The High School Of Middle School Essay

The day has finally arrived! I had been waiting for this day to come for forever it felt like. I am no longer in elementary school. Today is the day that I start Junior High. I can not wait to go to school . I rush out of the house door to meet my friends as quickly as I can, bursting with excitement.

Changing high schools in the middle of the school year were a rough experience for me. Most of by a reason of never feeling accompanied and necessary in the new school. Teachers and students seemed all building wall boundaries and not wanting to communicate. Especially having to deal with language barriers and emotional distress I decided that it’s not the place that I will attend and dropped out. After shifting my life one hundred eighty degrees, switching from working here and there with no chance of advancement, I finally decided to obtain a GED. In past coming from a family history that education is not important and in fact none of my relatives having a higher education, now I came to the understanding that higher education is an essential

If I look back on my life it is very different than it used to be. Middle School is 3 years of countless phases. One day you are a Mets fan another day you are a Yankees fan. One day all your friends play on Playstation and then they all buy an Xbox because it is the next cool thing to do. You just do not know what will be “in” next. When this is all over you can recap the good and the bad. We all have our good and bad times. but now all of us will be going to different schools next year. The crossroad has come for us what happens now cannot be changed. The next chapter in the book of my life has come and the introduction has been written.

Middle school was a lot of fun for me, I met a lot of new people and lots of new girls. It was also kinda tough in the beginning with switching classes and things and having so many different teachers and lots of homework from different classes and having to remember the room numbers of each class but eventually I got used to everything.

There’s four main seasons that occur throughout the year. I’ve always loved the saying “like the seasons we change.” When I hear this saying I like to think of a tree; how it can go from being a little sprout, to small tree with only branches, to being so full of life with colors and leaves everywhere. This tree withstands the scorching hot summers, the brutal cold winters and all of what is in between. This tree stands strong and continues to grow and mature through it all. I would compare myself to this tree as I have grown, and matured as well. Throughout my four years of high school I’ve changed just like the seasons.

I never understood when people told me that time flies until I looked back on my life. Being a senior in high school, I have been to college and high school graduations of my siblings, but I never imagined that this time would come for me. I always wished for this year to come, but now I am regretful that I wished these precious moments away. The cliché phrase of high school being the best time of your lives keeps ringing through my head. I have changed since freshman year, which I am so thankful because I believe that time is a blessing. It allows me to grow into the person I want to become. When I had not made the Varsity soccer team Freshman or Sophomore year, I wanted to quit. Against all desires, I turned my sadness into determination

Michael J. Fox once said “One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.” This quote has a very personal meaning to me and my school years growing up. Basically to me it means if your getting picked on it only affects you if you let it. When I was younger, around 1st and 2nd grade, I would get picked on all the time. For example it started with me being made fun of and called names like idiot and dumb among other things really lame things. It didn’t help that we moved a couple times and I always felt like the new kid. Even going into Middle school last year we just moved to GA and I didn’t know anyone the first day. I am not going to lie, at first I was so bothered by the situation that it even made me not want to go to school.

Oh, the joys of middle school. Schoolyard crushes, cliques and constant drama running rampant through the halls as pre-teens adjust to being back on the bottom of the social ladder. And what better piece of literature to explain the ups and downs of pre-adolescent education than Romeo and Juliet?

The faces of all the people I have ever met blur together like the colors of a sunset as each day fades and turns to night. A few stand out, family and friends,but one shines brighter than all the rest, Amy, we have been friends since elementary school, but have grown much closer throughout our middle school years. She threw me a lifeline when I did know I needed one, she saw directly through me and pulled me right in.

Arriving at the Seagate Center, I at first seemed lost in the sea of fifteen-to-sixteen year-olds crowding around the entrance. Though, anxious as I was to start the leadership program and make new friends outside of my locality at Northwood High School, I began to revert back to my original preset. The reset provided me a moment of nervousness and shyness in the ability to start talking to others; however, sometimes a person just needs to have a push in the right direction, so I jumped to one of the groups head-on and introduced myself before conversing with six encouraging sophomores who were just as nervous as I was.

High school is a crucial period for all adolescences, it’s a time where teenagers are approaching young adulthood, their learning new skills rapidly, and making important decisions (Blakemore, 2011). For this reason, it is highly imperative for high school students to have positive influences in their lives, especially in their educational setting. In high school, educators play an important role in their student’s lives because they have the opportunity to have a stronger impact on their future and their goals. In addition, they also have the opportunity to, inspire them to learn and try new things, teach them how to make sound decisions, and encourage them to collaborate with their peers (Bellanca & Brandt, 2010).

Ever since the advent of large-scale standardized tests in the 1980’s, state departments of education have ranked school districts according to relative performance on these assessments. Ostensibly, the purpose of ranking schools served to identify the lowest-performing school districts so that state governing agencies have the ability to target limited resources to help districts most in need, and identify the highest-performing districts to serve as models of effective practice. In addition to state departments of education, media outlets regularly use district-level performance on standardized lists such as the SAT, National Assessment of Educational Performance, and Advanced Placement tests to generate rankings. These rankings serve as

This spring, I was able to attend my second YMCA CCE Youth in Government conference. I have always loved and looked forward to CCE conferences, and was even considering running for an office. So when my high school was moved to a new conference, I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to fill in one of the vacant officers positions, and serve as the Chief Engrossing Clerk. This was a momentous privileged as this is usually reserved for an elected, upperclassmen by 500-1000 other middle tennessee delegates. I had a wonderful time leading that year, so upon consideration I decided to run to serve another year as an officer, Chief Clerk of Senate. I made this decision because I would be able to serve, but faced minimal

Everyone can remember the first time they had to write an essay for high school. The first prompt I had to write about was three words that described myself that I think my teacher should know about me. I thought it was going to be impossible to write an entire essay describing myself. I spent a lot of time thinking about what I was going to write about, how it was going to sound, whether or not my words fit the prompt, and a lot less time actually writing the paper. I thought my paper was golden by the time I finally got done writing it. I had my mom proofread it and she thought it was a pretty decent paper, and right then, I knew in my mind that there was no way I wasn’t getting an A. Well, until I got the grade back on my ‘golden’ paper.

Oakland High school is located in Tacoma, Washington, whereas, Interlake Senior High school is located in Bellevue, Washington. These two schools may seem like similar public high schools, however, they vary significantly. Interlake Senior High school has 1,569 students and a 90% graduation rate and only 19.9% of its students receive free or reduced lunch (“Interlake Senior High School”). The school’s major ethnicities consist of White (40.7%) and Asian (33.4%) (“Interlake Senior High School”). 74% of teachers have at least a master’s degree and 67 of 100 teachers teach core classes. Oakland High school’s statistics are slightly different. Oakland has 244 students and a graduation rate of 14.8% (“Oakland High School”). Of the 244 students, 79.5% receive free or reduced lunch and 35.3% are White, 31.9% are African American (“Oakland High School”). 57.1% of teachers have at least a master’s degree and 11 of the 14 teachers teach core classes. Just looking at these statistics shows the obvious differences between the two schools.