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- 241: Should The Ten Commandments Be Posted In Public Schools?
- Should The Ten Commandments Be Posted In Public Schools? October 1st, 1997A 16-year-old in Pearl Mississippi is accused of going to Pearl High School and shooting nine students. Two die. Dec 1st, 1997Three students are killed and five injured as a 14-year-old opens fire at s prayer circle in the hallway at Heat High School, West Paducah Kentucky. March 24th 1998Four students and a teacher shot to death during a false fire alarm at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro Arkansas. April 20th, 199915 people die in the ...
- 242: The Dark side of a Wonder Drug-A Selected Collection of Testimony on the Safety of Ritalin
- ... day, yet we punish adults for taking speed," stated a concerned parent(Ritalin Zone). A trip to the principal's office used to mean big trouble. These days, more kids are showing up in the school office just to get their midday dose of Ritalin. Ritalin, the drug used to treat hyperactivity in children, is being seized on by a generation worried about controlling inappropriate behavior. But some doctors think Ritalin is being prescribed to children who are simply having trouble in school. The numbers suggest they have good reason to worry. The number of prescriptions for Ritalin increased four-fold from 1990 to 1995, making the stimulant one of the most prescribed drugs in the country. No ... s behind the surge in Ritalin use, but experts speculate it's due to everything from increased awareness of attention disorders in schools to teachers and parents becoming less tolerant of unruly behavior. Some local school offices have become virtual noon-time pharmacies. At one Ottawa-area board of education, the number of medications dispensed to students by office administrators has increased 20 per cent over the past 18 months. ...
- 243: Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
- Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools Imagine sending your children to a school such as the schools in East St. Louis, where they are overpopulated, under-staffed, under-supplied, and well below safety standards. Well, this may be a nightmare for some parents, but unfortunately, this is a ... minorities, blacks and Hispanics. The schools, like the children who attend them, are very poor. There is very little funding available for children's education because unlike the suburbs, tax money has to meet non-school costs such as: police and fire department expenditures and public health. All are in competition with public schools. The schools in these areas are over crowded, limited in supplies, under-staffed and unfit for teaching ... as elsewhere in America, local funds for education raised from poverty taxes are supplemented by state contributions and by federal funds, although the federal contribution is extremely small, constituting only 6 percent of the total school expenditures" (Kozol 56). Children living in the poorer districts, usually minorities are simply ignored. The difference in the type of education an individual receives according to where he/she lives, amount of income, and ...
- 244: Kaffir Boy
- In the book Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathebane there are many obstacles that Mark the protagonist has to overcome. The first of his problems was to get through school in his poor South African ghetto. The second was to achieve his goal and receive a tennis scholarship to an American college. Mark s father is one of the major antagonist, he was opposed anything to do with Mark getting an education in a school. He was a very traditional man and he didn t like anything that had to do with the white man . He thought it was nonsense to get a whiteman s education and he wouldn t provide the money that was necessary to get Mark through school. Mark was helped through this situation by his Mother who was the person who wanted Mark so desperately to attend school. She decided to go against Mark s Father and send Mark to school. ...
- 245: The Life and Work of Ronald Dahl
- ... the annual journeys to Norway did not cease, Dahl embarked upon a new phase of his life: formal schooling. The commencement of this "awful process" of the boy's civilization began at Elmtree House, a school located in Llandaff, the small village the Dahls moved to after Harald's death. The institution was Welsh, not English, though; Sofie Dahl felt that she wasn't quite ready yet to move to England with a brood of small children (Howard 1). After a year at Elmtree House, Dahl's mother decided the time had come for him to go to a "proper boy's school," (Dahl, Boy 27) and enrolled him in Llandaff Cathedral School, a preparatory school under the auspices of Llandaff cathedral, at the age of seven. Dahl's days at Llandaff would have been rather unremarkable if not for the presence of a candy shop on ...
- 246: To Kill A Mockingbird - Plot S
- ... out and play with Scout and Jem, Dill has always found interesting studying Boo's place, because Dill think Boo is phantom bogeyman. Chapter 2 1. Scout makes three mistakes during her first day at school. What are her mistakes, and why do they make Miss Caroline so angry? First of all, the teacher found out that Scout already can read, so she make Scout promise not to read to with ... they exist? Between Burris Ewell, Walter Cunningham - They are both from a very poor family. But Walter's family is respectable, but Ewell's family is disreputable. Ewell have no attemp of dressing up to school, following rule, or even come back to school again. But as for Walter, he attend school in a clean shirt and neatlt mended overall. This is to show how disreputable Ewell's family is, and prepare us to the up coming trial ...
- 247: Embracing The Past To See The
- Mike Rose s I Just Wanna Be Average essay sheds light on troubled youth within the public school system. It makes you long for the days of American pride and service. Students placed in tracks to utilize overcrowded and faulty test systems. Identity lost due to poor instruction and lack of motivation. The ... quest to advance America as a whole. Civic pride and duty were influencing every aspect of American education. Both essays draw from the influence of education into the societal path into American mainstream society. Each school system is influenced by thoughts of bettering youth, but in much opposite ends of the spectrum. The French commission stated that the youth of America were offered the same curriculum in the hopes to form ... the French, was a land of golden opportunities available to every child regardless of social standing. It was the basis for our country to survive. It safeguarded our standing in the world. Mike Rose s school offered quite the opposite. It was a haven for long standing views on school being selective as to whom actually deserved the education. The only hope of the present school system is a few ...
- 248: Cultural Diversity in Schools
- ... was the norm in the general public, as well as most of the schools. As America approached the nineteenth century, the need for a common culture was the basis for the educational forum. Formal public school instruction in cultural diversity was rare, and appreciation or celebration of minority or ethnic culture essentially was nonexistent in most schools. In the 1930's, the educators were in the progressive education movement, called for ... help prepare young people to live with greater understanding, cooperation, effectiveness, and dedication to equality in a multicultural nation and inerdependent world (Cortes, 16). When I observed at Madison Elementary in December, I expected the school would be multicultural in the sense of ethnic or racial backgrounds. Instead, I was very surprised to discover that the school was predominately white students, with only a handful of African American students in each classroom. I did find out that the Wheeling Island area was in very low status pertaining to income. Not only ...
- 249: Education Of The Middle Ages
- ... were the Knights who had learn how to fight with various weapons so that they could fight for their king. The common people, however, had no way of being educated other than going a monastic school. However, if they did this, they had to donate their property to the church. The people who went to this school later become monks or nuns. They had to follow three important laws: chastity, obedience, and the law or the lord if not followed they would be thrown out of the monastery. Most monasteries had a ... monastic life by living in a convent under a direction of an abbess. Known as nuns, they wore simple clothes and wrapped a white cloth called a wimple around their face and neck. They alternated prayer with spinning, weaving, and embroiling items such as tapestries and banners. They also taught needlework and the medicinal use of herbs to daughters of nobles (Couglin A6). Although monks and nuns lived apart from ...
- 250: People Making out in the School Hallways
- People Making out in the School Hallways There is a major problem in today's school hallways. There is an overabundance of public displays of affection. Some that may be innocent and some that are utterly disgusting. There is a time and place for you to show your loved one how much you love them. School hallways are not this place. There have been a few attempts at getting rid of this problem, all of which have gone down in vain. Administrators have threatened detention for anyone caught showing their ...
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