In order to get into majority of colleges‚ high school students are required to take the ACT or SAT. The score you receive determines which colleges you get into‚ which consequently determines the rest of your future. These difficult standardized tests cause an unnecessary amount of stress for high school students‚ as if they aren’t already stressed enough. Students are expected to take multiple AP classes‚ participate in multiple extracurricular activities‚ and find time to study for these standardized
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February 2014 Proposal Independence High School‚ located in San Jose‚ California is known to be the largest high school in the East Side Union High District. It consist over 3‚000 students per year‚ and yet only 31% of the student population has free-reduced lunch‚ according to High-Schools.com. But what the school of Independence serves for not only free-reduced lunch students but for non-reduced lunch students is not as nutritional as it seems. I believe the school lunch program at Independence does
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Standardized tests in school Standardized tests are very common in our schools today. Many school require that we take tests in some form and there is a big debate on whether these tests are actually helping students. There are many people that say that standardized testing is good for our schools and students‚ while others believe that standardized tests shouldn’t be used and are not necessary in our schools. My stand on the issue‚ is that standardized tests should not be used in school. Standardized tests
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Uniforms‚ Reduce Bullying In public and private schools‚ students are constantly being judged on what they wear and how they look. These judgments influence students to pick on others and induce bullying. If schools make uniforms mandatory‚ this cause of bullying would be eliminated‚ thus reducing the number of bullying incidents. Therefore‚ school uniforms should be required for all students because they will reduce bullying‚ relieve stress and make school a safer place. People are judged on what they
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The Wait Schools around the United States have been changing their lunch programs to a healthier option that will cut down on food that is unhealthy to the body. The high obesity rates were the leading cause of why schools began to cut out unhealthy food because of the results of “ child obesity has doubled in children and quadrupled in adolescents in the past 30 years” (Childhood Obesity Facts) . The reason why this will lead to an unhealthy life is that adolescents will not change their eating
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School Cheer A game was played in 1869‚ between Princeton University and Rutgers University in New Jersey‚ and by the 1880s‚ Princeton had formed an all-male pep club. In 1898‚ U of M was on a losing streak‚ and a medical student named Johnny Campbell assembled a group to energize the team and the crowd. Johnny picked up a megaphone and rallied the team to victory. Cheerleading grew from there. It wasn’t until 1923 that women were allowed to cheer for the first time. During this decade‚ cheerleaders
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Homophobia in schools Homophobia is a problem in many public and private school systems‚ denying homosexual students a safe learning environment. Everyday a student is discriminated against because of his sexual orientation. Gay‚ lesbian and bisexual students are being verbally‚ physically‚ and academically abused. Homophobia is taking hard working students and creating a negative and damaging learning environment for them. It’s time for a change. Words like “faggot‚ queer‚ homo‚ fairy
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Moving Moving schools is definitely a challenge for kids since it means they are forced to leave their comfort zone and find a new one. When I was about 9 years old my parents and I moved from Boise to Meridian. It wasn’t necessarily a big move since we still lived in Idaho‚ but it meant I had to change schools. It was difficult for me to do that since the old school I had been attending since kindergarten. Moving meant that I would have to leave my 4th grade class in Boise‚ to join a new one
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Middle school was really weird time for me. It seemed like it was the most dramatic / drama filled. Our school at St. Peters was messed up‚ anything that could happen did. I’ve had teacher come up to me and ask for answers to what happened. Students doing bad things and etc. Also middle school to me was so fun‚ because people who I like got in trouble because of me. If you weren’t my friend at St. Peters you better hope that you weren’t mean to me‚ because if you were the teachers would find out
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Since 2009 kids all over the world have been changed and not by appearance by their diet at school. Michelle Obama has made it her destiny to change everyone’s lunch. Now what make’s her think that she can just but in like the way she already has? Well the fact is‚ is that she wants kids to be more healthy so instead of giving us a normal amount of food which most middle schoolers eat a lot of she decided that she would make us healthier and cut that in half. She also has decided that she would also
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