The Importance of High School High school is the final experience for students during their K-12 years. While many go on to college or technical school‚ high school represents the end of formal education for many students. High school also is a kind of “launching pad” into adult life. Students mature a great deal during these later teenage years‚ developing important work habits and attitudes as they become more independent. However‚ while many high schools give a good education‚ some things
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Extending High School. I don’t think high school should be extended to five years. Many students can barely make it past the first couple years. If high school is extended‚ then there will be an increase in the number of student dropouts. There will be a decrease in the number of high school graduates. Many students don’t like school‚ so an additional year may just be too much. Eventually‚ they will decide to drop out. More conflict will arise for those students who do not get along well with
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As time passed‚ I slowly learned to adjust in the western society. In school I did make few friends but some still hated me. I started to build confidence again in myself and started recognizing the social struggles minorities were facing when it came to diversity in high school. I also started getting adjusted in my community and making new in church. I attended prayers every evening and helped in cleaning of church every weekend. While at my community church‚ I noticed that many students in my
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Background A heated topic of debate among many parents and public high schools is sex. Further‚ what message would distributing condoms at high school say about sex? A majority of parents would agree that it sends a negative message out to impressionable teenagers‚ that being sexually active is socially acceptable and even expected. In Seventeen Magazine the article “Sexual Reality” by Anne Fearon it states that most school officials‚ and even doctors agree‚ that it does not send that message
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High School Goals High School to some is the best part of their lives and to others is the worst part of their life. As for me I believe high school is just about setting goals and achieving them. Personally‚ I set up three important and motivating yet perceivable individual goals to get me through high school. My First Goal is to not miss more than two days of school in the entire school year. My second goal is to finish my high school career with the 26 credits that I am required if not maybe
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same time as we do and were some of their “problems” not as much of a problem as it is to us. Teens from the past and present are faced with problems such as school‚ relationships‚ and friends. There were many teenage problems back then in “Rebel Without a Cause” and today’s teenagers. Most of these problems that Jim Stark and the other teens faced were similar‚ but my own belief is that these same problems were not as big of problem back when they were growing up. Let’s take school and homework
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10:00 A.M. High School and College Millions of students attend some level of higher education in the United States each year. The top two tiers of learning in the country are high schools and universities. Both college and high school are important to the development of our countries’ youth. The knowledge gained from these two educational systems will fuel our nations youth to provide them with a more prosperous future. The first of many differences students attending high school in the United
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22‚ 2011 Unit 1 Paper “What High School Is‚” is a chapter from a book called Horace’s Compromise: The Dilemma of American High School‚ and was written by Theodore R. Sizer in 1984. Mr. Sizer starts the chapter out with a story of a typical boy named mark who is in the eleventh grade. In this story the author describes in detail how Mark spends one of his time blocked days in high school. Mr. Sizer feels it is important to analyze how Mark spends his time because he feels it is a reflection
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High School is Not for Everyone Have you ever heard the statement‚ “College is not for everyone”? Well what if we took it a little further and said that high school is not for everyone? Is this a reasonable statement to make and is it sensible enough to even be considered? Carol Jago believes so; she says that entrance to high school ought not be automatic‚ and that only those demonstrating “minimum competency in math‚ reading and writing” be allowed to enroll in high school (191). Should this proposal
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Dropping out of high school is one of the nation’s biggest issues. Having a social life will be one of the first things affected by this decision. Going to college will be the next one because it will be more difficult to get in. If high school dropouts have a hard time getting into college they will also have a hard time getting a job due to the lack of knowledge. Dropping out is not a good choice because it will effect many things in your life. Dropping out of school would impact teenagers’ social
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