the school. So
- February 28, 2017
Stress is inevitable. We all have those days, weeks, or sometimes even months or years when stress manages to take control of us. I like an analogy from Quora that talks about stress. A professor was holding a glass of water and asked his students how much they thought it weighed. He went on to explain
- February 19, 2017
Sophia Stoll dropped out of college twice, and never finished. She was a student recently out of high school at the time and decided she wanted to go to college, like most kids. By the time she was in her junior year of college, she realized that the classes she took in college were not
- March 17, 2016
Photo by Dave Herholz The Birds and The Bees Let’s talk about sex. It is made out to be a lot easier than it is. We all have been in the short, and don’t forget to mention AWKWARD situation where The Birds and The Bees are brought up. But why is it so awkward? So, at some point
- February 1, 2016
Featured Image By Fickr Do you trust your teachers? If you do then I would imagine that if they told you to do something important you would probably do it, right? Lets say they tell you to hide and don’t move or make a noise because there is an intruder in your school and we
- December 1, 2015
High School Musical. We all heard of it. And if you haven’t, well from the title High School Musical, you can pretty much guess what it’s about. High School Musical is a beloved ‘classic’ for many teenagers, being that it came out in 2006. High School Musical is a story of friendship, teamwork, relationships, and do not
- December 1, 2015
Featured Image- Vitor Fiacadori Have you ever been asked “How do dogs taste?”, “Why aren’t you back in your home country?”, and “What river did you cross to get here?” Probably not. I, however, have been personally asked every one of them. Imagine walking into school knowing that everyone has an arsenal of put downs
- May 27, 2015
Post by Cassandra S. Image found on Pixabay. In teen movies we so often see many stereotypical characters that are always categorized in stereotypical cliques with stereotypical angst adolescent drama overtaking their lives. These movies have been an entertaining jackpot of incorrectly portrayed people for years and the truth is, no high school is actually
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