Our black athletes are placing our young students at a disadvantage by not informing, motivating, and encouraging them about the importance of education. ii. Athletes should be expected to set an example and urge our young students to be armed with adequate tools which will help them excel in this technical and complex world.
Should College athletes be paid to play their sport? College athletes should be paid to play their sport. The NCAA is a multi-billion dollar industry that regulates players to the point of unfair treatment. As a student athlete, especially at the college level but more specifically D1 schools there are certain rules and regulation that players must abide to when it comes to money. Players are not allowed to accept gifts, clothing, tickets of entertainment, merchandise, special discounts, etc.
Youth Violence in Schools American InterContinental University Abstract During this paper, I will discuss youth violence in schools, and how the media has portrayed it. I will focus on the urban schools since it has the bulk of stigmatism resulting from public opponents with who placed blame on the parents opposed to the type of community these children are forced to be a part of. In addition, there is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), which is the cause of many of these youths acting out. lastly, acknowledging the social groups and parents who are trying to aid with being positive in fighting those stigmas and obstacles by educating them and giving them different types of avenues to spend their time. Violence in Schools I chose Youth Violence in Schools as the topic for my post.
Victoria DiGiovanni The majority of high schools are now requiring a certain amount of community service hours in order to graduate. Most students see this as a chore, but just how beneficial is it? Community service improves the student’s character, exposes the student to new interests, and benefits the student’s future. Mandatory community service enhances these advantages. A student’s participation in various activities throughout the community opens the door to not only a better society, but also an improvement in the student’s morality and character.
Having fine arts in schools provides students a positive future. Fine arts contributes to well rounded students, helps develop hobbies, is a stress reliever, provides a sense of worth, and is a way
In other words, he can generate positive externalities. For example, areas where he is living with a high-educated population like him tend to have lower crime rates. Also, more education leads to higher worker productivity and higher living standards for society
“Gap year students show a clear pattern of having a higher GPA than would otherwise have been predicted, and the positive effect lasts over all four years” (“Data”). With a gap year, college students are more likely to go to school with a purpose and want to do well and get good grades. Taking a one year break between high school and college allows motivation and interest to studying will be renewed. Excelling well in academics can help one get scholarships and will help them pay for their education, so they won’t have to pay as much. College can be very expensive,and not many people have the funds to pay for college.
Wearing school colors can make a student feel more proud of their school. School uniforms can promote unity the same as a football team's uniform can. Knowing they are a part of something larger, students can also gain more self-confidence due to a sense of belonging. Students that seem to be more connected are less likely to participate in bad behaviors. Due to the school being united there is less competition among students and more focus on their education and achieving goals.
Academically successful students will have more employment opportunities than those with less education. Thus, academic success may mean the difference between working at a job merely “because it pays the rent” and working at a job that one enjoys (Rentner & Kober, 2001, p. 15). Research also shows that people who are academically successful • are more stable in their employment; • are more likely to have health insurance; • are less dependent on public assistance; • are less likely to engage in criminal activity; • are more active as citizens and charitable volunteers; and • are more healthy (National Alliance of Business, Inc., 1998). According to Ruby Payne in her book , A Framework for Understanding Poverty, low achievement can be closely correlated with low socioeconomic status. Poverty can be related to academic achievement in the United States.
When working independently, people are much more productive and thus are able to finish their work more quickly, enabling them to spend more time with their family and friends and participate in physical activity, which increases their quality of life and overall happiness. Independent work not only allows the individual to control what goes into the project, but helps the individual to learn and create higher-quality finished products, which is the point of general work in the first place, isn’t it? Independent work creates superior quality and quantity of work to that produced in a group environment, and in less time. Fewer distractions enable the individual to maintain greater focus and clarity of ideas, resulting in a faster and more cohesive production of the work. In group work, every action requires approval from everyone else in the group, which