School Ambush Research Paper

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841576, a student ID number. Why use a number over a name? I have a name, and I as a student shall be identified by my name. School isn’t a prison, where you are just another number. School should be a social place, where you are able to be yourself. Now Forbush has taken away student social time by eliminating break. Although these are problems Forbush also has committed faculty, and staff to come early, and stay late for students. This is why Forbush meets, some of my needs as an individual, but not all of them. As a student-athlete balancing school work and athletics can be challenging. Coaches are understanding of school work, but teachers don’t always understand the value of athletics. Teachers believe that if athletics take time out of

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