Garfield High School

Iowa has a grand total of 338 school districts and of those districts, 336 of them applied for and received a waiver to set their start date (Jurrens). Start date has been an issue many schools have been focusing on. It has been in the news lately, especially here in Iowa. Many are arguing that starting later increases state fair attendance and supposedly brings in more tax revenue. Others are calling for school control. This way the schools can determine what works the best for them. Which is…

The high school I attended was called Eastern Hills High School and was located in Fort Worth Texas. The area primarily contained students of middle and lower class. As far as race, about eighty percent of students were African American, ten percent were Hispanic, five percent were white, and the other five percent consisted of mixed races. Administration at my high school primarily consisted of women as they represented eighty percent of the staff. However, from high school, I also saw that the…

We all know how important school is, we learn so many important things when in school. But there are so many things that we can learn that don’t fit into the normal classroom. Learning doesn 't all have to be in a desk. Although some people thrive in sit down class room environment. I know plenty of people who don’t thrive in a desk type classroom. I have had my own experiences as well. As we keep improving our education system, Its important that we adapt of everyones strengths and learning…

elementary school to go to the University of their dreams regardless of the cost and to major in the STEM field. I quickly bought into the Westfield bubble mentality, and began looking at universities all over the country. I considered attending college in the state of Texas, but I thought I would not enjoy living down south. Right around April, I decided to enroll at Purdue as a biochemistry major (chemistry concentration) with the goal of attending Medical School. I enjoyed Chemistry in High…

I sit on Erin 's bed next to Petunia the cat. Petunia is probably my favorite Augustine cat although it 's just so hard to pick favorites. She has the cutest orange and black pattern. Not that Charlie and Rosie aren 't cute but they 're both so mean to Petunia, she 's old and weak and her purr is the most adorable noise and she never tries to hurt them but they always attack her. The only sound is the sound of Erin typing on her computer. Our paper is due tomorrow and neither of us have started,…

August 21, 1959 E.F. Lindquist created the first college admissions test based on information taught in school, thus forever changing the world of college preparations and admission (ACT History, 2014). Since the creation of the ACT in 1959 it has grown and became one of the most important tests students college bound will ever take. The ACT is composed of four sections; English, math, reading, and science. The scores from each section are then averaged to create a composite score. Each…

I was born on February 25th 1998 at St Michael 's hospital in Toronto. I grew up in a part of Toronto called Bloor west village where I lived with my parents and my sister Lauren who is three years older than me. I attended Runnymede public school for both junior and senior kindergarten. My interests in my toddler years were T-ball, skiing and going to park with my best friend Carson. I learned to ski at a very young age, I was just 18 months when I first attempted to put on my sister…

“More” Derives from School In every classroom, there are an abundance of different students that attend school for several reasons. Some of those reasons may be to graduate and venture to college, to play sports in college, to get a brighter education, or just to receive their diploma at the end of one’s twelve year-period of struggle and chaos. Each person has a goal that is different than another’s, but there are some students who struggle with the question of why to stay in school? The…

Throughout my high school days I had always seen myself as the girl that would go into college as soon as I graduated. That was how I was raised to think that right as you graduate the only proper thing to do is to enroll in college and spent the next four years of my life working hard to start my life. Sounds enticing right?. As my young nieve self I didn’t know any better, and simply listened to the words of my father “Work hard now so you don’t have to later”. With those words doing laps in…

with the others. If you are a working hard and dedicated to what you do, shouldn’t you receive a reward. That thought goes through the heads of college athletes, everyday. They live this story, putting in hard work and time into playing for their school, yet they receive nothing. All these athletes play for the organization known as the National Collegiate Athletic Association or the NCAA for short. The NCAA is a multi-billion dollar business. They accumulate all this money through college…