Student-Athletes who are recruited to play a college sport are going in with one goal‚ to play their sport professionally by being the best player they can be. Unfortunately only about 3% percent of NCAA athletes in their respective sport go on to play professionally. The other 97% spend hours and hours of their precious time practicing on the field all for no future in that specific field of work. Actually according to Forbes‚ Marc Edelman reports “student-athletes work 3 and a half more hours a
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Teachers Should Be Tested Like Students Education is an important component of life today‚ but it has also become one of the costliest activities for the United States government. In 1993‚ public spending on education was around 6 percent of the national income‚ totaling $375 billion; an amount larger than social security and national defense. However‚ educational experts and the public claims that such a huge investment does not correspond with the quality of education offered in schools. In
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“PRO/CON: Should all high schoolers take courses in personal finance?” is a article about why and why not high school students should take personal finance classes. Some say that it would be better for the kids to take them‚ and others say that it would be worse for them to take the classes. After analyzing the pros and cons‚ it is obvious that having students take personal finance courses has more benefits than drawbacks. Opponents of making students take personal finance classes argue that they
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charles darwin thought of the theory. In his time he was looked down at by society for coming up the theory and so was everyone that believed in it. People were arrested for trying to teach this theory in schools before 1950 and people still have problems with it. Evolution should be taught in schools because it is pretty much proven‚ Darwin’s theory was and still is misunderstood and all theories must be studied. Back when evolution was first taught of on the galapagos islands by Charles Darwin the
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It is a general truth the fact that teachers grade students but would the world be turned upside down if students would also be allowed to grade their teachers? To begin with‚ though the grading offered by a student is not always the most objective‚ I think that students are more entitled than any inspector to grade their teacher’s work in class because‚ after all they are the ones who interact the most with the teacher and can appreciate the effects that the teacher has on them. In addition‚ it
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This is the week for you to put in your vote for student counsel. You should vote for someone who will make the school stronger and active. Listening‚ and reaching out to the students is one of my top priority’s. You should vote for me because I am always on time‚ I am organize‚ I always keep my promises‚ I am smart‚ I am helpful and creative. I can get work done on time. I will do anything to put my work before anything else and get thing’s done on time. If you need me I will find a way
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Bring Back Flogging This Bring Back Flogging essay seems to hit a real strong point in the fact that prisons are over populated and it costs so much to take care of each and every one of them. The most outstanding question is‚ should we bring back flogging? The answer is so complex and complicated that no one person can come up with the best answer. Some seem to think that flogging should be brought back in some form because we could better control the prison systems and the overpopulation problem
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In my opinion‚ cursive shouldn’t be taught in schools. It’s harder for kids to understand the letters in the alphabet. Did you know over $92 million tax funds were canceled because of cursive? Cursive is a waste of time and it can cause a lot of problems for people. Some people may say that cursive is important and it can take kids back to the older generations‚ but I don’t think that’s true‚ some kids can’t read cursive so they don’t understand it. Cursive hard to teach and to use‚ if cursive wasn’t
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I feel like high school students should not be forced to take calculus unless they need it because it will be a waste of time for them to take a class that they don’t actually need instead of taking one that they need. In my opinion I think that for students that got all of their math credits should not be forced to take the class. I’m aware that if people take the class and the AP test and pass it‚ they won’t have to take it again in college but that should be the student’s option because they will
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Many student athletes thrive to become professional players of that sport. Almost all of them graduate from college with low grade averages. So‚ as a result of that‚ they attempt to become professional and the do not succeed. Now they can not go back to school and get good grades to then be able to get a well-paying job. Student athletes should have to maintain a certain GPA to participate in sports activities because it motivates them‚ it gives them a financial benefit and most coaches look
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