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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following hypothetical: “A student named Christina attends a public high school in small town West Virginia. She practices atheism as her belief system along with both students and adults. Never afraid to assert her First Amendment rights in any given context‚ Christina actively participates in local organizations that share her views and she writes for an online journal concerning the lifestyles of teenage atheists. One day in school‚ her history teacher gives an assignment asking the students to
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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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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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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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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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Sabrina Morales Chávez Miss Michelle Pangtay Communication Octubre 2013 “Bringing school and home closer together“ We all remember when we were little fighting with our parents or hiding from mom‚ just to escape from doing homework. Lately we can see incredible amounts of articles and books against homework. Even in some families‚ homework is seen as an
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believe that religious education in schools is a brainwashing tool to children‚ whereas others see it as an important way to teach children about the diverse beliefs held by different people in a multicultural society. The religious issue in public schools has always been touchy. Some argue that religion should be taught in a secular way in public schools to limit the separation of students. Regardless whether the religion is being taught secularly or not in public schools‚ religion should be taught to
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Online school and public school are the two most common schools that teenagers attend. These schools both have its benefits and drawbacks. Going to school online lets you stay at home while doing all the work. It is basically home school. The benefits of online school is that an individual does not have to get dressed properly or look presentable for the other citizens. Another benefit is that the schedule for online school is flexible. This is great for a student with a very hectic schedule
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