Strengths: Madison likes to help others. She enjoys teaching others tasks. Current Grades: Math 72%, Seminar 100%, Human Development 93%, SLA 83%, Botany 82% Team Sports 100%, Teen Issues 92%. Physical Health: No concerns noted by mother.…
The television series Summer Heights High follows the journey of a young boy names Jonah. Jonah is in year 8 at Summer Heights High and has previously been expelled three times because of disruptive and dangerous behaviour. He is known in the school to have anger and attention deficit problems. Jonah struggles socially as he treats his teachers and classmates with disrespect. Jonah’s also struggles academically.…
In a recent poll performed by The Washington Post, six out of ten women declare themselves to be a feminist (Cai and Clement). In Ellen Ullman’s essay, “How to Be a ‘Woman Programmer,” she argues that women today “face a new, more virile and virulent sexism” (729). However, Saul Kaplan, author of “The Plight of Young Males,” adds to the gender inequality argument by stating, “Young men in the United States are in trouble by any measure of educational attainment” (732). It has become common today to argue about women’s inequality or focusing on solely the school’s education methods to equip future men, which we tend to overlook the deeper problems which are the results of our rapidly growing feminist culture.…
Not Homeschooling? What’s Your Excuse?: A Critical Response [EDITED VER.] Tricia Vaughan Smith’s…
Karl Taro Greenfield’s article published in the October 2013 issue of The Atlantic discusses the potential drawbacks of a heavy workload on middle school American students, specifically his 13 year old daughter, Esmee. Greenfield addresses these drawbacks by choosing to complete his daughter’s homework for an entire week to truly see how the other half lives. My Daughter’s Homework is Killing Me successfully brings to life the hardships that today’s students face concerning the time the spend on homework and the lack of teacher understanding regarding the topic. Greenfield opens the article by criticizing the school system for the number of hours of homework assigned to his daughter each night. He approaches this argument by comparing it to…
The greatest strengths that they all had, was that they were all hard workers and did everything they could do so that they could bring in money for their family. But to me, Henrietta was the strongest. She worked so hard, she always made sure her family had food and when she got sick, she stayed strong and continued to be herself. When Henrietta was very sick and she knew she was about to die, the way she had faced death was understanding that it was about to come and she would tell her sister and cousins what she wanted from them before she died. Then she rolled over and closed her eyes.…
The article "A Nation of Wimps" written by Hara Estroff Marano, elaborates on the many reasons why our nation has become wimpy. The lack of self reliance in people today has caused the formation of a pampered generation. Marano's article includes many detailed examples explaining the weak and dependent personalities of this nation. Many have noticed this problem, but few have made an effort to implicate the changes needed to solve it. Adjustments can be made to the way people live their everyday lives to prevent this issue from increasing.…
In recent studies, millennials have been shown to be the most overprotected generation of children to exist in our nation’s history. (LeMoyne & Buchanan., 2011, Pg. 399) In the two works “How to Land Your Kid in Therapy” by Lori Gottlieb and “Don’t Pick Up” by Terry Castle, the idea that helicopter parents will, over time, cause emotional and psychological damage to their children is thoroughly dissected. These two works set out to provide validation that unless these children can break away from their hovering guardians, they will never find themselves, nor be truly happy. I agree with both Lori Gottlieb and Terry Castle, in that helicopter parenting causes a plethora of issues as a byproduct of being overly involved and overprotective.…
Most kids now days would have no clue what to do if they did not have their parent on their side which in most case is crucial. Teaching children to be independent when it comes to survival of food and other cases is not good parenting. The lack of parenting from Rose Mary had allow her children to find different ways to be self-independent just to live. Although Jeanette suffered at a young age being independent, the value being independent helped her as a teen. Finding different job to provide her own income.…
As a social media active senior at Sigourney High School, I never thought about the validity of the points made in the essay I read. Every day of the week, we, as students are glued to a form of social media at some point in the day. Social media is at our finger tips at all times, whether it is on our one-on-one computers, or checking our phones between classes. Although social media is great in many aspects, it can draw kids away or shelter them from things they should experience in life.…
Monica Potts attempts to answer the question “what kills poor white women?” , in her essay “What’s Killing Poor White Women?”, Potts uses studies on this topic, her own research, and her own opinion to try to answer this relatively new question. Potts uses a woman’s life that fits the criteria as a poor southern white woman as the basis of her essay. The essay is full of facts that I agree with but there are some points in her writing that I do not agree with, and think are rather stereotypical.…
A child who is not guaranteed an education or does not have a chance to receive an education is able to gain an education through Title I’s program. Some children are more fortunate than others to be living in a family who has a stable income unlike other children who are struggling. Title I has provided a program that gives disadvantaged children who have a low income the chance to improve their academics in order to become successful in life through the need of Elementary and Secondary Act, Obama’s issue of No Child Left Behind and Every Student Succeed Act. In the 1900’s education was not equal for African Americans and only whites.…
The proposal to change the school curriculum and ethos is the most challenging part of Brighouse’s argument because it is the one that will take the most amount of time and cooperation to achieve. Changing the school curriculum to include more life-centered classes such as good parenting and emotional development would undoubtedly improve a child’s ability to flourish, however adding these courses while only keeping a bare curriculum of basic mathematics, language-arts, and science is contradictory because mastering those skills matter as well. Brighouse even admits that he does not “have the expertise to recommend a particular way of integrating life-skills into the curriculum” (55). The most crucial proposal for getting children to flourish by changing the curriculum and ethos of schools is also the most unachievable, and therefore…
Having a formal education is one of the greatest contributors to individual empowerment. Education is the gateway in which the majority of people find professional success. We are taught that if we do well in school then more options will be available to us later in life. However, I have concluded that the American school system does not empower its students that come from low social backgrounds or specific minorities as evident in Jonathan Kozol and Jean Anyon’s essays on education. Brown vs Board was a historic decision in American history that reversed the claim made in Plessy vs Ferguson that “separate is equal”.…
This essay deals with the subject of longer school years for American youth and how these would benefit children in the future. Research for this essay was located through the South Texas College online library databases and other online sources. Longer School Years for American Youth Lately there has been more and more debate over whether or not American children should have a longer school year. This would mean taking a month from summer vacation.…