Morning assembly has been a tradition of Jesuit High School since its inception in 1847. When Jesuit was first established on the corner of Baronne and Common Street, morning assembly was a part of the daily schedule. Once Jesuit moved to Carrolton and Banks in 1926, the students and faculty of Jesuit High School continued the tradition of assembling as an entire student body to read the announcements. Currently, students line up in the courtyard on Monday and Friday mornings by homeroom and grade level to listen to the announcements. Assembly always starts with a prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance. Then the announcements are read, usually by a member of the senior class, and they are followed by some results of recent sporting events. Jesuit frequently invites notable and successful alumni to come speak to and inspire the current students at morning assembly. Despite the fact that many students dislike morning assembly, the school should continue this activity because it makes the announcements more interesting, it is a long-standing tradition, and it unites the student body as a whole.
The students who disapprove of morning assembly argue that assemblies can be time-consuming and tedious and that the weather conditions outside can distract them from paying attention to the announcements. When the weather is hot outside, students claim that it is difficult to concentrate on the announcements. On some occasions the assembly lasts more than the ten minutes it is allotted and it can make students late for class. “Morning assembly is painfully long and boring and is an unnecessary tradition that I think should not be continued,” truthfully states Taylor Giorlando-Wall, a current junior at Jesuit High School. Many students believe t...
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...ogether as a school,” proudly articulates faculty member Gregory Dornan. The tradition is a distinguishing characteristic of Jesuit High School that brings out the community and school spirit in each and every one of its students. Therefore, Jesuit’s tradition of morning assembly should be sustained.
Jesuit High School should definitely continue its long-held tradition of morning assembly. Assembly does an excellent job of making the announcements more interesting, more energetic, and more personal. The tradition behind morning assembly is too significant not to continue. Assembly increases the school spirit among its students. Morning assembly also brings together the Jesuit community as a whole and makes the large school a smaller place. Morning assembly is a noteworthy tradition that deserves to be continued by the current and future Blue Jays for years to come.
When in the course of human events, students should be entering school a little bit later than the usual. This will give the student more sleep time which then will allow the student to think better when in school. This will also help a student be fully awake and not be sleeping in class. Students will pay more attention and will be ready to learn. Waking up early and going to school early makes a student be sleepy in class. We the students should be getting a later start in school.
As I wearily sat in my seat, writing an essay on the importance of electricity in the modern world, I caught myself glancing repeatedly at the clock that was so carefully perched above the teacher’s desk. “Ten minutes, only ten more minutes left until school is over and I get to go home!” I told myself. In most schools, the average school day is about eight hours long. Eight hours of continuously sitting in a chair taking notes during lectures, doing classwork, projects, etc. During these eight hours of school, students deserve a short, outdoor break in which they can isolate themselves from the stress of working all day and just relax. Studies have shown that people who take short breaks throughout the day to do light, outdoor breaks are more productive than those who do not. A short, outdoor break will benefit students due to the fact that students will have time to relax; students will be able to focus more, concentrate, and be more productive; and teachers will have more time to prepare for the next class coming.
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Over the past few years, Crescent School has made several changes due to stakeholder dissatisfaction. Some of these changes include high school advisory, activities/sports offered, and the graduation ceremony length. The administrative team heard from student and other stakeholders about concerns of the number of activities and sports offered. The team worked together to develop new clubs that students have requested. The time of day the club met was also altered to accommodate additional students participating in the club. Dr. Mork and the administrative team listen to suggestions as they come from stakeholders and do all that is available to implement the change, if deemed possible.
During my High School years, I lived in a boarding school which helped shape students to act responsibly when we were out on excursions, debates and sports activities with other schools. I was never the early bird, when I got enrolled into the boarding house. A matron was assigned to each dorm to get the students ready by six in the morning, everyday for school. She did blow a whistle every morning exactly by six a.m, which meant "get up". She did give us twenty minutes to take a shower, ten minutes to lay the bed, another ten minutes to get dressed, and then twenty minutes to get breakfast and join the morning assembly of what I dreaded. It was a structure that did help shape me for the future. In Junior high, I grumbled when getting out of bed each day, I also exceeded the time frame given and faced the consequences at the end of the day. It was hard to keep up. One day, I formed a group of students to join me in protesting against the hectic time frame
Hines, C. (2004). Time-of-Day Effects on Human Performance. Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice, Seven, 390-413. Retrieved March 3, 2014, from http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1006503.p
School start times have changed in the past, and these changes have pushed back the school start to the day about an hour in order to accommodate our changing society. The history of the modern day start times, are fairly recent; the times that schools begin today is not the same as those in the 20th century. In the early 20th century, school’s started around 9 a.m. to accommodate for the many children that helped with family business...
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