Abstract The debate of what time should high school start has been at large over the past couple decades. Some schools are willing to try the later start time and some are not. Research and studies of schools that start later have proven many positive opportunities for high school students. The later start times will help reduce the risk of sleep deprivation‚ depression‚ and other health concerns amongst teens. It will also help reduce absences‚ increase their school performance‚ and allow students to
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School athletics are too important to the amount of students who take part in sports to cancel. Many athletes involved in school-funded sports learn many morals that will help them in the future‚ and have extraordinary grades that help them continue in the sports they wish to partake in. Schools should not eradicate athletics. School sports programs teach athletes how to work as a team‚ athletics teach students how much dedication it will take to play a sport. School-funded sports teach the importance
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I awake before the sun. When I rise‚ I am greeted by the comforting darkness of the night‚ lulling me back to sleep. I engage in the daily brawl against my bed‚ struggling to get up. After a rough victory‚ I get out and start my day. I reach school by 8:00‚ where I spend the next 7 hours listening to the droning of teachers‚ laboring over assignments‚ and killing trees by taking pages of notes. Now‚ this scenario is not uncommon among most students. The average profile of several students shows that
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High school vs College In high school‚ you usually cannot wait to enter college. More than likely because everyone thinks about how you actually get to take the classes you choose and the freedom that you are granted becoming a young adult on your own. High school and college are very dissimilar. Almost everyone goes through a transition between two very diverse and different worlds. During my four years of high school‚ I always wondered what college would be like. August 18‚ 2014‚ is the exact
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tears buried in my pillow‚ asking myself why didn’t they pick me ? "why aren’t I good enough ?!". Making the school Basketball team is something that was a very huge goal for me at the start of every school year‚ and a motive at the start of every summer.Till this day I haven’t made neither my middle school nor high school Basketball team‚ I’ve only came very close. My freshman year of high school is where it hurt the most. I had finally started to get a
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countless times; ‘High school does not prepare you for college.’ To me‚ this is a very scary thought‚ but one that is so true. As much as I wish I could say it’s not true‚ high school really doesn’t prepare you for your future schooling‚ and that really needs to change. What I have noticed throughout my high school career‚ and even my older siblings high school careers‚ is that many teens are enthusiastic about college‚ but have no idea about how to get there. Most high schools don’t offer classes
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class was by far my favorite class in elementary school. I would look forward to the class‚ and would be one of the only girl in my class that would participate to best of my ability. Some of the other girls would also act the same‚ however there were a few who were not interested in athletics. Because of my constant need to be active when I was younger‚ I connected more with my male classmates. My best friend was a boy throughout elementary school. The girls in my
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Technology in the High School Classroom As the technology of the world advances‚ schools must make necessary changes to incorporate innovative technology into the classroom. In their article "Teaching in the One-to-One Classroom"‚ Alice Owen‚ Sam Farsaii‚ Gerald Knezek and Rhonda Christensen discuss the changes in curriculum‚ attitude and strategies necessary to positively implement technology in the classroom. Providing students with new technology creates an interest in learning‚ a competitive
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more than being a high school student. In the time that i have been in college‚ I have seen that more freedom is allowed to students in college than in high school. Such choices as the note taking‚ the environment‚ or class selection are a few examples of how college is less restrictive than high school. Because of the educational freedom and having more control over my education‚ I find being a college student more enjoyable than being a high school student. In high school‚ the classes that students
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Someone Starting High School “ This essay will explain the different areas of advice I would give to incoming high school freshman. In order to do this I will describe the following areas of advice: social; academic; extra curricular aspects. I will start of with the social aspects of high school. We have all gone to High School at one point in our lives. It is safe to say that most of us if not all have thought at one point or another “if I only knew then what I know now‚ high school would be way
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