With the most read news story this week being the video of a white sheriff deputy throwing a black high school girl to the floor earlier this week it is not wonder that the latest national discussion about race has to do with discipline and punishment. Several videos of the occurrence have spread like wildfire‚ a video that supposedly shows Deputy Ben Fields forcibly dragging a female African American student from her desk and slamming her into the floor after she supposedly ignored the teacher
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question is what time should school start and end. Some argue a schedule from early in the morning to mid-afternoon; yet‚ as a high schooler‚ I believe in a model where school starts around ten o’clock and finishes at five o’clock. This model coordinates with a teenager’s natural sleep cycle‚ assures students are well rested‚ and gives students that are early risers extra time to accomplish tasks prior to arriving at school. With the model I prefer‚ imagine starting each school day more rested and refreshed
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your neighborhood clean and green Good morning to….Today‚ I would like to talk about “Ways to keep your neighborhood clean and green”. It is important to keep our neighborhood clean and green. There are many ways to do this but they need to be done correctly. Some jobs we can do are to make sure we clean up our garbage and recycle items around the house. I love my community and I do not like to see it littered and dirty. We need to do our best to keep our community looking clean. Everyday‚ plants
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this reason‚ all efforts should be made in order to enable the students master this language. In my opinion‚ as a teacher of English language at schools for more than two decades‚ English language is easy to master. But‚ what I see now is something different. Nowadays‚ a majority of the students refrain from using this language. Many of my students at school tell me with frustration that they find English a difficult language to learn. I do know‚ that they sincerely want to master the language‚ use
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Ending the Mediocrity of D´s in Schools Getting a D gets you just as much credit as getting an A. Students are passing high school‚ but learning almost nothing in the process. One school district in New Jersey is trying to push those D students to get C’s by getting rid of the letter D from the grading system. Parent fully support this change but teachers‚ students‚ and some schools are against this because of graduation rates. Many believe that if you take away the letter D then the students that
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Mitch‚ I hope you are doing well‚ that you are finding joy daily and having a blast with the boys. I know breakups are never simple and that writing to you goes against everything society try’s to indoctrinate saying that a clean break is best‚ to not analyze or speak with the other party. Well I’m not normal and I say screw the "bury your feelings deep" dogma of today’s society I cannot go through life knowing that I didn’t give this my all. I don’t half ass anything and hope that was evident from
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In 2012 there were 3‚800‚000 reported concussions‚ 47% of those reports took place in high school football. 1 in 5 athletes will experience a concussion in each sport season and 33% of those athletes will experience at least one more before their high school graduation. Together as high school athletes‚ we need to stand up for our neurological safety in high school football by learning how to identify‚ treat and prevent a concussion. Now many people have no idea what a concussion even is. “A concussion
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Since the leave No Child Left Behind Act in 2001 high stakes testing has become the norm in school districts making students pass standardized test to graduate from high school or move up in grade level (Munoz 2014). These high stakes testing is mainly to determine whether the schools get funding‚ awards‚ or salary increases for teachers and administrators (High Stakes Testing 2014). I personally do not think this has good benefits for the students. I feel like these tests are all about a number
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focused on fitting in rather than moving forward into what I wanted to become in life. Although my grades say otherwise‚ I know I can do anything I put my mind to. Ever since I was a little girl I knew I wanted to become a veterinarian. Throughout high school many people tried to change my mind about becoming a veterinarian because of my grades. I would always say to them‚ " A grade will never define who I really am and what I can really do‚ You just can’t push a fish to want to start walking when all
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resources have adversely affected environmental balance. Environmental pollution in India has increased manifold‚ One of the greatest problems confronting the modern civilized world is pollution‚ which literally means fouling the natural habitat and environment. Air pollution‚ water pollution‚ land pollution‚ noise pollution are some types of pollution. Nearly 175 million hectares of land (35% of India’s total land area) is subject to serious environmental degradation. Hardly 10.12 per cent of the total
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