“Condoms: The New Diploma” In the after math of the AIDs scare of the late 80’s‚ school board officials sought to create a health class curriculum that would cover sex education. This was a hot topic in the 90’s and it brought about the questions of sex education and whether it is the schools responsibility or the parents to educate their children. In Rush Limbaugh’s “Condoms: The New Diploma”‚ from his 1992 book titled The Way Things Ought to Be‚ Limbaugh claims that condom distribution promotes
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continuous deterioration of the quality of education in the Philippines has prompted the DepEd to push for the implementation of the K to 12 programs‚ which entails the institutionalization of kindergarten and the addition of two more years of high school in the basic education cycle. The proposal has spurred a heated debate on whether it could lead to improvements or just exacerbate thn e present state of education in the country. The Enhanced K+12 Basic Education Program in the Philippines has
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High school students should not be excluded from sports for not having the money. Around the world‚ so many students get shot down for not having enough money. If a player can meet the circumstances‚ they should be eligible to play. Money should not be an issue in any high school sport. Shoe companies should be able to give high school students free shoes because so many students get excluded for not having the money. Shoe companies giving shoes to high school athletes is positive in many ways
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The debate for school uniforms still rages on. School administrators taking one side of the argument. Even though uniforms are difficult to enforce in public schools‚ school uniforms should be enforced because they can help students resist peer pressure to buy trendy clothes and diminish economic and social barriers among students. Parents and teachers are not the only people concerned with the argument of uniforms in school. In President Clinton’s 1996 State of the Union speech‚ "if it means teenagers
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November 12‚ 2012 Should Algebra 2 be Required to Graduate High School? Every day‚ millions of high school and college students have to struggle through algebra in order to graduate. Having the ability to do mathematical equations will always be an important skill to have‚ but honestly‚ if you can’t solve ([3x - 3x^2 +1] ^744) x ([- 3x + 3x^2 +1] ^745) it doesn’t mean you won’t be successful in life. All it means is that you probably weren’t the best algebra 2 student in high school. “…One in four
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wide variety of people‚ including many college graduates‚ who should have easily answered this question. With this many people failing a simple question‚ there is evidence that high schools and colleges should require students to take a personal finance class so they can be financially literate in their lives. Students attend college mostly for one reason: money. College graduates earn an estimated fifty percent more than their high school diploma coworkers‚ and over a lifetime this can equal more than
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The hair style of high school students has been a controversial issue for many years. The prescribed plain short hair may look tidy‚ but the insistence on the hair length below the ear lobe in the case of girl students‚ which is fixed at one centimeter or at most two‚ is quite unnecessary. Until recently‚ the Mayor of Tainan had tried to persuade the Ministry of Education to give the high schoolers the carte blanche to determine their own hair styles. It is difficult for us to say if the idea is
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School uniforms can have a positive and negative effect on students and parents. Many schools world wide debate about wether or not students should be required to wear uniforms. The debate has been equally divided between parents‚ students‚ and faculty who feel that schools should or should not be required to wear uniforms. Students should be required to wear uniforms so that the schools bullying rate can decrease and also so that the crime decreases and the safety of the school increases. A reason
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sleep to take on the obstacles that will come. Kids should be getting 8.5 to 9.5 hours a day‚ but kids are getting less because of the school starting too early. Too-early start times can keep students from getting the sleep they need for health‚ safety‚ and academic success‚ according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. Starting school late is helpful because kids can get the right amount of hours that they need. Firstly‚ starting school later is good because kids can get the right amount of
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In It to Win It In the essay‚ “The Joy of Graduating” by Kate Stone Lombardi‚ describes the traditional high school valedictorian competition with the most prestigious students. The fight for the position of valedictorian has intensified over the years. Danielle Gorman‚ an elected valedictorian at Moorestown High School in New Jersey‚ was quoted by Lombardi of the qualifications and standards it took to become valedictorian. The traits Gorman describes common to valedictorians were taking on too
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