Our school didn’t have a GSA for about three years until now. When I was a ninth grader I was very sure of my sexuality. But the thing was that the school I went to wasn’t very friendly when it came to LGBTQ+ people. The administration were fine‚ the issues usually came from the student body. I was surrounded by homophobia‚ and I had not one safe place to allow myself to be me. I wasn’t allowed to be as open as I wanted to be but eventually I thickened my skin and came out. Looking back at that time
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a young teenager starting my high school experience‚ I knew I wanted my next four years to be unconventional. My elementary years had been spent in Edina‚ a city next to my home suburb‚ Eden Prairie. Although I enjoyed attending school in Edina‚ I never quite felt that I belonged. All of my friends lived close to each other‚ and therefore had known each other before they had met me. In 6th grade that lack of belonging drove me to transfer to Eden Prairie schools. I made many friends in Eden Prairie
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It was senior year‚ and I was ready to dropout! With B’s in all my classes except calculus‚ I was going to fail my senior year. I wasn’t considered your typical math genius. But‚ that didn’t stop me from believing that I could still pass her class‚ and graduate with the rest of my classmates. But‚ what I learned that year throughout everything was to never quit. After a year of trying to bring up my grade‚ by pay attention‚ studying‚ and by doing extra credit‚ but at the end it just seemed that
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new school and I had to move into a new home away from all my friends. This temporary isolation from my real home in Franklin at first I thought couldn’t get any worse turned out to be a great life changing experience in my life. Before I came to public school I went to private school ever since fourth grade‚ My brother Lowry went to the same school as me and they took him out of private school the year before. Unlike Lowry‚ I was not very happy that they were sending me to public school. The
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eclipse for too long has recently moved to Florida after his father takes a job in civil engineering. However‚ unlike his brother Erik‚ a high-school football star‚ Paul is unable to fit in with the new environment. Although he befriends Joey Costello‚ brother of Erik’s fellow team-mate Mike Costello‚ he struggles to fit in his new school‚ Lake Windsor Middle. Even his interest in soccer is deflated‚ after he is disallowed his right to play due to an insurance policy relating to his eyesight. However
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massive Rocky Mountains. Against my initial wishes‚ my family and doctors decided that it was probably a good idea to get as far away from the origin of my problems. Mullen High School and the people I met there‚ saved my life from my own hands. Unlike most life-altering changes‚ it came slowly. I started to focus more in school and my grades improved. I began to pray to and love a God I had always heard of‚ but never knew personally. Most importantly‚ I began to once again see my own self-worth even
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School start times need to start later Student are sleep deprived and some get no time because they slept in on accident. Some schools start at any where from 7:00 to 7:30‚ while other schools start anywhere around 8:00 to 9:00. For example‚ a school in Indiana starts at 7:30 and ends at 3:45. In in complete honesty‚ schooldays should start later. Students could get more sleep if school started later. For example‚ British sleep scientists argue that school school shouldn’t start until at least
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attributed to high schools’ early start times (Reddy). Although most teenagers are not admitted into a hospital for their drowsiness‚ high school students do suffer from insufficient sleep. Because of the long hours spent finishing homework‚ participating in extracurricular activities and sports‚ and socializing with family and friends‚ the majority of students do not receive an adequate amount of sleep on a typical school night‚ causing them to be more stressed and less healthy. High schools should begin
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"When high schools start too early‚ sleep-deprived teenagers are more likely to crash their cars‚ suggests new research."(http://www.nbcnews.com/)Currently a trend in education is to start school later‚ but some schools are deciding to keep there school start times.The students at middle school South in lake Zurich Illinois would like a later start time. The later start time has many learning benefits‚ and other schools have a good experience with later start times and a student survey that supports
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For a long time now schools and districts have been debating if they should have after school sports. According to Amanda Ripley‚ there was a school that has banned all sports because of how low the kid’s grades are (10). In many schools‚ entrenched that no one realizes their actual cost (Ripley 10).According to most school districts‚ there has been a decrease in grade for students that participate in physical activities. Therefore‚ schools should not have sports to prevent injuries‚ save money
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