The topic about whether school should be free for all American citizens has been ongoing for the past 139 plus years. “In 1877, Rutherford B. Hayes became the first president to make a strong case for universally available public education” (Bernie Sanders). Today, Americans around the country are given the access to free public school from kindergarten up until 12th grade (Bernie Sanders). There are a lot of people graduating high school, while kids are graduating jobs nowadays are requiring more from people then just a high school diploma. While requiring more than just a high school diploma is not the issue being able to go to a good college or just college in general is expensive. Whether you are a soon to be or high school graduate, parent…
Competition in High Schools People always think that good students can get into good colleges. However, sometimes the reality is different, those top students do not get into colleges they want to go. There is a lot of competition between schools and schools, as well as between students and students. Every school wants to be one of the top schools and wants to be better than other schools. However, competition usually will make students more stressed. Now more and more news reports that high…
companies give high school athletes get free shoes and equipment. This is a strong topic to talk about because all schools can not afford equipment and shoes like other schools can . So that is why it will be good for all schools should get free shoes and equipment in its athlete department in every school. Shoe companies should give away free shoes equipment and shoes it will be easier cause some schools can not afford it , it will be fair to all schools athletes department , more people will…
High School Transformed Imagine it is 1985 and you are helping the high school football team steal a statue’s foot from the school of your homecoming rivals. The reason the football team is sawing off the foot and stealing it is to burn it at the homecoming bonfire. Now let us fast-forward to present day. Imagine what would happen to your high school football team if you all decided to steal a statue’s foot from your homecoming rivals this year. The repercussions would be detrimental and most…
What are students ' plans after high school? Most students would respond to this question with, “I 'm going to college,” but is college worth it? That is the million dollar question. It seems like every job requires a college degree, but why? Why does someone who has spent $70,000 to go to a 4-year college has a better chance at getting a job, than someone who just has a high school diploma. There’s a saying that goes, “I would rather be my own tyrant than have someone else tyrannize me.”(Henry…
Throughout my 8th grade year I had a teacher who constantly suppressed my right to free speech, forcing me to completely change the topics or rewrite of various essays, projects, and other writing assignment despite following the proper criteria set out. Despite the effort I put my forth in each and every assignment given to me by my oppressive teacher. In Tinker v. Des Moines school District the supreme court declared “the Court held that school officials cannot censor student speech unless…
According to the dictionary, free choice is defined as the ability to choose, think, and act voluntarily. One would think we practice free choice in every embodiment of the tasks we perform. However, what if the choices we make every day were not as voluntary as we once thought? You would this to be impossible, would you not? I eat when I am hungry, I drink when I am thirsty, I wash myself when I am dirty, I sleep when I am tired. Are these not examples of free choice? Well, according to…
Des Moines, the Court found that the First Amendment protected the right of high school students to wear black armband in a public high school, as a form of protest against the Vietnam War. The court ruled that this symbolic speech—“closely akin to pure speech”—could only be prohibited by school administrators if they could show that it would cause a substantial disruption of the school’s educational mission.” With all the restrictions put on children in school on what they can say and what they…
In the unit “States of Consciousness”, we discussed the concept of conscious will, and whether our everyday actions are determined by the choosing of our own free will, or if our conscious experience in making choices is merely a delusion of grandeur. It’s difficult to distinguish between voluntary and involuntary actions, especially if we are unaware of the extent to which we have free will. The idea is that we are already in motion of preparing for action before we even realize or actively…
Father and Son Independence does not always coincide with meaningful relationships because of the substantial difference between the two conflicting factors. Relationships are the special, mutual bonds formed between two or more people. On the other hand, independence is the individual's will to act upon their own decisions, free from any form of outside control. If one has meaningful and intimate relationships it shows that the individual is not completely independent; it proves that at any…