Middle school

American middle schools are becoming more diverse in their student population. Many of the new student body come from minority groups that include African-American and Latino students. Recent research has shown that these minority groups of students come to school at a disadvantage due to their family educational background, and poverty. The purpose of this literature review is to examine how participation in after-school programs help close the academic gap in African American and Latino middle…

Middle school students should be drug tested for reasons such as you never know what kind of parents or friends they have. (Middle school students be drug tested). Middle schoolers start to decide to make their own personal decisions. The earlier you can start to make positive decisions the better off you are for your future. Lots of children get away with things now days such as drinking and doing drugs. For instance when i was in middle school some of my friends were smoking.…

Quarter one has been quite a journey so far, especially with some drastic differences in workload and difficulty overall, compared to middle school. I specifically remember an interesting learning experience in Chemistry this year, just a couple of weeks ago. It was the introduction to the Atoms and Electrons unit. Now, I understand it this doesn’t sound too enthralling at first, but I discovered that everything I had known about atoms was completely wrong. My science teacher started off by…

many bad ones, in middle school and high school. In middle school, my friends and I were always hanging around together. As a group, we always ate lunch, played at recess, stayed after school. We gathered at one spot every day. It was a common place for the “ FOB” as they called us. We just came to America for a few years and spoke little English. We all knew which groups would be gathering at school. It had an invisible label that we would not invade others’ space. In high school, each of…

Middle school is my years of development from sixth through eighth grade. I had spent almost all of those years at Blessed Sacrament School. During that time frame, I developed to who I am today through my teachers, my activities, my classmates, and my friends. These years became the building blocks of who I am and what I want to be. Middle school has been a phenomenal experience for me. Throughout my middle school years, I have had an array of teachers. I have had a set of four main teachers.…

According to Zooey Deschanel, nothing can be as hard as middle school. I was a tremendous scaredy cat when I started middle school in 5th grade. My guts were flipping and flopping on that first day. Even though I didn’t know any teachers or friends, I made new friends and met new teachers. I had Mrs. Wherley as a homeroom teacher, she was nice as pie to me. I liked how we could move around to classes instead of staying in one class for the whole day. The first few days I felt like I was part of…

It all started in middle school Middle school is almost everyone's lowest point of their lives. This is a time for exploration and for everyone to figure out their interest, As i cringe looking back to middle school pictures if my self with purple glasses and horrible acne, i actually thank my skin for being awful and making me insecure all of middle school because it caused me to find one of my biggest interests in life.Makeup, as my peers were playing sports or into the arts i was only…

Should Middle Schools require P.E? A hyper classroom, pounding with noise, no one sitting still, pencils being thrown across the room, teachers have no control. Can you imagine a school full of middle school students with too much energy and no exercise...in multiple crowded classrooms? Students need to have exercise, so really, should middle schools require P.E? Well, should they? Yes, I claim that middle schools should require P.E because it can benefit all students in all different ways. It…

Spring is less than a month away, and we need to lock in our middle school field trip drivers! Originally we planned on camping in Lassen; however, below freezing weather conditions forced us to cancel. We are now planning a trip for the first week of May. Predictions regarding the snow pack in Lassen make it unlikely that we can camp this spring. So, we have changed locations to Southern Oregon. This year's trip is going to look different than our traditional fall excursion. Our 8th…

Mid-School Crisis One moment in my past that changed my life was the transition from middle school to high school. Before finishing 8th grade, I’ve basically had the same classmates since 3rd grade. At that time, I’ve known these people for almost half my life. Every school year I went through was with familiar faces. I knew things were going to change eventually; however, I naively thought nothing was going to be different until maybe high school graduation. Me, my friends, and most of my…