Hempstead High

vy League, by definition, is a group of long-established colleges and universities in the eastern US having high academic and social prestige. Schools of this much stature are except to hold and create the most intelligent. So, isn’t it ironic that a majority of students attending these “prestige” schools are culprits of grade inflation. Whether it is in movies like, “Legally Blonde” or “Gilmore Girls,” Ivy League schools are perceived to be better academically successful. Therefore, when the…

because of parental, school and peer influences. A prominent force that invites youth to join gangs is parental influences. Research has shown parent relationships and family structure to have a key role: a questionnaire answered by youth in a public high school in different states in America (Esbensen et al. 2001:112-13) presented a comparison of youth in and…

Can one truly pinpoint the definition of technology? It is constantly evolving so the definition twenty years ago would not compare to it in this day in age. Whether twenty years ago or today, it still impacts people in a way in which is unexplainable. From contacting people around the globe, to searching a question and getting an answer immediately, technology sure has altered many people’s lives. I was never very technologically advanced growing up. I did not get my first phone until 7th…

a mediocre class. Most of time students that finish high school with their diplomas go to college for a higher education meaning they are striving for a career – an ability that they are allowed and can do-. Unfortunately, many of the undocumented immigrants don’t have this opportunity. They are restricted to elementary and secondary education and do not have access to a future. Out of sixty- five thousand undocumented immigrants that attend high schools every year…

the most enjoyable times in my life have occurred when I have been teaching. My first teaching experience was when I was twenty as a camp counselor. It was a camp for junior high school students and I got to teach them in groups and one on one with each student. I was in locum parentis for one week with each group of junior high school students. I took them to each meal of the day and guided them through activities as well as teaching and overall caretaking of the students. Additionally, I spent…

I am going to start out by apologizing because this is going to be long. But I believe everything I say is worthy of saying so I hope you don’t just give up and stop reading. I am a person that doesn’t particularly like school. Something about being stuck in a classroom for seven hours and force fed facts I don’t always want to learn just has me counting down the days till summer. So are there things I would change about the school system? Yes. Is there an aspect I wouldn’t change about the…

see that.” Grace did not have the normal experience as people in her community did when it came to classroom learning and playing on sporting teams. During elementary and middle school, Grace and her sister were taught by their mother, but during high school years the courses were completed online. Meridian Christian Home Educators is the governing body over the home-school system in Meridian, Mississippi. Through MCHE students can participate in service projects, volleyball, basketball, prom…

The Rochester School System has a 43 percent graduation rate(Rochester). The debate is whether a year round school year would improve the graduation rate. The theory is children forget some of their studies over a 3 month summer vacation and such have to be retaught some of what they learned last year in school. This practice waste teachers ' time because they have to reteaching last years lessons. This is one of the arguments for students going to school all year round. There are a number of…

themselves them him. He also does not have much emotion when it comes to things. He is rarely in arguments and almost never gets angry without good reason. We then talked about how this is relevant to him now. It matches his criminal justice major with high accuracy. He began college with the intention of a degree in biology. He soon found this to be too focused on theory and took up to much time he had for other activities. However, he stated it doesn’t match his personality when in college, as…

What is the purpose of math? This is an age old question asked by the majority of high school students. Math teachers throughout the years have been exhausting themselves with how to get their students interested in math. One way to get their pupils enthusiastic for math could be as simple as giving them a purpose of doing the math by teaching them the history of it. The Greek school system had this idea since the nineteenth century giving the American school system an idea that could…