Brandon Thomas English 1-2 2-9-09 Chewing Gum You are walking in the hallway when you come upon a teacher giving a student a Saturday school. What could he have possibly done? Did he hit somebody or curse at a teacher? No‚ he was just chewing gum; a harmless activity that is prohibited in middle schools‚ but why? In fact‚ chewing gum speeds up you heartbeat and blood pressure just enough to wake up both the left and right hemispheres in your brain‚ accessing your memory and helping you to
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Should Sex Education be Allowed in Public Schools? Sex education in public schools has been a controversial topic for many years and for many reasons. People believe differently on what should or should not be taught based on their own beliefs or their religious beliefs. According to a new poll by National Public Radio‚ the Kaiser family foundation‚ and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government‚ has found that all Americans but about 7% say sex education should be taught in schools. There are different
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2. Opinion Essay Some people think that school children need to learn practical skills such as car maintenance or bank account management along with the academic subjects at school. To what extent do you agree or disagree? It is true that children do not learn many practical skills at school. However‚ I completely disagree with the idea that schools should teach skills like bank account management and car maintenance. At present‚ most schools focus on important academic subjects such as mathematics
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The Second World War broke out on the 1st September 1939‚ and ended on the 2nd September 1945. Evacuation started in late August 1939‚ just days before the war started. School children were the first group of people to be evacuated‚ followed by pre-school children and expectant mothers‚ then the adult crippled population. These groups were chosen because they were believed to be at highest risk. However‚ by the end of 1939‚ many families had started to return to their city homes‚ because they believed
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A dress code for a high school should emphasize modesty and appropriateness for a particular setting not conformity to a particular style. I believe some school rules should remain the same regarding the dress code particularly rules about modesty. Girls should not be allowed to wear short dresses or strapless shirts. They are not allowed to have any cleavage and tank tops are not allowed. St. Tammany Parish high schools all follow the same rule book. Male students are supposed to be clean shaven
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I most definitely agree that schools should offer only nutritious drinks such as milk‚ water‚ and natural fruit juice. On one hand‚ some parents do not give their children permission to consume sugary‚ unhealthy drinks‚ and it will not be fair to those students if everyone else gets to purchase these beverages. On the other hand‚ most parents allow their children to drink whatever they want‚ so schools cannot completely cut students off from soda‚ but it can limit their consumption by not selling
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are too Restrictive at School Students everywhere are concerned that the web filters are too restrictive at their school. Every school has them‚ they’re the things that won’t let you access a website that you wish to visit. Web filters should not be allowed at school. When the students try to visit a website that is blocked or restricted‚ the restriction page comes up and does not allow access to that website. Except‚ there needs to be websites that students should be allowed to visit‚ for recreational
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phone to communicate. People bring along their mobile phone everywhere they go. But the question is‚ why mobile phones are not allowed to use by pupils at school? Mobile phones have many advantages especially for students. It helps us to communicate to one another. It would be a lot easier if students bring phones to school. For example‚ teachers cand send text messages to class monitor to ask how many students attend to school today. So‚ teachers do not need to use efforts going to the class early
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In many schools‚ teachers and students are arguing over a priviledge. Should cell phones be allowed in school or not? What intelligent students say is that cell phones should be allowed‚ but the strict teachers say that cell phones should be banned from the school. What excellent uses would cell phones be in the school and what horrible outcomes will there be in the uses? Cell phones are used to contact‚ alert‚ and be a mobile electronic to use internet. Intelligently‚ students say that cell phones
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the note-taking HOW CHILDREN FAIL (by John Holt‚ Pitman‚ 1965) 1. Most children in school fail. - Close to 40% of pupil who dropout before they finish in high school. - Be push up through the grades and out of the schools without caring if they know anything or not. - ’Raise our standards’ much higher‚ classrooms will bulge with kids who can’t pass the test to get into the next class. - Excepting a good handful student‚ they fail to develop the tremend-ous capacity for
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