governments in the right direction by setting standard (very basic-baseline) laws about required courses at public schools‚ but it should not dictate testing procedures and regulations‚ because local governments and individual school boards understand the demographics of a particular school district. Ex. It has been proven that children from lower income families will receive lower test scores. Hence‚ school districts with a greater population of lower income families should be prepared to accommodate those
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of implementing a school uniforms is a controversial and lingering subject facing many of the school systems in the United States. Many people see that numerous problems exists within the public school system and they think that school uniform would be a good solution these problems. School uniform is a positive concept in public school because of many advantages such as‚ a cost savings by eliminating name brand clothing‚ student security‚ school spirit and simpler daily school preparation. First
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the center of many court cases in the Supreme Court linked to public schools. The public school setting has always been a major area of controversy concerning the separation of church and state. Albeit with some exceptions‚ the separation of church and state should not take place in public schools. The freedom of religious expression is already limited‚ and if the separation of church and state happens to take place in public schools throughout the US‚ the government would teeter on the brink of
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A parent who sends his or her child off to school for the day hopes that‚ as a student‚ his or her child will get to learn and grow in a safe environment and will get to return home at the end of the day. Schools‚ particularly public high schools in the US‚ attempt to ensure this by implementing “zero-tolerance” policies. Zero-tolerance describes a set of rules and disciplinary codes for students in order to keep as many students from harm as possible. Commonly‚ a zero-tolerance policy disallows
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As a soon to be Chicago Public Schools alum‚ in my lifetime I have experienced school budget cuts‚ teacher displacements‚ and two teacher strikes. I have always believed that education is the key to success and extended opportunities‚ but for the past two years‚ the optimism that I have always had has slowly started to deteriorate. Everyday when I view the news‚ it seems that my education is being attacked. Whether it is on a federal‚ state‚ or city level. Recently‚ I just learned that the Trump
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resulted in an unexpected slew of absences in just my first month as an eighth grader. As a result‚ school administrators recommended that I
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Selling Safe Sex in Public School The article I wrote and I will talk about is “Selling Safe Sex in Public Schools” by Michelle Bryant. The article was about a teenage girl named Shelby Knox from Lubbock‚ Texas who discusses how schools just teach abstinence instead of also teaching safe sex education. In this article Ms. Bryant mentions a very common issue in public schools‚ which is how schools would to a certain extent teach students about abstinence only rather than giving them another form
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Michael Albert Professor Oleferuk 6/19/09 English 120 Condom Distribution in Public School Systems According to the Center for Disease Control‚ there are approximately nineteen million new cases of sexually transmitted diseases reported every year. While this number seems astounding‚ it is more surprising that nearly half of those instances occur in the 15-25 year age group. Furthermore‚ nearly 300‚000 unplanned teenage pregnancies arise mostly because of poor or no condom use (Ventura 53)
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America’s public schools are woefully underfunded. As state legislatures around the nation focus on reducing spendings‚ education spending is often the first to go. And when these public schools are confronted with a dramatically smaller budget‚ art programs get the axe. As the Chicago Sun-Times report in 2013‚ Chicago Public Schools laid off over 1‚000 teachers when they made the decision to close over 50 schools. Nearly ten percent of these teachers taught in the arts or music. As ThinkProgress
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High school vs. College school plays an important role in our life. Many of us will spend more than fifteen years at school in order to get the qualifications that are required to work in a specific field. Of course‚ those years are broken down into several levels‚ some of them being more liked than others. Two important steps that we go through are high school and college. Even though some people would think they are almost similar‚ yet there are significant differences between them. The cost of
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