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Uniforms In Public School
1,501 words... dropped rapidly and 600 students have been given detention and 200 suspended. This did exactly the opposite of what uniforms are suppose to accomplish. If policy makers are serious about finding solutions to the problem of school violence, maybe they should ask the real experts: the students themselves. The ACLU recently conducted a series of focus groups with high school students asking them what would help reduce violence in school. Uniforms did not make the list. Their suggestion: 1. Sinc...
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Los Angeles Times School Uniforms
1,124 wordsViolence has been around since this world began, whether being in biblical times or in the modern times. Although violence has been around a number of years, there is on place where parents trust they can send they children with worries, school. Everyday a mother wakes up, kisses her children goodbye, and sends them to school. Unfortunately, in these times that we live in parents may have a legitimate cause to worry about their childs well being. Parents often wonder if their children are gettin...
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Entrance Exams Active Role
1,097 wordsJapanese children are better students than American students due to a more active role by parents and families in their education. Parents of the United States (U. S. ) arent as involved in the relationship of their students schooling All students who attend school in Japan start their school year in April. The parents of the Japanese students believe that the April cherry blossoms bring their children luck. Japanese parents decided to make an eighth grade camp for students who wish to go to hig...
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Importance Of Teaching Nutrition In Schools
2,008 wordsNutrition should be taught as a part of the health curriculum because, it is important for children to learn healthy lifestyle behaviors. Nutrition is the area of health that focuses on planning a healthful diet and includes choosing a variety of foods from the Food Guide Pyramid, adhering to dietary guidelines, reading food labels, making food selections to reduce the risk of disease, making healthful selections when dining out, considering food safety, maintaining desirable weight, and avoidin...
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Open Campus Middle School
433 wordsI am going to explain to my little cousin what to expect from high school; how the social scene is different, what you have to do to graduate, and what some of the perks of being an upper clansman are. When you start going to high school, you will be somewhat scared. The other students will be older, larger, and possible more mature. You will see many different faces, some you like and perhaps some that you don't. There will be girls that you like and girls you don't that will like you. One of t...
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Social Learning Theory And Tv Violence
1,252 wordsDON-RAY TV Violence on Children In the United States children watch an average of three to fours hours of television daily (Cantor & Wilson, 1984, p. 28). Television can be a powerful influence in developing value systems and shaping behavior. Unfortunately, much of today's television programming is violent. Studies of the effects of TV violence on children and teenagers have found that children may become insensitive to violence. Consequently, they tend to gradually accept violence as a way to ...
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High School Athletics Good Or Bad Influence
1,149 wordsHigh School Athletics: Good or Bad Influence? In America we have laws, laws against killing, laws against stealing, and its excepted that as a member of American society you will live by these laws. In West Canaan, Texas, there is another society, which has its own set of laws. Football is a way of life. This excerpt taken from the beginning of Varsity Blues, which premiered in 1998, shows the way of life for high school football players. In this movie, Jon Moon played by James Van Der Beek assu...
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Half An Hour Middle School
599 wordsThe students of Snow Canyon Middle School desperately need there time away from school. To unwind from tests, teachers, school work, and learning. All those subjects are very stressful in a young teenagers life. Our lunch hour is the only hour from 8: 00 a. m. to 2: 50 p. m. that we have that we can just get away from school, and relax and have fun. This is why we must fight for a longer lunch hour. My friends and I are always rushing down to lunch, which takes time out of our unwinding. Then we...
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American Democratic Education Is Wasteful
1,009 wordsI am not anti-patriotic. I am an educational realist who has taught English for thirty-four years in public schools. I know from experience that American democratic education is a costly, wasteful enterprise. Educational philosophers, bureaucratic administrators and school board members will proudly tell the public that our American educational system is democratic, based on our noble form of government prescribed by Thomas Jefferson. The rhetoric sounds mighty good, doesnt it? So good that it w...
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Positive And Negative Effects Student Achievement
1,509 wordsThe Objective: Through comprehensive research I have read and studied many conflicting viewpoints about the importance and benefits of homework. I hope that with this paper I will explore why homework has been under scrutiny. I also want to show how researchers were vital in determining effective methods for improving student achievement. At the forefront of those studies was Professor Harris Cooper. Due to Coopers studies a new understanding of why homework is important and how homework can and...
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Middle School First Day
1,037 wordsThe first thirteen years of my life werent very exciting. I played soccer, went to school, hung out with my friends, you know, the normal things a kid did. Then, my fourteenth year, I met the guy that threw me my first lifeline. His name was Gabriel Flores. He was the kind of guy everyone liked. He played all the sports including baseball, football, basketball, soccer and track, and played them well. The first day I saw him I knew there was something special about him I couldnt quite figure out....
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Freedom Of Thought Ray Bradbury
1,107 wordsIn Ray Bradbury's book Fahrenheit 451, showed a dystopian society in which owning books is illegal. The general nature of the society is based on destruction and emotionless, broken families. Bradbury conveys this world in a way that one cannot help but to read it as disturbing fiction. However, upon looking at our own world, we see our limits and standards for acceptable reading material close tighter around the neck of literary freedom. People are advised to not read books that have correct hi...
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Why Should Middle School Pupils Wear Uniforms
553 wordsI think pupils at middle schools should wear school uniforms because school uniforms are homogeneous and show no difference concerning the families economic. School uniforms might help to reduce violence in middle schools, because middle school pupils, who wear school uniforms often feel more as a unit and get along better among each other. Apart from these reasons I also feel, that school uniforms help pupils to represent their school and to separate them from other schools and pupils. School u...
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Tobacco Smoke Healthy Lifestyle
1,649 wordsOpinion Paper United States is a truly unique country. When President Bush and his Bible thumping cronies introduce legislations that legalize tap wiring, torturing of suspected terrorists and keeping people in jail for years, without charging them with any crime, people think of it as normal. However, once the municipal authorities introduce legislations that are meant to promote public health, many citizens consider it as something that deprives them of their civil rights. In 2003, New Yorks M...
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Playing Video Games Cell Phones
2,269 wordsHow has Technology Impacted Parenting? (1) The fast pace of technological progress in recent years had a great affect on parenting, despite the fact that the process of childrens upbringing is traditionally associated with conservative values. We can even say that the concept of parenting is now being transformed to have an entirely new meaning. Children are becoming increasingly independent of their parents, because the realities of post-modern living result in situation when the notion of pare...
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Classroom Management Behavior Problems
2,888 wordsClassroom management Today, more than ever, students are coming to school unprepared to learn. There is an increase in family instability, poverty and misfortune. Perhaps in correlation, there is also a decrease in moral and ethical values (Evertson and Harris 67). With such dysfunction in their home and private lives, it is more difficult for children to focus on scholastics. Yet, all children require a variety of basic internal needs, including love, acceptance, security, belonging, and contro...
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Mock Trial Middle School
872 wordsEveryone is affected by certain events or individuals that greatly change their life. Many people have influenced me during my life. Three wonderful friends that have had a special effect on me are Robert, Tiffany and Ashley. In the four years that I have known them well, they have been my best friends, and have helped to transform me from a lonely middle school scholar into a happy senior with a decent social life. Popular wisdom has it that, You judge a man by his friends. Earlier in my life, ...
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Seventh Grade Middle School
1,074 wordsInfluence? Why is it that the people who influence us most influence us in ways that are not easily quantified? Through her work with abused children, my mother has shown me the heroism of selfless dedication to a worthy cause. By being an upstanding individual, my playwriting teacher in middle school acted as an inspiring male role model at a time when I needed one most. By being approachable and interesting, my World History teacher in my freshman year of high school opened my eyes to the conn...
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Van Der Bad Influence
1,165 wordsHigh School Athletics: Good or Bad Influence? ? In America we have laws, laws against killing, laws against stealing, and its excepted that as a member of American society you will live by these laws. In West Canaan, Texas, there is another society, which has its own set of laws. Football is a way of life. ? This excerpt taken from the beginning of Varsity Blues, which premiered in 1998, shows the way of life for high school football players. In this movie, Jon Moon played by James Van Der Beek ...
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Differences And Similarities African American
1,657 wordsThis unit is designed to make older middle school students look at and reflect upon art and film and to create art work with a deepening awareness of identity and an understanding of stereotype. Examining stereotype in contemporary life, in personal experience, as a tool used by artists to heighten understanding, and the uses and absence of stereotype in depiction of characters in cinema are key components of this series of lessons. In addition to looking at and being critical, students are aske...
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