times I say it‚ still catches people off-guard‚ especially given that I wasn’t born in Japan and neither of my parents are Japanese. In Japan‚ I attended the American School in Japan (ASIJ)‚ a select‚ highly diverse international school an hour from downtown Tokyo. While I was young‚ I found it easy to appreciate attending school with expatriate students from different pockets of the world and being immersed in Japanese culture alongside my peers. Put simply‚ most students were inherently in the
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Growing up I never really liked school‚ I did okay in all the subjects‚ but it wasn’t my favorite part of the day. All throughout my k-12 education I always questioned why I had to go to school all year except summer‚ and especially why it had to be so early in the mornings. In the book “Rereading America” there is a passage titled “Against School” by John Taylor Gatto. In the passage Gatto asks “ Do we really need school? I don’t mean the education‚ just forced schooling: six classes a day‚ five
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insane if the school board adds one and a half hours to school. Children are already stressed about SOLs and homework. We shouldn’t put more pressure on them. The school board should add more days to the school days to the school year than adding more hours. Adding more time will cause more problems and stress. The school board should not add one and a half hours board because students will complain more‚ teachers will have to stay longer after the school day‚ and it would limit after-school activities
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As a young boy reading was never an exciting activity for me. Since the first day I began reading proficiently in the first grade all the way through high school‚ reading was always a chore. Novel after novel we read in class in which I found myself dozing off into the distance dreaming about everything but reading. The only books I’ve ever enjoyed to this day continue to be Magic Tree House‚ but after 3rd grade the story line begins to repeat and mock the others‚ kind of like a Capri sun after drinking
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Before school started I had a few worries that seemed to fade throughout the school year. The first worry I had was will I find my way around‚ but my worry faded away because I know where my classes are. My evidence is that I have been to my classes so many times I remember where all my classes are. The second worry I had was will I get along with my classmates‚ but my worry faded away because I had no problems with
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When most people think of high school theatre students‚ most visualize a bunch of snobby‚ overdramatic‚ hormonal teenagers‚ constantly reciting lines from plays as if that was how they always spoke. Now while some theatre groups may be like that‚ my high school theatre group certainly was not like that at all. My theatre group better known as‚ Buena Park High School Theatre Production‚ was one of the most welcoming groups in my high school‚ which is what attracted so many students like me who had
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I would never have imagined that I would be a high school dropout. Although I came from a single-parent household‚ grew up in a poor neighborhood and even lived in a homeless shelter once as a young child‚ I knew I would defy the odds. I tested into a gifted and talented program where I learned to speak French at second grade‚ sing in the chorus in third‚ and became a concert violinist by the time I entered middle school. I joined chess and French club and became a State-competing varsity athlete
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Jonathan Matthews bowed and returned to his seat. As the applause died down I counted how many people before me had to go up in front of the class. Our less-than-ordinary Health teacher has decided that we should go in alphabetical order by first name. That means that next up is Kim Hunter‚ then Kristy Smith‚ Liam Johnson and finally me‚ Lisa Williams. Everyone around me was shuffling papers and looking over spreads of information on large rectangles of thick card. Those who left everything to the
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As a high school student‚ I have to put much thought into the future. I was born in Guatemala‚ but I was raised in Baton Rouge‚ Louisiana all my life. We came from a very poor place where we had nothing‚ education was low‚ crime was high‚ and food was scarce. When we first came here we honestly didn’t have much. My Mother and I didn’t know English but at the time I was only 3 years old. My mother was carrying my sister so it was very tough at the time for her to find a job because she was expecting
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Math Problems Sometimes the most obvious person is the one you forget to ask. I was a fourteen year old boy‚ going to middle school in San Antonio‚ Texas. I was in advanced classes‚ and had never gotten below a high B on my report card. Throughout my whole life‚ I had only failed a few assignments and‚ to be honest‚ wasn’t used to having to work hard. When things started getting harder‚ I wasn’t ready. I was able to pass math with help from my parents‚ who showed me that parents are your biggest
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