Professor Ensworth: Why The School Closed

The nature of the college grading system is open to haggling, or at least that’s what Brent Staples proved. As writer of “Why Colleges Shower Their Students with A’s,” Brent Staples attempted to shed light on how this is affecting many facets of our lives and no doubt, colleges themselves: “Faced with demanding consumers and stiff competition, colleges have simply issued more and more A’s, stoking grade inflation and devaluing degrees.” (Brent, S. 1998) With colleges turning into proverbial fast food restaurants, some students are wanting more for less, showing how low some universities are willing to go for a quick buck.

Students were hoping for school to end early, but classes resumed around 10:30 a.m. Students from other schools hoped for everyone in DuVal to stay safe.

A thorough check of all exits to be made to ensure all gates/doors was locked and there is no way a child could have left the school.

The trivialization of high school in the present educational organization for teens has been posited in the public; however, it is one vital issue that is being debated.

I do understand that yes it puts a big dent in the learning plan for the semester. This catastrophic hurricane was something unplan something we as human had no control over. In my opinion to make a child sit through an extra week of class do to the child school being used as a shelter is unjust. The moment the storm came about there was a plan to use the school as a shelter and a plan to clean up, but this plan is not in timely manner. I do understand the things left being from people and their dogs has to be properly sanitizes but a better plan should be in place have a quicker turnaround so now a child has to sit through a extra week of class for because of untimely system to me that is unjust as Dr. martin Luther King stated in his letter from the Birmingham jail “a unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with its moral law. To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas an unjust law is a human made law that is not rooted in eternal law or natural law.” Per the artic ether was not a decision made yet but they reference “In the past, when school was closed for weather events, Hillsborough did not have to add any days to the calendar because its schools are open for far more minutes than the state requires. ” so why should they have to make the days this

Education means something different for everyone. According to Mike Rose, “a good education helps us make sense of the world and find our way in it” (33). The truth to this is that education affects us in every aspect of our lives. Rose emphasizes the value in the experience of education beyond the value of education for the purpose of custom or intelligence; he explores the purpose of going to school in terms of how he defines himself and his personal growth in the stages of his academic career. In Rose’s exploration of the purpose of school, he also reflects on his personal experiences and how those experiences gave him tools that are applicable for his daily life. Mike Rose’s Why School?: Reclaiming Education for All of Us persuades his audience of the importance of education beyond the classroom, emphasizing how those experiences become crucial to one’s personal growth and potential.

Students at Hatch Valley High School need time away from teacher time to relax just like the teachers get a break from the students and to make us stay on campus that means that teachers have to give up there lunch to watch us.If they have to give up that time they and they won’t be happy because that's there time alone and they deal with us all day.so thats a reason that closed campus is a con.

That makes it hard for kid to get to school. It also won't be fair for the kid who can't go to school because the miss out on learning and one day can make a difference. So school shouldn't be open to give all kids a fair chance. Kids who don't miss school are most likely to move up in grades compared to kid who miss school.

Acorrding to http://www.nola.com/education/index.ssf/2010/01/school_officials_weigh_cancell.html, one school reported marked 8,800 students absent on Monday, compared to 3,500 on a typical day in the 44,000-student system. This is pretty serious because so many kids are absent so teachers really can’t start anything new. Also, the very few population of kids actually at school are too tired to learn anything which hurts their education. We don’t won’t students in school if their bodies can’t handle it so this is why we should have school off on this

Believe it or not keeping a school open costs quite a bit of money. If schools are open longer the maintenance costs go up about 10% more. Many people believe that having school year-round education may be cheaper but it certainly does not guarantee savings. These costs may add up and in turn interfere with budgets for other programs that are already struggling with funding such as sports, music, arts and other programs funded by the state. Also lets not forget air conditioning is not free. With today's current economy most students have to pay for their collage and in result get summer jobs or part-time jobs to raise money. Year-round schooling could make it difficult for students to keep jobs and save their money. Low income families can get hurt in this situation. Lastly, teachers must be paid for all the weeks they are working, with all these factors the cost of keeping schools open skyrockets. In Tempe, AZ, a high school experienced an increase of $157,000 per

Within the poem “Schoolsville” by Billy Collins, the author describes his career as a teacher, highlighting the relationship with his students and how they have impacted him. Collins executes this through his creation of an imaginary town, intertwined with the reality of his profession and the real world. Through the frequent use of exaggerations, humorous imagery, and critical diction, Collins captures his weakening grasp on reality. The speaker captures himself in a dark moment where he realizes how detached he has become from his students and reveals his sense of hopelessness as a teacher.

“The School” is a short story written by Donald Barthelme and published in 1974 in The New Yorker. Donald Barthelme is a post-modernist writer known for his deceptively simple yet powerful and insightful short stories. “The School” is a story that takes a good hard look at the sensitive topic of death. The theme of this story is about the cycle of life and how death is an integral part of it. The story is written in first person narrative. The narrator here is the teacher and he talks about how he and his young students of 30 kids encountered death throughout their time together in class. He uses edgy humor and a conversational tone in his seemingly complex plot with a surprising effect that will stick with the reader long after they are done reading it.

Since parents can no longer drop off their kids at school, some students would have no way to get to school. Some students on their way home from school are watched by an older sibling. With later start times It is possible that the older sibling would not get home in time to watch the younger sibling. There are quite easy solutions to these problems, Students could be driven by a friend to school. They could take the bus. Also when students are ready to come home, they could be dropped off at a group, or go home with a friend, until their parents are there to pick them up. There are many solutions to this

There is a solution. If schools switched to year round classes the teachers would be able to move on with work instead of wasting time teaching students

Education means something different for everyone. According to Mike Rose, “a good education helps us make sense of the world and find our way in it” (33). The truth to this is that education affects us in every aspect of our lives. Rose emphasizes the value in the experience of education beyond the value of education for the purpose of custom or intelligence; he explores the purpose of going to school in terms of how he defines himself and his personal growth in the stages of his academic career. In Rose’s exploration of the purpose of school, he also reflects on his personal experiences and how those experiences gave him tools that are applicable to his daily life. Mike Rose’s Why School?: Reclaiming Education for All of Us persuades his audience of the importance of education beyond the classroom, emphasizing how those experiences become crucial to one’s personal growth and potential.