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Tuyet Vu Kristi Philips RWS 100/Essay 2 October 6, 2017 Institution vs. Intellectual School is natural selection because it only caters to specific individuals while ignoring the rest of the other students’ specific needs. The current education system is tailored for the students who are academically intelligent while being indifferent to the rest of the other students’ learning style. A person can be a gifted speaker, but can still be considered unintelligent by the school if they cannot meet…

Despite overwhelming evidence that periods of unstructured play and social interaction are a crucial part of children’s cognitive, academic, physical and mental wellness, schools continue to take away recess privileges as a penalty for academic or behavioral transgressions. I’ve done it, many times. When students fail to hand in assignments or when a child acts up in class, I’ve taken their recess privileges hostage. I did it both as a way of punishing for bad behavior or as a way to carve out a…

Danforth and Kim challenge two metaphors surrounding ADHD, and provide evidence to show how incorrect societies’ point of view can be. Their arguments show how the lack of education spreads negative notions and judgment about ADHD. Unfortunately, there are many misconceptions surrounding ADHD. As a community, we struggle to make sense of how this disorder starts when there is little information about known causes. In a school setting, ADHD not only effects the person with the disorder, but also…

Not for Profit is made up of seven chapters and each chapter is reinforcing and strengthening the author’s main arguments. Martha Nussbaum’s work revolves around a call for the rescue of educational system on a global scale, particularly issues relating to promotion of knowledge, skills, and personalities necessary for a democratic citizenship. Earlier in her work, she articulates that, “We are in the midst of a crisis of massive proportions and grave global significance…No, I mean a crisis that…

“Available international data indicates that there is no clear-cut evidence that increased homework leads to improved test scores” (Penn). Unfortunately, elementary, middle, and high schools across America disagree. Some school districts think the more homework, the better test scores will be, however, that is not the case. Most students struggle with the large workload given to them to complete at home. Homework is harmful to students. Homework is harmful to student because it affects their…

1) For me starting in matric my main stress must be school work. Like every other high school student. I stress about school work because I have high expectations for myself. I want to do well. I think I set standards higher than what I am capable of. So I am hard on myself and stress when I can’t get the marks I want. I am a huge procrastinator and have a short concentration span. I find it very hard to meet my deadlines. Another reason I battle to meet deadlines is because I am a perfectionist…

children’s focus when they are in school because they are thinking about a big win or even practice (Ripley 10). Therefore a student that is not in sports could feel that they are going to ace a test, but when it comes to children in sports they could be worrying about a game later and not even remember they had a test. Clearly, it is very important for schools to get rid of school sports to help with the costs, and to show the students that they care about their academic learning…

The work created as a group has taken so many hours of hard work and dedication to complete, mostly because literary analyses have many different factors. From the thesis, to literature approaches, and going into the details of the literary devices used. The theme of our essay was failure, and it seems pretty ironic, because the main motivation to write it was to pass the class. At times, it seemed that none of us knew what to do, or how to write. What kept us motivated most of all had to be the…

Many students with disabilities are mistreated based on things beyond their disorders. Both Catherine A O’Brien and Peggy Placier wanted to study and analyze an important part of social justice approaches to schooling. The study was investigating the struggle that many minority students faced based on their racial, ethnic, and linguistics in deaf residential schools. Through extensive research both O’Brien and Placier decide to further understand and explain the many discourses about students in…

Public school systems in the United States have significant differences due to the disparities in educational funding. Not all children have access to the same quality education, which is deeply observed in Savage Inequalities, where a river separates two public schools in Illinois, however, each district has completely different conditions (Kozol 9). This is mainly due to the variations in the amount of money spent per student, which varies by district (IT 229). All children should have access…