Public Schools Essay

Webster’s dictionary is “a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common”. My community is Denver South High school and our common characteristic is that we are all in a place of education. Yet when our foundation of education is altered by the population in the school, it becomes an issue to everyone in the school. It also become more than an issue but a wider problem that needs to be boldly addressed. The amount of student and staff is highly…

The darkest times in the city of Atlanta was the Atlanta Public School system cheating scandal. Mayor Kasim Reed stated “The cheating scandal marked one of the darkest periods in the life of our city.” (WXIA-TV, 2015) The cheating scandal was brought about due to pressure by administrators by fear and intimidation due to the No Child Left Behind Act. 178 different educators in 44 different elementary and middle schools were involved with the scandal. The educators used various methods to cheat.…

Sex Education Programs in Public Schools Sex education is a very important topic for all students to experience in grades 5-12. Public schools are focusing more on Abstinence-only programs. The Abstinence- only programs are more popular because the government provides funding to public schools for this program. The Abstinence-only program’s main focus is to convince students not to engage in sexual activity until married. However, public schools should focus more on Sexuality/Sex education than…

theory. The main portion of the debate is should the theory be taught in public high school biology classrooms. The theory of creationism should be taught in schools because, there is not a way to prove living creatures came from non-living substances, the body’s biological systems are too complex to have evolved, and evolution is also a theory. Since the early 1900s, there has been debate over what should be taught in public schools, creationism or evolution (Munro…

around the white people, but during festivals they were all over the city, and so were we. At school, we wouldn’t eat lunch at the same table as the white boys, but at the festivals I could be right there and nobody would pay any attention to me. Once during the first Jazz Festival in 1970, Mama gave me some money to buy gumbo with and when I was buying the gumbo I saw a little white boy from my school staring at me. At first I thought he was gonna come hit me and steal my food, but instead he…

day at school five days a week. In public schools, providing a well-balanced diet is in the best interest of the students, and it is important for the teachers to teach about nutrition in order to educate and support the students’ awareness. For example, obesity is a serious issue that can be caused by an unhealthy diet. (Jeon, 2012) It is important for students to be aware of what they are consuming and what goes in to having a balanced diet. (Jeon, 2012) From what is learned at school,…

why creationism should not become part of public school curriculums, first for the fact that it is illegal, the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits the government from establishing religion. Requiring that public schools are not to give superior benefits to any religion. Because creationism is a biased on a superior religious view, it is not to be given special privileges by any government body, including public schools. If public schools choose to adopt creationism in to their…

Efforts to desegregate public schools have been presence since 1954. The efforts were the outcomes of the opinions of the Supreme Court based on the way it interpreted the Equal Protection Clause, which is part of the Fourteenth Amendment. Some of the controversial cases in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1950 include Brown v. Board of Education, New Count School Board v. Green, and Swam v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education asserted the need for public schools to avoid any intentional segregation…

race continues to be the de facto racial segregation of our communities, and by extension of community-based racial segregation, the segregation of our nation’s system of public schools. Sixty-two years after the Brown v. Board of Education (1954) decision in which United States Supreme Court declared the de jure segregation of public institutions a violation of the equal protection provisions in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, the United States continues to maintain a system that…

over the possibility of creationism being taught in public schools as an alternative/or alongside evolution. Instead of using the Bible solely for spiritual purposes, many of those who follow it believe that it should be honored as a legitimate science. However, since creationism is unable to be scientifically tested and undergo the same extensive fire that evolution has for centuries, it should not be taught as a science course in public schools. The Bible has been said to date back as far as…