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Students’ rights in the public school system. I chose to do my report on students’ rights in the public school system. Lisa Rowe, who was then sixteen and a student at Teaneck High School in New Jersey, thought she was doing a good deed when she returned a purse she had found in her English…

Having a job in high school gives me an edge. As an employee, I havelearned to interact with many different types of people, work together,and learn the value of a dollar. Being employed is one of the best thingsthat has ever happened to me. Participating in a job has offered me manyopportunities to make friends,…

All over America there seems to be painfully obvious differences in the school systems which cater to the upper class majority and the ones that serve the lower and middle class minority. There is a strong undercurrent of racial inequality in today’s school systems, which negatively effect the quality of education that its students receive….

In the book School Girls by Peggy Orenstein, the focus is on young adolescent girls in middle school, and the effects that the Hidden Curriculum and other elements have on their self esteem. Hidden Curriculum teaches girls to value silence and compliance. (pg. 35) The hidden curriculum is a theory that boys often get more…

Upon reading last Sunday’s issue of the Cincinnati Enquirer, then scanning the Editorial Pages my eyes were drawn to thick black letters entitling a column “Time to pick on bullies”. This editorial of Bill Thompson immediately laid claim that after a school shooting, news follows that the shooter was “bullied” by fellow students. Seeing where…

Political Correctness In The ClassroomSchools in Canada have recently become the battleground for the fight overhow much political correctness should be allowed to infiltrate grade schoolclassrooms. One can take two sides when dealing with such issues as violent toys,”good clean fun”, the benefits and disadvantages of political correctness. There is much controversy about violent toys…

People are obsessed with the interrelation between different demeanors. Weather it be art and literature, matching shoes and shirts, or between men and women. We live in a society full of irreverent and dysfunctional relationships. In-fact, we were lucky enough to live during the time of The Break-up Heard ‘Round the World, other wise known…

olsSchools: Comparison Between Canada and Taiwan SchoolsSchool is the best place for people to be educated. Everyone has to gothrough this stage in order to be knowledgeable, so they can be useful insociety and solve any problems they encounter. Not only they are educated forthemselves but also for their countries. Different countries have differentsystems on…

Schools today aren’t in the best condition. There is teasing, violence, discrimination, cliques, and poverty. There is much to say about how having mandatory school uniforms will help these problems. My question is, will uniforms help these problems enough to dismiss the hurt that they would cause? I say the uniforms do little to help….

yIn today’s information society people often think that characters from TV-showsor talkshow guests reflect our society. Although that opinion is rather based onthe disability of people to use information than on any logical thoughts, thereis something every talkshow reminds us of: people are not perfect. So, I say,society can not be perfect either. I believe…