...As we grow up people expect us to just know what we’re going to be as adults. What we are going to do when you grow up, How we’re going to act like grown-ups. But they never actually teach us how to be grown-ups. High School's should be focusing on more important classes such as teaching us how to do our own taxes, how to keep our credit score up, how to save. Instead, once we learn algebra, algebra two, geometry we have to continue on with pre-Calc and other things we may not even need to know for our future occupations. I think the school board should add classes that teach us basic life skills we will need as adults. Our high school curriculum should just add classes like that into our daily schedules. Or allow students to choose if they...
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...High School involves a lot of organization in order to succeed. When you start the year, it’s important to keep your binder as organized as possible. Time management is also insanely important. A lot of times, when you don’t get your homework done, it snowballs into a huge problem until you fail the class. Now teachers understand if you have a busy home life, you just have to communicate this to them. Talk to them and let them know you don’t have much free time at home. But if you don’t have anything to do at home, GET YOUR HOMEWORK DONE. Set aside 30 minutes before bed or after school to do homework. Another 10 minutes to study every night. If you stay focussed you’ll be done with your school work in less than an hour. To keep your binder...
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...When I started high school I wasn’t sure what type of leader I was. I had been a part of Beta Club in middle school, but I felt that was more working with a group of people then really being a leader. So during high school, I decided I wanted to do more. I started volunteering with the fire department, volunteering then working at my temple, and became a section leader in band. The Fire Department is by our house, and I had been intrigued with it for years. When I was a sophomore in high school, I decided to become a member. They hadn’t had a “junior” for a long time, so it took a lot to win their trust, respect, and friendship. Since the department was so close, I went to all of the trainings, took as many classes as I could, and learned from anyone who would take the time. I got up early to help set up blood drives, stayed late when there was an emergency in our community, and did everything that was asked. Due to this dedication and...
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...Dragging yourself out of bed and forcing your body through another exhausting day; constantly being expected to be at your best performance. Not only that but you’re also expected to take on an abundance of homework and challenging courses. These are only a few out of several reasons why high school may be more challenging for students than previous years, such as middle school was. So why are we as students forced to run off of less and less sleep as the years go on when things only become more and more challenging for us? With all the hard work we’re expected to do daily, we should at least be given a half decent time to wake up. When we were in middle school, we had to wake up around the same time as high schoolers, now all of a sudden...
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...Throughout all of high school, students are taught in minimal ways to produce “perfect” essays and present them so that when they get to college they can pass their classes. This means that high school teachers only teach them to write so specifically and in such a hard structured manner, that many students hardly ever learn to write papers that flow. In high school, I always wrote really nice papers that my teachers enjoyed grading, however, I always hated writing them because if I did not use the cookie cutter format that they gave us, my teachers would not accept the work. The format that I am referring to goes as follows: hook, introduction, and thesis for paragraph one, three body paragraphs with two examples to support your thesis in each paragraph, and finally a conclusion ("Essay Template"). In total, there were five paragraphs, never any more, and never any less. The hook was always supposed to be a quote related to the topic or a factual piece of information...
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...There are many similarities as well as differences between High Schools and Colleges throughout the United States. This happens to be such a major transition that will sometimes make you question is it even worth it? In the society we live in today it seems as though you are nothing without a diploma from high school plus a degree from college. While attending high school your 9th through 12th grade year it gives a sense of happiness knowing that it’s almost over and sooner or later that time will come that college is the next big challenge that has to be conquered. However, while still in high school there are many rules and guidelines to be followed such as regularly attending school five days out the week six hours per day no matter. Parents are still legally responsible for all the actions that a child makes and get information on behavior, grades the whole nine yards. Standardized test popping up...
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...Starting high school is one of the biggest steps a teenager takes in their life. Before entering high school, their mind is filled with apprehensive thoughts of not fitting in or making new friends and feeling like they do belong. My doubts about not fitting in at high school evaporated the day I found out I had made it on the Fighting Cardinal Marching Band Color Guard. Choosing to tryout for the FCMB guard was by far the best choice I could have made entering high school. The reason why I chose to tryout is because my sister was in the FCMB and had many amazing experiences to share with me and I wanted to be in it to encounter those same feelings, but I did not want to play an instrument. I can still recollect the feelings I had when I was performing for the first time at tryouts and I, still to this day, cherish the excitement I felt when I received the news that I made had it. Without marching band in...
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...High School Concussions Have you had a concussion before? You get all confused and disoriented and have trouble remembering things. Students in High School athletics get concussions all the time. “47% of all reported concussions are in football alone. 33% of which occur during practices. There were 3,800,000 concussions reported in 2012, double what was reported in 2002.” High School athletes are vulnerable to concussions every day in practice and in games. The number of students getting concussions is growing every year, but how do we bring that number down? The statistics of concussions High School sports is important along with the dangers of concussions, and what a concussion is. These are the kind of things that schools should be aware of for the students sake. (Head Case). Concussions are very dangerous but every day there is a student at a school that gets hit or falls and ends up with a concussion/concussions. “In every 100,000 athletic...
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...To start, injuries in high school athletics happen all the time. More than they should. According to Pham-Kanter, “The CPSC National Electronic Injury Surveillance System also reports that over 3.5 million sports injuries in children younger than age 15”. That’s insane to think about. Kids younger than my age are getting injured on and off the field in various ways. With this said, there are a lot of different types of injuries. There are a few categories of sport related injuries, common injuries, severe injuries, and career-ending injuries. Let’s focus on common injuries. Common injuries would be defined as an injury that makes the athlete only miss one week or less of practice or competition. Research was done to figure out this mystery of what the most common injuries are in high school...
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...One of the best experiences I had was being in the Rummel/Chapelle Band program for all of high school. Doing band is the best decision I made. Every year we begin with marching season. The band creates a field show ever year and performs that field show during football halftime. Also we go to many different marching competition throughout the beginning of school. We also do a veteran's day concert and Christmas concert every year. After the first semester of school we go into my favorite part of band the spring season. Every year we audition for our chair placement in the concert band. My first year I audition and got second chair I was so happy because it was my first year in the band. I also audition for junior high honor band and made...
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...Breaking news! Orthopedic surgery becomes the most profitable career in medicine as increasing numbers of high school baseball players tear their shoulders and elbows to shreds. That wasn’t the headline in my local newspaper this past summer, but this was: “New pitch count limits applauded by some, ripped by others.” For those of you who don’t eat, sleep, and breathe high school baseball, you wouldn’t know what this means, so here’s some background. The NFHS, the national governing body of high school sports, had instituted an innings limit on high school pitchers to ten innings every five days. It was meant to prevent shoulder injuries. Nobody liked the limit because it made no sense. It had no bearing on the number of pitches thrown, since a pitcher could throw 50 pitches in one inning. Seeing the issues with this, there will be a pitch count limit for this upcoming season. Some people love this idea, but they don’t play the sport and don’t...
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...A Satire on High School Education Every student’s goal throughout their high school career is to be the worst student possible. The teachers and parents don’t have any effect on the education a child receives nor do they wish for the child to succeed in school. A High School is the most perfect environment for students to gain an education and everything is exactly as everyone says. The grading system, the curriculum, and the students eagerness to gain an education is not flawed what-so-ever. High School is a place where students are being looked after, taken care of, and bullying does not exist. The first reason as to why high school is the greatest place on earth is obviously how the teacher teaches. Every single class has that one group of students that the teacher truly admires. In Fact, the...
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...Around six o’clock every morning, teens all across America are awoken by the deafening and annoyingly familiar sound of their alarm ringing, beckoning them to get ready for school. Their response; hitting that well-known snooze button, as their bodies crave another hour of sleep. Most high schools in America start at or earlier than 8:30 AM, which is much too early considering that the students usually fall into a deep sleep sometime after midnight(Wallace). Studies show that 87% of students, or more specifically, teens attending high schools report getting less than the recommended 8.5 to 9.5 hours of sleep on weekdays due to their schools’ early start times(Reddy). Start times at 8:30 AM or earlier in America are negatively impacting teenagers’...
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...In the article "Kentucky school shooting: 2 students killed, 18 injured" by Holly Yan, Anne Claire Stapleton and Paul P. Murphy from CNN informs us about another high school shooting. It occurred on January 23, 2018 at Marshall County High School. The suspect entered the school at 8:57 a.m. ET and started shooting. Two students were killed and 18 other people were injured when a fifteen-year old opened fired with a handgun. The fifteen-year old was arrested at the scene, and was charged with two counts of murder and twelve counts of first degree assault. The majority of the students called their parents to tell them about the situation. Parents said their children told them the location of the shooting. Junior Taylor Droke and a friend were running late and...
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...Scaredy Cat On a dark and stormy night on a cold Halloween a group of kids named Jack, John, Matthew, and Sam were walking past the Salem high school. There has been rumors about the school being haunted. There was apparently a kid who had a spell casted on him that turned him into a cat. When you would walk past the school you hear a cat meow. The boys found a slightly opened door and thought it would be a good idea to go inside the school and investigate. As the boys roamed the halls they kept hearing sounds of water running from a faucet. As the boys kept walking the sounds of running water got louder. They finally found the source of water coming from the janitor's closet. The boys entered and shut the water off. As the boys stood...
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