...High school caught me off guard. Unlike middle school and elementary school where the schools were small and the teachers knew me somehow, high school was big and the changing of schedule every year made me an invisible student. I never communicated with my teachers or classmates. I felt like I should solve my problems on my own and had to be kept to myself. I heard my fellow classmate one day during my senior year talking to my English teacher about him being depress because he lost his friend in a car crash. If felt like he should’ve talk to his parents rather than talking to the teacher in front of the whole class. I realized that later in my life that it’s called being open minded, and it leads to a good friendship. It can be very helpful...
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...Many Schools-- One Purpose “Brando, pack your bags,” Mom said. She went on to explain that it was happening. Again. I was expected to once again pack my belongings, once again attend a new school, and once again meet new friends. One of my greatest challenges was moving so many times and attending many schools.I have been and attended to a total of 8 different schools. Getting used to a school or friends was never easy for me due to the constant moving. Many problems such as being put in a foster home, losing a house and other issues forced me to have to continually move. I have always strived to achieve my best and continue to do so. I attended six elementary schools so that primary knowledge was a mess. Never learning certain subjects...
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...There is a lot of pressure that can be put onto college students when starting college or while in college. Even from the start of high school, students are faced with the pressure that comes along when getting ready for college. Students are expected to use the resources they get from high school and apply them to college. But from my personal experience, I honestly can tell you that only a little bit of what I learned from high school can be used in college. I am not just talking about classes, the college prep really did not help. It also feels that now high school students seem forced to go to college because that is the best way to succeed in life. Which is not entirely true because there are still some good jobs you can get without a degree. When in college there are many factors students face such as...
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...Deciding what high school to attend is the first real step toward your future. In choosing a school you're essentially investing your trust in the institution to guide you on the correct path toward your college aspirations. That is why I would like the opportunity to entrust County Prep High School with my future. As an institution County Prep offers the best combination of elective courses, diverse and tolerant student life, and clubs to push me in the right direction on my journey to becoming a psychologist. Coincidentally these are all on my metaphorical high school checklist First on my high school checklist are elective courses and the elective courses offered at County Prep are second to none particularly your Medical Science program. Having a wide variety of electives to choose from is important in showing how extensive your knowledge accumulated throughout high school is to college admissions offices. I hope to take psychology my junior year followed by abnormal psychology and sociology my senior year from your medical science program. In addition to taking courses offered in your...
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...controversial subject in schools lately. Despite this, sports has shown to provide many benefits for students. Athletics has also had a role in the school environment for a very long time. School sports have been shown to develop skills that prove important in life and creates a sense of pride for students. Another benefit seen in studies was the improvement of student academics. Overall, competitive sports should remain in school systems. High school athletics have led to the growth of mental and physical skills. This varies from instilling life lessons, to learning how to stay in shape and keeping up with physical fitness. One former NFL player, Donté Stallworth, tells of the impact sports made on his life “As I move beyond my NFL career, I incorporate much of what coach Al taught me as a teenage boy - teamwork, responsibility, perseverance, accountability- into other aspects of my life” (Stallworth) This excerpt shows that all of these favorable traits were learned during school sports, and that he was able to put them into play throughout his life. All in all, sports lead to the progression of important traits....
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...In the United States, over a thousand children have been shot dead in 2018 alone. Twenty American schools have been tainted with blood and bullets. America's youth are terrified of going to school because the one kid in English is 'weird'. Civilians can purchase firearms used in the military for whatever purpose. A gun built for shooting down an army of men is available to whoever. Yes, mental health regulations exist – but how seriously are we taking it? The answer should be obvious. Imagine having a full year without your phone flooding with news headlines; "breaking news: sixty dead in mass shooting"…."seventeen shot dead in Parkland High School, Florida." Between the ages of zero and nineteen, forty-one children and teens are shot in murders, assaults, suicides, suicide attempts, unintentional shootings, and police intervention daily. According to The Brady Campaign, even children and teens die from gun violence. Four of them are murdered, and three are lost to suicide. Every day, forty children and teens are shot and survive. Thirty-one are shot in an armed attack, and one survives a suicide attempt, and 8 are shot unintentionally. It should scare us to know that every day our youth somehow come face-to-face with a gun, and they lose their lives due to something preventable....
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...Reflect on your high school year, think about your senior year. Think about your anticipation to go out into the world, to go to college, to work a job or a start a new career. Did you know what you wanted to do? If you did know, how did you know? Was you inspired, did someone from a career field come and talk to your class and sparked the interest that changed your life? Bring someone in from the career field of engineering to speak to our class. A large amount of the young minds in this class are creative and technology oriented. If an engineer came to talk our class the creative people could be inspired to create buildings and to design and engineer blueprints and floor plans to make the buildings of the future. The students who love playing...
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...High school lunches and college lunches are totally different. Colleges are so much better because of the items. I may not know what I am having for lunch until I make it to the lunch room, but it usually never disappoints me. Student card, the variety of food to choose from, and how many times I can eat are three ways that high school lunches and college lunches differ. The first quality in which high school lunches and college lunches differ is the use of a student card. I must always have that student card with me when I eat. Without that student card, I will not be able to eat unless I plan on paying for lunch. They are very strict about it and usually do not let you eat without it. In high school, all I need is my lunch number that I received at the beginning of the year. Just remember that number and you can eat. It is very easy to remember a three digit number then to keep up with a student card....
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...They set goals high, and dream big that one day they will reach a professional level of sports. High school students have huge aspirations on pursuing an opportunity to the next level during their four years in high school. They play high school sports because they center their attention on teamwork, winning, getting in better shape, and building character traits that they’ll use forever. But, what if one year one student endures an injury that will forever hinder his or her ability to play the game he or she loves the most? How will the contributors of this article encourage high school students to participate in sports despite that fact that safety is the main issue? Students in today’s society fight the ongoing battle against obesity or being overweight. They struggle finding ways to get active in school and it shows significantly. According to sports advocates: Many health experts maintain that the rising popularity of high school athletics is a good sign. They stress that sports can help to keep students physically fit and healthy, and counteract the current trends towards inactivity and obesity in the U.S. High school...
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...But oddly, not many people now about the church shooting in texas where a man shot up a church with a rifle but was later shot and killed by a man with a rifle of his own, effectively stopping the shooting before it could further escalate. Recently the media also did not blow up coverage on the maryland school shooting where a teenager fired rounds in his school but was stopped by an armed school officer, stopping the shooting before anyone could get seriously hurt. The shooter Rollins a 17 year old, was not armed with an assault rifle or any rifle for that fact, instead he was armed with what most shooters would use, a handgun. This may be why the media did not want to cover this extensively, because it was not an assault rifle used and/or the fact that authorities actually did their jobs and stopped the shooter. The anti gun liberals are using the media and the minds of young liberals to advance their goal in banning all guns, possibly getting rid of the second amendment. After many tragedies the media have always said that the current shooting is the worst one yet, the “deadliest school shooting ever” when this is not the case. In the recent Parkland shooting it was...
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...Talawanda High School is just like any other school, however it’s located in a college town along with a very rural parts. Our school is very diverse in a way that others are not. We have students whose parents are professors, along with students who don’t have the best home life and lack parental guidance. There’s a various amount of students with vast styles and opinions. In our school there are different cliques that stick together. I’ve noticed that the students that have an all-around better homelife usually do better in their classes and are behaved better. However, this is no excuse for the ones living a harder life to perform poorly in their classes and act out against the rules. I lost a lot of my parental guidance in 7th due to my dad having a stroke. Despite that event occurring, I still maintain my grades and behave...
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...to a St. Aloysius from first to eighth grade at the same school. Everyone thought i would of wanted to go to Rice, St. Raymond's, or Cardinal Hayes for high school. Instead I chose to go to a prep school, not because I was a bad kid or did not love my family. I knew that it would help me out in the future by being letting me practice being independent, my experience would be greater, and i could focus on my sports. But I can't forget going to school in the city and the experiences that i’ve had. These two experiences have made me who I am and still help me to this day. School in the city could be amazingly fun, surprisingly boring, or sometimes dangerous. Anything could happen at anytime as soon as I left my house. For me school started as soon as i left my house because I never knew what experience is on the...
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...Sunnyside high school is just like every other high school, there are the popular kids, the nerdy kids, the jocks and the average kids. Everyone somehow seems to fit into one of these groups, everyone except for Sunnie Dryson. Sunnie is not like everyone else, she has a passion for making dolls. This makes her stand out among all the various groups and people at her school and causes everyone to push her away. Everyone thinks Sunnie is weird, all because making dolls is not something a typical seventeen year old teen does. Over the years she has made so many dolls that she has started a collection of over a hundred of them. Each and every doll is different in it’s own way and no two dolls can be grouped together. She loves making the dolls and she can not imagine stopping even though it is hindering her from having friends and being like every other high school girl. Sunnie has never once had a real friend until a boy named Joshua Assorted moved to her school two weeks ago. Sunnie and Joshua sit by each other in english class. The first day he came to school Sunnie noticed that there was something that stood out about him. Joshua was starting to become friends with Sunnie and she knew that once he found out about her...
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...During my first early years of school, I loved school and did all my homework, had lots of friends and I lived with my grandma most of Elementary school. I always got good grades in school and never ran into any problems with anyone. In 4th grade I moved from rossmoor Elementary school to Juliette Low Elementary in Anaheim and moved with my mom. When I moved there I suddenly started to not do well and got into a lot of trouble. In 6th grade I eventually got everything together and started doing well again in school and adjusted back to my good old ways. In Junior High unfortunately I started to get worse due to the people i hung around and my overall laziness. My grades were all D’s and F’s and a couple of C’s. I still had lots of...
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...physical and emotional limits of their players and create a hostile environment. However, if a kid truly loved a sport, they would put the differences between the coach and themselves behind and focus on being the best player they could be. This predicament has affected many others that are playing high school sports, including myself. It’s an extremely difficult situation to be in, mainly because you’re afraid to confront him/her and you can’t just go up to the coach and talk to them about the issues that are happening. A player can have a great amount of mixed emotions when in this situation. Anger, frustration, and disappointment are all emotions an athlete feels, with those three being the main ones. In addition, they fight the urge to quit everyday, knowing that it isn’t going to get any better. Players though, need to rely on themselves with self-motivation and support from their teammates to get them through a season in order to be as successful as possible, however having fun is the number one priority to younger kids and high school athletes, while winning is the 10th...
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