| Surviving high school | | Posted Monday, January 30, 2006 4:03:57 PM by Alex Molin | If you are a high school graduate, you can seat back and think of all the nice things you liked about it like the high school cheerleaders, the high school sports you loved so much and the high school showers after sweating and achieving a nice victory with your high school football team. 
And how about your high school classmates, you must be thinking about them, and where are they now? Now is the time to remember with a smile your high school prom and if you are old enough you must be thinking about your high school reunion.
But if you are in high school now, well it's a different story. Being a high school student has one word to describe it - survival. Surviving school is a difficult mission, which will sometimes get you in to troubles.
If you are a freshman, you must have experienced enough pranks by now and you know that your social life is gone just because you ate the cafeteria food. In a way, every minute you can find yourself in a situation requires you to fight.
The easiest thing is to fight, but the consequences….. Well you know about them. So each time you smell a fight in the air, tell the other person you'll fight after school - of course you won't be there. Do that every day until the other student will loose the desire to fight you.
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| | | More State Schools Teaching Chinese | | Posted Monday, March 12, 2007 3:11:18 PM by Blog57 Team | | At least 27 states offer Chinese language classes in either elementary, middle or high schools. And according to the Center for Applied Linguistics in Washington D.C., there are 12 public and private immersion schools across the country where most subjects are taught exclusively in Mandarin Chinese. .... | |
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| | | Safety at school | | Posted Friday, January 05, 2007 1:16:18 PM by Blog57 Team | | Upset parents reeling in the aftermath of Wednesday's school shooting in Tacoma can draw guidance, if not comfort, from the fact that school violence is rare in Washington state. Yes, it is unnerving that a Foss High School student was able to walk into school and fatally shoot another student. As horrific as it was, the rate of such incidents is low, making our schools the safest place for young people to be. Credit for maintaining safety goes not just to metal detectors, surveillance cameras and other security apparatuses, but to the long-standing relationships between school principals and local police. Urban districts such as Seattle and Tacoma have insisted on close ties with police departments, to support school security and to provide a line of authority that moves inside and outside of schools.... | |
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| | | Schools Mourn Student's Death | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 1:27:15 PM by Blog57 Team | | CANTON -- Grief counselors were available Monday at two high schools in the area following the death of a 17-year-old in a motor vehicle accident on Sunday in Nepaug State Forest. Nicholas DePaola, who lived in Canton and attended Oliver Wolcott Technical High School in Torrington, apparently lost control of the 1998 Jeep Cherokee he was driving on a dirt road and hit a tree, law enforcement officials said. .... | |
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| | | High schools fight ban on aluminum bats | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 7:35:57 AM by Blog57 Team | | NEW YORK, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- New York City's Catholic high schools are fighting a City Council bill that would put a ban on aluminum baseball bats. The New York Post reported that the Catholic High Schools' Athletic Association, or CHSAA, sent a letter to council members encouraging them not to vote on the ban. The measure would reportedly require the use of wooden bats instead of aluminum for safety reasons. Councilman James Oddo sponsored the bill, saying that aluminum bats could make the ball fly faster, resulting in more injuries, the Post reported. "Injuries can and do happen in baseball," said Wally Stampfel, commissioner of the CHSAA baseball league. "But requiring wood bats will not make the game any safer." .... | |
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| | | Council Rock high schools to reopen after bomb threats | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 7:38:07 AM by Blog57 Team | | Both Council Rock School District high schools are open today on a 2-1/2-hour delay, and after-school activities are canceled today in response to two bomb threats received Tuesday. Superintendent Mark Klein canceled yesterday's classes at Council Rock North and Council Rock South after the threats were received by the Bucks County district. Bomb-sniffing dogs, police and school officials determined the buildings were safe for students, but Klein said that because the threats referred to a 48-hour period, precautions would be taken today. Classes at the high schools will begin at 10 a.m., Klein said in a letter posted on the district's Web site (www.crsd.org) last night. Students will have new routines at the schools for at least the next two days.... | |
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| | | Classes Resume After Threats at Council Rock High Schools | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 3:38:26 AM by Blog57 Team | | Classes resumed Thursday at Council Rock's two high schools in Bucks County, following bomb threats that forced the closure of both schools for the day on Wednesday. But Wednesday's reopening of one of the schools did not go without incident. Council Rock North and South reopened at around 10am, but attendance at both schools was only about 60 percent. And it dropped very quickly at South after that school received three new bomb threats. Superintendent Mark Klein believes they were pranks but says it's not a joking matter: "The police have those three phone calls and are actively investigating those calls with the hope that we'll find those people and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law." Students who stuck it out had to deal with restrictions on backpacks, book bags, and parking.... | |
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| | | TRAVIS SAWCHIK ON HIGH SCHOOLS: Passing out playoff props to area football teams | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 11:09:45 PM by Blog57 Team | | I'm sure Conway High loves the new Class AAAA football format this season. Division II has been watered down a bit since the 16 largest schools in the state are no longer automatically awarded playoff berths to the Division I playoffs. The new format has moved state power Byrnes from Division II to Division I, which is great news for Conway and the entire small-Class AAAA field. The Tigers have twice lost to Byrnes in the state final. If the Myrtle Beach defense plays anywhere near the way it played against North Charleston on Friday - five forced fumbles, four interceptions, zero points allowed - the Seahawks should be able to beat Strom Thurmond. The Rebels are the defending state champs, but they lost 27 seniors from last year's team, including CoCo Hillary, their miniature Michael Vick, at quarterback.... | |
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| | | Three high schools are added to the state s watch list | | Posted Thursday, November 02, 2006 3:02:13 AM by Blog57 Team | | Three county high schools were placed on a state watch list after failing to show adequate yearly progress on the Maryland School Assessment tests. Col. Zadok Magruder High School in Rockville, Northwest High School in Germantown and Quince Orchard High School in Gaithersburg each failed to meet improvement targets among special education students in reading, according to results released by the state Department of Education last week. Magruder missed the target by three students, Northwest by seven and Quince Orchard by two. The county school system will monitor each school’s efforts to improve student achievement. Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring also failed to meet the progress goal in special education reading for the second consecutive year. The school must submit an improvement plan to the state Department of Education.... | |
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| | | Recruiting between high schools: Is it such a bad thing | | Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 1:38:42 PM by Blog57 Team | | Want to see a high school coach get an instant case of lockjaw? Ask them about recruiting between high schools. They'll grumble under their breath about one school or another stealing one of their players away, but when asked to make an official report, they'll shrug and shake their head. Recruiting is high school sports dirty little secret. It happens. Lots. But is it really such a bad thing? Often, it is a player contacting another school about transferring rather than the other way around. If the ultimate goal is to help athletes earn a college scholarship, then why do athletes who transfer in an effort to better their chances of getting into college receive so much criticism? Doesn't everyone want what is best for the kid? Permalink | Comments (4) | Post your comment | Categories: David Purdum .... | |
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| | | Elementary, junior high schools in ex-Yamakoshi reopened | | Posted Monday, October 30, 2006 7:20:00 PM by Blog57 Team | | _ The reconstruction of an elementary and junior high school building in former Yamakoshi village, Niigata Prefecture, which was hit by a deadly earthquake two years ago, has been completed, allowing students to return Monday. The new three-story building was constructed on the grounds of Yamakoshi Junior High School to provide classrooms also to elementary school students. After the Niigata Chuetsu Earthquake destroyed their schoolhouses in October 2004, the elementary and junior high school students roomed at other schools in the city of Nagaoka, which absorbed the village after the quake. The pupils and students arrived at the new school at around 8 a.m., with some taking a school bus from temporary housing about 30 kilometers away. Kohei Kabasawa, 14, a second-year junior high school student, said happily, "We are with elementary pupils from now on.... | |
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