High school

High school as everyone knows, is popularly known for the annual homecoming, football games, and the magical senior prom. College application due dates are near, and the senior class realizes it’s time to face reality and get serious about their future. Starting a new chapter and entering a different atmosphere, which every high school senior has to make. Having some kind of support gives a person on how two difference places that we all spend our time at, have a lot of different aspects but…

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…

High School Dropouts: Causes, Consequences, and Prevention Dropping out of high school can have a strong impact on the rest of your life. Having a high school diploma is critical to achieving higher education or getting a better job. However not everybody is able to finish high school and go on to college for a passage to better circumstances. When a person drops out of school there is are many causes for their decision. High school dropouts have become an increasingly important issue in the…

High school is fours years you can be wild, careless, and learn the adventure into adulthood. The years you have a class with the same people, able to know everyone 's name within the school, and have the unknown of what your future is going to hold. Over the years their has been a decrease in high school students. But there has been an increase in high school dropouts. Comparing the freshman class to the senior class at any school you will notice a dramatic decrease in the amount about students…

Jessica a junior in high school is pregnant because her boyfriend did not use a condom. Jerry is scared he may have gotten a sexually transmitted disease from the girl he hooked up with last night. These are examples of three high school students who could have avoided the situations that they are in, if high schools provided condoms to their students. After a two-year study in Philadelphia, the percent of students using condoms increased six percent. (Dodd, par. 2). A number of schools are…

My position is that high school should be mandatory and not optional for teens. (Poll the class: How many of you are planning to work with people in the future? – count number of raised hands). Ok, I see many of you raised your hands. Interaction in a high school setting is fundamental for teens to cultivate positive social and interpersonal skills. There are five major points that I will make regarding the importance of attending high school for teens. They are as follows: 1. Learning…

educate a person on these principles other than during high school years? Some believe that there is not enough room in the curriculum for an additional course. Many argue that it is the parents’ role rather than the teachers’ to educate their children about finances. Others believe that high school students do not need finance skills because they are financially dependent on their parents. The truth is,…

In high schools across America, students are first exposed to the dismaying trend of anti-intellectualism through the concepts of tracking and career placement, political correctness, cultural parallels, educational values, and curriculum standards like Common Core. Disturbing aspects common to this trend are standardization of curricula and a limited point of view when investigating ideas and and drawing conclusions. In many peoples’ opinion, America is turning towards Socialist ideas and…

thought every public school was like mine, with bad food and strict schedules. As I transitioned from middle school to high school I learned that there were better public schools. My school, Sunnyside High School, had a 48% graduation rate when I was a freshman. The community was mainly made up of undocumented farm workers, including my parents. The high school was doing so poorly that a professional principle had to come and change the school system. We started to get out of school later, lunch…

It is known that high school is the time to have fun and live carelessly. Some students take this philosophy as their own personal mantra. These students truly do live care-fee, but maybe they should start caring more. According to the CDC, Centers of Disease Control, 2015 study, “in the past thirty days, thirty-five percent of high school seniors have drank some amount of alcohol, 21% have binge drank, 10% have driven after drinking alcohol, and twenty-two percent have ridden with a driven who…