High schools across the nation have observed an upswing of disinterest and unmotivation within the senior classes‚ caused by a mistreatment‚ and misunderstanding of the young adult. Upon reaching senior year‚ most students find themselves feeling rather exhausted. Subsequent to experiencing 11 years of school‚ the seniors feel deserving of respite. The amount of energy poured into their scholastic lives up to this point is beginning to either payoff‚ or disappoint. This idea is difficult to handle
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Murrysville‚ Pennsylvania (CNN) -- A teenage boy wielding two kitchen knives went on a stabbing rampage at his high school in Murrysville‚ Pennsylvania‚ early Wednesday‚ before being tackled by an assistant principal‚ authorities said. Twenty students and a security officer at Franklin Regional Senior High School were either stabbed or slashed in the attack‚ Westmoreland County District Attorney John Peck told reporters. The accused attacker was been identified as 16-year-old Alex Hribal‚ according
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When I read Jonathan Kozol’s Fremont High School‚ this these feelings were even more reassured. Here in his writing‚ Kozol shares his experiences with students and teachers while visiting Fremont High School in Los Angeles‚ California. From the beginning‚ Kozol set the mood for the piece by describing the lackluster conditions of the buildings. He described the lack of sufficient classroom space by saying that "nearly a third of all the classrooms in the school‚ were located in portables...took place
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Social cliques are seen in movies‚ read in books‚ but rarely displayed in high school. Speaking as a teen‚ I can honestly say that I have yet to see pronounced cliques in my high school. Maybe I seem a bit biased‚ but I fail to see how cliques like this are formed. Rosalind Wiseman wrote this article‚ and it is nothing but what is displayed in movies‚ not real life. I mean‚ how could a group of teenage girls create a “Target”? It sounds like an action movie more than it does a group of girls. It
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many high school students anxiously await their entire high school careers for‚ but it is also a really important milestone in one’s high school experience. Due to the escalating numbers of alcohol consumption at school dances‚ multiple schools (one of which included Northern Secondary School) decided to take action and proposed to implement a breathalyzer policy at school proms. Personally‚ I do not agree with that decision; I believe that it’s an unnecessary thing to do. Though the schools that
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I know what was going through their head‚ “it’s just high school”. Getting that failing grade made me realize that I needed to strive for success in everything I do. Even if it was only high school‚ I was not going to fail ever again. If I had an uncaring attitude about failure in high school I was most likely going to have a careless attitude about college and in other things in my life
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20th‚ 1999 America’s deadliest school shooting had just ended with the suicide of its two gunmen. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold had just murdered twelve students‚ one teacher‚ and injured twenty-one since they began their shooting spree forty minutes earlier in the city of Littleton‚ Colorado. The media coverage of the Columbine High School massacre made this event have a tremendous impact on the people of the United States‚ inducing fear of all outcasts in schools‚ and creating an insatiable thirst
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Throughout my high school career‚ I was able to hold multiple officer positions‚ compete in varsity and junior varsity level sports‚ serve my school and my community‚ and also sustain a job. While at Annville Cleona High School‚ I participated in many clubs and activities both in and out of school. I busied myself outside of school through my job and by completing many hours of community service. For my job‚ I work at a local movie theater as a crew member and have recently been awarded
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Single-Sex High Schools Would Increase Educational Success Deborah Sarmiento Strayer University Professor Sonja Sheffield September 6‚ 2013 Abstract Our educational system is broken. It is struggling today not just because of the problems of undisciplined children‚ the pressure from legislators to raise test scores‚ the lack of funds‚ parents fears for their children’s safety‚ overwhelmed teachers; it is also struggling because we are graduating children that do not have the tools necessary
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as much as humanly possible. Throughout my high school career I have challenged myself by completing six advanced placement classes and taking other honors classes. I have taken these classes as a way to help guide myself for what is to come in the future in college. I was inducted into the National Honors Society during my junior year of high school‚ and I graduated with honors. Both of these successes are the two greatest accomplishments of my high school career. These two achievements prove how
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