America’s public schools are woefully underfunded. As state legislatures around the nation focus on reducing spendings‚ education spending is often the first to go. And when these public schools are confronted with a dramatically smaller budget‚ art programs get the axe. As the Chicago Sun-Times report in 2013‚ Chicago Public Schools laid off over 1‚000 teachers when they made the decision to close over 50 schools. Nearly ten percent of these teachers taught in the arts or music. As ThinkProgress
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are all kinds of school related violence and shootings today. If The Police are not full force in the schools they are not going to be able to quickly respond to something that happens unexpectedly. The first people to protect the students are the school staff themselves‚ Yet they do not have the resources to do so. Arming the teachers is the easiest way to do that. Indiana has passed a law that requires schools to have an armed Protection Officer on campus at all times during school hours (Chapter
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Creationism and Public Schools The issue of whether creationism should be taught in public schools‚ rather than evolution‚ is a new one. It has only been in the past fifty years that it has even been in debate. Public school science classes‚ when discussing the origins of life on Earth‚ coincided with Sunday school classes. Students learned that the Earth‚ universe and everything else was created in seven days‚ by God‚ as stated in the Old Testament. It was not until recently with the rise
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“Failing Public Schools” Example Essay (Final revision) My husband and I are products of the Prince George’s County school system. We both grew up in Prince George’s County. Now our children are attending Prince George’s County schools. In the 1960’s and 70’s when I was in school‚ I never thought of PG County schools as substandard. But today‚ I wonder if my kids are getting the same education as I did. Teachers are underpaid and overworked. The schools are overcrowded. If you live in
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School Dress Codes Schools and students have two different opinions on dress codes. Students want to wear designer clothing to school to increase social status and individuality. Parents are buying expensive clothes for their children as a reward for good grades. Meanwhile‚ the students are getting robbed and killed for their clothing. Some schools enforce dress codes to discourage violence against students that choose to wear higher priced clothing. The school’s main objective is keeping
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Eckhardt went to school wearing black armbands. The armbands were to symbolize their protest against the Vietnam War. The principal of their school heard of their plan and immediately created a policy stating any student wearing the armbands would be asked to remove them. If any students violated the policy they would be suspended until they agree to comply. The students violated the policy and were suspended. A law suit by the children’s’ families was filed against the school for violated the
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2013 Should Students Wear School Uniforms? The public school uniform debate has been an issue for educators‚ parents‚ and students for years now. While school uniforms are typically found in private schools‚ it was in 1987 that the first public uniform policy went into effect. Then in 1994‚ the Long Beach Unified Schools District in California adopted a mandatory uniform policy in some of its schools‚ making it the first urban district to do so. Though public school uniform use is not widespread it
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Teaching Patriotism In the US Public School Curriculum William Mulherin Kaplan University Teaching Patriotism in the US Public School Curriculum The purpose of an education in the 21st century has experienced some fundamental shifts from years past‚ and one of the biggest failures of the curricular offerings in most US public schools is the effort to instill a sense of patriotism among students. There is a need for instilling a sense of patriotism in every curricular
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John and Mary Beth Tinker had joined a group of public students against the Vietnam War in Des Moines‚ Iowa. The anti-Vietnam group planned to protest the war using black armbands. The school principals heard of their plan and responded by creating a school policy banning these black armbands. They informed the students that they would be punished if they wore the armbands. The students still wore the armbands to school and were subsequently suspended. Because they were minors‚ their father filed
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Public schools are schools that are provided by state and federal funding. Ninety percent of the children today in America attend public school. Private schools include both parochial schools and non-parochial schools. According to a special report published by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) in 2002‚ in 1999–2000‚ approximately 27‚000 private schools accounted for 24 percent of all schools in the US and 12 percent of all full-time-equivalent teachers. Clearly‚ there are many
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