School Days

has not used any snow days. Snow days are used to cancel school on days with bad weather. At this time, there is no plan in place to utilize the leftover snow days. Each school in the district is given three days to use for snow or other weather problems. Maize USD 266 should consider using the three days for field trips, breaks from school, or for fun days at school. The first way we could utilize the snow days is by going on field trip. One place that Maize South Middle School should go on a…

The Mill Valley High School Board members should reject the proposed idea of a later school day because it is beneficial to students with after school activities such as sports and jobs. The idea that a later school day is beneficial towards students is preposterous because students with after school activities and jobs would need to be out of school at an earlier hour. Take John Sherwood’s testimony for example. He complains, “But it’s going to make football practice a nightmare. We won’t…

whose parents work until five each night. When she arrives home after school, she is on her own. She’s a good girl, but still a lot of things could happen. She could get into trouble just by being curious. Or something could happen through no fault or her own. All over the country, there are many “latchkey” children like this little girl. Some way must be found to deal with the problem. One suggestion is to keep elementary schools open longer than they now are. There are many advantages to this…

your entire school career. You are still in the phase of not knowing everyone, not having multiple friends or have just made friends. Well one day of second grade, with my teacher Mrs. Pumpill, it was an activity day.-What that means is we learned for half the day and the other half were spent doing the activity. On this day the activity was coloring, which happened to be one of my favorite activities because you were able to express yourself in a new way. It was just an ordinary day of…

One of the biggest factors that has influenced my academic success was the opportunity to attend a local private school, Oakhill Day School, from the time I was two years old until I graduated 8th grade. At Oakhill, there were never more than 15 students in my class, which allowed me to create lifelong friendships with my classmates and my teachers. This was an environment where the students greatly respected the teachers, and vice versa. My classmates and I always pushed each other to work hard…

Imagine having only a four day week, and coming home on Thursday to a nice three day weekend every single week. This does sound good, right? The four day school week is where the school week only consists of Monday-Thursday. However, the only flaw with this is that more time is spent in the classroom, the school year must have a certain number of hours each week. This means having a four day school week, the hours lost on Friday would need to be made up, so more hours would be distributed among…

“Wake up,” my mom said. Then she politely tapped my shoulder. It was 6:00 am, and it would be my first day of middle school in the United States. Months before my dad had taken us from Mexico to Paramount a small city in Los Angeles County “I don’t want to go” I said to my mom,” you have to go that’s why we came here for.” That morning I was scare of staring school in a new country, with people speaking a different language that I did not even know a word of. After waking up my mom, I…

Hayden Baron Tuesday, March 13 I had a great day today. It was the first day of school after Thanksgiving break, but I like almost all of my classes and have friends in all of them. Also, the track coach keeps telling me how much he wants me on the team! My dad encourages my running of multiple miles every day and loves watching me run. As I said earlier, I like MOST of my classes but not all of them. I have English with Miss Narwin, an old fashioned teacher that is way too serious when she…

“What you do on the first days of school will determine your success or failure for the rest of the school year. You will either win or lose your class on the first days of school”. (Wong 1). When planning for the first day of school, it will be important to win my class over immediately, like Harry Wong discusses in his article. In order to win your class over, time preparing is essential for the first day of class. As a teacher you might not have the opportunity to know your next year’s…

The first day of school is something that is dreaded by most, it is the end of the wonderful time we call summer, it starts months and months of stress and pain, and it means getting up at six every weekday, with about four to six hours of sleep. Once you finally realize that you cannot escape the impending doom that is upon you, it is time to get up and get ready for it. Now school is not that bad, but the first day is one of my least favorite days of the year, I dislike the introductions, the…