What do you think about high school vs. college? Many people have their own different opinions on this. Some people say that college makes the student become independent, helping them mature. It helps them mature by letting them do certain stuff on their own such as deciding what classes they want to take and when, making room in their schedule to study and take care of adult responsibilities like filling out paper work. Others say that high school makes the student dependent on everyone around…
Coming straight out of high school, many might continue their education because it is what they’ve been told to do their whole lives. However, my reasons for attending college go a bit further than that. I strive to become an engineer so I am attending college in the hopes of obtaining a good job that can support me through all of my endeavors. Right now, I am studying to get an associates in programming by the time I graduate high school. That degree will help put me through college so that I…
Reality of High School As you go through life, people in this world make many mistakes but also learn tons of lessons. Some don’t mature fast enough to know they’ve made mistakes and some are taught a lesson but have never actually learned it. Luckily, I had a major reality check in February of last year causing me to realize that the importance of high school is figuring out the type of person you want to be. Every girl knows the story or the movie of the popular girl in school that every…
The Effects of Sexual Abuse in Perks of Being a Wallflower Charlie, the lead character in Stephen Chboksy’s Perks of Being a Wallflower, has a best friend who committed suicide the year before he would have entered high school with him. The reason is never revealed in Perks, but it can be inferred he had family troubles. This is considered a realistic scenario in our society. Suicide is the second leading cause of death in people age fifteen to nineteen, and as a society, people have recently…
to balance a check book or even write a check, in addition to knowing the Pythagorean Theorem an how to balance a chemical equation. All of this is being taught in high schools, although is a college level. The things students need most in life are being taught at the wrong…
important and beneficial decisions so far in my life by being supportive, sharing his experience, and being a wonderful listener. Through my challenging obstacles and confusion between “A” and “B”. George never disappoints me. I remember my first year of high school, I knew I needed to develop a plan for college and my career. Daddy haven’t attend college, but by his surroundings and coworkers he tends to know way more than I did. He made sure I apply to something I’d love and enjoy to do.…
“Education is evolving due to the impact of the Internet. We cannot teach our students in the same matter in which we were taught. Change is necessary to engage students, not in the curriculum we are responsible for teaching, but in school” (April Chamberlain). Humans are slowly becoming more and more advanced by the day and so is technology. They first used typewriters to computers. Technology helps students learn better, improve their test scores, and help disabled students. However, some…
Buzz, buzz, buzz! Knock, knock, knock! Something all high schoolers hear around 6:00 in the morning on a school day. For most high schoolers, it is a difficult time to wake up, since last night they spent all night watching class videos for Pre-Calculus, studying for their test for AP World History test, and finally falling asleep at midnight. Now Irondale students head to school looking and feeling like they are part of the cast of The Walking Dead from all the sleep deprivation. According to…
English also. Teachers just need to know a lot about things they need to teach. There are many things that teachers need to be a teacher. They need to pass all the classes that they take in high school to graduate. Teachers definitely have to graduate college to become a teacher. A few important ones would be a high school diploma, bachelor’s degree, and also training (“Preparation” 1). To be a teacher the minimum years in college students need to take is four years. If we go for four years…
state-wide law, thus, I believe that this makes the enforcement of these two laws in one city and not in the other, a lot more difficult to maintain. In the case of the daytime curfew law, I have several family members who attend middle schools and high schools in the city of Los Angeles. Numerous times I have been told of how they have seen many students year-round jump the fence and leave the school to hang out with their friends, go…