Being able to play sports is also a privilege. Many athletes know that their classroom performance is very important. Making good grades provides a better student first and then a great athlete. In many communities and high school, if you don't make the grades you don't play, or in some cases even make the team. The importance of grades is also must for students who are pursuing an athletic scholarship.
One of the many challenges teenagers deal with today is physical education. As a mandatory class in high school, teenagers must participate in numerous sports and activities throughout the year. However, physical education should not be compulsory; instead it should be treated as an elective that students can choose to take. Physical education is basically exercise in school. Students spend about an hour in school to participate in organized sports with classmates.
Uniform: The Mandate for High Schools “I challenge all our schools to teach character education, to teach good values and good citizenship, If it means that schoolrooms will be more orderly, more discipline; young people will learn to evaluate themselves by what they are on the inside instead of what they’re wearing on the outside then public schools should be able to require students to wear school uniforms.” For over twenty-five years, critics have argued that school uniforms represses individual freedom and are more expensive than normal clothing. Notwithstanding these opinions, it should be mandatory for high school students to wear school uniforms. With the extensive student population in high schools across the United States with learners of diverse backgrounds, there are a mixture of students who represents a high income that can afford to buy fashionable and costly clothing, while low-income students are forced to buy clothing from thrift stores or discount retail stores. Uniforms will therefore help students to be less distracted and focus more on learning than fashion. Uniforms will create equality and help with discipline, which will help to reduce dangerous altercations.
In fact, parents regularly work five days a week leaving their kids in school for those days. With the four days program, they will have to revamp child-care plans increasing the supposed cost saving. Therefore, school districts have to reconsider the switch to four days school because it will bring more expenses than savings. Another point that Shmidt mentions is that four days school will not affect the academic progress. Nevertheless, in “Four is not Enough” explains that MACCRAY students, currently in the four day program, “scores are significantly below” (USA Today, 307) to the rest of the state average classes.
Athletes and Education Many students have been in athletics while they are in high school or in college. Athletes are extra curricular in school but academics are the most important. When you go to college, they check more on your academic grades than athletics. For me, athlete students should have special treatment in high school or college for three reasons: to get better grades, get scholarship from college, and get a better job after college. First, the high school students should have special treatment.
Student-Athletes Making the Grade The term “student-athlete” has an admirable ring to it. Kids often dream about sporting the colors of their favorite team and competing at the Division 1 collegiate level. Unfortunately, there is so much more to being a student-athlete than what you see on the field or court. Behind the scenes of the impeccable plays fans witness, there are athletes struggling to maintain an acceptable GPA and remain on the desired path of graduation. It takes a substantial amount of time and effort for a student-athlete to be academically successful in college.
All for their child’s best intentions or to possibly avoid that “empty nest” feeling they first get when sending their five year old into the big unpredictable world. So why choose public school? The place that will take your child away from you for eight hours a day, leave them vulnerable, and eventually lead them into adulthood. There are many benefits to public school like the academics provided, the social life, the diversity of people and teachers, and the many opportunities that homeschooling cannot provide. Teaching your child is probably an amazing experience and by doing so you give your child more independence academically, but almost anyone can teach home school.
Being a Successful High School Student To become a successful high school student there are four main aspects you must be able to achieve; the first one is to cope with barriers and challenges that interfere with lessons and homework. Technology including, cell phones, computers, and ipods are main barriers that distract students from doing schoolwork. Another challenge some students have is a lack of focus or a lack of teacher or administrative support. Some students have poor grade twelve role models or are under peer pressure, this causes learning barriers. People and things that help along your high school years are resources and allies.
Studies have shown that homework for elementary – high school should not have homework but work on some special project or reading at home after school for only a satin amount of time depending on what grade the student is in like forty minutes to two hours a day after school. Studies also show that homework can be more harmful then help full to students as they grow up. Studies show that students going to school all morning and afternoon doing work then coming home to do even more work will make them very over worked and make them lazy and they would not wont
So giving them extra time to do their homework in school would increase the advantages of having their homework done. Another thing is that if students replace their PE class with a tutorial and you have to leave early for a game, then you would still be able to get your homework done in school if you PE class would come before you leave for games. Second is that student athletes can end up getting injured in PE class and not be able to play in sports for certain amount of time. The chance of a student athlete being injured in a PE activity that they are unfamiliar with is more likely than in their daily practices. So they are less likely to have an injury at practice since their sport becomes second nature.