A Narrow-Minded Passageway
The hallway is small, but the amount of people in it is not. Day after day they crowd; never failing to talk throughout passing time. They are oblivious to the traffic. A classroom is behind them--door wide open--the wider hallway is adjacent. Not one or two people linger, but a group forms. The already narrow hallway feels cramped and suffocating when they gather. People that do it may not know any better, but these actions are not productive. We must learn to correct them for the sake of ourselves and our fellow students.
You, as an individual attending this school, have most likely witnessed, or have been in a situation where there is a person that has blocked your path. You may have even blocked the path of others during your time at the Park. Whether it is from being a slow walker on the Path, or someone who stops in the middle of the hallway. All of us can relate. These people may seem narrow-minded and not conscious of their actions, but their leisurely paces cause trouble for those around them. Everybody has times
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when they get caught up in the flow of things. Seeing a friend and catching up with them during passing time is a prime example. There is an appropriate time and place for everything, and narrow hallways should not be blocked by large groups of people when others need to access them as well. At the end of the day, if you walk down the smaller hallways around the schools, dealing with a crowded hallway is the last thing anyone would want to do.
But after turning the corner and seeing a wall of people, you have a few choices you could make. There is another hallway to your right; you could take the extra minute and go through there, but the classroom is only a couple feet away, even with the division making it seem longer. You decide to continue on forward; it feels as though you are fighting against a current. Calls of “Excuse me” are washed out with their loud conversation. Once you are in their group--trying to get out--waves of people push you back. You are forced in a different direction, falling back on your steps; there is no choice but to push your way through. Reaching an arm out, you sift your way through the crowd, slowly making your way through. Only stopping when you reach the other
side. Rather than blocking the smaller hallways during passing time, an alternative could be moving into a classroom. In the classroom you would be able to have more space, less outside noise, and not be getting in the way of those around you. Some people may say that even then there would be people complaining about the noise, lack of space, or having to walk out of their way to get to another classroom. In that case, larger hallways are also better for talking where you won’t get in the way of many people. Instead of forcing your peers to walk through your groups. Please, make an effort to move to a more spacious area to avoid stopping people from easily walking to their classes
It is a sad time in American history when one can easily recount recent school shootings in their own area. This ease stems from a sharp increase in the number of firearms brought into elementary and middle schools across the country, with an intense focus on the issue beginning after the shooting of 20 children from Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut. Most school shooters are male, white, and often upper middle class. They are also more, often than not, under some type of mental stress that is causing them to create this type of violence in our communities. In fact, many school shooters are never suspected of doing any harm to their peers and teachers until it is much too late.
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Throughout my educational experience not once did I ever come to think about how much of a difference the size of class makes. As I sit here thinking about how much of a difference my education would have been if the class sizes were smaller. I remember sitting still in class as I observed my teacher pressing against her temples stressed out because her class of thirty-one wasn’t listening to the instructions. “Kids if you can just please listen to me and stop hiding so we can start class.” Mrs. Robles exclaimed. Not a day went by where she did not mention how big this class was and how many kids were crammed into her small classroom as she went over her material. Regardless of it being presented with such normality we are unaware of how much of a problem it has been. In fact, this has been a problem with over 40 states in America and they have all carried out a ruling that entails smaller classes for academic and disciplinary reasons. Throughout the following essay I
Texas has passed a new piece of legislation that has now given the students, teachers and other officials to carry a loaded gun onto and around their college campus. The case for this gun carry legislation was that if the students, teachers and other officials were able to have these gun than maybe the issue of school shootings would almost evaporate in some areas. This no doubt sounds like one of the better arguments for guns on campus, seeing as how much of an epidemic we have with school shootings. However, congress seemed to have disregarded an issue on how this could also harm the campus more than it could help. Giving way to empowered threats, reckless engagements, and innocent losses is only some of the ways that this could be a negative thing.
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Imagine dedicating your life to a university not only on the academic level, but also the athletic level. With a full scholarship your time is dedicated to getting to class on time, finishing assignments, and making it to mandatory practices while also maintaining a strict workout schedule. With your day pretty much full of responsibilities, you do not have the time for a job to pay for anything that you may need outside of tuition, books, and housing. If your car breaks down or you run out of gas you have to pay for that out of your own pocket which is fairly difficult when you do not have an income to cover the costs and if you accept money or free services from any businesses, you could lose you eligibility as a NCAA athlete and lose your
According to ABC news, in October 2013, bullying is on the rise. The last couple of years the news and social media have been filled with stories of bullying. Just last week, there was a story on ABC news about a fifteen year old autistic boy from Ohio, who was deceived into pouring a bucket of urine and feces on his head. The pranksters told the boy that it was for the ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) ice bucket challenge. The boy trusted the pranksters and in return he was mortified. After finding out about this story, I began to wonder what makes someone bully others. I also started to think about how my high school bullying experience was, and how I had been at both sides of bullying. I then did some research on stopbulling.gov. According
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Education is a huge topic of controversy, society is always trying to reform what we know as education today. Right now, the first 12 years of education are entirely free for students directly, but in the end are paid for by the taxpayers of the town. The question is, why should only grades k-12 be free why not a college education too? On the other hand, there are some exceptions to free schooling at the k-12 levels. The most prominent being, Private schooling, most towns in the United States have at least one if not many private schools. They require a certain amount in tuition for each of its students every year. An example of this, in my town Salem, NH one of the most known private catholic schools is St. Joseph 's. I had a good friend a few years back
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