This week‚ the Attic’s high school was privileged to host Michelle Jones‚ President and Co-Founder of Portland‚ Oregon’s new progressive college‚ Wayfinding Academy. Although I could go on and on about this intriguing (and familiarly structured‚ for those of us here at the Attic!) school‚ what I want to focus on here is something Michelle told our kids. She left her position in traditional high education because‚ she said‚ she could envision an ideal college‚ and it looked different than that tradition
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important part of life. To achieve a good education a person must graduate from high school and then college. High school prepares students for college‚ but each student must define his or herself to succeed in college. The many similarities and differences between high school and college can help and hinder each student in his or her goals to achieve a good education. Some of these similarities and differences between high school and college are the type of students‚ the difficulty of the classes‚ and
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stopping anytime soon. I am Kayla Bell‚ a graduating senior from Talladega County Central High School. While at Talladega County Central‚ I have maintained a 3.5 GPA while working part-time at Dairy Queen. I participated in numerous clubs and activities including Student Leadership Team‚ SGA‚ FBLA‚ Key Club‚ FOCUS Club and Beta Club. I was also a varsity athlete lettering in Volleyball‚ Basketball and Softball while also participating on my travel softball team. I must say that I am most proud of being
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High school vs. College College and High school are both amazing experience with unique features making people love them both. College is very expensive compared to high school since you have to pay for room and board‚ tuition‚ books‚ food and the list can go on. College is also requires a lot better work ethic towards your studies compared to high school. You will have a lot more assignments‚ test and reasonability with your college schoolwork. College has a lot of opportunities to participate
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Trying to be an honor student was everybody’s goal in high school. Who didn’t want to be the smartest kid in class? I did ;instead‚ i went a different route. In retrospect‚ my senior year I can say I thought as myself as a " KNOW IT ALL." I misunderstood learning. Theres a saying by Donald Rumsfeld from the book Make it Stick "There are known knowns‚ there are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns;that is to say there are things that we now knew we don’t know. But there are also unknown-
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It is the beginning of the school year and there are numerous changes at Stillwater Area High School that are now being implemented such as the new lunch schedule. With this new lunch schedule it adds an additional lunch giving us four lunches and cuts the normal lunch time of 30 minutes to 25 and here’s why. You see the reasoning of this additional fourth lunch is to accommodate for the rapid increase of students. For instance last year there was around 1‚400 students that went to SAHS ‚ this year
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Concussions have consumed the minds of millions of young athletes in our world today. This injury has gone frequently undetected for a substantial amount of time‚ especially in high school sports. The time table for return with this injury is foggy as it could consist of weeks‚ months‚ and even in some cases years. Concussions in sports has been a widespread problem for athletes for many years‚ the damage they can do can be life threatening. 3‚800‚000 concussions were reported in 2012 regarding sports
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organized‚ and high school sports can lead students to also playing in college. First reason why the money should go to sports‚ is that sports can help students get more involved in school. In the article: “Should Sports be eliminated from high schools”‚ the author wrote‚ “In fact‚ high school sports could benefit students academically.
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In today’s society‚ school cafeterias are notorious for their cliques and the vicious members included in them. A clique by definition is a small group of people with similar interests and features who spend time with each other and do not allow others to join them. Cliques are prominent in high school cafeterias which create angst in nonmembers of the group. These views about cliques are not necessarily true. In today’s school environment there are several different types of cliques that have emerged
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In the film‚ “High School: Best and the Rest”‚ four schools were toured with the help of its students explaining the economic and educational status of their school. Based on their descriptions‚ they touched on some examples of individualism‚ traditionalism‚ and moralism. Individualism was shown in all four of the school districts; however‚ in different ways. In Highland park‚ they fixed their financial issues by themselves and without any government interference. They used their money to fund their
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