Should he participate like everyone is told to, or go against the grain and disturb the universe-a poster posted in his locker that stares back at him every day. Cormier shows that going against the grain is not easy and having the character and integrity to stick with it is even tougher. Trinity High School is an all boys private school and has a tradition that all the boys must sell boxes of chocolate every year to raise money. When Cormier was young he too went to an all boys private school, so he knows firsthand what it is like in that atmosphere. The social order of the school calls for strength, cunning and survival of the fittest.
The share grows to more than 60 percent for middle schools and more than 80 percent for high schools (Anderson & Butcher, 2006). Candy, salty chips, processed foods, and bottled sodas are the norm for students that choose to spend their lunch money at the vending machines instead of the healthy school lunch program, while students that get their lunches from student cafes indulge in cups of coffee, candy, and sugary pastries. A la carte lines in the school cafeterias generally offer a wide variety of unhealthy no-no’s from in school kitchens such as fries, chips, slushies, and cookies while some schools offer a la carte items from outside restaurants including Subway, Pizza Hut, McDonalds, and Panda
Lean on Me Lean on Me is one of the most memorable movies of my childhood. The protagonist, Joe Louis Clark (played by Morgan Freeman), is hired as the principal of an underperforming, inner city school, which is at risk of being taken over by the state government, do to extremely low test scores. Throughout the movie, Clark strongly embodies integrity and honesty. At one point, Clark boldly and brashly expels hundreds of students from the school, who are identified as drug dealers, drug users, or troublemakers. Clark’s action creates a major backlash from parents of students who have been expelled, and even from some faculty members.
The teacher’s set low standards for students. For example in Anyon’s article a principal told a new teacher “Just do your best if they learn to add and subtract, that’s a bonus. If not don’t worry about it.”(Anyon, 7) A social studies fifth grade teacher told Anyon that she wrote notes on the board for the students to copy, Anyon asked the fifth grade teacher “Why,” the teachers responded, “Because the children in this school don’t know anything about the U.S, so you can’t teach them much” (Anyon, 7). Another teacher commented and said “You can’t teach these kids anything, their parents do not care about them, and they’re not interested. We keep them busy
As a child, Curt constantly made homemade ice cream with his neighbors. Always interested in science and ice cream, Curt created these pellets by flash freezing pellets of ice cream. The product is much colder than traditional ice cream. The ice cream snack begins to melt and stick together at
James does not know truly who he is, mainly because he is “dark skinned” while his mother is “light skinned”. But as he grows older, James is influenced by his mother, and her faith in God. Not only does this help James become closer to his mother, but it helps him start to notice who he really is. James’ step-father, Hunter Jordan, also influences him by showing James that hard work is worth it, and it takes a lot of work to support a family as big as they had. This assisted James notice that he has the ability to become anything that he wants to, and he just has to work hard and not lose his determination.
It also holds back the kids who work hard to succeed.” Many of the people I asked agreed in some way with Casey. I also asked another girl I graduated with, Lauren Maule, who now attends Eastern Carolina University, she said that she did not believe NCLB was affective because, “No Child Left Behind serves as a way to let students who do not deserve to move on in the school system, move ahead. If you do not work during the school year and can pass a test at the end and your peers did homework every night and just cannot seem to sit through a test you do not deserve to be able to be compared to them by moving on to the next grade level.” Both Casey and Lauren were in the top ten percent of our class, and neither agrees with what has happened in high schools since 2001. Who understands the effects more then the people who experienced it? I would have to completely agree with Casey and Lauren. NCLB allows students who put forward minimal or no effort to
I don’t like the point that her son Matt does not work, he must to work if he wants to be in a higher social class. He just stays home, doing nothing. In one of the story is about classism in the Anderson High School, a public school in one of Austin’s upper middle class neighborhoods. After I saw the video, I realized that they are divided into many groups. In White Plains High School we are divided in groups but not like them.
This is what makes me confident in myself that college will not test my skills, but rather help them shine. I had faced pressure before the start of my junior year in high school. My friends, family and teachers all told me about how hard and important this year was going to be and also that this was the year I had to prepare for the SATs. The
Statistics show that kids who are bullied usually end up losing interest in their school work and drop out of school because they’re afraid or embarrassed to go back to school. According to the article Bullies as Criminals by Greg Toppo, in the past decade states have finally addressed the issue on bullying. In 1999 on Georgia had an anti-bullying law. Since the Columbine shootings in 1999, states also began to act on the issue and as of this year (2012) 18 states have laws that now allow the victims of bullying to seek legal help. Also because there has been too many incidents such as a fourteen year old child who was bullied in his school for years and he ended up hanging himself outside of his house.