Heritage High School shooting

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…

My first years going to an American school were very challenging because I didn’t know how to speak English. Everything else was different too; the school, the classrooms, the students, the rules, the food, just everything. It was a totally new culture I had to adapt to in order to fit in with the rest. Diana Drake emphasizes, “If an Anglo teacher is unaware that children growing up in different cultures may learn different values and may learn to attach different meanings to particular…

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…

manage other team members by giving them tasks within their scope. As a school nurse there is not leaders or management to look over the school nurse. They are the ones in charge of the students’ health care needs. They are to ensure the care given to the students’. At Batesville Junior and Senior High Schools, the secretaries assist the school nurse. They are trained to give medication in the absence of the school nurse. The school nurse carries the responsibility to ensure that the secretaries…

Everyday mandatory-attendance laws force more and more unmotivated Americans to go to school, even though they do not wish to be there. This fact is one of many reasons why standardized test scores are so low, which means American education is in trouble. We could resolve this situation by eliminating compulsory-attendance laws and let only motivated students attend school. This won 't end public education. In opposition to ordinary conviction, lawmakers instituted obligatory participation…

attention, everybody wants to feel needed, and everybody wants to feel included. Some people just find a bad way to get it; any attention is still attention whether it is negative or positive. Before all this happened I was happy. I loved going to school, I had good teachers and I loved seeing my friends. I didn’t have a problem in the world. Besides how many problems could a nine or ten year old have? I had a lot despite this assumption. It all…

cause of the education system breakdown? Most students can agree that the education system is not what it used to be. I can still remember when my teacher was able to discuss multiple subjects at the same time. As of today, students that graduate high school find it very difficult to graduate College. Since the “No Child Left behind Act” students are facing many obstacles in order to become College ready students. Therefore the current education system is causing major problems with students…