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    failures each school has. It is to show that schools have better high school graduation rates without sports. Therefore‚ sports should not be allowed at school to save districts money‚ and improve students‚ grades. One of the major issues in America is the countless time’s students have academic failure rates due to sports. Amanda Ripley stated‚ “More than 20 nations have better high school graduation rates” (10). The article also claims that “In the spring of 2012 Premont Independent School District

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    addresses the inevitability that some adolescents have or will engage in sexual behavior. Twenty-one of the fifty states have school districts which provide condom availability programs (Brown‚ Pennylegion‚ & Hillard‚ 1997). Providing information about contraception and how to have “safer” sex is an integral part of comprehensive sex education. Providing condoms in schools is a much debated aspect of some comprehensive programs. In contrast‚ abstinence-only programs discuss abstinence‚ or refraining

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    waking up early and going to sleep early is difficult. Being a high school student is an extremely hard job to have‚ but could it benefit teenagers that classes begin and end later in the day? It most defiantly does benefit the teenager‚ but you cannot forget about the afterschool activities. If high school classes begin and end later in the day‚ students will be more focused and successful. It is very difficult for a student to wake up early and be expected to stay focused. For example

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    High school graduates must confront the difficulties brought to their attention made by college. One of many questions that they have to find the answer to is how will I pay or get to college. Many colleges have scholarship opportunities‚ but not all scholarships will apply to them. This makes it unattainable for them to receive a scholarship for college or incoming college students might not know about types of scholarships. Countries like Germany and France are now offering free college to international

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    Most high schools in the United States start school before eight a.m. Boards of Education do this to help make transportation easier and to finish the day quicker (Eight). Alas‚ they seem to forget about the effect of early start times on students. Later start times‚ anything after eight o’clock in the morning‚ would benefit students in multiple ways. First of all‚ it is a fact that teenagers stay awake later than others because they produce the sleep-inducing hormone melatonin until around eleven

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                     Period 4  High School Students Taking a Gap Year           Preparing our students for college is a main priority in our society. It is getting more  and more difficult to obtain a job and be successful without at least having a bachelors  degree. This is mainly why high schools focus on preparing students for college‚ but  sometimes this does not turn out to be the outcome. While many students can  successfully make the transition between high school and college‚ many are not able to 

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    The controversial topic that principals and school administration talk about is whether to raise the requirement age to stay in school. In the end‚ students should not be required to stay in school until they are at the age of eighteen. For one‚ some students need to help their family pay for their food and bills by getting a full time job. Not every family is lucky enough to be able to have their mom and dad to be able to have a job to be able to pay for all of the bills for their family. In the

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    1.The school needs to give us 60 minutes at lunch. This is because some students don’t get time to go and exercise in the gym after lunch‚ this would allow them to get more exercise to stay healthy‚ and allow time for kids to eat their entire lunch. Some kids only eat one thing on their tray which means that food gets wasted and makes more cost for the school. 2.Second the teachers need to give us homework that only takes around 15-20 minutes per class because some students can’t handle that much

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    25‚2014 Subject : English 110 The Uniform Compulsion Rule High-School is the greatest point in our life. It is the time of growth as well as challenges too. Completing my high-school studies from Guinness Int’l Higher Secondary School which is located at Kathmandu‚ Nepal was one of the memorable experience of my life. As a high-school student there‚ I get to enjoy and utilize different range of facilities like extra curriculum activities‚ computer

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    old twins who battle their oncoming demons everyday. Kaeleigh is the perfect student and the perfect child. Yet ever since she was nine‚ her corrupt father has sexually abused her because of the absence of his wife‚ who is away campaigning for congress. Raeanne doesn’t want to come second in her father’s eyes so she turns to drugs and sex to fill the void in her heart. This novel should be banned to young high school students because of the extent of drug use‚ the explicit and vivid sex and rape scenes

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