A little seven year old was only drawing the other day in class. Unfortunately he drew a gun, and ended up being suspended from school. It happened in a town up in New Jersey, which also had four kindergarteners sent home because of playing “cops and robbers.” These incidents show that something has to be changed, because are these kids the true cold blooded killers? The article was not biased; it only gave facts that needed to be known by the American public. This article opens my eyes and shows me that America may be going in the wrong direction to stop gun control.
The poem has a boot camp feel which leads one to believe Coach Hill is preparing fearless young men for war. Although Coach Hill gives off the vibe of a drill sergeant, the poem is really about a youth’s first football practice. Right off the bat in line 3, Gildner gives you a true feeling that Coach Hill is the “Drill Sergeant” instead of just a football coach. The narrator says “the man with the short cigar took us / under the grade school, / where we went in case of attack” (Gildner, 809). The simple fact that he walks into the room with a “short cigar” in his mouth gives the reader the image of a rough and tumble Drill Sergeant.
The janitor, who is the narrator of the story, observes all the obstacles that the school and students have faced over time. The school has many problems to deal with such as, holes in the wall, broken bathrooms and unreliable staff and students. Miss Sun comes to teach at this school in hopes to help these kids succeed and realize their full potential. The educational system that is put into play throughout the story is meant to highlight all the mistakes that stop children from advance learning in today’s educational system. The environment that Miss Sun and her students walk into everyday has turned into a prison instead of a learning place.
The man looked up through the smoky car and mouthed the word “what”? The man slowly rolled his window down and Lee spoke again except this time he only got as far as the word “you” before the man open fired on him. At first Lee thought it was fireworks with the 4th of July having just past but soon reality set in that he was actually being shot right in his driveway for no reason at all. Mostly everyone has heard about gangs and what they do and represent. Usually people think gangs are just society’s problems, and label them as killers and drug dealers.
He subsequently learns that their affair began in reaction to another relationship, one carried on between Mr. Shears and Christopher’s mother, before she disappeared from Christopher’s life. At school, Christopher prepares for an A-level math exam that will enable him to attend a university, a feat no other child at his school has managed. He also continues to work on his book. Upon returning home one afternoon, Christopher accidentally leaves his book in plain view on the kitchen table. His father reads it, becomes angry, and confiscates it.
The Citizen Councils of America (CCA) is anti-integration group also known as “the White Citizens’ Council.” Soon he started to read Books about Nazism, the Third Reich, and racist tracts. Duke was sent to military academy when he finished sophomore year in high school, he
They both had their problems in high school but now are ready to leave them all behind and join the police academy and the secret Jump Street unit 7 years down the line. They weren’t exactly A-grade police material hence Schmidt helped out Jenko with the exam answers and Jenko returned the favour by helping Schmidt with the fitness tests. Not surprisingly, they make
Critique of “Will Your Jobs Be Exported” by Alan S. Blinder Starting in elementary school teacher’s begin to prepare you for standardize testing. You learn all this material, and test on it, learn the material… and the cycle continues. Kids who cannot test well drop out or fail and are looked down on by society , kids who succeed pass and continue on and are praised, the question is does that particular style of learning come in handy when all the American people jobs are being exported. According to an article in The Atlantic news paper “53% of recent college graduates are jobless or unemployed” so in the end are we not all equal? When all the jobs of the future go to personal service jobs, will American children only know how to test or fail or to invest all their time into schooling for professions that will not pay?
Patrick Lewis’ heroism throughout the novel derives from his curiosity and desire for knowledge. Patrick’s heroism links him to the theme of power and authority as well as central conflicts throughout the novel. Firstly, Patrick’s heroism is exposed when his curiosity leads him to the Riverdale Library where he discovers Nicholas Temelcoff had worked on the Bloor Street Viaduct and was known as a daredevil. Patrick confronts Nicholas with a picture of him and some other workers: Patrick pulls out the photograph and places it in front of Temelcoff…Nicholas Temelcoff never looks back. He will drive the bakery van over the bridge with his wife and children and only casually mention his work there…Patrick’s gift, that arrow into the past, shows him the wealth in himself, how he has been sewn into history.
I just do not understand why the main focus of our education has to be all about test. I feel as if my classmates and I were like lab rats, being used for discovery and research, just so the school can gain recognition and reap the rewards for producing good test scores. Many districts use strict curricula’s that publishing companies produce to “promise” outstanding grades if you buy their products and complete them all. When you try to force that on the teachers, it is frustrating to them because they have the freedom of teaching taken away from them and are given a set of rules to produce better test results. Because many teachers and other educators are being forced to move away from teaching in their own preferred style, they must follow a set pace so that their instruction to the students is to what the district mandates instead of responding to the students need.