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Parsons then begins to give examples of why the old “instruction” method of the high school level had worked. Parsons states that “teacher makes you learn” because if not proven by “standardized tests” they are the ones “blamed.” In other words, students have been taught partial responsibility for the past four years. The “job” used…

research/review on the CFTR protein (Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator Protein). After working for many hours with my peers researching and forming a poster, we presented our poster with our model protein at the conference as one of few high school student posters in the undergraduate hall. I had the privilege of observing researchers explain their findings, make connections with professors and other researchers.…

Sleep Hard, Work Hard: Schools Start To Early Remember when you had to wake up every morning at 6am so that you would be at work by 8. Well you 're not the only one. Most teens in America arrive school before 8:30 a.m. and that does not take into consideration the time it takes to wake up in the morning. On average, teens does not meet the recommended amount of sleep every night. Even though some people believe that teens should go to school early(before 8am), I strongly believe that teenagers…

to see if the teachers are doing their job. Children are only taught things to take a test over it, but are they really learning, or retaining the information studied, or do they just memorize the answers to the questions to pass the tests, to pass high school?…

million people their jobs, the people working them are not fully educated and it will only increase inflation. When times get tough raising non high school graduates paycheck is not going to help anyone. “The people who earn minimum wage falls into two different categories: young workers, usually in school, and older workers who have left schools” (Sherk) High school kids don’t need to get paid that much unless they are…

take a huge step, public high school. I was homeschooled from 3rd to 10th grade because medically, it was my only option. Taking that step was the best choice I 've ever made. The one school that stood out to me was Minarets High School, this innovative school that prepares you for the real world, and works with you, for you. Everything about it was exactly what I wanted for high school. I excitedly told my friends and family about it, and was frequently reminded that, "high school isn 't…

paper after paper and assignment after assignment. That is just what high school is though, it teaches us lessons we could not learn anywhere else. In Mr. McGee’s class especially pushes us because of his overload of work that we are given. Still his class prepares you for the next level of education in college. Throughout high school there have been three ways to continue to improve and check my progress during my time as a high school student, these are track my current level of success,…

stepfather who wasn’t the most welcoming, and always viewed her to have the stigma that Melina would follow in her mother’s footsteps of being a teen mother as well. Melina was determined to beat all odds and after graduating from Coachella Valley High School, not to mention ASB president and the top of her class. She initially became the first generation to attend and complete college in my family. Melina attended UCI and graduated with a Bachelor’s in Social Science and a minor in education.…

filled with both excitement and an overload of stress. While still attending high school and its workload, pile college applications and scholarships on top of all that. Most seniors feel ‘senioritis’ during their senior year and it getting past it becomes one of the hardest parts of senior year. We tend to forget that although we are so close to being done with high school, that we still have time and work left in high school that needs to be done. Evidently, a majority of the work that still…

Having a special best friend is best thing happening to me when I was kid. My best friend, Grant Berry, he is coolest and grittiest person I ever knew and I do not have as much grit compared to Berry. I believed Grant Berry and I are different in every way, but turns out it was not the case. Recently, I learned Grant Berry and I are similar and yet so different in certain areas such as mindset and skills in reading courses. One area that Berry and I are similar in is having trouble remembering…