David Mayorga Dr. Jane Glaubman ENGL 1134 20 May 2024 "Molded by the Halls: Life Inside Uniondale High School" "Molded by the Halls: Life Inside Uniondale High School" is an intimate documentary that sheds light on how Nassau County, New York’s Uniondale High School affects its students’ characters, aspirations and destinies. The movie zooms in on this particular educational establishment revealing its unique culture, prospects along with challenges thereby determining whom it produces. With a focus solely on Uniondale High School, this film captures the range of experiences that its students undergo and represents what makes up the spirit of the school. “Molded by the Halls” takes readers on a journey through high school as each individual …show more content…
This will lay the groundwork for a more extensive exploration into the impact of school on students. Through presenting an authentic picture of an ordinary day, the segment aims to explore the intricacies involved in high school education by reflecting on how school culture, environment and opportunities shape student growth. As a result of employing such a day-in-the-life approach, viewers will get to know better about Uniondale High School’s rhythm and reality that can also serve as foundation for subsequent episodes that delve deeper into other stories and themes. Segment 2: Academic Pressures This part will investigate the academic atmosphere that prevails at Uniondale High School, focusing on the expectations of students, the impact of standardized testing, and the availability of various resources to support their success. Thus, this section intends to demonstrate how delicate the balance between academic achievement and personal development for students can be. The segment starts with regular classroom scenes featuring teaching, student engagement in learning, as well as all-day activities of school …show more content…
The section seeks to provide comprehensive insight into how peer relations and social dynamics shape learners’ personality construction via diversity in their interpersonal experiences. Furthermore, it would demonstrate that fostering resilient students requires robust help systems throughout their lives, but particularly when they are adolescents who face so many hurdles. Viewers will have a greater understanding of the intricate social dynamics of high school and how important a role they play in determining the overall Uniondale High School student experience after watching this investigation. Segment 4: Extracurricular Engagement. In this section, we will examine how vital extra-curricular activities at Uniondale High School such as clubs, sports, arts and other student organizations are. Specifically, it will also analyze the way these activities help students build their identity, self-awareness, as well as enhancing socialization skills. The foregoing has a montage of various extracurricular activities that students engage in as they use this segment to make their personal identification and promote personal development and refinement of social powers. The scenes have an upbeat tone and show a range of extracurricular activities that kids can be involved in. After following some highly engaged students in these events, the piece
Too often, students are taught that their lives are defined by who they are and what they do, not by circumstances. But circumstances can be very crucial to determining how a person’s life is shaped. It’s no secret that not all schools and neighborhoods are created equal. Some schools offer advanced classes, and college prep, and opportunities, while some schools don’t even have textbooks. Even within the circumstances, there are circumstances. The students in the latter school that lacks textbooks may have parents who go the extra mile to ensure that they have more opportunities, or could have parents who don’t have the resources to do that. Environment and circumstance can make a huge difference, and Wes Moore’s The Other Wes Moore is a fantastic
Raquel and Melanie are two poverty stricken students that attended University Height’s High School in the South Bronx, because their school was not federal funded, it lacked resources; so it does not come as a surprise, perspective students like Melanie and Raquel have more of a ...
As American’s we place a high level of importance on attending school and receiving a certain level of education. Across the world, the recommendations for attending school vastly differ based on the culture of the society. In America, we require our children to attend school until they are almost of legal age, push high school graduates to attend college and we constantly emphasize structured learning. Many children in today’s world lack many skills that would allow them to “teach” themselves outside of school leading to an increased interest in televisions, computers, and phones. Technology has taken away society’s attention away from independent learning such as reading, writing, and outside experiences. John Taylor Gatto’s emotional voice in his writing “Against School” has allowed me reveal my psychological voice regarding the educational system.
“Because I got to hold hands with Penelope and kiss her […] all of the other boys in school decided that I was a major stud. Even the teachers started paying more attention to me. I was mysterious” (Alexie 110-111). Through this passage, Sherman Alexie highlights the importance of peer and community relationships in the process of forming an
“School can be a tremendously disorienting place… You’ll also be thrown in with all kind of kids from all kind of backgrounds, and that can be unsettling… You’ll see a handful of students far excel you in courses that sound exotic and that are only in the curriculum of the elite: French, physics, trigonometry. And all this is happening while you’re trying to shape an identity; your body is changing, and your emotions are running wild.” (Rose 28)
...lms these students get away with murder and still go on to college. This simply does not happen in real life; therefore, looking to Hollywood films for the true colors of schools is not in the best of interests. We have to realize that directors produce these films in their vision of American culture. We as Americans always look to the American Dream of sometime “making it.” The films neglect to see the loser’s point of view, meaning Hollywood films only look to a positive ending because it is in our nature to believe in the American Dream. This book allows our society to actually look past the films fantasies and observe the true inequalities in school. Although Hollywood films do correctly show how urban, suburban, and private students behave in schools, they do not show the true outcomes of real life.
In modern society, the rules for school are simple and straightforward. To do well in school means to do well later in all aspects of life and guaranteed success will come. Sadly however, this is not the case for Ken Harvey or Mike Rose. Author Mike Rose goes to Our Lady of Mercy, a small school located deep in Southern Los Angeles where he meets other troubled students. Being accidentally placed in the vocational track for the school, Rose scuttles the deep pond with other troubled youths. Dealt with incompetent, lazy and often uninvolved teachers, the mix of different students ‘s attention and imagination run wild. Rose then describes his classmates, most of them trying to gasp for air in the dead school environment. On a normal day in religion
When life becomes overwhelming during adolescence, a child’s first response is to withdraw from the confinement of what is considered socially correct. Individuality then replaces the desire to meet social expectations, and thus the spiral into social non-conformity begins. During the course of Susanna’s high school career, she is different from the other kids. Susanna:
While watching the Uniondale School Board of Education meeting this was something very interesting. The people that attended this meeting where the school board members, the superintendent, the student member, business affairs and people from the local community. The people the present was the student member, two school board members and a couple people from the community. There were a couple things that the board talked about and the members of the community. Something that was very interesting at this board meeting was that the members of the board had a student member by the name of Campbell present during the meeting. Campbell raised a concern about the segregation that is happening in Long Island. She mentioned how she and other people
When in fact the high school outsiders become the more successful and admired adults in society. Botstein. states that team sports in high school dominate more than student culture.... ... middle of paper ... ...
‘’High school is the best years of your life,’’ is a shibboleth commonly used by adults, but how true is this expression? As high school is a time in which one obtains freedom and independency, without having many responsibilities, some adults consider those years to have been the best of their lives. However, plenty of adolescents repudiate this, as they endure a lot of pressure during their high school period. In this essay, I will argue that, although adults often regard high school as the best time of their lives, it is a social institution that can be very threatening to adolescents, as issues such as peer pressure and parental expectations, which become evident in the teen movie High School Musical, generate a lot of tensions that can
Children from the inner city characteristically have lower GPAs, attend very few AP classes and have a dropout rate that is much higher than their suburban counterparts. This has been an area for much exploration and study throughout the years, but yet the trend of a knowledge gap among children seems to continue. Perhaps one area that needs to be further explored is the differences in cultural identity between these two groups of students and its impact on the education these students wish to achieve. In this paper I will present the numerous theories built around the process of establishing one’s identity and provide examples of how this identity shapes a students involvement and actions while in school. I will also reflect on the importance of systems that foster identity formation that is equal for both inner-city and suburban children.
"Molded by the Halls: Life Inside Uniondale High School" is a personal and insightful documentary that delves into the significant influence that Nassau County, New York's Uniondale High School has on the personalities, goals, and futures of its students. This film explores the distinctive culture, opportunities, and challenges that characterize the school in great detail, illuminating how these factors work together to mold the people who walk through its doors. With a singular focus on Uniondale High School, the documentary highlights the wide range of experiences that its students have, capturing the spirit of the school. " Molded by the Halls" provides a thorough examination of the life-changing potential of high school via intimate tales and frank interviews. It shows how Uniondale High School's
Most popular kids engage in a school sport which makes them well known and liked throughout their social atmosphere, not only by their peers, but by their teachers as well. Many outcast do not engage in these acts of physical teams like sports, but rather in other institutions such as a culture, theater, and various academic clubs. These tend to be labeled “uncool” and separate these kids from other students. Their “abnormal” interests, that vary from the conventional athletics, can make them looked down upon and questioned by others. Having these preferable extracurricular activities is normal, yet these kids tend to be misunderstood by the jocks who don’t have a particular preference to these clubs. Based on the same survey from stageoflife.com, interests are the second leading cause of teens feeling inferior to their peers at 49% (stageoflife.com). Also, “63% of teens say that their appearance is an important factor in their identity” (stageoflife.com). Kids feel that their ability in activities causes them to subordinate to others. Teens are often judged for these interests which should not happen since their enjoyments are irrelevant to popularity
Let’s flash back in time to before our college days. Back to then we had lunch trays filled with rubbery chicken nuggets, stale pizza, and bags of chocolate milk. A backpack stacked with Lisa Frank note books, flexi rulers, and color changing pencils. The times where we thought we wouldn’t make it out alive, but we did. Through all the trials and tribulations school helped build who I am today and shaped my future. From basic functions all the way to life-long lessons that helped shape my character.