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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College Life vs. High school Life As you graduate high school and begin your first year of college you realize that things are a lot different. In high school your classes are mainly based off of what credits you need to graduate‚ but in college you choose what classes you want to take and when you would like to take them. College is also a bigger expense than high school. You have to pay for all your books‚ tuition‚ and even room and board. Lastly‚ college life comes with more responsibility
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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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Rough Draft of Frankenstein Essay Everyone is born a clean slate. This clean slate can either be morphed into something positive and thriving or something negative and withering. Mary Shelley wrote an entire novel to illustrate this point. In her novel‚ Frankenstein‚ Mary Shelley portrays how the nurturing of an individual can affect his or her identity. The atmosphere a child is raised in can have a strong impact on who he or she becomes. Victor is being raised to see women as something to be
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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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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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