how complex our teen minds can be. This text appealed to me because it is very relatable for…
In “A Model for High Schools” by David S. Broder, the author discusses the prejudice that many students face throughout their lives and within the education system. In particular, Broder discusses high school dropouts as they take part in debates over the sections of the writings of Plato and Malcolm X and states, “The oddity is that these teenagers were all high school dropouts, kids with attitude problems, behavioral problems, drug or alcohol problems, kids whose teachers and families had often marked them off as hopeless losers” (Broder, para. 2). Here, Broder accentuates the prejudice that high school drop outs face throughout their education from their teachers and families alike. To those around them, these students are nothing more than…
American schools have the responsibility to create better human beings, and they are expected to do it consistently over the years for all young people. Currently, anyone can observe the differences between the school system today and 10 years ago. The academic rigor and behavioral expectations of American education have declined. The efforts to make students more competitive worldwide and ready to embrace the demanding workforce have not borne out. The Schools are failing our children because of low standards and poor discipline policies.…
As a member of the 'National Task Force on the Role of Youth in Australian Society' the team have decided to report on the issue that adolescents are represented in media in relation to 'schoolies week'.…
Teenagers, in general, need help in the way they view the world and what is given to them. In the society that teenagers are currently growing up in seems to teach them to under value everything. Teenagers grow up pushing away everyone like Holden and then complain that no one listens to them or understands them. Adolescents need a change in society, in what is taught to them, what they are exposed to, and the way they value. It seems as if teenagers have lost all respect for everything…
The most significant idea in this reading is parents, students, the educational establishment, government leaders, and the news media having the blame for not letting the society engage in the issues that happen to the society. Many children do badly in school because of their parents. Children of middle and upper classes are more likely to get high grades. Traumatic events can affect a child by giving that child a poor grade.The more time a parent spends with a child the more likely a child is to get a better grade.…
At-risk youth is an epidemic in society and an issue that not only is troublesome for the at-risk teens themselves but affects their family systems, their peer clusters and the broader community that they live in. It is not necessary to look far to find at-risk youth in your own community, but the media is also filled with examples of at-risk youth. We can look to the media as a case-study of sorts as we analyze a variety of issues related to at-risk youth. This paper analyzes the character Jim Carroll from the 1995 movie entitled the Basketball Diaries. Jim fits the profile of an at risk youth and during the course of the movie the audience follows him on a downward spiral which includes truancy, violence, substance abuse and engaging in risky sexual behaviors.…
Over the course of adolescence, people interact with one another, forming relationships, whether they are healthy or unhealthy. There is a large correlation between the self-esteem of the two people, and the state of their relationship. The lower one’s self-esteem in a relationship is, the unhealthier their relationship is likely to be. Conversely, a healthy or unhealthy relationship can also raise or lower one’s self-esteem. In the 1999 film “10 Things I Hate About You,” the relationship between Kat Stratford and Patrick Verona is an example of how a healthy relationship can raise one’s self esteem, while the relationship between Bianca Stratford and Chastity Church shows how a low self-esteem can lead to an unhealthy relationship.…
One of the major problems in America today is the overwhelming incidences of inequality in the schools, particularly the differences between schools in the suburbs and the urban school system. This inequality is jumping off point, if left unresolved this problem will continue to contribute to the growing strain on the economy. It will lead to an increase in the numbers of teen pregnancies, the unemployment rate, the number poverty stricken individuals, and a trend of drug or alcohol abuse in these communities.…
Another problem is the issue of emotional maladjustment within the adolescent community. These adolescents have been brought up with such high expectations that fear and anxiety is a common reaction. Since there is no attention given to improve these conditions, the fear and anxiety increases, causing it to blend into poor assignments, projects, class work, and of course testing.…
A positive engagement in school provides an alternative environment that affords a roadmap toward achievement, competence, and a prosocial self-image that contrasts with the negative messages that accompany adversity (Arditti, 2015). A child can be living in poverty which would tend to have a negative impact; however, through the school system the child can gain positive behaviors due to the positive environmental factors the school offers. Many school systems offer after school activities involving help with homework, free clubs to take part in, and sporting groups for children to take part in. The child is then around positive role models which will increase their sense of self-worth in turn increasing their positive behaviors.…
Adolescents are bombarded daily by youth issues, such as: staying adhered to their morals, developing their character, self-image, self-respect, fitting in, feeling love, and avoiding brutality. Are these dilemmas not enough? The fact that mass media completely plays off human’s insecurities, in order to make a few extra dollars, baffles me. Although, we’re college students and have developed quite a bit since these problems were momentous, I still believe we are constantly facing struggles related to these. Therefore, the purpose of an experiment that monitored our time relating to each category of typically negative influences is immeasurable.…
social class. People tend to think that with higher social class, one may exercise more…
This paper explains briefly the research proposal which specifically focuses on the programs proven to be effective in raising self-esteem in at-risk youth. This research proposal includes the background of the study, statement of the problem, statement of hypothesis, the significance of this study and scope and limitation of the study.…
According to Professor Lam Man Ping, healthy self-esteem is based on different kinds of self-concepts, and there are three main kinds that we often encounter at school – academic, social and emotional, and physical. They impact upon one another and go hand in hand. Without a positive structure of self-concept, healthy self-esteem of students will not be possible, resulting in a chain of youth problems (Lam, 1994). “A healthy self-concept is the foundation of self-esteem as well as the key element for adolescents to achieve good adjustment in life. Void of a healthy self-concept may initiate the chain of problems which would join with the low self-concept to become a vicious cycle” (Lam, 1994, p. 43).…