First Day of School Essay

The high school I went to did not have a good approach when it came to academics. If you were to ask someone that never stepped foot on campus their opinion on Beach High School, they would say derogatory words or, “Why do you go to that high school? You won’t learn shit; the teachers are just as dumb as the students!” Of course, I did not want to go to a school that was in a ghetto community. Every week you heard of a shooting occurring or a girl who was walking to or from school, who almost…

School On A Snow Day? When the snow falls, do you get anxious for a snow day? Well for some students, they no longer have snow days. Instead they have something called E-Days. Imagine a student waking up with snow on the ground. The first thing they want to do is check if they don’t have school, right? Imagine their disappointment when they learn they still have to “go” to school. E-Days are where you could do your schoolwork online. Students should be outside playing, but instead, they are…

“Throwing Down The Gauntlet On My Life” I’m a junior at Presbyterian Pan American School. I was born in Brownsville, Texas, but since my parents are Mexican nationals, I grew up in San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico. In 2013, my parents told me to “pack your bags” you are going to Kingsville, Texas. I came to Texas three years ago to attend Presbyterian Pan American School (PPAS), a senior private boarding school in Kingsville, Texas, on an academic scholarship. Talking about different aspects…

A memorable day in my life is when I came to job corps and got my high school diploma. I never thought I could do it but when I did I felt like I accomplish so much in life. It has yet to end job corps made me a better person when I came here. I can finally say I finished school. And that I made it to be successful in school and not be held back no more on stuff. As I walk through the halls of job corps I felt like I could do it from the first till the last day that I was here. I choose job…

but a phone call and a letter. Failure could shapeshift into many forms for the purpose of its lesson. My first year of high school, I attended McKinley Technology High…

One cold and dreary day in January, I got home from an uneventful day at school. I never would have guessed what was about to happen or thought that this would ever happen to me. I was just a quiet freshman in high school. My father sat down with my family and told us that we were about to move to Texas. I was both shocked and a little excited to move because I’ve always wanted to go south. I hate the winter weather so I thought Texas would be perfect for me. If I were 5 years old again I would…

will be followed during the school year. Classroom rules are a set of standards that need to be adhered to by every student in every classroom situation (“Creating and Implementing,” n.d., p. 16). According to Slavin (2015, p. 279), “one of the first…

I think the school system should change to all year school. I think the school system should change to all year school because of the different schedules or multitracks. All year school has many different schedules to accommodate for families and other schools calendars. The different multitracks are 45/15, 60/20, and 90/30. The first number is the number of days that the students and teachers are in school; and the second number is the number of days of their break. The multitrack system can…

Serbia. It is required for all the kids to go and educate themselves. Before they go to the school children would have to take different tests, so child psychologist could see if they are ready to go to the school. Elementary school is eight years long in Serbia. First two grades it would be really easy for all the children. They would not have a lot of homework to do whenever they come back from the school. But in the third grade everybody has to take English as a second language. “Research…

February 2nd, 2015, Dave “Boyinaband” Brown posted “Don’t Stay In School” to his YouTube channel. This three minute music video featured Dave singing about his gripes with the current school system, specifically the system’s insistence on teaching things that could be deemed unimportant, over those things that could be practically useful in life or in a career. He then used this as a springboard to start discussions about how the school system could be improved, including changing some of the…