... the eighth grade wins easily, but not my eighth grade year. The game was close from starting to finish. With a few seconds left the eighth grade team scored to win the game. We were all relieved, and so began the bragging. It was a game to be remembered for a while. Another big school ... students and sibling all attend this grand event. The carnival includes a seventh versus eighth grade girls and boys basketball game as well as a student all-star team versus faculty game. The game is hyped for weeks, with rallies and flyers. Of course the two student only games are fun to watch, espec...

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... . Little tasks like picking up the stuff after practice, bringing Gatorades to our seniors, and of course the wearing of dresses to school. One tradition was for the freshmen soccer team to do something absolutely crazy at the pep-rally before the homecoming game. This tradition had been going on for years before I entered the school. The "show" that the freshmen ... team put on was always kept a secret by the seniors on the team. Every year the entire school was surprised to see a new stunt performed at the pep-rally. When I was a freshman, the seniors brought all of us into the locker ...

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... parents weren't home, as usual, as they decided to take a work trip to New York and would be gone for five days. Ginny made home cooked macaroni and cheese and brought some to her and her brother's room. She softly knocked on the door and out popped little ten year-old Tanner with his PlayStation 3 controller in his hand. "Thanks ... spot, next to Jamie. He never really notices her that much, but helps her when she was stuck on something. Even though everyone assumes that the captain of the football team should be dumb, Jamie was absolutely not. He's on honor roll with Ginny too and get...

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... year that a new student Civil Rights movement was founded. The legal struggle for integrated schools dragged on in the years following the Brown decision. Southern school boards and state governments brought suit after suit challenging the integration of schools. They created a variety of ways to get around the intent of the decision; from communities, to sports and academic standards of the ... Alexandria, Virginia in the year 1971. And the premise of the story is that when two high schools, one black and one white, are combined the football team brings the communities together. The fo...

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... professionally. Being such a big kid among his classmates he was often faster and stronger than other boys his age and at thirteen was even on the towns high school baseball team. Outside of playing sports Paul was an eager learner of any education that was thrown his way. Following in the footsteps of his father, who was very well educated himself ... , and his older brother, who went off to medical school, Paul was anxious to learn and it was shown through his grades. Paul often brought home straight A's, he was a member of his high schools debate team, often acted in plays and was the...

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... fired for allowing students to read a prayer over the intercom. In Missouri, a student got detention for praying over his lunch. A second-grader in New York was told the storybook she brought to share with her class was inappropriate because it contained the dreaded G-word. In 1991, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned a death sentence because the prosecutor quoted Leviticus to the jury ... of religious beliefs. Oppressers to the amendment view that since education is mandatory, how can public schools impose one religious prayer on all students? (New American Coalition) If a religi...

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... or damaged, having been in a fight in the past year, or having been threatened or injured by a weapon. Among bullying victims experiencing all four of those factors, 72 percent had brought a weapon to school in the past month and 63 percent had carried a gun. Those victims were, according to the study's authors, nearly 50 times more likely to carry a weapon in ... ("Another Story of Bullying and Guns," 2014, par. 1). Anyone who has lived through high school gym class knows the humiliation of being picked last for the dodge ball team. Sadly, many high school students across the world ar...

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... their differences so there is no "smarter" or "dumber" class. The students and administration view topics differently in Japan than in the United States. The administration and students work as a team, not individually. There are no achievement tests, but they do have a test that helps more excelled students enter the "better" universities (Kolar V). In the elementary there was no separation. Creativity ... in a highly sophisticated manner compared to the normal, lazy, manner as before. Many hands-on activities are being added to the curriculum so that this new thinking process can be b...

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... . I seemed to take to the water naturally and progressed rapidly. My teacher would often comment to my mother how well I was doing, and told her that I should be on a swim team. This gave me even more confidence and incentive to do my best. After I completed level one, I moved on to levels two and three, and completed them with just as much ... I made it through the first day, and although I hated to admit it, Travis was right. Teaching little kids how to swim was anything but easy. The rest of the week brought more crying, and on top of that, even when they weren't crying it was difficu...

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• Grade Level: High School