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Enforcing School Uniforms for the better of our future An article called “Should school uniforms be required in public schools?” have studied that “Nearly 85 percent of principals whose schools have uniform policies said that uniforms positively influenced their school 's image in the community” (procon.org) In the article “The Sexism of School Dress Codes” Li Zhou mentions a story about a girl named Maggie Sunseri who attends a middle school in Kentucky. She mentions how she has never seen a…

It was a cold December morning in 2005, I woke up getting ready for high school like I did every morning. This morning was very different though and my life changed forever. As I ironed my clothes that I planned to wear that day, I blacked out. My mother happened to be talking to me at the time and it scared her very much. She said, “My facial expression just changed and I fell with the iron still in my hand”. Thankfully, I did not burn or hurt myself when I fell. I was not out for a long period…

the U.S. citizen. The school can not legally tell the students what they can wear and what they can not wear. If the school wants the students to learn how to make their own choices, then the school should not make the students choices for them. A high school senior said, “we were made to be different; we were not made to be uniform.” One lawyer who opposes about school uniforms pointed out, “Public schools are supposed to be teaching democracy. Uniforms are antithetical to teaching people how…

I’m truly not sure I could have acquired elsewhere. Please, let me elaborate and share with you why moving to Kentucky has made such an impact on my life. First off, I would like to say that I was never very fond of school. I always hoped that after high school I would be able to get by just fine without going to college. Luckily for me, after moving here I was convinced that an education was vital for a successful life. I started school at North Central Institute, a technical school for…

Cheating has been in a lot of schools around the country and is probably happening right now. I do have an issue with this. I do not think that it is fair for people who are cheating to be able to pass a class. They are not doing the work. I also think that cheating and plagiarizing are different things. Cheating is when you use the internet to find answers, or you look at someone else 's paper who is in your class while doing homework or taking a test. Plagiarizing is when you copy something…

Sadly she didn’t have many opportunities to do so. My mom only did one extracurricular activity in high school and that was swim team and she was only able swim because her friends also swam and their parents could give my mom a ride. She had no access to transportation because her parents didn’t care enough to drive her to practice. They didn’t see…

popular problem solver for a lot of students and their parents. Pickhighshcools.com is designed to help its users figure out this question: Which high school should we go to ? We all know that it’s not easy to make such a decision. High school is an important stage in our life, which has significant meanings to a lot of people. Kids anticipate their high school-life by having all sorts of plans and expectation. In this case, there is inevitable pressure to take when it comes to making…

a very privileged lifestyle my reasoning for attending college is different from most. I am not in college because I want the opportunity to make a lot of money, or even because I value education. My reasoning is based on my wants to prove a point, high recognition in the long run, and pressure held over me. Due to my parents being so young and known for their irresponsibility, and also a family background that holds a line of strong black men and women who lived their life working any job that…

During my elementary and secondary education, there have been ample opportunities for me to speak in front of the class or write papers on a given subject. For example, during my senior year of high school I had to perform a capstone project which involved creating a product, writing a proposal, and presenting it in PowerPoint form to six judges on stage. Church has been a major influence and gradually helped me to become the confident spokesperson…

received enormous information to prepare my life. In this writing, I will show personal education has developed and experienced in myself. The process which had affected attitudes and collected over the years was built up from elementary school to high school. I lived in the countryside where had my heart of the town. I began my first step in elementary school which took about ten minutes from the house. At the time I was a little girl, I wanted to go to school by reason of my friends…