...American flag, and say the 31 words that make up the Pledge of Allegiance. We pledge towards the symbol of America because of the freedom it has granted us and for all the people who fight for our country’s freedom. However, lately there has been a controversy over many elements of the pledge- should we continue to say it in schools? What about sporting events? Should “under God” be removed or should it stay? The Pledge of Allegiance should not be required to say at schools and sporting events because it violates the basic human rights like freedom of speech and freedom of religion....
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...to send their children to public school or private school. Which public school is determined by what district or zip code you live in. Private schools are stricter were parents have to pay tuition and sometimes the child has to go through an interview to attend the school. The schools focus on the child’s health record and determine if the child has been given the proper vaccines. The parental rights are then questioned if the child is not up to date with their vaccinations. The schools then let the parents know that their child will not be allowed to attend school until their child has the proper vaccinations determining what is right for your child. Neither the government nor a school system should be making decisions on if your child should be allowed to attend school based on vaccinations, because vaccinations are not 100% effective. Parents should be allowed to send their children to public schools unvaccinated because they pose no threat to the children that are vaccinated. Vaccinations to enroll in school seem to be ill-advised and have no true basis. One cannot help but wonder how an unvaccinated child can actually affect a vaccinated child, if the vaccination is serving its true purpose. However, since the 1980s, as stated by Stay “the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention worked with state legislatures to require every child to provide proof of immunization in order to enroll and stay in public or private school, and began to see reductions in...
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...Some questions people ask about PE becoming compulsory are: Why should parents be for it, would it be unconstitutional, how can we change. Today, the obesity rate among children is at 17%. That is unbelievably high! Just a few year ago it was at 12%. There is a whole lot of talk about how we can improve the healthiness of the food in the school system, but there isn’t a whole lot of talk about how we can increase the physical activity of our children. President Kennedy said, “Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.” Why should parents be for law required PE? Well, this is an interesting question. Some parents would automatically be opposed to such a radical idea, just because they don’t like being told what to do. However; some parents would love it. But why should everyone be for this idea? Well first off, it would make their life easier for the parents and the kids. They wouldn’t have to be constantly be nagging their children to get off the couch or computer, and go play outside. Their kids would start to lose weight which leads to a more energized, satisfying life. It has also been proven that increased physical activity help people to focus, and get work done. The requirement of PE would be a huge help to families in more ways the one, and would help people who have trouble focusing. Would the requirement of this be communistic or socialistic? The answer in short...
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...Should students be required to wear uniform? I think they should be a requirement for students to wear uniforms. I believe it will help the student learn better and then they won’t have to worry about what they are wearing to school everyone looks the same. There are many opinions on the subject of school uniforms, but whose opinion should we listen too? What I am about to present to you will consist of opinions from threes sides. Those who oppose school uniforms, those that support, and my own. According to the Texas Education Code 11.162 a parent or guardian of a student attending a school at which students are required to wear school uniforms may choose for the student to be exempted from the requirement or they may choose to transfer to a school which students are not required to wear uniforms if space is available and if the parent or guardian provides a written statement that, as determined by the board of trustees, states a bona fide religious or philosophical objection to the requirement. This law is what many parents in Texas who oppose the school uniform requirement use to fight against the decision of the schools to impose uniforms. When some parents from Forney, Texas requested exemptions for their children, the school denied them causing lawsuits to be filed against the districts. The reason these parents opposed the uniform dress code? Because they believed it took away their children's freedom to express themselves. Other parents who oppose the uniforms...
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...Lets Get Practical In today’s graduating high school class everyone thinks the same. They are required to do just about everything the same. Students are not taught to think outside the box. By the time they leave high school they are not an individual yet. Yes, they can write a paper but it isn't their own thought. Yes they can spend money, but do they know how to manage and save it. Because of the lack of outside world knowledge, high school should shift to a more practical and individualized curriculum. It would benefit the high school students to learn more practical things because, they need to learn the everyday tasks that are required as adults. When students graduate, most if not all do not know how to balance a checkbook, manage a bank account, or even know how to budget. They need to be taught how to resit the never ending urge to buy something they know they do not need. A money management class will teach them how to be responsible with their money and teach them the benefits of saving. If I had of learned these tools while in high school, I would most likely have a car and my license by mid summer. But because I lack in these traits I will have to save and wait until next march to drive. If they are taught these things they will not have to face the burden of feeling and being unprepared for life. By teaching them time management there would be fewer mistakes made. They would have the proper time to be able to process their thoughts, and write them down for...
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...Physical Education Required Have you ever wondered how much it costs to help treat obesity? An obese person will spend approximately $1429 more on medical costs than a normal weighted person. That amount of money could be gathered and used for something else! On average, annual medical costs of obesity are as high as $147 billion (Begley 2). It is clear that we are becoming obsessed with food as a nation and are not making the best choices for our body. Children are lacking physical education because of an increase in technology, you will find most children coped up inside their bedrooms playing video games and eating unhealthy food. America is said to have 35.7% of their people considered obese or overweight. Watching our nation grow bigger and bigger is the reason why we must have physical education required in all schools so that we can teach children to be active and healthy, help lower obesity, and lower depression and anxiety. Physical education is instruction and development of the body that begins with easy exercises and moves to more rigorous ones. It provides children with the proper information on hygiene and helps with performance and management of athletic games. Many schools provide physical education in their schools but do not require it to be taken. In gym children are taught team skills as well individual skills. It teaches children the basis to a healthy lifestyle and allows them to interact in fun games or exercises with their peers. With physical education...
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...RESEARCH TOPICS Abstinence programs Do they work? Advertising Should certain kinds of ads be banned in the interest of health/morality/annoyance – alcohol, cigarettes, prescription meds, etc…? Africa Why so many wars? What’s the solution? Airplane accidents Who is responsible? Should families of victims be entitled to compensation? Airport security Should the government use invasive pat-downs and body scans to ensure passenger safety or are there better methods? Al Qaida Has U.S. policy actually spread terrorism rather than contain it? Will it get better or worse? Why and how? Alcohol Should the U.S. lower the drinking age to 18? Animal rights Should it be illegal to use animals for sports and entertainment? Arming pilots Good idea? Art A few years ago, an artist was criticized for depicting the Virgin Mary with elephant dung. When is art not really art? Athletes in high schools Should shoe companies be able to give away free shoes and equipment to high school athletes? Beauty contests Do they serve any purpose in society? Bridges, roads, waterways Why the government gets a bad report card on America’s infrastructure. Bullying laws Should the state or federal government put laws into place to prevent bullying? Cell phones How have they changed us socially? Censorship Should parents censor textbooks and other literature for children in schools? Cheap labor U.S. companies that move factories to undeveloped nations barely pay employees enough to...
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...High-stakes standardized testing can be a blessing and a curse, but the issue we are prompted with is should it be required in every class at Monett High School. Both pro and con side of the argument propose evidence as to why their side is considered correct and should be put into action. In the case of Monett High School I find that standardized testing would cause grades to drop while the assignments given would be completed with soaring averages. With information pointing to the failure of these tests not fully assessing whether or not the student learned the topic at hand, the topic of whether the test is reliable based on student’s mental condition, and improving the faster knowledge of comprehension ability or other things alike. We can find that there are two different sides to standardized testing, but would it really benefit Monett High School? Primarily, what should be the main focus of students attending Monett High School is their progression of...
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...whilst in school. Students have deemed this set of rules unfair and professionals insist that it has to be maintained in order to fully understand the grasp of pharmacy as a profession. Personally, I understand the need to abide by these rules but also agree with other students that is not necessarily fair. The profession,pharmacy, deals with lives. The three most important aspect of pharmacy are quality, safety and efficacy of medicines and these in turn help to save patients’ lives, to improve their health and to manage chronic diseases while at the same time maximising the comfort of the patient. It is important to demonstrate a degree of professionalism for patients to ensure their lives in our care. This level of competence can only be exhibited upon entering the profession if students are taught right from day one. It improves the chances of perfecting skills that have been taught and instilled from college and therefore of providing better services to the patients. As future pharmacists, pharmacy students have to assume the role and learn to behave in an appropriate manner that is respectful to both the profession and colleagues. A pharmacist or even a pharmacy student that is inappropriately behaved would have a detrimental effect on the name of the profession. It would impact on other colleagues and workers associated with working in a pharmacy. The only way to maintain the good name of the pharmacy profession is to ensure that students understand fully well what we are going...
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...knows that it is a state law for students in grades 3 - 11 be required to take an end of the school year test known as the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS). However, many Texas citizens are against this law because of circumstances having to do with their own children. Ask a Mom or teacher what they think of the TAKS test and you will hear an array of things that are wrong about this test (Hate 2009). The student’s grades during the school year should determine whether a student is promoted to the next grade not because the student did not pass their correct level TAKS test. Under current Texas Educational Law, students must take and pass four exit-level tests in order to receive a diploma, this is not considered right to many parents with students in school (Chapter 2008). Parents consider this wrong because they believe that completing twelve to thirteen years of education, just to take one test and missing just one question on that test determine whether they graduate. This is depriving them of something they have very well earned. If the skills required for these tests were just basic skills, or relevant skills for that matter, I would have no problem with the law that Texas endorses. However, these tests are tough. These tests require that students know such things as Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Algebra, Geometry and Social Studies, meaning that students in their junior year in high school must recall information from their eighth grade year all the...
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...questions from Group B, for a total of 10. Your responses to the questions in Group B should have three parts. Respond to these using Martucci Lamarre's (2006) B.A.R. (background, action(s), results) framework (p. 124). Respond to the questions as you would during an interview and provide as complete an answer as possible for each one. Group A: Standard Questions (Choose 7 questions from this group, from p. 121). 1. Tell me something about yourself. 2. Why should I hire you? 3. What are your strengths? 4. What are your weaknesses? 5. Why are you applying for this position? 6. How are you qualified for this position? 7. Why are you interested in working for our firm? 8. What can you contribute to this company? 9. What are your short-term goals? 10. What are your long-term goals? Group B: Behavior-Based Questions (Choose 3 questions from this group, from p. 124). 1. Tell me about a difficult situation you dealt with when supervising others. What did you do, and what were the results? 2. Describe a time when you had to use your best oral communication skills. What was the situation, and what was the outcome? 3. Describe a time when you had to adjust to change. How did you cope? 4. Explain a role you filled as a group or team member. 5. We all face disappointments in life. Tell me about a time when you had to handle disappointment or rejection. 6. Describe a situation that required you to show initiative. 7. Tell me about a time when someone made an unreasonable request...
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...Then we have been to the Adult school to learn English for a year to advantage our English and now we are in the college students. My sister and I do have many friends who come from many countries in the world; we use the English to communicate with our friends and understand them. Like my sister, I feel confident with my English even though somehow I speak not very well; I practice English everyday, in everywhere. I can communicate with my teachers, my doctors, my customers, my friends or someone else by English, and I independent on using English; I am happy about that. Communicating in English is the most important for everyone include immigrants in America so that it can become essential part to connect all people together in the U.S...
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...Jason Brannick Starsha Blankenship ENG 111-30H 11/3/2015 School Safety Not Gun Regulation As always with the unfortunate event of a school shooting people cope with the loss of loved ones and stay somber for a spell, but as the dust settles from this tragic event the usual debate of gun laws begins anew. This debate although important does not focus on what truly matters when trying to mitigate the occurrence of school shootings and the damage they cause. The problem that must be faced is law that pertain to school safety, why current methods must be changed, and what changes should and have been made. The most current efforts to strengthen school safety are polar opposites in some ways, but both have a strong emphasis on guns and their...
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...Module 7: Curriculum IMPLEMENTATON “Homework Must Be More Fun and Meaningful’ In Module 5 we discussed what was involved in curriculum planning and in Module 6 we looked at different techniques of designing the curriculum focusing on some curriculum design models. The next stage in the curriculum development process according to Tyler, Taba and Alexander & Saylor is the implementation of the curriculum plan. The final destination of any curriculum (whether it be a school, college, university or training organisation) is the classroom involving students, teachers, administrators and the community. Implementing the curriculum is the most crucial and sometimes the most difficult phase of the curriculum development process. Those responsible for implementing a curriculum often hear comments and concerns such as: o Teachers are already overloaded – how are they going to implement the new ideas. o Parents and education officers are only interested in a high pass rate in examinations – how are schools to incorporate suggested changes. These are real concerns and made worse when persons implementing the curriculum are not clear what is expected of them. How often have we heard people say, ‘the plan was good but implementation was poor’. On the other hand, if a curriculum plan is not implemented and remains on the shelf then all efforts in planning will be a sheer waste. A curriculum must be delivered...
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...meaningless without its achievement. Take a position on this issue. Use reasons and specific examples to support your ideas. 9 Many schools require students to participate in volunteer programs in their communities as a requirement for graduation. However, some people feel that requiring students to volunteer defeats the purpose of volunteering. Do you think students should be required to volunteer in their communities to receive their high school diplomas? Take a position on this issue. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. 10 Because of safety concerns, many states have increased the age at which teens can begin to drive. Your state legislature is considering raising the minimum driving age from 16 to 18. Do you think the minimum driving age should be raised? Take a position on this issue. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. The British naturalist and politician John Lubbock wrote, “Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.” Do we choose our own character traits, or is our character formed by influences beyond our control? Take a position on this issue. Support your response with reasons and examples. Thomas Jefferson wrote, “Determine never to be idle . . . It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.” Do we accomplish more if we are always doing something,...
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