The Board of Education wants the best for students by closing schools, a lot can’t be accomplished by establishing closures across the country. A different approach must be met to help the education system. The budget crisis represents that the world of capitalism will do anything to find money by raiding the public education in pursuit of profit. With a proof of databases of students failing conducted by the Board of Ed., and schools lacking performance, gives the public facts of school
Every day kids are struggling to become popular in school by winning people over. In politics, you have to become popular and win people over if you want to get their vote. Do you see a similarity here? Another possible reason why kids cannot vote is because they don't see the world the way adults do. I won't deny that.
Mid-Term Exam A high-tech heretic is a person who has been officially accused by his beliefs for technological and human development as following a false doctrine. That is what they refer to Clifford Stoll as and he is not that at all. I agree with Clifford Stoll on the idea that computers should not be used in the classroom because the students aren’t receiving and gaining the knowledge that they should be receiving. His view on the issue that computers are not good in the class room is a different one, but very true indeed. He uses several examples to explain his theory.
Government intervention into the media is a hot topic these days, filled with controversy and blame. Every group is pointing the finger at another group. Parents are blaming the government for not helping, government is blaming the media for not censoring material, and others are blaming the parents for not censoring and protecting their children. Our society is getting nowhere. there is no solid proof that the media causes violence, and although parents do a lot to help and protect their children, there are still some steps that can be taken to protect their children against violent and sexual material.
The government in their society would put buzzers in the handicaps ear which would go off every 20 seconds, so that they were not able to be better then another. “Only if I was Handicapper General, you know what I do?” said Hazel. (Vonnegut 2). Technology would be detrimental to our society because, I don’t think that anyone should have to be controlled like that by the government that they are not able to do what they want to do. I think they should be able to get an education if that is what they want to do, the government shouldn’t treat them like they are less than
Topic 5 Gattaca Yes, I would illegally select the desired traits in order for my son/daughter to go to college. Many people would argue this case because of the fact that it is illegal, however, I believe that most other people, if given the chance, would also do it. This new technological advance would give everyone the chance they need in order to live a successful life. I don’t agree with this rule whatsoever, however, I believe that I would definitely choose to illegally do this. What would help my decision would be the fact that the majority of the parents that will not have a child over 6 foot, will be making the same choice as me.
Amy Goldwasser’s, “What’s the Matter with Kids Today?” uses out of context statistics to create a cynical attack on some of the finest educational organizations today. She scoffs at accusations of the Internet, almost ignoring the fact that most teenagers do not use the Internet for academic or intellectual uses. After begging parents not to worry about their kids online (even though worrying is what protects our kids to begin with), she groups Common Core with the other contributors “of what has become a fashionable segment of the population to bash: the American teenager,” when unlike the uninformed, Common Core is fighting for our school systems to improve the educational system for our teenagers (Goldwasser, 236). If one of our most influential associations was not enough, the National Endowment for the Arts is beaten down with more out of context quotes used to side the reader with the Internet and against our helpful companion in the fight for ingenuity and innovative improvement. RWS 200 students will find Goldwasser’s article much less persuasive after understanding how the sources she uses, like Common Core and the NEA, are taken out of context in her whirl-winding assault against educational learning, and supporting the Internet.
Each day, 100,000 students bring a gun to school, and another 160,000 students cut class because they fear physical harm (National Education Association). Those numbers may seem alarming, and so it is understandable as to why searches would be conducted to try and reduce these numbers. Also the controversy of whether a student’s fourth amendment right is being violated leans toward the administrator’s side. Schools do not need a warrant to be able to search lockers since the lockers technically belong to the school, and as long as there is reasonable suspicion, the searches are legal (Surveillance in Schools) (Constitutional Conflicts). Whether random searching is legal or not, it does not change the fact that students still feel violated of their privacy
- Vincent Freeman (Gattaca) In Gattaca, set in the future, society has evolved to such a point that it is seen as out of the ordinary to want to conceive a child naturally. Scientists have found a way to genetically modify children before they are conceived, using the ‘best parts’ of the parents. Those who were born naturally –‘faith births’ – are at the bottom of society, filling jobs like janitors and cleaners while those born genetically superior are the ones who become the successful ones. Whether they have achieved perfection however is debateable. Many of the ‘genetically superior’ grow up to be
Research Proposal 1) The issue I am addressing is why schools with children from kindergarten through 8th grade and some high schools need to enforce a mandatory school uniform policy to lessen the theft and violence and bullying in schools. My proposal is important and it matters because innocent students are getting, bullied, hurt, and killed because of what they are wearing and if we enforce my claim then the number of these can possibly go down. This matters to the parents, school students, school faculty, school administrators, and our future generation, because it affects all of us in several different ways. 2) The competing side of my argument is not to enforce a mandatory school uniform policy. They believe that enforcing children and youth to wear uniform takes away from their freedom of expressing themselves and their values.