Like Obama said in the video, he said we should have longer school years. I must admit I agree with him. Even when I hate school, I still agree with him. Im not being rude to other people and students, referring to the fact that they hate school, even me, I think school teaches you stuff like education and that's a good thing for people who need that education in the future.
What Obama said in the video is that kids are losing half of what they learned during the school year. Means that students are losing intelligence every summer, all year long. It's bad because students won’t be able to remember what they learned in school to use for next year in school.
I know I have mentioned this a lot of times in the first paragraph. But, as some people say, plus the news, the students think school is useless. As some others think it just takes 7 hours off of our lives from being lazy. I wish they could subtract the hours, but 7 is enough I guess. On page 1, paragraph 1, the text states “We can no longer afford an academic calendar designed when America was a nation of farmers who needed their children at home plowing the land at the end of each day.” I think Obama also went to school. And I knew how he became president. He loved school a lot and he always passed his classes every year. He studies and passes every test. The people who hate school probably always fail, but it’s not all the time, some who hate school, pass their classes anyways.
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Maybe they should use less school days and let us take a break from learning too much in school. Middle School gets harder every year because almost every school year is improving since new stuff are getting added. As more and more stuff gets added, more and more learning happens, it’s just too
The speakers in the film believe that the purpose of education is to create a public where democracy can thrive. This means creating a new generation of young adults that are highly knowledgeable and are able to make informed decisions about political subjects and can make their votes count when they are able to vote. They have the knowledge about how the government works and what they can do as an individual to make a difference in their community. They have the knowle...
As much as adolescents complain about education, we would be crippled without it. The immense freedom we have in America to learn whatever we want is something we should not take for granted. People in other countries fight to learn and to educate themselves as best as they can. People in America just 50 years ago had to fight to learn. Could you imagine living in a world where you couldn’t learn? People all over the world fight for that, because it’s scary to live in a world where you can’t do the simple task of reading or writing. What if you couldn’t read the label on a bottle of bleach? Could you imagine the damage that could cause you, simply because you couldn’t read? We have so much knowledge at our fingertips; museums, libraries, public
More steps that Obama has came up with to improve school systems are making sure that children know and understand the material that they are being taught in the classroom. If some children are struggling Obama wants to have an academic support system where students know they can go to for extra help. He also wants the teachers to be educated on all subjects including STEM so that they can prepare one to the best of their
On September 8, 2009, President Barack Obama held a speach at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia, which was broadcast all over America to the millions of students, from kindergarden up to twelfth grade, he was hoping to reach with an important message. In the speech he stresses the importance of getting an education, and he reaches out to the students to tell them why they have a responsibility not only to themselves but also to the country; ”-if you quit on school- you're not just quitting on yourself, you're quitting on your country”1. With this sentence he suddenly makes every single student listen, he makes the whole genration feel important, and hopefully this will motivate all of them to work harder in school, get an education
How many times has this happened to you; it’s six thirty on a Tuesday morning, your alarm has already gone off twice, your still laying in bed and your bus comes in twenty minutes. This is an everyday occurrence at my house. It is a proven statistic that the average high school student does not get enough sleep. While some experts like Dr. Lee Yanku say “It is not the schools starting time that is the problem as to why students don’t get enough sleep, it is because of facebook, myspace and cell phones” The truth behind it is that we can’t budget sports, homework and extracurricular activities into one day and still get nine hours of sleep. This is hurting student’s academic averages and needs to change. Changing the school time will help boost academic averages among students, and isn’t th...
Educators debate extending high school to five years because of increasing demands on students from employers and colleges to participate in extracurricular activities and community service in addition to having high grades. Some educators support extending high school to five years because they think students need more time to achieve all that is expected of them. Other educators do not support extending high school to five years because they think students would lose interest in school and attendance would drop in the fifth year. In my opinion high school should not be extended to five years. I believe that school should not be extended to five years because students would most certainly lose interest in it. High school is also a students own responsibility and if a student fails then that is their own mistake and should not get an extra year just to have an extra chance of getting better grades to get into college. My last reason is that there will be more student dropouts by the fifth year because of the loss in interest
School days should be shorter fro students because they do not get enough sleep, have to much homework, and have barley have time to participate in extra curricular activities. A majority of students have sleep depravation due to school. If school would either start or end late students will have a greater opportunity to get more sleep. Teachers expect students to pay attention for 90 minutes while the night before they were up late finishing their homework for there classes. Some teachers do not realize that students have a life and work or have other obligations that take up a major portion of the students.
I'd like to talk to you today about one of the most important issues that touches our lives and shapes our future: the education of America's children. We've always had a love affair with learning in this country. America is a melting pot, and education has been a mainspring for our democracy and freedom, a means of providing gifts of knowledge and opportunity to all citizens, no matter how humble their background, so they could climb higher, help build the American dream, and leave a better life for those who follow.”
Longer school year-The purpose of this bill is to compete with countries worldwide and to offer more options in the job field. A longer school year would have breaks would be over a shorter period of time but more frequent, allowing for students to stay on track with their education. This would also provide a better schedule to plan vacations for teachers and students.
The most effective part of this speech is this paragraph. “Segregated schools were and are inferior; we still haven't fixed them, 50 years after Brown v. Board of Education. And the inferior education they provided, then and now, helps explain the pervasive achievement gap between today's black and white students (Obama 5)”. The reason this one is so popular is because many people flipped after this. They finally realized that this had been going on for 50 years, even after they tried to stop it.
Getting up to go to school really early in the morning is more upsetting than having to actually attend school. Almost all high school students would agree that high schools should start later in the morning. Even though high school students should be responsible
Should school last year-round? School is a thing that is needed for kids but is it really needed for a whole year? In this essay I will be giving information I have found about year-round school. I will also be talking about the history of year-round school. Why would we need more school?
President Obama is telling America’s school children the importance of valuing their education. He does this by explaining that we need education for most jobs, we need to learn never to give up, and we have no reason to pass through school with no care for our future.
“We are lending money we don’t have to kids who can’t pay it back to train them for jobs that no longer exist. Thats nuts.” ~ Mike Rowe. Ever since kids were born our society has taught them that fourteen years of education will help them for the rest of their lives. Society has taught them that school is the most vital thing during our youth.
A time approaches in every person’s life when they must come to learn new things. Speaking on behalf of all those who have attended school at some point in their life, I must say that most do not like it for its educational significance. Today’s youth undervalue the worth of America’s public school system to the point of shame. Hard-working, underpaid teachers and professors prepare to educate these ingrates as their living, and it’s exasperating for the students to not even care. I must be fair though and call attention to the fact that not everyone shares this loathe for education and schooling.