Fairfax County Public Schools

heterosexual, woman today. Raised as a Catholic; going to Sunday school and church customarily every Sunday with my mother (my father was a Presbyterian and did not go to with us), my mother being the leader at the Church Sunday school until my grandfather passed away (her father) at my age of eight. A traumatic occasion in both our lives, it was a sudden and surprising passing. Not going to chapel for a Sunday, there had been a…

from public to private. Privatization is happening all over the U.S., for instance, Republicans want to replace the IRS agents with private debt collection agencies, New Jersey wants to privatize the public water system and 911 services, Florida would like the public transportation to be privatized, and finally Wisconsin would like to privatize all public education. What is being privatized in the public school system?…

All schools should require mandatory school uniforms across the country. School uniforms are a way for the students to show how they are all together as one and show a sense of amity with other students. This is also costs less money for students who don’t have the option of buying clothes that fit the latest trends. The school uniforms show discipline and the schools pride of coming together as one and not singling out students based on their appearance. Also as this requires them to focus more…

dissatisfaction with the American public school system. Turning towards institutions such as private schools, homeschooling and online programs, and charter schools, this leaves us wondering, what truly is the problem? The answer is simple. The problem with public schools is their inability towards seeing the true needs of students and accurately meeting them. Schools typically fail in realizing the true educational needs for their children. Recently, most schools in America have chosen to…

School uniforms are a very controversial issue and continues to be an on going debate among several individuals regarding whether they should or should not be made mandatory in all schools. Many individuals have their reasons as to why school uniforms should not be implemented and made mandatory in the school systems such as taking away from the students right to self-expression, students opposing the idea of school uniforms, and that school uniforms may promote conformity over individuality.…

As a young daughter of a Korean mother I was, I have spoken and written in Korean until I was registered for kindergarten in America. Of all places, New York, a home that was well-recognized for its lively atmosphere and its school systems that were pacing to grant top academic statuses. Having spoken my native language ever since I was little, I was placed into ESOL by default. I can only recall rewriting a short sentence given by my teacher, repeatedly, until it was embedded in my fingers, and…

than in the cities”. Followed by “In the past 25 years, the number of Latino students in U.S. schools has more than tripled”. This isn’t right, when I was a student at my old high school we would have international night where people would make displays with food or small items from and representing their homelands. It was actually super fun and lots of people attended and I don’t think it cost the school much because it was a do it yourself project. But, now that I’m thinking about it, it’s…

In a recent study conducted on military students who transferred from school systems out of the area, it was observed that some student had to take additional classes in order to meet the educational requirements of the school district. Some students would even have to take summer school classes in order to stay on track with their graduating class; which often would create additional stress on a child due to the required transfer…

Charter schools are run by private organizations or corporations and they are run by the government so they do not have to follow NCLB. The quote goes, “Cyber-charters, which offered online instructions to students at home, were receiving full payment for each student and amassing multimillion-dollar reserves” (Ravitch 134); Charter schools is an investment, a way for big corporations to make money; they get millions of dollars for funding yet they can only be a cyber school. The quote states…

Travis uses instead of sating his sexual desires. The entirety of the film places the students and subjects of the film within the seeming prison like system of their boarding school, which rules over every single aspect of their life other than breathing. In this essay, I would like to cover the ethos of the school system and school itself and how it trains and sets in motion a set of societal constructs that set up some things, like sex,…