school in general

I am a high school senior and I really hate standardized testing. I understand the significance of state testing and appreciate the help it can be for students. The standardized testing that I can’t stand is the testing that is practically required and is monopolized by Collegeboard.  Read More »

in my mind i figure if you have knowledge you have power and as much knowledge you have determines strongly on the amount of power you will possess in today's society as far as the work force is concerned anyway.  Read More »

I don't understand why it is becoming so hard to go to school when you have children. I am a twenty-six year old mother of three. I am married and i have been told we make to much money to qualify for anything. I don't understand because we live paycheck to paycheck. I think if you want to go to school you should be able to and qualify for something besides loans.  Read More »

Being a senior has brought on many new challeges and responsibilites.All i can seem to worry about is what do i want to do with the rest of my life? where am i going to go? are my grades and test scores good enough? Can i even make it out there alone?  Read More »

Each time I enter a classroom, other than Pan-African Studies, I tend to be surrounded by those who create the majority, usually white male and female students. It is so hard to try and explain the "black experience" to those who have no idea what is really means to be African-American in this society.  Read More »

Last week a friend of mine said, "My proffessor today actually thought about letting us leave class today because it was so sunny today!"  Now if we lived in California this would be a problem.  I'm sure many of you have had those ever praise-worthy "snow days" where school is canceled and you get to stay home all day huddled under a blanket with a nice hot cup of cocoa doing  Read More »

I was searching all day for scholarships, and I'm frustrated beyond belief. I need scholarship money to be able to get all the way through to med school. For med school, I will probably need to take out loans, but that's another blog post.  Read More »

Ok...so I live in Texas (yeah!!jk) In one of the independent school districts, they are planning to make a four day school week instead of a five day. They also plan to make the school days longer. Which in the end I see some of the good things for me. But it....there isn't many.

So lets check out the cons......

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