on extending school hours or days to help students reach their full potential. I wish it were that simple‚ but nothing comes to us that easily. If this were to happen‚ it would surpass the real reasons we aren’t ranking high enough. Let’s take a look at high ranking countries such as Finland‚ Australia‚ and of course China. China is number one‚ but also very high on another list. China’s suicide rate is among the highest in the world‚ ranking number 6. When you add more school‚ you add more
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love to have shorter school days‚ but not everyone agrees. Parents‚ kids‚ teachers‚ and random people on the street all have opinions. Some people even believe that school days should be longer to match parents work days. Like the majority‚ I think school should be shorter. At school‚ you must socialize with whomever is in your class or in your grade‚ some of them might be your friends and other might not. Some people’s friends don’t attend public school or go to another school so they aren’t able
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Year round education (YRE) is implemented in 436 U.S. school districts with very few complaints. In fact‚ school districts that have been participating in YRE and extended school days (ESD) are raving about the benefits in pupil’s achievement level‚ their new found enthusiasm in learning‚ as well as the many programs that exist in the extended day promoting the decline in latch key children. Some schools decided to initiate YRE and ESD because of swelling enrollments and lack of student achievement
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classmates laughed at my epic fail. Why did this have to happen on the first day? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Oh come on‚ it couldn’t have
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the part of every student to remember the first day at school. It gave me a terrible feeling of fear and anxiety as I went to school with my father. It was my mother who first thought of sending me to school. Of course I was of the school going age. When my mother expressed it I thought that she was a heartless woman. My mind was disturbed at first. Although I had heard about school‚ I had not visited it earlier. My father took me to school which was an unknown place for me. Teachers and
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My first taste of high school was in the spring of my 8th grade year. My band director hosted a marching band clinic for rising freshman. Fresh off of a personal victory of being awarded the Director’s award for Musical Excellence‚ I eagerly attended. After getting the taste of high school marching band‚ earning a spot on the snare line my freshman year‚ and getting my music down‚ I was ready to march my first steps on the field. The following summer‚ on the first day of band camp‚ my band director
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Casey Strails‚ the smallest kid in the class since school started. His name might as well be Midget Strails‚ because only teachers called him Casey. There was nothing wrong with him‚ just that he was short and thin. It was getting more embarrassing year by year that he would not grow. By year six‚ it was the most embarrassing as it had ever been. A knock on the door. “Time to get up Case! First day of year seven! What an excitement!” his dad chanted through his bedroom door. Yeah‚ what an excitement
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I had my second day of school nursing‚ and it was awesome; such a busy day. I got to assist with a semi emergency‚ where the child’s knee locked up and he wasn’t able to walk; he calls it “pancake knee”. I had the opportunity to recheck children that failed either or both parts of the hearing vision screening‚ as well as‚ got to be one of the main people to assess children that came in sick. Brenda allowed me to do the assessments as she knows I love the practice; practice makes perfect. Going back
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Maddie Zisk My first day in an English speaking school. I thought back‚ to everything‚ everything that had happened and where it all had started. Here‚ it had started here. Memories flooded back‚ memories of people‚ memories of places‚ memories of… of everything. With one last look around I took a deep breath and boarded the aeroplane‚ I was ready. I arrived the day before the start of the second semester. Though my things had arrived almost a week before‚ but I had been content living out of a suitcase
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What if making wishes came with terrible consequences? In the story "The Monkey’s Paw" by W.W Jacobs‚ a family friend comes over and tells the White family about the monkey’s paw and its abilities to grant wishes. When making their first wish they don’t realize that the wish will come true in exchange of a terrible consequence. Their first wish was to receive 200 pounds‚ with that wish they’re son Herbert died in a terrible accident and in exchange the place their son worked out gave them 200 pounds
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