First and foremost, I just want to say that I dearly apologize if my opinion offends you in any way. This letter explains why I disagree with your opinion about abolishing the 8th grade advancement. I have talked to my other fellow classmates, nevertheless they have agreed with me that canceling the advancement is injustices. Ever since my first year of middle school all I ever thought about was the 8th grade advancement. I have seen a variety 8th graders go to their advancement and always thought of being in their position. For example, last year my neighbor had his advancement and it was appealing to see him advance.
Mr. Penny, please try observing this issue in our perspectives. We, the students, have bought our goods for this important day. Not to mention, but these materials are extravagant. If our school doesn't have the advancement than the money would go to waste. For instance a dress that is so simple, cost roughly 60 dollars. You might say just keep it for another occasion, but multiple students will grow out of their clothing. What are they supposed to do with their clothing that they bought for the advancement? Even if they donate it, it won’t be reasonable to us.
In addition, our parents had such
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a considerable role in helping us with the advancement. Our parents spent their valid time to help us raise the money for the advancement, plus they have tired to participate in numerous family activities. It pains me to know that we might not even have advancement because the teachers had been talking about this all year and explained it to be a very special moment for us in middle school. They had been helping us organize the advancement. If we don’t have this advancement it would feel like we just threw the money down the drain. This was the year where I had thought to enjoy and appreciate what I have achieved.
I had been planning on dancing and having a pleasant time with my friends at the advancement before we transferred to high school. Countless numbers of our friends are moving to another school or state over the summer, so not having an advancement would be unfair. The other students in my classmate’s school probably would have had an advancement and they would lecture about it in 9th grade nonstop. My fellow friends would be upset and would say that our school didn’t have one. Which would present our school as an atrocious plac. This would be unacceptable to the students, the falcons, and to the scholars of our school. We wouldn’t want to hear such a thing about our
school. In conclusion, please do take this situation into amending and just try to take it from our perspectives. I would like to give you more information, but I assume this is enough to persuade you. Lastly, thank you for taking your valuable time to acknowledge this letter and cooperating with us.
The purpose of Rebecca Solnit’s “Abolish High School” is to criticize the present high school system along with the emotional and academic strain it puts on developing minds. Solnit’s intended audience is any educated person with the opportunity to voice their opinions on the current approach to schooling.
The greatest country in the world still has problems evenly distributing education to its youth. The articles I have read for this unit have a common theme regarding our education system. The authors illustrate to the reader about the struggles in America concerning how we obtain and education. Oppression, politics, racism, and socioeconomic status are a few examples of what is wrong with our country and its means of delivering a fair education to all Americans.
The main argument in The Apology by famous ancient Greek philosopher Plato is whether, notorious speaker and philosopher Socrates is corrupting the youth by preaching ungodly theories and teaching them unlawful ideas that do harm to individuals and society. In his words Socrates quoted the prosecution’s accusation against him: “Socrates is guilty of corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing in supernatural things of his own invention instead of the gods recognized by the state.” 1 Further Socrates consistently introduces tediously compiled number of examples to provide valid and sound arguments to prove that he is innocent of the charges brought up against him to the court.
In my view, system-wide, large-scale reform is needed to achieve the goal of "getting all young people as close as possible to their upper limits of learning potentialities" (Perrone, p. 15, 1991). This is crucial to ensure change because "trying to transform schools within the existing structure is a contradictory process" (Murphy, p. 38, 1991). The first step is to involve the traditionally voiceless at all decision-making levels to best determine what the needs of the least privileged are, if we are truly committed to providing opportunities that respond to children's needs. I specify, "opportunities" through funding based on my assumption and belief that money can improve education through attracting and keeping good teachers, reducing class sizes, establishing programs to respond to different needs, and maintaining healthy facilities and quality resources. Equitable funding, where all children have the chance to receive a high-quality education, is the first step towards education acting as the great equalizer in a country where oppression limits, dehumanizes, and disempowers in virtually every other life realm.
...r types of attention-getting materials to make sure that school-wide visibility was high. This program could also be implemented at a low cost; the cost of paper for copying along with other types of low-cost material could ensure the success of school program that could be done twice a school year in the semester setting. As an administrator, you could remind your students and staff that, “a price tag cannot be placed on a successful future,” and to donate time to promoting the ideas of planning for a successful future; whether in a job or higher education for all students.
The article titled “Order in the Classroom” goes in depth into the education system; its flaws, strengths, and what needs mending. Author Neil Postman, an educator of New York University includes his perspective on the education system. One remark by contributor William O’Connor, explains that the education in our schools is not inferior, the schools have been getting inferior students (Postman, 309). The students are not inferior in our education system. If we were to look in depth at some of the issues we hold, maybe that mindset would change. What makes us inferior is the fact that we do not teach our children things they need to know before beginning school, we have a horribly structured school day, we believe that socioeconomic status will change a student’s learning and ability and we believe in punishing students who cause disturbances. These are all very low and hurtful perspectives to hold when discussing education.
The undergraduates will not have to worry about wearing an ‘unattractive’ outfit. Parents and their children will not have to worry about the prices of clothing or buying as much, because they will already be wearing a pre-set outfit. Buying a set outfit that the school mandates mean that it will be much cheaper than normal outfits that students would normally buy. One student would not have a special treatment form faculty or friends because of the clothes they wear, because they are all the same
...h ability grouping, contrary to the post-modern belief of many proponents of “de-tracking” our schools. Granted there are many flaws (as there would be in any education system), but once we work through those flaws, such as social and racial prejudice, ability grouping will take our society to new heights. We are on the right track.
Key, Scott. “Con of School Dress for Success.” FPU News. Fresn.edu, 11 November 2007. Web. 29 Apr. 2014. https://news.fresno.edu.
George F. Will’s “College President’s Plan: Abolish High School” conveys ideas that had never crossed my mind. He states, “For various reasons, some rooted in American history and others reflecting recent developments, education has become, for the moment, the most salient social concern and therefore the most potent political issue.” Will introduces Leon Botstein, who doesn’t actually option to abolish high school, just to change the structure of our schools in general. Botstein says that high school was created for 15- to 18-year-olds who were still children. In today’s society, those children are now young adults who are physiologically and psychologically more advanced.
Without wanting to cause a major fight, we would like to bring it to administrations attention that many students and parents are mad and disappointed in the new rules pertaining to dressing up at the Junior Ring Ceremony and National Honors Society. For many students they have watched the junior ring ceremony since freshman year and have looked forward to getting their rings and being able to dress up, many feel that it is almost like a right of passage to dress up like the “big kids” and officially become upperclassmen, and it is unfair to have any portion of the juniors day and ceremony to be taken away from them. When it comes to National Honors Society many feel as if the people who were chosen for the honor of being a part of the society
Focusing on the stage of adolescence, he called for a break with traditional education during this stage. Hall characterized this stage of adolescence as the stage beginning with puberty, at around age thirteen or fourteen, and extending into the twenties, until sexual and social maturity was reached. During this time, public high school had begun to make their appearance after the Civil War and between 1880 and 1900 the number of schools increased by 750 percent. This dramatic increase resulted in chaos with the variety in curriculums and standards, and in 1854 a Committee of Ten outlined to the NEA a program a reform for secondary education. The committee’s purpose was to increase the level of high school work to a standard acceptance for entrance into college and to broaden the work beyond the preparatory courses such as mathematics and Latin Greek. Hall had a central objection against this committee: the subordination of the high schools as having their main goal as being entrance to college. To Hall, high schools should be tailored to the needs of adolescence. In high school, education must break away from drill and mechanisms and there must be an appeal to freedom and interest of the adolescents. In Adolescence, Hall emphasizes that the adolescents’ feelings should be nourished, but in a serious
Good evening parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings, and friends. I would like to thank you all for coming to this very special day. I know how proud you must be. As we have grown over the years, there are many stages we all have gone through. From learning our shapes and colors, to getting our first kiss in middle school, or how about explaining to our parents why we skipped school because the principal called home. As we remember these days, things that we've done will be with us forever. But this is only the start of our journey. The day has come where we say goodbye to the big yellow buses, assemblies, assigned seating, and attendance policies. Are you really gonna miss it? For some of us maybe not right away. But eventually we will so for us to be here it is not necessarily an achievement, but a privilege. All of us have been in school over half our lives. To graduate is one more step we've taken in our lives.
There are many excellent things about being a grade 8 student, you go through many experiences. Grade 8 prepares you for your hefty years in high school. You 're the oldest students in the school now. The reason why grade 8 has so many advantages to it is because you get to go to many fantastic trips, make new friends, and learn about things you have never learned about before.
...ke school something that the students can look back on and think that it was a meaningful time where they learned a lot about life instead of a time where they thought they would have a break down because they got a low score on a test. School should be a time to make mistakes in a safe environment that they can learn from, not a place that they are petrified to make a mistake for fear of retribution on their grade cards. Its time to change the school system to save future students from becoming stress crazed and to let them know that there is more to this world than a grade card and in the long run it is a very small fraction of life.