calling for changes. This argument is strongest when it comes to the public school system. There have been controversies over prayer in schools‚ teaching of evolution‚ and displaying the Ten Comandments.In the article “Does religion have a place in public schools?” it states‚ “Indeed‚ while public schools‚ which are run by the government‚ must allow students to express their own religious views‚ the First Amendment prevents the schools from endorsing religion or creating an environment that forces students
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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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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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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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Creationism and Public Schools The issue of whether creationism should be taught in public schools‚ rather than evolution‚ is a new one. It has only been in the past fifty years that it has even been in debate. Public school science classes‚ when discussing the origins of life on Earth‚ coincided with Sunday school classes. Students learned that the Earth‚ universe and everything else was created in seven days‚ by God‚ as stated in the Old Testament. It was not until recently with the rise
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Hardship of Transgender Students in Public Schools What makes being transgender so hard in public school? The physical bullying‚ not being able to fit in as well‚ and the school rules taking away your natural rights? Students that are trans are more likely to be discriminated against in public schools. Transgender students often cannot attend school events and even go to the bathroom‚ many students often will call them a freak or other harsh words‚ and if the situation is bad enough they might even
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At the turn of the twentieth century North Carolina’s government fell under the control of the Democrats’ White Supremacy rule. The Jim Crow laws‚ enacted by North Carolina’s legislature in 1899‚ formally required segregation in all public facilities and transportation. Disenfranchisement‚ an attempt to restrict African Americans’ rights to vote‚ allowed Democrats to apply a poll tax and a literacy test. This combination successfully restricted an enormous portion of African-American voters and
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Essay “If I Were a Poor Black Kid” In the article “If I Were a Poor Black Kid” Gene Marks‚ the author‚ offers steps to solve the problem that black people face with education. He emphasizes that good grades‚ studying really hard‚ going to a good school and taking advantage of every learning opportunity is the key to success. He gives a wide range of ways to find resources and to find all the help needed. Although Marks is not a poor black kid‚ he knows that inequality is true and understands that
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children against various diseases‚ including polio and measles‚ as a prerequisite to enrolling them in public schools (Ciolli‚ 2008). Enrollment in public school requires up to date vaccinations in order to protect the children and even the adults from contracting and spreading a disease‚ possibly causing an epidemic. Although all public schools require immunizations‚ there are still children in the schools whose religion exempts the use of vaccinations. The goal of this paper is to further explain
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sense of security. Vaccines came about many years ago; they have made their way into schools and have become requirements upon enrollment. Individual schools get to decide which and how many vaccines to require for their students. Recently‚ there has been a large increase in the number of people that opt out of receiving vaccinations. Schools need to create barriers to lower the nonvaccination rates in public schools. Compulsory vaccination laws have been around for nearly 30 years. These laws are
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