... punching few keys either on a calculator or a computer. The problems that took couple minutes without a calculator now only take a couple of seconds because kids just press few keys and get the right answer to a problem. Then came spell checkers which notify us of misspelled words and give us the correct ... spelling of that word. With a couple of clicks on a computer mouse, our mistakes are cleared and the paper is spelling error free. Before spell checkers were invented, dictionaries were used to find the correct spelling of a word. By looking for words in dictionaries, we can also ....

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... for all necessary books and classes that they are required to take. These jobs take time away from the student's study time. If free college tuition was given, students would have more time to educate themselves, plus be well rested instead of being tired from time consuming jobs ... and hold down a job. With taking away tuition you are taking a significant amount of stress off of an student. Another pro to free community college is students from underprivileged families that work hard in school would be able to get into college easier. Some students who get exceptional ... a large incr...

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... and Abraham Lincoln did not attend a twelve-year school program that exists today. Gatto continues by explaining his view that school systems are like a jail for kids. He states that the idea of forced mass schooling started in about 1905 through 1915, and Gatto compares the school system today to that of the Prussian ... students are taught in school, they might base their decisions on that knowledge. One of Gatto's solutions to this problem is homeschooling. It would give kids more awareness of certain aspects of life not taught in public schools, but that is not what the government wa...

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... should not be the ones to suffer. Anyone who wants to educate children is just a great person. They, for already small salaries, have to watch over and deal with the kids. Why did they decide to do this? My guess is because they just like children. Now, there is a chance that some of these wonderful people will lose their jobs. After ... ...

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... innovation like Steve Jobs or become a multi-million dollar celebrity. Okay, so by now you wonder, who is going to pay for all this debt free public education? I have two solutions. In the film, Inequality for All, there is a big focus on the divide between the financial earning of society ... President Obama suggested raising the taxes which he called the Buffet Rule (New York Times.A15). But I would allocate all those funds to free public education. It would pay teachers, maintain school campuses, pay for public transportation and the subway and other services like tutoring and meal p...

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... that he would make more money working in America. I know in the Philippines, many people aren't educated and living on the streets. The government does not provide the public to a free education; only allowing the rich to pay for a good education. I attended both private and public schools. Private schools differ tremendously to public schools. Private schools have a more strict conservative philosophy ... young students? I believe that if this happened, America would not be the most superior country in the world. It would probably be the biggest tourist spot. Neglecting the society to ...

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Breaking Free From the Mold In medieval England, people were divided not by race or sex, but rather class. From the noble men and women at the top to the peasants at ... United States of America saw a vision of a nation where all men are created equal. This vision saw a constant interchanging class system. Today, the US sticks by this ability to break free from the mold and to become something greater than you were. In Gilber and Kohl's writings on social classes, they state that definite groups or classes are determined according to ... ...

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... wonder, what can we do to improve our education? Well, the best example is to look at a world renowned school system, Finland's. In the Finnish education system, students receive a tuition free education. From a very young age, Finnish children are taught that teachers are a prestigious title to hold, much like a doctor or lawyer here in the states. Not only careers in education ... ...

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... sort of security. The use of music is important in "Accordion Crimes" since it introduces the problems in society; prejudice is explained by the description of different music. The "accordion maker" calls the early blues that he hears in New Orleans bars as "kitchen music" (Proulx). "He disliked the music that black men played, confused music, the melody, if there was ... caused by the terrorists who use Muslim religion a reason for their acts an! d evil beliefs. Stereotypes are part of none-educated human mind. That's why the son of the accordion maker decided to change his family name...

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... , let the teacher base their assessment on the student themselves. I seen this up front with one of my friends in high school, this business teacher we had labeled him a trouble maker based on his two brothers that she had before him, it turned out he was nothing like them at all and was one of the better students in the class ... they would like to find out about their classroom themselves." (Airasian, pg. 33) This is how I feel exactly, each year, maybe each semester kids should be given that clean slate because that is exactly what they are, kids. They are immature and growing up, the...

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... try to tame them, these stories differ because the teacher's school discipline beliefs are different for instance Mr. Braithwaite's school has free discipline where the kids do not get any punishment from the school. The teachers are alike because they are both single, inexperienced, and use interesting and ... and discipline among the children. This also gives some order to the classroom. The teacher in Dangerous Minds uses the method of rewarding the kids by giving them candy for right answers. Another method of teaching which seems to be the most affective is relate the material to re...

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... individuals that can call on anyone else for help and understanding. I believe education should be free to all. There are so many other countries that make a free education system through college work for them. They also offer other free alternatives to college if that individual feels that they just aren't suited for college. Those ... develop life long learners later on. We are putting too much pressure on learning more, at an earlier age that we are forgetting that kids need to be kids. Take Japan for example, they have a country full of some of the brightest students in the world. The...

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... individuals that can call on anyone else for help and understanding. I believe education should be free to all. There are so many other countries that make a free education system through college work for them. They also offer other free alternatives to college if that individual feels that they just aren't suited for college. Those ... develop life long learners later on. We are putting too much pressure on learning more, at an earlier age that we are forgetting that kids need to be kids. Take Japan for example, they have a country full of some of the brightest students in the world. The...

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... discipline their children, which, in turn, the children get mad, and argue with parents to the point where they don't want to deal with it anymore. So they set them free and let their kids do what they want. This, I think, is the source of all the problems. The parents aren't setting the boundaries for the ... kids to stay in or the guidelines in which they must follow. So they don't follow any. This causes more problems for other children. Because they don't have any rules to ... to, they go to school and bully around, pick on, and tease other kids. Then these kids get angry and it g...

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... appropriate for schools. School uniforms establish better performance instead of stifling the individuality. School uniforms should be required for all schools because school uniform makes students' lives simpler and stress free, makes students disciplined and focused on their studies with less peer pressure, develops unity and equality among the students which results in less violence, and gives students an opportunity through ... but also on their parents. Uniform saves time, thus it reduces the stress and also saves up money. According to a survey, "94 % parents reduce wardrobe battl...

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... Thinking they can receive special treatment in the classroom, and outside of it or teachers giving them a better grade then they deserved, as well as receiving free gifts. I do not believe any teacher would give special treatment to a student athlete, or bump his grades up to make them look better. Now ... star athletes can receive special treatment outside the classroom. Just look at recent Ohio State University star Terrell Pryor. He sold bowl game memorabilia and received free tattoos. I do not believe though that an athlete would treat an average student as if he was better than him...

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... take it out, erase the blackboard, and also wash floors. All of these things must to be done because there is a night school. Since all of the kids go to school together, the school is to small to fit all of them in. In school at some point we had to wear uniforms and we couldn't ... teacher would get mad and would discipline the class in a very angry manner. School is over in the end of May, and June is the months where all the kids have exams to pass and those are very hard. After when the exams are over, there are some community service hours to do that last almost a whole month. ......

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... and Mariah Carrey when they both wore the same outfit on the MTV 2000 Movie Awards. Uniforms are unconstitutional and stifle self-expression (Cook). Forcing children to wear uniforms violates free speech in the American Constitution. Implementing school uniforms goes against the American belief of being able to create choices instead of having choices created automatically. School uniforms take away from ... facilities. A child's upbringing and environment will determine if he or she will take part in fights, vandalism, drugs, and etc. Poorer parents are struggling to afford school unif...

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... have an education, how would we know about the development of the Berlin situation and the Communistic dictatorship trying to take over parts of the free world? How would we know about the space travel development or the man-to-the-moon program? How would we know what was going on ... none of these things without a grammar school education, but with a college education we might possibly take part in the public and national affairs. The kids of today are going to be the leaders of tomorrow. It is your duty, as an adult, to help us to learn as much as possible ... education. When it comes...

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... , changed by rearranging the words to benefit everyone's beliefs. The Declaration of Independence was written with one goal in mind. This goal was to become free from England's rule, not single groups of people out. If the kids are too young to handle the quotes in their entirety, then they should be taught at a later state in their life. It's hard on ... the kids when they learn it one way only to later find out they learned wrong. In my opinion, the kids should be taught the way it was originally written. As a citizen of the United States, they have the "unalienable right" to ... pick...

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... students, mainly grades six through twelve. These children don't realize what they are being offered here. American education is free,yes free, and these kids just couldn't give any less of a hoot about it. Your education determines your life and your future, and kids are obligated to go to school and learn, just because they have to do something. Children in America don't realize ... how lucky they are, kids in the poorer countries of the world would die to be able to have such an ... ...

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... school attendance were voluntary, schools would have to reform themselves to meet student's needs, because if students could leave on a whim, schools would suddenly have to prove their worth because kids grow up in an oppressive society, it's predictable that when they leave the controlled world of childhood, they vote for politicians who promise security instead of freedom ... . Kids learn early on that even in a free country you are mandated to sit in cramped desks, read, write, and listen against your will. If you think for yourself in school, you get bad grades, and ... for a world ...

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... second, and lastly, it would be unfair to those that are not athletes. When a student-athlete is awarded with scholarship money in college, they are usually given a free ride, free room and board, or free tuition. Some athletes do not realize how much this really means. Some young men and women have to scrounge up money just to get one year of college ... to study and get good grades before it came to sports. In a Newspaper article "School must come before sports plans, students told", the role model mentioned "that young kids try to go the sport route too early in their career and conc...

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... student's individuality. Many teens express themselves through their clothes and accessories. Taking away their individuality can lead to behavioral problems, which school uniforms try to make go away. Also, limiting free [removed]individuality, in this case) can be compared to limiting the freedom of speech. Which, again, can lead to behavioral problems. Another reason school uniforms would be bad is ... only problem to school problems would to make everyone look the same. To end my statement of school's encouraging conformity, a quote. "By instituting a uniform policy, schools are tak...

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... if the child is no longer able to attend the school for some reason. Second, the new policy would take away the student's self expression and individuality. Kids and teenagers use their clothes to express themselves. Some students who are against the uniforms might lose their self-identity after the policy is put in place. ... Some students also think that school uniforms are distasteful. The third problem is that the school uniforms take away the ability to choose clothing that fits comfortably. Kids' clothes have to be light and comfortable. Some children's skin is very sensitive to t...

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