Public Schools Essay

The National School Lunch Program, is a federal meal program making low cost or free school lunches possible in public schools around the country. The public schools receive a budget to purchase food for their students, however, they choose to subside the budget on low-cost ingredients, which result in food containing mostly processed food. I believe with the knowledge and understanding about the consequences of feeding our children processed food, we have a responsibility to provide our next…

Since the early 5th century BC, creationism was the leading theory of life in many presocratic European and colonial nations. Today, though millions of people still believe in it, creationism has been a banned subject in public schools since the late 20th century, largely due to controversial debates such as the battle between creationism and free thought in the 1926 Scopes “Monkey Trial”, with the defendant John Thomas Scopes against the state of Tennessee. Evolution and religion were put to…

Enrolling white children in diverse or immersion local public schools is perhaps the simplest way of accomplishing integration without sacrificing fixed identity outside of race. This is because non-race demographics of public schools tend to be relatively constant. That is, most students belong to the same economic background, same region of the country, and if the school is a public magnet school, have similar interests ("What Are Magnet Schools?" Magnet.edu). However, this solution may be…

The State of Michigan’s Act 451 of 1976 provides guidelines on which sexual education courses in public schools should abide. This piece of legislation states that “a person shall not dispense or otherwise distribute in a public school or on public school property a family planning drug or device”, explaining that “family planning” means the “use of a range of methods of fertility regulation to help individuals or couples avoid unplanned pregnancies.” Although teenage pregnancy rates have…

Do Race-Conscious Programs in Public University Admissions Policies Violate the Fourteenth Amendment’s Guarantee of Equal Protection Under the Law? Michael Gibbons, December 1st, 2015, Issue 17 Facts: Race may be used for public universities during the admission process to choose which students to accept. In theory by allowing race to be a factor in the process, it will help the country reach equality among all races and classes. However, some believe that it is a step backwards and that this…

On May 17, 1954, the Court unanimously ruled that "separate but equal" public schools for blacks and whites were unconstitutional. Black children were denied admission to public schools attended by white children under laws requiring or permitting segregation according to the races. Segregation of children in public schools based on race violated the Equal Protection Clause from the 14th Amendment. The Court emphasized the impact that the education has on a child. It is not right for children to…

“I’m sorry that my shoulders and collarbones are causing people to fail their course.” Public schools are becoming ridiculous with their dress code policies. In that case, public schools should start thinking about school uniforms instead of spending their time catching students on dress code whereas the school should spend more time on student education. A former assistant principal from North Texas very well stated that she, “wished many times that [they] had uniforms,” because it was taking…

parents, teachers, students and school districts. It seems that even after years of acknowledging the problem no one has come up the a clear solution. Except for the director of the movie, “Waiting for Superman”, Davis Guggenheim. Guggenheim 's opinion of what is causing public schools in the U.S to fail is bad teachers and tenure. Although his points about bad teachers being able to continue doing poorly at their jobs is a major component as to why public schools are failing is true, Guggenheim…

Education: 1. With the highly changing demographics of the American public school system, is it fair to expect the education of multilingual districts, to face the expenses that require highly qualified bilingual teachers? What if your community has several minorities groups, with uniquely different languages? Would each classroom be required to maintain 3 or more professional educators, to fulfill the language barriers that exist? Most communities say yes! For thousands of years, bilingual…

the controversy of allowing dress codes in public schools has been the topic in several school districts. The school districts believe that a dress code will help students to focus more on their education, and the dress code will decrease the amount of inappropriate attire. Thus, the school desires to enforce a strict dress code to all the students in order to further the students’ knowledge and well-being. However, numerous people disagree with the schools proclaiming that students should have…