School

Students at Coalgate Public Schools have often endured a five day school week with two days off. As a result, students, staff, parents, and the school board are pushed to the limit with funds, ineligibility, and stress. The best way to fix this dilemma is to decrease the amount of days in school. So, Coalgate Schools having a four day week would benefit both students and staff. To begin, giving teachers and students a day off would lessen the strain on teachers. Some teachers spend most of…

People think that students are safe in school. Students have been feeling like they are not safe since all of the school shootings in these last few years. I’m a student here and I do not feel safe going to school. This school needs to be safer and protected for when/if this ever happens. I know in these recent days people has been suggesting ways to help the school with safety issues. Some things I think the school should do is hire a veteran. In Oklahoma, there are 7,000 veterans in Oklahoma…

more testing in schools especially to evaluate social-emotional skills. The last few years, a new term “grit” has been applied in schools. There are different opinions on this. Grit is defined as perseverance or resilience to accomplish long term goals and challenges. I think it could also mean a person’s determination to achieve for themselves. The Federal Government education law has recently updated it requiring states to judge social-emotional skills in public schools. Some schools in the…

choices to make for our children. Two of the most popular are public school and homeschool. Public school is the most popular choice. It is a tax-payer funded educational system that can be hard to beat. Homeschool, on the other hand, is quickly rising in popularity (Liepmann). Parents personally foot the cost of homeschool. The government doesn 't have much say in what is being taught to the students. The curriculum in public school system are based off of what the government believes that…

of what a school should be and what teachers should be teaching has become a popular topic in today’s media. After Katrina devastated the New Orleans area, along with rebuilding communities and businesses, the schools also needed to be renovated. The New Orleans Recovery School District (RSD) is now home to 100 percent charter schools. How do these new charter schools compare to the public schools that were in place before Katrina? I am very interested to know how much the charter schools have…

of children attend school daily, but not all schools are the same. School consolidation has been in the spotlight for many years. By definition, consolidation takes one or more schools, and combines them to create one bigger school. According to James Guthrie by 1930 schools were at an all-time high in expansion which started the consolidation movement. The consolidation movement helped to lower the number of schools, but is believed to have caused more harm than any good. School consolidation…

That moment when you finally decide you are going to open up a new door for yourself and know that school is that next chapter in life for you. Knowing what you want, and making it happen now has to come reality. Now to figure out is it going to be online school or traditional school. What can your lifestyle and mentality handle? Making the decision of whether to attend online or traditional classes will be different for everyone. Both online and traditional classes will offer an…

Supervision of Sports/P.E. Sports and games offer potential hazards for schools. The cases outlined in this section highlight the significance of proper instruction, safety and supervision to ensure the safety of pupils. To avoid being negligent, teachers must ensure that proper control is kept over pupils and that the rules of games are adhered to. If a teacher supervising a game permits continued use of dangerous play or uses an unsuitable venue they could be found negligent for not taking…

The tension between the past system of education which was based on racial inequality and segregation and the current/new national system for schools which is aiming to redress past injustices in educational provision, provide an education of progressively high quality for all learners and in so doing lay a strong foundation for the development of all our people`s talents and capabilities, advance the democratic transformation of society, combat racism and sexism and all other unfair…

education in public schools usually includes any combination of dance, music, drama/theatre, and visual arts classes. It’s usually funded by the federal, state, and local governments, but not all schools provide their students with art education. Following the recent recession, budgets cuts were consistent in schools across the U.S., with more than 95 percent of students attending schools with significantly reduced budgets. It’s estimated that since 2008, more than 80 percent of schools…