Morgan Fischer Harper English 10 Persuasive Paper School Absences or Strikes for FInals? A study has shown that 68.2% of kids in extracurriculars plan to achieve a bachelors degree or higher ("Extracurricular Participation" 1 ). That is a solid 20% more than kids not involved in extracurriculars. There is a 19.8% difference, favors to kids in extracurriculars, in students that have a 3.0 GPA or higher ("Extracurricular Participation" 1). Then why do good kids get punished for missing too many days of extracurriculars? Kids that are in many school related events tend to miss a lot of school. At Century High School, students are only allowed to miss 10 days for school related events before having to take the semester final. This rule should not be in place. The school is encouraging kids to engage in extracurriculars but then charging them in the long run. Students should be allowed to miss more than ten days for extracurricular events. The administrators may disagree with this idea. They think kids would just join extracurriculars for fun. Also, they see more members as more money for the clubs. The main reason for this policy is because it is not fair to the kids who are not in extracurriculars, administration sees ten days as too much. Students may only miss 10 class periods of any certain class for school related absences before having to take the semester final in that class (Century Student 35). Students have the option of "buying-back" their time. However they may only do this after they have hit 10 and have to spend 50 minutes before or after school in that class. Most students in sports will miss the last 3 periods, so to buy-back that time, they would need to come for 150 minutes. On not only their time, but their te... ... middle of paper ... ...ents who are in an EC should be constantly checking their grades, so they know where they are sitting. If they know what their grade is they can better succeed. It is a students choice to miss school for an event so it is their responsibility to make up what they have missed. Some simple ways active students can do this are by taking the initiative to ask if they need help, getting organized (Meredith 1), and by staying involved with their classmates, teachers, and peers. These simple things can make a big impact on any child's learning environment. Let kids be themselves and explore, let them be leaders and influence the community, let them be responsible with their grades. Let kids miss more than ten days of school. In the long run of life, extracurriculars are preparing teens for the future. After all; school is for helping students grow, so why hold them back?
Being involved in school and community activities should not be a way to impress colleges or keep oneself busy to simply avoid boredom. Having a pure, unselfish need to help others in any way possible is the real reason anyone should be involved. Many times in life, people take what they have for granted. Cecilia Ahern said, “Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for Christmas morning. Time can’t be given. But it can...
When that particular group returns from vacation, another track will go on vacation leaving the other tracks in school and so on. A calendar such as this is implemented in response to overcrowded schools, and allows for more students to attend one school. It has also been suggested that single-track YRS serves well as a transition to multi-track YRS (Shields & Oberg, 2000; Stenvall, 2003; Thomas, 1973). Either way both schedules offer more efficient use of school facilities, which is definitely a positive.
Students are deprived from there leaning do to the tardy policy. A policy that is unfair this tardy policy makes students serve a 30 min detention if there even a second late to class and after multiple absences or tardies you can face legal consequences. There's many reasons why students may be late for example students need to take the city buss, bikes ,cars to school but there's always traffic so sometimes it's not the students fault , students shouldn't be given a 30 minute detention for being a couple of minutes late.
... school sports and clubs so they don't clash with academics we need to get Americas schooling back on top.
Extracurricular involvement through one's school, is a key and crucial factor in succeeding, while growing and developing during the early stages of a student's life. I am an actively involved and motivated student, for I participate in numerous school activities while consistently undertaking superb grades. Throughout my past two years in middle school, I have prospered in the following activities: Newspaper club, Cross Country, Track, Academic Olympics, the Ocean County Math League, Chorus, National Junior Honor Society, and finally, Student Council. In the duration of these activities, I have flourished and excelled greatly.
with the “leftovers.” If students get payed for playing a sport, it will mess with the balance of the college
College is a time for young people to develop and grow not only in their education, but social aspects as well. One of the biggest social scenes found around college campuses are athletic events, but where would these college sports be without their dedicated athletes? Student athletes get a lot of praise for their achievements on the field, but tend to disregard the work they accomplish in the classroom. Living in a college environment as a student athlete has a great deal of advantages as well as disadvantages that affect education and anti-intellectualism.
Extra-curricular activities are found in all levels of our schools in many different forms. They can be sports, clubs, debate, drama, school publications, student council, and other social events. A student’s future can be determined in the things that they do in the hours after school and before their parents get home. Through the dedication of athletes/artists and coaches, all athletes/artists will effectively communicate so we can successfully complete our vision. In order to achieve this, coaches and athletes/artists will share their passion for their activity. If every athlete/artist recruits at least one individual into their activity, the vision is attainable.
First of all, many students will have trouble focusing on extracurricular's that might make their career. Other students may do jobs in order to pay for school. Students
Work, work, work. Students in high school have an astronomical amount of work to do in such little time. Majority of students participate in some kind of physical activity outside of school, and the school want to force them to take subordinate classes like Physical Education that will just waste time and be in place of another class that will ready them for college. Hudson High School should allow the option for students to either play one sport every year, or take two Physical Education classes because it will allow for more efficiency among the students who want to take more classes that will better ready themselves for their college major. Hudson High School does allow for a student to take two flex credits to take the place of Physical Education, but these involve the students
Some professors in universities and some departments have very tight polices related with attendance. There are many universities and colleges in the world which doesn’t consider regular attendance in their grading part system. Sometime if the professor knows about the excessive number of times the student was absent they will mark the name of student and the final grade of that class is lowered. This topic is an issue of debate all over the world. Some people support this rule while other is against this rule. In this paper, I have presented many arguments in favor of strict attendance policy while some arguments are against the strict attendance policy. Students in college and universities are matured enough to take their own decision (Bastedo,
One extra day of school cuts into precious relaxation time of students and teachers alike.
Two-thirds of children who participate in extracurricular activities are expected to attain at least a bachelor’s degree, whereas only half of children that do not participate do (National Center for Education Statistics, 1995). Childhood is a very important time in our lives, a time when we develop many vital skills that follow us into adulthood. Some people laugh or scoff at us parents that keep our children to busy schedules. Those same people would also argue that our children should be allowed to have a childhood, to not be so tightly scheduled in their daily lives. Before jumping on that bandwagon, I would suggest doing a little research. Participating in after-school activities has shown to benefit children in many ways. Children should
These negative effects include cuts in funding for art programs and sports that have little popularity. The reason this is important is due to a students ' ability to create a social structure outside the classroom. Going through high school, counselors always say to participate in school, both in the classroom and out as it will help with the students ' grade. But due to these program cuts, students ' have fewer choices in after-school programs which correlate back to their grade. The reason for this is closely related to why many people exercise to relieve stress. An archive from John Holloway states that when a student does participate more outside of school, their grade point average goes up. Holloway gathered research from other sources stating, "adolescents who participated in structured activities supervised by positive adult role models were more likely to make personal investments in their schooling that might, in turn, motivate them to excel academically" (Holloway par. 9). It gives the students a reason to get up and go
As of 2007, a total of 15.6 million undergraduate college students attended school in search of a higher level of education ("How Many?"). In spring of 2013, only 14,473,884 students attended an American college or university, constituting a decrease of 1,126,116 students compared to 2007 ("College Enrollment "). One reason for the decrease is that some students do not have any plan for after high school, however most student-athletes do. It is often said that education should come before anything else, an example being athletics. So when an argument rises on whether or not student- athletes in college should be exempted from class attendance policies to participate in sport related activities such as practices, meetings, and games the immediate answer by many would be no. However, student-athletes should be exempted from class attendance policies because some student- athletes attend college primarily for their sport and students should be able to invest more time and effort in the true reason of their collegiate career.