I do think that walking to school is a good way to help the environment. It benefits our community in multiple ways. Although it is easier to drive to school, it is easier to save the environment by walking to school . By walking to school, we help our community in many ways. We would save a lot of money and time. If the whole community were to take their children to school everyday; it would cost $27,000. Since gas prices are near $3 a gallon, and rising, It isn’t a good choice to drive your children to school, unless you have to. Taking your children to school also takes up your time that doesn’t need to be wasted. On average, parents take about an hour a day taking their children to school. In one school year, you would we wasting 180 hours! An hour a day may not seem like much, but adding it all up, it is a lot more than you would’ve thought. By letting your children walk to school, you benefit in a couple of ways. If you don’t want your child to walk to school alone, there are different ways you can make sure they get to school without getting in your car. Now you can trust older students to make sure your son or daughter gets to school safely and unharmed. This saves tons of gas, money, and time. And it an innocuous experience for you child; it could actually benefit them! If you trust your son or daughter to get to school alone, but you don’t want them to walk to school because it takes too long, there are still alternative ways for them to get to school. You can easily purchase rollerblades or a bike for them to get to school! They don’t cost much and you can find it at Walmart™ and your child can use it at your home to exercise as well. You may not know it, but there are many alternate types of transportation. Copper Basin K-8 school highly encourages alternative transportation and older students to help younger students walk to school. At the school, there is a program that the 7th & 8th graders are participating in. It is called Vistas and it teaches us to help our community. By walking younger students to school, we are helping are community. “Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle” is what Vistas tries to promote.
“When schools, parents, families, and communities work together to support learning, students tend to earn higher grades, attend school more regularly, stay in school longer, and enroll in higher level programs.” (Van Roeckel, 2008, p. 1) Deer Valley High School in Glendale, AZ is the first high school built in the Deer Valley Unified Scholl District, and with a population around 1800 students, the high school is one of the bigger schools in the state. It has a tradition of family on its’ campus, where there are still teachers teaching that were there when the school opened in 1980. A number of former students have become new teachers on campus and just about all the teachers’ children have attended and graduated from the campus. With a school like ours, there are many connections to the community around it and it is demonstrated by the programs that bring in parent and community to help with the development of our students. There are numerous booster clubs run on our campus to help support student achievement on the sports fields, a school to work programs to teach the students necessary skills in different areas of either nursing, sports medicine classes, and in the culinary arts classrooms, and funding to our school to help ensure all students graduate on time. There are many programs on our campus, but I will discuss four of the programs: baseball booster club, C2G program, “school-to-work”, and the special education program sponsored by Arrowhead Hospital. These programs are designed to improve the relationships between the campus and the people in the community, and give all students on campus every opportunity to succeed in their future.
I had originally thought so poorly of the parents who weren’t sending their girls to school, but through researching both sides I came to learn why parents cannot send their girls to school. I saw the issue from
I began by tutoring at the Boys and Girls Club (BGC) and eventually became a teacher at the boys and girls club. The focus of my continued volunteer work was to enrich the children’s after school experience whether they needed help with homework or busy work. During my volunteer work the issue that stuck out in my mid continuously was social class or classism. The BGC emphasizes many different issues and points such as “creating aspirations for the future,” “Helping youth become responsible, caring citizens and acquire skills for participating in the democratic process is the main thrust of these programs and also to develop leadership skills and provide opportunities for planning, decision-making.” BGC encourages kids to engage in healthy and positive behavior as well as to help the youth build and discover creativity in the arts “Club programs help develop fitness, a positive use of leisure time, reduction of stress, appreciation for the environment and social and interpersonal skills.” (bgca.org)
Going to school is very crucial. We got to school to get an education and to learn something new. In the United States we have public schooling, that means free school! Waking up early in the morning can be a hassle, but you're getting an education for free. Some kids would love to have the chance at an education like the children in America. Instead of enjoying the time and being thankful for what we've been given the opportunity to do, we have people making a joke of it. I often hear the phrase "I am too cool for school." I didn't know anyone could be cool enough that an education wasn't good enough for them. Let's take a second and define this word "cool," because I am unsure of how this is even remotely possibly. Cool is defined
Some parents can’t take them to school because they have work early in the morning. Furthermore, is that parents are not able to take you places. Your parents may go to work early in the morning and you may go walking to school. Also if you may get up late moreover, you might need a ride.
Also the bus rides are way too long because some kids in big cities don’t get home until dinner time and they have to eat and take a shower then they have to go to bed and you get no time to play or do anything fun. Kids would also be able to get more sleeping time. Kids also don’t have enough energy to go through the whole day and might have practice like right after school, but be really tired and
Kids can attend school more often by not being tired everyday when going to school.
Transportation is a big issue because a lot of parents have jobs and most preschools are half days and do not provide transportation
School is a time for learning, and it takes up most of the day. After school is a time for doing what kids want and take up new hobbies. Students also should hang out with friends after school is over since they can’t really talk with their friends in school (besides recess, but it’s only 15 minutes) and a social life is important. Getting sun and exercise is important too. Being cooped up in school for the whole day and then going home just to do more work isn’t good for kid’s health. Kids are still learning and after school is the time to play with friends and get
We have all seen the debate in the news no matter what area of Illinois you may live in, whether or not the Chicago Public Schools should lengthen the school day. In an online forum it states that during a meeting Chicago Public Schools CEO Jean-Claude Brizard vowed to add 90 minutes to each school day and two weeks to the school year by the fall of 2012. (Erbentraut J. 2011) The Chicago Public School board, CPS teachers’ union and Chicago mayor Rahm Emmanuel need to take into consideration the effects that lengthening the school day by an additional 90 minutes will have on students, parents, teachers, and the school community. Lengthening the school day will have several negative results including: student time management, attendance, teacher workload vs. pay received and an increase to the already high taxes that Chicagoans pay. As an alternative to lengthening the school day, there should be tougher truancy laws and penalties to parents who do not take responsibility for their own children.
If these children spend a third of the day sleeping (eight hours), then spend almost another third sitting in school (six-to-eight hours), that leaves eight hours of the day for children to remain active. This isn’t even taking into account the amount of homework the children have to complete or things around the house to do. There is no telling what every child has to do when they get home from school. They might have no opportunities to be active, or live in a neighborhood where it’s safer to st...
I think student should be able to go out for lunch with parent guide and money. According to Tyler sanner , “I believe that students should be able to leave school grounds for lunch only if they have transportation and parental consent.” If students have a parent guide and money they should have the right to go out for lunch somewhere else instead of staying in school. They should also have a time limit to be out and if they don’t return on that time or return at all they would be punished or warned to be on time next time. If students parents don’t give permission then students will have to stay back.
Continuing, the topic of school funding is obviously an extremely controversial topic that is being debated right now. But, it is important to look at what the possible outcomes of these protests could potentially be. The way that it is looking now, it doesn’t seem that teachers are going to be backing down from their requests. This is surprising considering that even participating in a walkout could have gotten many educators fired from their jobs. However, because of the shortage of teachers, it is extremely unlikely teachers will get fired because there is no one to replace them. This is what Amy Johnson was talking about when she said, “We have nothing to lose.” But, it’s difficult to see where the money to fund all the pay raises and schools
In the country, childhood education, kindergarten through twelfth grade, is significantly better than in a large city; smaller class sizes and larger budgets create excellent learning environments. In cities, public schools are often plagued with very large classes packed into small spaces. Teachers with low pay, and little or no dedication are thrown into classrooms to teach, resulting in poor education. Transportation is very accessible in city environments. Public transportation, by way of subways, buses and ferries, are cheap and easy ways of getting around a metropolis, whether going out to work, school, or for a night on the town.
I have involved in the planning and implementation of educational programs in a variety of locations throughout Indiana. I have been able to work with community members and strengthen the Park Place neighborhood of Anderson, Indiana through an after school program. I have also implemented a variety of programs through Lake County, Indiana 4-H by working with mini 4-H members through one day educational camps as well as taught showmanship clinics and workshops to 4-Her’s third grade-twelfth grade. Completing these educational programs has been useful and will continue to be useful in my career in community development. Community projects is also another factor in my community development