Keeping Our Schools Down

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Even though Shelby County has plans for shutting some of our schools down, there have to be ways that we can stop this from happening. The rate of shelby county closing our schools is constantly dropping because parents, students, and even teachers, believe the school should stay open. If they closed the schools down, this will affect the students in many ways. There will be many questions to ask the board of education if they approve on shutting these schools down. In this essay the readers should expect to learn how this situation will affect kids and how kids can keep their schools open .
Students and parents have to find ways to keep the board from shutting these schools down. One way to keep the schools from closing is to have parents, …show more content…

Also, they are turning some of the schools into charter schools like Fairley High School. They changed the grading scale of some schools because they know some schools cannot have high grades as other schools, so they made they grading scale lower for some schools and turned them into charter schools. So students need to go to class and go home and study hard every night and day so they can make good grades so they can keep their school open. Also, schools close down because of the danger of the neighborhood, and people believe that it will get worse, so they believe that if they shut the school down, they will send the kids to a safer …show more content…

Students believe some kids skip and leave school because they want to fit in with other kids and seem cool to them. Other kids skip because they feel that school is a jail cell and they need their freedom, so they leave and come back when their finished doing what they’re doing. Kids go smoke or drink, but these activities can wait until you get home, but also kid’s minds shouldn’t be on activities like that right now. Some kids get tired of certain people, so they leave to stay in peace with themselves or to keep from doing something to someone else. A lot of kids don’t believe in going to class; they don’t like the class or their teacher, so they skip to get away from that particular issue. Also kids leave school to go buy lunch because they doesn't like to eat school

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