education

Something that I have been interested in learning more about has been the adversities that teen parents confront. I remember when two of my teen cousins were talking about how they had wish they’ve waited until they had a stable life to start their own family, but I was too young to understand. Lately, the issue has caught my eye again. I know that many people think that teens are becoming parents due to deficient in parenthood apprehension. From what I have heard, the majority of teen parents postpone their education in order to give all attention to the baby.

The school bell. An item of seemingly no significance can strike fear and anxiety into the heart of a student. The boringness of hours of class would be amplified by the fact that a huge pile of homework would be the consequence of attending such classes. Homework is one of the main reasons why students dread school and everything about it today.

One day I was thinking about what some beliefs and I came up with God, good education, and sports. I thought of these because I know they are real and very helpful in life. So the three things I believe in are God, a good education, and sports.

In Brent Staples' opinion piece, "Why the United States Should Look to Japan for Better Schools" from "The New York Times" explains the decrease in education in America through out time with government and economy, and why the U.S should look to Japan in envy of the amazing Education system. Japan is the MOST technologically advanced country in the world with the best education system. The United States has not taken into account how teachers are trained and how they teach, effecting the children all throughout America. Japan trains their teachers like doctors and lawyers.

Mallory Rodriguez
Phil
Humanities
12/6/12

Funding Education For Illegal Immigrants

Education has been an important issue in this last election, with primary focus on an increase in taxes to help fund public schools. An article from the Huffington Post states that education funding in more than half the states this past year. States such as Arizona rejected a bill which would have given a boost for primary education through a permanent one cent tax increase. This would have provided $625 million dollars for public schools, and yet voters rejected it.

When I was young I often asked my parents why I went to school furthermore, I asked why I had to study. I never realized that school was really important until first grade. My mom said it’s where we get an education .I wanted to be a writer, I never thought I needed an education to be one. My teacher told me I needed to work on my reading, writing, and math. Consequently I had to focus on my school work.

In this election student loans have become a controversial topic and it really hit home for me because I will be attending college next year and this is an issue that I will be facing when it gets to paying for tuition and all that good stuff. It will affect me in the next four years and I definitely agree with Obama’s decision to want to freeze it and it will be interesting to see if this happens. I think this would be an amazing idea and I think that it only makes sense to stop the constant rise in college tuition costs.

from "Federal Government Protects Student Funding from Economic Downturns": Teacher salaries have increased by 42% in the last half-century. School-related revenues have increased even with the downturn of the economy. The Obama campaign has poured in billions of dollars as a last resort in funding for resources to the schools, because of this we are protected for at least the remainder of this downturn, and likely long after that. Student to teacher ratios have fallen almost 50%, due to investments as well as teachers not being assigned to full classrooms.

An issue today in America’s schools is whether Abstinence education is effective or not. Sex Education is a controversy among educators of todays youth. The Opposing Views website helps see the sides to both Abstinence Education and Sex Education.

This question is of interest to me because I think at a certain point in our high school career, certain things distract and take away from the actual education we want to learn for the field of study we want to go into for college, and to get a potential job in. There is a quote from Mark twain who said "Don't let schooling interfere with your education." I think that by Senior year, we should only take classes in the field(s) we know we are going to study in college.

There were times in bio I wanted to applaud to the teacher. It was like he was perfectly delivering lines of the best play ever written, not teaching. It was just that interesting and exciting for my nerd brain. I learned how unspecial humans are. We are not our own tier of the evolutionary cake. We are mammals capable of speech. That is all. That being said, I also learned how incredible all life (humans included) is.

It would be easy for me to say that I have learned a great deal in high school. In fact, I have attended such a quality institution of learning that it would be a mundane and ordinary post if I were to expand on my learning. I would simply end up listing the psychological, biological, grammatical, typographical, mathematical, historical, theological, and chakranomical (a word I just manufactured meaning related to the subject of chakras and yoga). And let's be honest- when my peers are doing precisely that, no one would want to read mine. And my posts are skimpy on comments as is.