Mardela High School

There are several perspectives on the role of education. John Dewey an American education philosopher of the 1930 stated, “I 'm simplifying—that the general purpose of school is to transfer knowledge and prepare young people to participate in America’s democratic society” (Carter, 2012). However, as we entered the 21st century we are face with continue globalization, which leads to a world with interconnected societies and economies. As we continue towards this globalization our philosophy about…

children” (Michael Grove). For children just beginning their journey in school their enthusiasm to learn is profound. They are excited to learn anything and everything. For most schools this includes the basics such as math and reading, but for Morningside Elementary School this is not the case. The children at this particular school in Salt Lake City, Utah, are able to learn a second way to communicate. This language immersion school teaches the children a second language of either Spanish,…

only been home for two days and my parents were ready to spend more money on him. Today I woke up to find that my mom and Dad went out for lunch and left Morgan my car. Go figure. I chose to hangout with Tucker today. Tucker is my best friend from school. I called him Bones because he was super skinny. He had dark skin with brown eyes, and wore the hand me downs from his older brother Travis who is very close with Morgan. He had horrible eyesight and made up for it with the thick lenses in his…

Zambrano and Media, “A college education will help you meet these tougher job requirements” (“Advantages”). They are essentially saying that students who go to college will have a better chance at meeting these requirements than someone who only has a high school education. Another benefit that helps individuals seek out jobs is the connections with instructors. According to College View these “…strong connection[s] with instructors… give yourself an advantage when beginning the job seeking…

Grading System When schools first started, the motive was to provide vast knowledge to students. Along with starting schools, a certain standard was set centuries ago by scholars who thought that they need a way to evaluate the learning procedure of students based solely on letters or numbers given on the tests taken by students. Education system was based on judging the students instead of their creativity and uniqueness by various colleges, universities, graduate schools and employers. Similar…

past ten years there have been several issues pertaining to why school should start later in the day. Many parents, teachers, and board leaders have tried pushing the issues so that the start time will change, but not a whole lot has happened. There are schools in all fifty states that want to jump on board and start school later, so why not just do it? It’s way easier said than done. The top reason why people don’t want to start school later in the day is because they are already used to the…

The social vice takes several minor and major implications on the communal life especially for the weak and fragile students. Over the years, bullying is seen as a transitional part of school life to harden children on course of their academic studies. However, humanitarian activists stood against the act suggesting it hinders normal child development to adulthood (Sharp and Peter, p2). It may involve physical or mental torture, which eventually deters some developmental phase for children.…

I never was the writer who lived a rich life grand with detailed stories that gave them initial inspiration on my creation of a character, detail of a line or the crafting of a setting/scenario. I just started with something out of the ordinary and built off it. I will say that the only initial theme quantities I enforce are biblical allusions or themes that work as political commentary on religious matter. No matter what I am writing about it try my best to express a political statement or…

until my senior year of high school, that I realized that I was somehow different from most of my classmates. What made this difference was a plastic card that read on top “United States of America Permanent Resident Card”. At this moment was when I became aware that I’ll be facing an additional obstacle that most student in my class wouldn’t encounter – being undocumented. Research has shown that from the small percentage of undocumented students who complete high school, only 5-10% are…

UW-Parkside. Well we all know that, it’s not that easy. If I want to accomplish my goal and dream, I have to work so had behind to get high GPA, so I have to work so hard towards every singles classes with high expectation grades. In this century, it’s way easy to say about our goals and dreams but its way hard to reach and achieve them. While I was in high school, I was an intelligent student. Not only that, I used to join so many competitions such as, running, writing, singing the national…