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    school should start later. As a middle schooler, I see some students sleeping in class. I can tell that students aren’t getting enough sleep at night. In an article called “Backgrounder: Later School Start Times”, the author states that kids need a lot of sleep for performance, health, and brain development. Research shows that kids need 8 or 9 hours of sleep each night. Anne Wheaton says “getting enough sleep is important for students’ health, safety, and academic performance.” Timing at…

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    created to make the school environment safer for the students, the faculty and the community. The policy address violent actions, possession of weapons and drugs with suspension and expulsion. The standard protocol for zero-tolerance eliminates the individual’s moral decision making as every case is conducted in the same manner, no matter the circumstance. As presented in “Stolen Trust”, by Kailey Burger and Meira Levinson, a great teacher-student relationship is faced with a criminal case of a…

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    Child Abuse Effect

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    few of the many side effects children suffer from child abuse. Academics can also be extremely interfered with by abused students, who cannot cope effectively with the situations. Teachers are some of the best individuals to help pinpoint students who are…

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    either find time to write a paper, take a failing grade and have to retake the course, or take Jim Bob’s “tweaked” paper. While Jim Bob’s paper seems the most appealing, Buffy would have to take into consideration the affect this could have on her values. Although she is doing this to better herself and her family, cheating, no matter how low-key, is…

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    studies, which show how fear causes exam anxiety. Scientists studied the results of two groups of students taking the same test; one group suffered exam anxiety while the other group did not(1). As a result the group, which suffered from exam anxiety, had poorer results, perhaps because the fear they had of failing the exam caused them to not think logically. The thoughts of failing were stronger than the actual focus on the exam. Another example of an emotion, which causes to make irrational…

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    Plagiarism, can be one of the many issues of a student’s academic life, it is simple to understand what plagiarism is defined to be but may seem tough to bypass. There are many different types of plagiarism but in terms of English it can be classified as “Intellectual theft”. From the defined definition from dictionaries, plagiarism is the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own work. “Plagiarism derives from the Latin word “Plagiarus” which translates…

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    ethic. They don’t like school, so they just quit. Teachers try to make school harder to fail and easier to pass. “Many students will avoid working hard in a class that they see as challenging because of the risk involved. If they work hard and fail, then they’ve proven their…

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    years ago a local student name Sam White went to Benjamin E. Mays High school.Sam was a Junior and was a very smart kid but one day Sam and his cousin went out one night and Sam got into some trouble with some bad people. Later that morning Sam and his cousin returned home only to find Sam’s mother dead on the kitchen floor. This was a major life event that lead Sam to drop out. We need to start fighting the dropout crisis because we are losing too many smart and young students everyday.We need…

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    Countless children go through their life not having any grit, which causes them to not be able to deal with failing or not doing well in school. “Qualities like grit and resilience are not formed through the traditional mechanics of “teaching”; instead, a growing number of researchers now believe, they are shaped by several specific environmental…

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    Full Time Student Athlete

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    A student-athlete is a partaker in a specific sport. They are the ones who are being sponsored by the government or by the educational institutions. Student-athletes must also know how to balance and manage their time as a full-time student and as a full-time athlete. They should not get a failing mark on their academic because it is one of their responsibilities to balance their academics from their extra-curricular activities. Student-athletes are tested by their education, passion and…

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