John Ehret High School

Flowing cherry blossom petals are telling the end of spring. I was a middle school student in Japan who did not have any interest in playing sports. It was about lunch time, and everyone was eating lunch. I was eating my lunch and thinking what I am going to do for the rest of the lunch time. After I ate my lunch, I begun to walk around the campus of Oyaba middle school, the school that I spent two years of my precious adolescence, and I saw my friends, Shugo and Takumi, playing basketball at…

His class color was orange, and since they cycle around, that was to be mine. Perfect, I thought, I can keep being him. I was just as smart as Avery. He made good grades his whole life, so I of course had to. My brother went out for tennis in high school, so when I became a freshman, I tried out. I made the team and the comparisons to Avery followed soon after. How we setup to hit the same, how we served the same, and even how we ran the same. My coach, Stockwell, started saying I was better…

to a small group of high school students. These students had unknowingly started a case that would end up making a huge impact on how the public school system may limit a student’s freedom of expression. Starting at the beginning, students John Tinker and Christopher Eckhardt wished to protest the war by promoting peace the way they went about this was by deciding to wear black armbands with a peace sign on them. However, even before they could wear them to school the school board heard of their…

The state that I was born in has established a process to determine the level of knowledge gained during a school year. The Oklahoma Board of Education has a requirement that every student take standardized tests at the end of each school year. These sets of tests are commonly called “EOI.” EOI stands for End of Instruction test that are supposed to determine the level of knowledge gain on the corresponding academic level on a yearly basis. Also the test is a means for the state to…

these all have in common? They are schools in Keya Paha County, or well were schools. Many of our past schools have had to been shut down and made the kids got into town or a different school. We must keep our schools open, for the sake of our town, our people, and our sanity. The academically progressive schools in the beautiful Keya Paha County are vitally important and crucial to the well-being of our county. Today we will discover the history of the schools in Keya Paha County. Next, we will…

efficiently while the United States vastness interferes. On the other hand Finland’s success might be because there united funding, everyone’s access to good schools, and less significance towards standardized testing. It is well known that the United States is the third largest county in the world, and it is because of this that the schools are funding is a problem. In the US each state…

most children’s lives, but sometimes it’s hard to reach that goal when it’s hard for the kid’s to focus. Most kids drop out of school not because they want to or they’re forced to, they do it because they feel as if they’re not smart enough…

From the time I began school I have strived to be the best I can be in any course taken. I have acquired many qualities throughout the course of my life and have used them effectively. These qualities can also be known as habits of mind. Two that I feel I strongly acquire and have carried with me throughout the course of learning and living are responsibility and engagement. My responsibility and engagement throughout school has kept me an honor roll student. Responsibility is to be able to…

(Buckley). Loans are one of the easiest payments that a student and parent can choose as the student goes through college. "Whatever the size of your college savings fund, you will probably face some financial anxiety when your children head off to school. Even if you 've managed to piece together every last dollar that college will cost your family, it 's still wise to look at some other options such as paying for part of the expenses with subsidized loans.” When looking at the big picture…

A person embarks on their journey of education as soon as they leave their mother’s womb. It is the day they connect with the world. At the end of high school and where the journey of college education begins is the day they start to understand the issues of this world. The chances offered at any college leads to a wide range of opportunities. Deciding to go to college puts a person one foot in the right direction and attending college puts their whole body and mind in the right direction. The…