Redesigning High School

The first changes I would at Metro High School make revloves around positive reinforcements to change the current school culture.* I would post the names of students on the wall of the main entrance for twenty days of good attendent. Then every three months of good attendent I would give those students a ceritification of proud student of

In the article “The Truth about New York City’s Elite High Schools”, the author criticized the sole-criterion admission system for eight NYC specialized high schools. This system judge all the students depends on only one thing—the test score of SHSAT( Specialized High School Admission Test). It seems like a fair condition that gives every student an equal opportunity, but the reality is a much different story. The result of this “fair” system is that only about 10 percent of students in all eight specialized high schools of NYC are African students or Latino students. Based on this result, the author suggests that this system is unfair to African or Latino students.

Attending high schools should be more than just exposing students to a structured curriculum. High school should also be a place where students are allowed to think outside of the box. Schools should inspire creativity, sparks curiosity, and fuels ambition.

The Carl Hayden Community High School was established at Phoenix in Arizona in 1957. It was well regarded and the provided of an off-site equestrian program. In fact, the number of the ethnicity students that attended to the Carl Hayden Community High School was the Caucasians are more than Hispanics students. However, this school got the report of ethnicity number of the students had changed by an increase the 92 percent of the Hispanic students. Moreover, the neighborhood is a nearby the school had abandoned and the some of the roads had an unpaved dirty. On the other hand, this school building had described was the mostly drab in the late of 1960s boxes. Furthermore, this school had a dress code for the females and males students. The females

The educators in the documentary, “Rethinking High School: Best Practice in Action,” claimed that authenticity, collaboration, and challenge are the three core principles that are needed in our school system to achieve better teaching and learning. I agree with the statement, especially when we are talking about urban schools.

This past year, Mountain Home Junior High reinvented their after-school program. Throughout the year, several students in the program dropped out, and by the end of the school year, only ten students were being served. The ineffectiveness of the program, in my opinion, was due to a weak initiation phase before the program was implemented. A small committee was formed to write a grant from the program, set the program goals. There were no teachers, teacher leaders, or counselors on the committee and no input from community members or parents were considered. The curriculum for the program centered only on addressing benchmark scores of basic and below basic students and did not meet any other needs or the students. As a counselor, I heard complaints from parents throughout the year that their children would benefit more from having homework help and extended instruction. Teachers felt as if they were already using instruction time during the regular school day to prepare students for the last year’s PARCC and now the ACT Aspire exams.

The United States has been a power of the world for quite some time, and high school is an important factor to the success of the nation. High school is supposed to prepare students for the real world while providing those students the opportunity to experience a multitude of different things, but nowadays the system is not providing all it could. It is important that students learn essential skills as well as acquire the knowledge to live on their own and parents recently are not much help either. While “The status dropout rate decreased from 12.1 percent in 1990 to 6.5 percent in 2014” (U.S. Department of Education), it still does not dismiss the fact that students are not prepared. High schools in general,

My high school experiences have become imprinted into my memory and parts of me. I changed entirely from the first day I walked in as a freshmen to the last day I walked across the stage with my diploma. Not only do I look different but I act, think, and understand differently. I realize now that an individual’s character is largely constructed by other people’s opinions, unwritten rules, and a subliminal hierarchy. The reality of high school makes it difficult to escape the ideal image of a perfect student, friend, respectful significant other, and model child. With all these different forces pulling students back and forth, the primary goal is to be accepted; despite how much change one must undergo. From my high school experiences I know how to deal with labelling, peer pressure, alienation, and cliques. Thus my former high school social lessons and knowledge allow me to reshape my perception, values, and self-image to this day.

In light of a lot of controversial issues over education matters, different people take different sides and give out individual opinions. There is a common belief that good education would provide a country with a lot of benefits such as more promising economic growth and higher living standards. As the global economic recession is taken more seriously, more and more people are now turning their attention to education in America, the most powerful country in the world, asking whether it will be still up to its name in the future and what kind of improvement to education can make contribution to the social economy. In addition, media also gives data on America’s stagnant education

Transition planning is a team effort. The student’s participation in planning is important including asking them what their interest are and what they would like to do after finishing high school. In the case of Paulo, he is an 18 year old boy with a cognitively mild disability and autism. He communicates through adaptive sign language and gestures and is understood by his family and teachers. His family is involved in his education and transition planning. His family intends to have Paulo live with them and then with one of his siblings. Paulo enjoys working in the grocery store when at school but has some issues with accepting correction.

Imagine being a fourteen-year-old teen barely hitting puberty, unable to operate a moving vehicle, probably have not even received a first kiss and already attending college. Would the feeling be of excitement to have the ability of freedom and decision making? Or would it be one of the worst nightmares of starting a stressful, full of responsibilities, and working hard adult life at a young age? Many wonder what would it be like if high school never existed. There is the open imagination of teens having a degree and a well-paying job before turning twenty. But there is also the thought of society experiencing an economic crisis for a low demand for low-paying jobs that do not require a college degree. Where ever our imagination takes us, it is best that high school

High school includes the years of change. You will change as a person and your life will change more than you have experienced so far. With all this change it is important to be yourself and keep yourself accountable. The work in high school builds on what you learned in middle school, giving you a more advanced knowledge of many academic subjects. You may find you have more work to do and that it's a bit more challenging. But these challenges can make you feel less bored with the usual routine. High school allows you to discover what truly piques your interest: anything from biology to government, find your niche and take as many classes as you can that involve your interest.

As a taxpayer of Morgan County’s 3rd District and a parent whose children attend CHS and CMS; I would like to put forth my opinion on the generous fund that Mr. Wayne Solomon has left for Central High School. I regret that I will not be able to attend the meeting that has been scheduled to discuss the issue.

What’s wrong with highschool is that it doesn’t teach important life skills that students are going to need to know like how to balance a checkbook or how to buy a home. I know we have personal finance but the class isn’t enough. It’s too short and doesn't cover all the topics you’re going to need to know. Most high school graduates go to college where they are going to be away from their parents and friends so they won’t have anyone to help them. What i’m proposing is that the education system adds a new class that is to be required to take in senior year that teaches students what they need to know how to do in the future.

One thing I would change about the school is recess. The school says that recess is only for k-5th grade and I find that very unfair. Also if middle and high had recess they would burn the energy that they have and that would mean that they would be tired so they would not be much of a burden says a writer. It would also increases focus. “Recess is important because it helps us get a break from all the learning” says google. Therefore recess should be for all grades.