IB Diploma Programme

And I can’t tell you how proud I am of each and every one of you. These last 12 years may have seemed like a long road with some ups and downs along the way. But you’ll be leaving here today with many accomplishments to your credit, a high school diploma and I hope some very good memories. So you and your parents (who have been there with you through thick and thin) deserve heartfelt congratulations for reaching this important milestone. And I also want to take time to thank your teachers,…

trained me to be a successful young lady. They taught me things that I wouldn’t even have known about and lead me in the right direction of my goals. Education is very important to me because you will need your high school diploma in the long run. Having a high school diploma is important because you can look forward to great paying jobs, being independent, much more opportunities that life has to offer. You will need your education because it will teach you everything you need to know. Without…

com). This is because he was basically arrested for carjacking, convicted of 6 felony charges and he soon earned both a GED and a high school diploma in prison earlier. Betts wrote, “I knew when I went before the judge he’d talked to me like I didn’t think about the victim. […]” (60) and “I become one of the first two people to receive a high school diploma while locked up in a Fairfax County Jail.” (55). This quote means that, he is trying to explain to the judge of what he did something…

I think the biggest problem that Maryland or Montgomery County has today with schools is Truancy. Truancy is basically not showing up to school or not attending school for a good reason. I think truancy started in the early 1900 or towards the 1950s. If truancy keeps going then the people that will be blamed to most for truant students would be the parents. The parents are going to be most blame because the parents aren’t making sure that their child or their children is getting to school. In…

Education is important although it can be expensive it’s worth it. The essay” Yes, A College Education is Worth the Cost” written by Rodney K. Smith, is another example of why investing in education pays off at the end. Sometimes students think education is boring or hard to get. Other times individual think they just waste too much money and don’t see anything in return, but once they are done they become thankful and proud that they did it. In Smith’s article, he mentions statistics for…

Military, a person who is serving for their country in some way, is a career I wish to pursue because, Military will pay for my college so I will be getting a good education, I will get to travel places I have never been to, and I will obtain a good salary. I have family members that are serving for our country. When one of my family comes home, he knows that I have been interested in going into the service since he started coming home and talking about it. In the military I want to be a…

A shy, sassy girl with brown straight hair, deep dark brown eyes, was named Chloé Brown; lived in a nice modern gated community with her family. Her parents were the type of parents that everyone could ever dream of having; comical, admirable and mainly laid back but also have a strict side. Even though Chloé had the “perfect” life that everyone was jealous of, she did not understand to appreciate when she was an arrogant, sassy fifteen-year-old freshman at Avon Park High School. She hated…

Is College Worth It Todays society stresses on the level of education one has completed. Statistics state that the more schooling you have, the more money you should make. To earn your Bachelorettes Degree can take years to achieve and cost thousands of dollars in the process. Does committing four or more years and tens of thousands of dollars in expenses for college pay off in the long run? To help compare the pay off, let us look at potential salaries for a high school versus college graduate…

The unfortunate news is that “only 21 states in the US require students to attend high school until they are 18 or earn a diploma”, which leaves the other 29 states with students who drop out at a young and naive age where they cannot comprehend how much damage that the decision they are making is going to cause them in the long run (DoSomething.org, num. 11). These teens cannot…

average student with a high school diploma. Eventually, the student who graduated college will erase the debt accumulated from college and be better off financially than the student who graduated high school only. However, college is not only about making money. It encourages the continued development of students so that they can grow not only intellectually but also socially. The friends and memories made in college are priceless. Also, a person with a college diploma will also be able to…