Fairfax County Public Schools

One of Megan McLaughlin 's main issue of concern is school start times. However, during this past year, she was successful in pushing back High School start times around an hour later. Ms. McLaughlin had been an advocate of later school start times for many years, seeing that she has 3 sons, who all attended Woodson. Later sleep times are important for many reasons. First, it has been proven that adolescent brains contain a hormone that makes it challenging for teens to fall asleep before 11 at night and be alert before 8 in the morning (Spinks). This observation shows that even though students may be sleeping 7 or 8 hours, by having school start at 7:20, student’s brains aren’t functioning as efficiently as they will be an hour later. Another…

Case Description The Merrifield Commercial Realization Area (CRA) projected started on April 2009, which it is known as The Mosaic District as well. Because this project, the first Community Development Authority (CDA) was created, and it made sure that the CRA’s principles provided a coordinated approach to address the needs and opportunities of a changing development environment, while ensuring that public dollars are contributed only when essential to realize revitalization. Also, the CDA…

that I have heard in the past for the word school; “Seven Crappy Hours of Our Lives.” It’s not a very appropriate saying, but I can comprehend the feelings of its creator. Imagine school felt long enough only to get another hour and a half added. I believe the way classes are distributed is reasonable, so how would adding another hour function? A longer school day would just mean complicated compromises and sacrifices would have to be made, students who dislike school would have another reason…

service dog, but they kept asking him to talk outside. Eric replied, “I am not going outside to talk about my service dog" and he asked if he was being detained for committing any crime. The officer said “no.” So Eric declined the police invitation to go outside the library. Eric was dragged out of the library in cuffs and the police slammed his head on to their car multiple times. The officer apologized but stated he would issue a citation anyway “just to teach you the lesson, Sir.” Eric took…

innocent and basic opportunities for social expansion without technology that previous generations had. In Mrs. Sandra’s case, it was necessary to cut technology ‘cold turkey’ in her classroom to build the children’s social skills strong and fast enough effectively. Assuming most of the children were still accessing technology at home, having time not plugged in in the classroom seems justified. Mrs. Sandra made a decision with the best interest of her class in mind. But, when working in a…

My education experience My education experience has been kind of like a roller-coaster. I went to public school majority of my life but I was privately schooled from sixth grade to my freshman year and the transformation from private to public was so different. In my private school there were only like twenty to twenty-five kids in all and we all knew each other so I would get in trouble a lot for talking and was even moved around because that’s all I would do, but we had to learn to be able…

The image chosen portrays to the reader that when children graduate from the public school system they are only qualified to take tests, more specifically speaking, standardized tests. In the image there are two men; one sitting behind a big desk reading a piece of paper and one on the other side sitting in a small chair with a huge pencil in his hand. Mike Keefe 2002, in the image the man behind the desk holding the piece of paper says to the skinny man sitting in the chair on the other side of…

School funding in the United States is a very hot topic for many people to talk about. Many different states have different opinions on how their schools are funded and how the funding process could be improved. States and local governments are the main source of funding for our nations public schools. Sales and income taxes fund public schools in most states but locally the funds come from property taxes. The wealth of the community effects the funds that are going to their public school…

A direct link to schools and why certain students attend these schools can be based upon the socio economic class of students. As seen in figure 1, most of the Private school-sector students are of Middle class (73%) and very few are from lower class (8%), implying how lower-socio economic circumstances can deter a education within a private sector of schooling (Rothman, 2003). From this data (Figure 2), it is observable that from 100 public school students that were surveyed, majority of the…

the other side catered to the low-income, predominately African American population located in the adjacent neighborhood. My grocery store represented the diversity of my city, causing me to question why such diversity did not exist in my educational experience. My parents, like many financially able families in my area, sent me to a private college preparatory school to avoid the failing school system in East Baton Rouge Parish. While my school’s white population totaled eighty percent,…