...Sport is friendship, Sport is health, Sport is education, Sport is life, Sport brings the world together. There are many people who adore sports and some schools want to take that away from people. A lot of people that love sports get good grades and get a good jobs later in life. Although, schools want to get rid of sports that is not a good idea because sports help relieve stress and school sports are less expensive than doing sports outside of school. Schools should not get rid of sports because it helps relieve stress. First of all, in the article “Should Schools Get Rid of Sports” says that “Physical activity can be the antidote. Stepping away from your books can help sharpen your brain.” Secondly, going to gymnastics gives me a break...
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...Do you think schools shouldn’t have homework? Well a lot of kids and a handful of adults think schools should get rid of homework altogether. I believe schools should stop giving homework to students for these reasons: First homework causes health problems, and secondly takes important time away after school. The first reason is, homework causes health problems. For example, It causes stress, by family conflict. It also limits sleep, high level stress, and extreme weight loss. An example of extreme weight loss is, when kids are spending hours on homework and not having fun or exercising outside. Furthermore, believe it or not homework can even cause stress to teachers. According to, BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Teachers call for ban on homework...
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...For years there have been many arguments around the world debating whether schools should allow after school sports or not. Many people believe that academics should come before sports. Therefore, schools should not have sports in order to help students focus on their school work, cut costs, and increase standardized test scores. Games and practices may distract students from doing their work and learning. In the Scholastic News article “Should Your School Get Rid of Sports” written by Amanda Ripley, it states that “Distraction, however, may be the greatest cost of all” (11). She goes on to say that “Focus shifts away from learning. Players spend long hours practicing, and that commitment extends to the rest of the school” (Ripley 11). Learning...
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...working on homework that does not belong to that class. High school students are constantly going to, sports, club meetings, jobs and then family and friend commitments. With the average teenager having multiple hours of activities, it can be difficult to conclude all homework to the extent of accuracy needed to learn the material. Karin Klein states that, “A poll of public school teachers finds that on average, high school students are assigned 3.5 hours of homework per weeknight, or more than 17 hours a week.” (Klein). Having this load of homework makes students sacrifice their social life and sleep this creates stress and sleep loss. For this reason, I believe we need a study hall to help complete our work assigned to us. A couple of years ago we had T.I.G.E.R on Wednesday, where material was gone over such as bullying and hazing but homework was not allowed to be done. Having a study hall would be beneficial to all students. Other schools have study halls and are proven to work great for the students and their work ethics. Students could raise grades, for the reason that the resources they needed help to complete the work would be readily avaible. Therefore stress levels would be decreased and sleep, increased with more free...
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...Do you believe school sports can affect a student's grades, or that sports may cause unnecessary injuries to a student-athlete? I believe that sports should not be removed from schools because they have a positive impact on students. Sports give students something to look forward to, a lot of health benefits, and a chance to improve their social lives. Without sports, many students would have more stress and have less social skills to help them communicate in the future. The most important reason school sports should stay is that it gives stressed-out students a relief from their school related responsibilities. It also gives them something for them to look forward to during the long school day. Doctors and specialists are saying that physical...
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...Procrastination is something that we all do to a certain degree, but it is also something that we rarely try to change or work on because it does not seem as important as other issues. I choose to write on this topic for this very reason. If I do not work on it I will continue to procrastinate and this issue will not be addressed. Procrastination is also hindering my school and work performance to a fault in that my grades and work performance could be much better if I just completed assignments diligently and on time. This is also an issue of organization for me because when I do not do things on time then assignments and deadlines pile up. When I decided to deal with my procrastination I did not realize how difficult and demanding it would be. For example I had to make a list of all the things I needed to get done that day and the list was long, but the tough part was when I finished with the items on the list it was again time to make another list, and so on and so forth. So the process, at the beginning, was very overwhelming. However, having a schedule prevented things like homework and work deadlines from piling up and leading to reduced performance. For this project I picked up the self-help book The Procrastinator’s Handbook by Rita Emmett which not only discusses methods to reduce procrastination but also gives a deeper explanation for why we procrastinate. The first point Emmitt stresses is what she calls “tackling the dread” which essentially means understanding why...
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...since I have not had one throughout my high school years.” Study halls have helped some students, but have hindered others. Over the years, Manson Northwest Webster (MNW) has had a problem with disruptive students who do not pay attention and do not do their work. Teachers at MNW have narrowed the biggest reason for this down to students in study halls. A few years ago in the 2013-14 school year the MNW study hall policy allowed students as many study halls in their schedule as they wanted according to the graduation progress and grades, however, the school board and faculty decided to change...
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...Parents should try their best to look good in their kids eyes, in order for their kids to grow up and be a responsible adults. Rex Walls is always drinking and doesn’t stop even though Jeannette asked him to stop for her 10th birthday. Rex Walls even takes his kids to the bar, that’s how much of an alcoholic he is. Instead of the kids worrying about something like not doing their homework, they have to worry about her dad getting home drunk trying to hit their mom. According to parents’ magazine, “The best way to instill values is to be a strong and present role model.”(What makes a Great Parent?) Kids should be seeing positive things at their house, having a loving family instead of...
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...Abolishing Standardized Tests Standardized tests should be abolished from schools. Standardized tests, like SOLs, are hurting students more so than they are helping them. These tests put a lot of stress on teachers and students. Test scores are used to show school improvement and how well the school is academically. Schools try to raise their test scores to make the school look better. In order to raise the scores teachers are being forced to teach to test. Teachers are only teaching students what they need to know to pass the test. These tests are forcing a curriculum and that is unfair for both teachers and students. There are many students who want to learn more and there are also teachers who want to teach more and go more in depth in a subject but they are unable to because they are required to just teach them how to pass a test. In class we hear our teacher say all the time, “...but you don’t need to know that it, it won’t on the test.” Many would think that standardized test is helpful to students because the main goal is to pass, and move up a level in school, but in reality students do not benefit from this at all because their sole purpose in learning these specific subjects are only by temporary memory. Standardized tests are so important in a students success in school. Whether or not the pass the tests determines if they pass the class. A student could do really well in class and then fail their test at the end of the year then in turn, fail the class. Not...
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...“I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.” Julius Erving Hello, my name is Riley Oliver, many of you won't know me few will, but we can get to that later. Today was the first day of my senior year, and for my journalism class we have to keep a journal of our final years in high school. So here we go. September 15th The year is 20fucking80 and in less than 4 days I will be 18, all my shit years behind me; 2 more months of high school and I’m finally off to college. My high school years flew by, after winning the world tournament for chess my freshman year it’s like everyone suddenly needed to know me, not like they wanted to know me the first 14 years of my life, but now I was different since I was always on television and sponsoring the newest watch or the next coming up brand and how could I forget about all the new gadgets, basically what I’m saying is whoever was my friend got all the shit I didn’t want which to be honest was 90%. Because of my sudden fame I always had some sort of plans, one lame ass thing after another, shopping, movies, dinner, bowling, sleepovers and really all I wanted to do was spend some time with my crush, too bad she never even noticed me before. Sometimes I wish I was invisible to everyone like I was to her. Cynthia, hair that didn’t quite meet up the popular short standards of today, a bright blonde, almost white flowing like a waterfall as it falls off her shoulders as she walked passes...
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...time management. I have such a busy schedule most days that it is hard for me to balance my time in the best possible way. I have a primarily set schedule every day, so you would think that it would be easy to get into a routine and stick with it. That’s not the case for me. I have such little time to actually spend on myself that I sometimes let that time spill into time that I need to be studying, getting homework done, cleaning, doing laundry or something else productive. I always have a list of tasks that I want to accomplish during the week but I rarely get them all completed. Something else that’s more appealing to me always seems to steal me away from what I know that I should be doing. This leaves me rushing at the last minute to get everything done. Oddly enough, this tends to motivate me and I seem to work better when I know I have a tight time limit set. In order to be able to take steps to rid me of bad time management and procrastinating I need to determine what I do that wastes the most of my time. As well as eliminate the things that distract me most from being productive and accomplishing tasks in a timely matter. I have found that a lot of my time has been wasted doing little insignificant things instead of or during trying to accomplish tasks. I get caught up in things like playing games on my cell phone, getting on Facebook, playing with the dogs, and texting. These pesky detours end up taking up a lot more time than I think they do. If I were able to consciously...
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...| Phrasal Verb | Meaning | Example | A | abide by | respect or obey. (the law, a decision, a rule) | If you want to stay at this school, you must abide by the rules. | | account for | explain, give a reason | I hope you can account for the money you spent! | | add up | make sense, seem reasonable | Her story just doesn't add up. | | advise against | recommend not doing something | The doctor advised him against carrying heavy loads. | | agree with | have the same opinion as somebody else. | I agree with you. I think she deserves the award too. | | aim at | point something in the direction of a target | The policeman aimed his gun at the hijacker. | | allow for*** | take into consideration, include in a calculation | You'd better leave early to allow for traffic jams. | | answer back* | reply rudely | Don't answer back your mother! | | appeal to | 1) plead or make an earnest request 2) be attractive or interesting | 1) The organizers appealed to the crowd to stay calm. 2) A trekking holiday doesn't appeal to me. | | apply for | Make a formal request for something (job, permit, loan etc.) | He applied for the job he saw advertised in the newspaper. | | avail (oneself) of | take advantage of something (an opportunity) | When the company is privatized, you should avail yourself of the opportunity and buy some shares. | B | back away | move backwards, in fear or dislike | When he saw the dog, he...
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...Effect of Guidance Services on Study Attitudes, Study Habits and Academic Achievement of Secondary School Students Abid Hussain Ch.* Abstract The substantive aim of the study was to examine the effect of guidance services on students’ study attitudes, study habits and academic achievement. An experimental study was devised for the purpose. A guidance programme for secondary school students was developed by the researcher. An experiment was conducted to explore the effectiveness of guidance services in terms of improvement in students’ study attitudes, study habits and academic achievement. Ten null hypotheses were tested to explore the effect of guidance services on students’ study habits, study attitudes and academic achievement in five subjects. All the hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The results of the study indicated that the guidance services have significant effect on the students’ study attitude, study habits and academic achievement Introduction The quality of a nation depends upon the quality of its citizens. The quality of citizens depends on the quality of their education and quality of education besides other factors depends upon study habits and study attitude of the learners. Quality of education is reflected through academic achievement which is a function of study habits and study attitude of the students. Thus to enhance the quality of education, it is necessary to improve the study habits and study attitudes of the students...
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...Chris Phillips Professor Daniel Wesley English Composition II 1302-062 10 December 2012 ADD/ADHD: A Proposal I’m hesitant to write about ADD/ADHD. It just seems like two-faced ground. Judging by the comments I’ve read online, in magazines, and my own experience, expressing an opinion about this identification or anything dealing in child psychiatry will be met with censure from both sides. I was reading an article “Ritalin Gone Wild” in the New York Times, and I felt obliged to write. If you have not read “Ritalin Gone Wild”, I persuade you to do so. In my opinion, I agree with the article except for the mention about “children born into poverty therefore [being] more vulnerable to behavior problems”. Unsurprisingly, the article has fascinated many online detectors. Let us check out this response from the NYT, accusing Dr Sroufe for “blaming parents” for ADD/ADHD. When I read the original article, Dr Sroufe did not do that. Instead, he noted that ADD/ADHD symptoms may not or at all come from a congenital neurological defect or “chemical imbalance”, but that ecological influences may be more significant. He also says that, ADD/ADHD drugs do work; children and adults do perform better on meds, but the successes do fail over time, perhaps a drug answer does not change ecological situation in the first place. I could not agree more. I think this statement is true for much of what is treated in psychiatry; it is predominantly related to children and adolescents. Children...
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...On a daily basis, I carry my phone, a necessity for most people my age. My phone carries all of the people I talk to within arm’s reach. It carries all of my connections to the rest of the world through the various addictive social media apps. In the frightening case that the small glass rectangle that controls my life dies, I carry a charger. I carry the grand and overused label of being an entitled, technology-obsessed millennial. I carry the dependency of texting, snapchatting, or talking to people every time I get the chance. I carry the understanding that I AM an entitled, technology-obsessed millennial. Before I leave my judge-free house, I make sure that I carry makeup. It helps me feel a little more confident about myself and the way I look. I carry the upsetting fear that most teenage girls can relate to. I carry numerous snacks that shortly aid my seemingly never-ending hunger. I carry the insecurity that I am constantly being judged by my peers on my way of life or how I’m perceived. I carry extras of almost everything in preparation for possibilities. Those possibilities include...
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