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  • Should Sex Ed. Be offered in Public Schools?

    Should Sex Ed. Be offered in Public Schools?

    Should Sex Ed. Be Offered In Public Schools? By: Jessica Blanton “ Should Sex Education be offered in Public Schools? ” Sex can be traced back as far as Adam and Eve, the first two people on this planet. Today, all age groups encounter things associated with sex, but it is not a problem that concerns everyone. The problem that has been at hand for more than thirty years is should sex education classes be

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    Essay Length: 2,290 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Kevin
  • The Need for School Uniforms

    The Need for School Uniforms

    The Need for School Uniforms A safe and structured learning environment is the first requirement of a good school. Children who feel safe and secure will better learn basic American values. In return they will learn the basis of good citizenship and become better students. In response to growing levels of violence in our schools, many parents, teachers, and school officials have been forced to look toward school uniforms as one potentially positive way to

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    Essay Length: 1,588 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Monika
  • The Breathalyzer at School Functions

    The Breathalyzer at School Functions

    Recently at Longmeadow High School it became mandatory to pass an “alcohol-screening test” before entering a school dance. This breathalyzer will detect alcohol on one’s breath. No student that has been drinking will be admitted to the event. Longmeadow High School has recently purchased breathalyzers which teacher chaperones administer to all students entering a school function. This issue has brought about much conflict. Many people see it as a positive thing; however, the breathalyzer at

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    Essay Length: 926 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Mikki
  • School Violence

    School Violence

    Even though we live in a capitalist society, I still cannot help but believe, despite my own cynicism, that people are more motivated to achieve something for personal satisfaction rather than monetary gains. Look at Chekov's short story, "The Bet." A man agrees to sacrifice fifteen years of his life in prison in exchange for a million dollars. Obviously his motivation for such an extreme bet is wealth, but by the end of the prison

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    Essay Length: 972 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Mike
  • High School Dropouts

    High School Dropouts

    High School Dropouts Entering high school is the beginning of a whole new learning experience. Transitioning from middle school, high school presents more classes, students, and a bigger campus. It brings new expectations and responsibilities to each of us. High school also offers fresh chances to make new friends, try new sports and activities, and really explore who we are as individuals. The goal is to maintain good grades, score high on the SAT test,

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    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Jack
  • Can Parents Leagally Home School Their Children?

    Can Parents Leagally Home School Their Children?

    Running Head: INDIVIDUAL PAPER ON CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: TEACHING V. Individual paper on Constitutional Law: Teaching V. Home schooling Can a parent illegally home school their child? Yes, according to a recent ruling by a California appeals court. This current ruling is leaving an estimated 166,000 children in the state of California as a probable truant in addition causes their parents the risk and possibility of being prosecuted under the law. The home schooling movement never

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    Essay Length: 1,188 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Mikki
  • School Truancy

    School Truancy

    In this Speech by Mr Frost His his intention is to form an argument against the statements put forward by the Principle in her previous speech, his first statement outlines this “To Speak against the proposal”, which immediately informs of us of his Differing view. Mr Frost begins with a simile about how the proposed ideas are too harsh that there isn't a need in his opinion for such strictness, that they are extremes. His

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    Essay Length: 515 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Mike
  • Public School Funding

    Public School Funding

    Education: Public School Funding All across America students go to school to learn and prepare for their futures. Imagine students of all ages walking into a classroom with new desks with four stable legs, new chairs that aren’t cracked or missing parts and sitting down to their personal laptop provided by the school. This sounds like a school that most parents would want their children to attend. But how would parents find a school like

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    Essay Length: 274 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Janna
  • 4th Amendment in High Schools

    4th Amendment in High Schools

    Introduction: March 7, 1980: two freshman girls in a New Jersey high school were caught smoking in the bathroom by a teacher. The teacher sent both girls to the principle’s office since smoking in the bathroom was a violation of a school rule. Both girls were questioned by the Assistant Vice Principle, Theodore Choplick. In response to questioning by Mr. Choplick, one of the girls admitted that she was smoking in the bathroom. However, the

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    Essay Length: 5,200 Words / 21 Pages
    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Dress Code in High Schools

    Dress Code in High Schools

    Some of the rules set fourth by the government in the Rio Rancho Public Schools district are irrelevant to the needs of the students. These rules are not helping to provide the proper quality of education, but instead are interrupting classrooms to deal with this so-called problem. The students these days do not need rules such as: dress code, identification cards, and truancy (not attending school). We are old to understand the consequences of our

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    Essay Length: 1,199 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: David
  • Why Go to School?

    Why Go to School?

    Why go to school? Have you ever wondered why people have to go to school? Well, the answer is simple. School is important for your future. There are many reasons why this is so. First of all, schooling provides you with the education necessary to get a job. Secondly, school teaches you many skills that you need for the future. Lastly, school provides us with a sense of social responsibility. Consequently, school plays a significant

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    Essay Length: 785 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Essay to Convince Your Teacher to Allow You to Go on a Trip to the North Eastern School of Communications and Wlbz

    Essay to Convince Your Teacher to Allow You to Go on a Trip to the North Eastern School of Communications and Wlbz

    NESCOM/WLBZ Given that the purpose of this paper is to persuade you to allow me to attend the trip to NESCOM as well as the WLBZ television station, I'm going to cut right to the chase and tell you why you should choose me over the many other students applying for this opportunity. Forgive me for being lengthy in my reasoning, but I didn't feel that a 200 word paper was nearly enough work to

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    Essay Length: 556 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Mike
  • High School Dropout Rate

    High School Dropout Rate

    There are a number of sobering statistics concerning the high school dropout rate in the United States. One third of all students who enter high school don’t graduate.1 As of 2000, 10.9% of 16 to 24 year olds were dropouts.2 The dropout rate in urban schools is twice the rate of non-urban schools.2 Statistics also show that young adults whose families are in the lowest 20% of incomes are six times more likely to dropout

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    Essay Length: 510 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Vernonia School District V. Acton

    Vernonia School District V. Acton

    On June 26, 1995, the Supreme Court decided on the case Vernonia School District v. Acton as to whether or not random drug testing of high school athletes violated the reasonable search and seizure clause of the Fourth Amendment. During the 1980’s and 1990’s there was a large increase in drug use. The courts decision was a strong interpretation of the Fourth Amendment and the right decision upon drug testing high school athletes. Between

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    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Home Schooling

    Home Schooling

    Some 20 years ago only a mere 50,000 children were home schooled, and that was mainly by hippie parents who wanted to protect their children from what they called “the system.” Now it is estimated that nearly 1.5 to 2 million children are now schooled at home each year, dissatisfaction with the American public school system being the number one reason (Crary). Since most home schooling families can’t afford it, they choose not to send

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    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Jon
  • Catholic Schools Vs. Public Schools

    Catholic Schools Vs. Public Schools

    Williams 1 Catholic vs. Public Schools Catholic and public schools have so many ways that they are a like and different. Catholic and public schools biggest and most known difference is that in public school there is no religion class. Three points that tell how they differ and are alike are uniform, gender, and class wise. The first point explains the difference the ways the schools is able to wear their uniforms. Even though all

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    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Parent and School Autism Wars: A Civil Rights Struggle

    Parent and School Autism Wars: A Civil Rights Struggle

    Parent and School Autism Wars: A Civil Rights Struggle Based on the civil rights principal of equal educational opportunity, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) guarantee an appropriate education to all students with disabilities. The 1997 IDEA amendments mandate that parents of children with disabilities have a right to be involved with the school district in education decisionmaking processes, meetings, and records of their children. Yet some parents of children in special education feel

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    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Artur
  • An Examination into the View of Perception (pratyaksa) According the Nyaya School of Philosophy.

    An Examination into the View of Perception (pratyaksa) According the Nyaya School of Philosophy.

    Perception as a pramana or method of knowledge has not been discussed at length in Western logic. In so far as it has been discussed, it has created a divide amongst the realists, the idealists and the empiricists. Many schools of Indian philosophy have taken up a critical examination of perception as a means of gaining valid knowledge. The Nyaya is one of them. According to the Nyaya school of philosophy, valid knowledge or prama

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Jon
  • The Infringement of the First Amendment in High School Theatre

    The Infringement of the First Amendment in High School Theatre

    In the landmark case Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969), John Tinker and his siblings decided to openly protest the Vietnam War by wearing black armbands to school (Goldman 1). The school felt that their efforts to protest the war disrupted the school environment. “The Supreme Court said that �in our system, undifferentiated fear or apprehension of disturbance is not enough to overcome the right to freedom of expression.’ School officials cannot

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    Essay Length: 1,277 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: July
  • Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell

    Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell

    The essays “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell, “My Name Is Margaret” by Maya Angelou, and “Shame” by Dick Gregory explore the natural desires of individuals amidst pressure from common everyday life. In “Shooting an Elephant”, Orwell describes a young man serving in the imperial police in Burma. He is hated by the public due to his Anglo-Indian background and participation in British imperialism. The young man is tested when an elephant loses control

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Moreno Vs. Ector County Independent School District Board of Trustees

    Moreno Vs. Ector County Independent School District Board of Trustees

    Moreno vs. Ector County Independent School District Board of Trustees Article Reference Moreno vs. Ector County Independent School District Board of Trustees. (2007, May16). American Civil Liberties Union. Retrieved April 12, 2008 from http://www.aclu.org/religion/schools/296831lgl20070516.html Summary of Key Points According to the American Civil Liberties Union (2007), the Ector County Independent School District Board of Trustees authorized the teaching of the Bible course in public high schools, which promoted a particular religious viewpoint to public school

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Jon
  • School Uniforms

    School Uniforms

    Can you think of some reasons school uniforms would be a good idea? Uniforms for dress code at our school is an excellent idea. Our principal should definitely enforce this dress code because, it would be easier to pick out clothes in the morning, there would not be any back-to-school shopping hassles, and kids won’t be judged by how they dress. One reason is, it would be easier to pick out clothes in the

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    Essay Length: 456 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Andrew
  • After School Programs...

    After School Programs...

    After School Programs What Can They Do For You??? Proposal: The purpose of this paper is to explore the different aspects of Before and After School Programs through different disciplinary research methods. I will look at how each of the methods helps to shape not only the programs but those who attend them, in terms of how they develop the students into active producers. I will also explore how the programs affect how a

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: David
  • The School Systems of France and California

    The School Systems of France and California

    Education is an important part in any society. Whether you live in America, France, or Africa education plays an important role. There are many ways of administering education to people. We will be seeing the similarities and differences between the Californian and French system of schooling. They may have different ways of educating people but the role remains the same in both places. It is here to help prepare you for the future. In the

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    Essay Length: 497 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Fatih
  • The Pitfalls of High School Sports

    The Pitfalls of High School Sports

    Children are often exposed to sports at an early age. As they get older and start school they often participate in sports as a way to both make now friends and be active. As the children grow older, progressing into their teenage years, they become more specialized in their sports. The sports that the young people continue with grow in their favor. When the child reaches the high school level, sports take center stage. The

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Wendy

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