How would it feel to be pregnant? I will never have the chance to find out‚ thank God‚ but apparently about 13% of the female students at Timken High School in Canton‚ Ohio know how carrying a baby feels. The spread of this epidemic must be halted now before many other aspiring students have their dreams dashed by the responsibility of parenthood. Through stronger parental guidance and support‚ better abstinence programs‚ and more government action‚ this urgent problem must be quelled and brought
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Censorship in Public Schools -A principal in a California high school bans five books written by Richard Brautigan because he thinks they might contain "obscenities or offensive sexual references" (Berger 59). -A Vermont high school librarian is forced to resign because she fought the school board ’s decision to remove Richard Price ’s The Wanderers‚ and to "restrict" the use of Stephen King ’s Carrie and Patrick Mann ’s Dog Day Afternoon (Jones 33). -An Indiana school board takes action that
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nationwide debate about whether public schools should require their students to wear uniforms. This policy should be implemented‚ because uniforms take importance away from materialism‚ and encourage students to focus on their work. Many supporters believe that the students will behave how they are dressed. If they are dressed in a tailored manner‚ then the students will act accordingly. Uniforms also encourage unity‚ take importance away from differences‚ and make schools better places in which to learn
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Topic: Violence in Public Schools Introduction The recent violence on school grounds (including elementary‚ middle school and high school violence) has created a climate of fear in American public schools‚ and the literature presented in this review relates to that fear and to the difficulty schools face in determining what students might be capable of mass killings on campus. Television coverage of school shootings leave the impression that there is more violence on school campuses than
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Religion in Public Schools Religion is a set of beliefs and practices often organized around supernatural and moral claims‚ and often codified as prayer‚ ritual‚ and religious law. Religion also encompasses ancestral or cultural traditions‚ writings‚ history‚ and mythology‚ as well as personal faith and mystic experience. The term “religion” refers to both the personal practices related to communal faith and to group rituals and communication stemming from shared conviction.(http://en.wikipedia
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promoting school desegregation‚ by which minority students are transported to largely white schools and white students are brought to largely minority schools. It is intended to safeguard the Civil Rights of students and to provide equal opportunity in public education. Busing is also an example of affirmative action that is‚ the attempt to undo or compensate for the effects of past discrimination. Such action is sometimes called compensatory justice. In many instances‚ neighborhood schools remain
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Should religion be taught in public school systems? According Emma Brown‚ the author of “These Christian Teachers want to Bring Jesus into Public Schools‚” this is a question that has caused quite an uproar for about 100 years. The author of the article “Praying for Legal Behavior: Why Teachers Shouldn’t be Preachers” ask many questions on this issue as well. Questions like should religion be a mandatory part of a public school’s curriculum‚ and if so‚ what religious practices should be used? On
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Home School vs Public Education Karmetris Levins Composition and Communication/155 02/22/2013 Home schooling clearly caters more to an individual’s learning pace‚ style‚ and level. It eliminates the problem of bullying‚ and allows a student to express themselves without fear of ridicule or failure. However‚ evidence suggests that the lack of
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Definition: Religion in school is the practice of any personal religious beliefs in a place of education. Introduction: In recent years teaching or the individual practice of religion in school has become a very controversial topic. There are many different views on this matter and even more opinions on how it should be handled. There are people on both sides of the spectrum‚ there are those who believe that it should be taught and allowed in school‚ and there are those who believe it should
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The Cons of the High School Exit Exam Since 2002‚ the Center of Education Policy (CEP)‚ an independent nonprofit organization‚ has been studying state high schools exit examination- a test students must pass to receive a diploma. They also predict by 2012‚ nearly 74% of all public schools in America will require students to pass an exit exam in order to graduate (Chen‚ 2008). After reading several articles on this issue‚ I find it very hard to side with the idea. A growing number of states are aligning
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