Greeley Union School District is a unique district. It has an elementary school and a junior high school. Both school sites are connected, but separated by the track field and a tall wire fence. It is located on Enos Lane close to highway 58. The school is surrounded by almond fields and the closest neighboring communities are within two miles. The elementary site serves students from Pre-Kinder to fourth grade (physical education for the fourth graders is instructed by the junior high physical education…
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graduated high school in the United States of America, ranking sixteenth in the world. However, it ranks fist on dollars spent per student. It cost around $80,000 to educate [the child] from the age of six to fifteen” (The Real Reason America’s schools Stink.) The American Education system needs fixed. “In the United States, education is compulsory for all students until ages sixteen to eighteen depending on the individual state” (The American Education System). A child can attend a public school, a private…
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graduated high school in the United States of America, ranking sixteenth in the world. However, it ranks fist on dollars spent per student. It cost around $80,000 to educate [the child] from the age of six to fifteen” (The Real Reason America’s schools Stink.) The American Education system needs fixed. “In the United States, education is compulsory for all students until ages sixteen to eighteen depending on the individual state” (The American Education System). A child can attend a public school, a private…
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world. I didn’t like to write though, during the third grade I broke my leg and ended up being home schooled, while my leg was healing I missed the classes on how to write cursive writing. When I got to the fourth grade, there was a program that allowed a free personal pizza for reading ten books. In order to obtain the ticket for the pizza, you had to have your parent or guardian sign the form to hand into the teacher. At the end of the fourth grade I found out that I failed my English exam by one point…
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students and that if a schools cannot provide a good quality of education, there is the option to attend a school that meets those needs. The better quality is showing progress on the focus of the NCLB, by closing the educational the gap. The NCLB calls for more parental involvement with their child’s education. This act takes into consideration on how the parents feel about their child’s education. Parents have more of a choice on where to send their children to school. The greatest thing about…
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science of reading implementation, this is primarily below fourth grade. The key to this article is that Memphis district schools are supporting this line of…
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Also over all just trying harder in school. School has never been really easy for me. In elementary school I was a slow reader and I wasn’t up to speed with all the other kids which made me fall behind. My mom would make me sit down and do all of my homework and not let me go outside and play until it was all done. I felt like everyone else was just plane better then I never realized that they were just working more than me. It wasn’t until fourth grade that I managed to catch back up with…
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name is end i am a senior at Whitesboro High School. Since a very young age, I have strived to get good grades and work hard. I have also taken that hard work and placed it into the community. About a decade ago my family founded the AlS walk and run of utica that occurs once a year, in order to raise money for Lou Gherigs Disease. I have volunteered and walked that, also the Heart Run and Walk, The Boilermaker and the Relay for Life at Whitesboro High School. Every Thanksgiving i also spend my…
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I patiently waited for my turn as my fourth grade teacher Ms. Hansen handed out the Honor Roll awards. My friends were already celebrating over their awards, proudly showing them off to each other. Then suddenly Ms. Hansen handed out the last certificate, and returned to her seat. I instantly rushed up to her desk and asked why I hadn’t received an award. She replied, “Rahul, I’m sorry but you didn’t get all A’s and B’s this trimester. You got a D- in history.” I was shocked and utterly disappointed…
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parts of a high school: homework, books, friends, sports teams, crowded hallways, pencils, rumors, and labels too. Labels are assigned all of the time; it seems exponentially in high school. Labels can lead to other things people presume about you and those presumed things could lead to deeper labels that seem everlasting. One of the labels I have been given is shy. The story started with the fourth test back in AP Human Geography. The first test was the shocker; this wasn’t middle school anymore.…
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