I remember it vividly: September 15, 2013. Fortuitous enough, I had a free period all to myself during the last class of that day. As I meandered through the bustling halls on the way to my locker to collect some unfinished homework, the vexatious school bell sent a ringing through my eardrums. Immediately, the barbarous animals of high school began to bolt ... towards their current classes, gone in a flash. The halls, usually still and muted after the bell, had a newly born disruption with the sudden hollering of teenage boys. The bellows took me by surprise, but of course I thought nothing ...

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... a traditional school is one without barriers, although until you experience the friendliness that comes along with self-directed learning you will never know. It is like you walk down the halls and everyone is your friend, there is nothing holding you back from asking someone you have never talked to for help. Everyone is going through the same things and everyone ... understands how important the interaction is. Grade nines are not initiated secretly, they don't walk down the halls with fear. The OAC students do not act, as they own the school, because they don't. Everyone works togeth...

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... second week of December in my first year as a Junior High school student when I realized it wasn't like elementary school anymore. There were hundreds of other kids walking down the halls when each bell rang. They even went to seven different rooms a day. One day while I was walking to my seventh period, my last class of the day. Three mean looking ... guys stopped me. I was late so the halls were empty. They wore baggy clothes just like I did, but the odd thing was they all had on black and red and that was it. That day I had on white ... ...

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... living in this small town. On Saturday nights we don't have the choice of heading to a movie theater, underage nightclub, or concert. We turned local ponds into water parks and Mead Turner's house into a nightclub. My memories include moments such as playing extreme Frisbee in our high school parking lot and Mud wrestling in my best friend's peach orchard. In today ... ...

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... the fact that men are not as monogamous as women, and that marriage can be seen as a socially imparted sanction on males to remain in one family unit. Sociologist Margaret Mead once said "There is not society in the world where men will stay married for very long unless culturally required to do so" (Popenoe 1996: 323). Although marriage is often ... ...

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... hit the bed figuring I needed a good night sleep to prepare me for our big game the next morning. Not even five minutes had passed when I heard girls running down the halls laughing; they were the voices of my teammates. I lay in my bed for what seemed like hours, paralyzed, when finally a tear slowly rolled down my cheek until soon they were ... ...

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... it's weird to go up to a person and make conversation. We all snapchat, tweet, and text so many different people who we can't even say a simple hello to in the halls. It isn't right. It just doesn't make sense to me. And that is exactly one of the main things that bug me. People who are afraid to make friends are ... ...

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... embarrassing. You become the joke of all jokesters, a walking punch line. Even teachers are liable to make fun of you on their own time. Not being able to walk the halls without someone saying something about me was exactly what I deserved. It's only right because I was too worried and focused on what was only temporary. At that point in my life ... ...

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... on the weekends, on top of various AP and honors courses and extracurricular on the side. Hearing their stories made me ponder around the many students I see lurking through the halls of my school aimlessly with no sense of urgency to go to class on time or ambition to maintain above a 2.5 GPA. Speaking in regards to my community, the education system ... ...

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... some, satire becomes second nature. "The Simpsons," is a very good T.V. show that always has a good satirized message. Then high school is a center of satire. Everyday satire goes on in the halls of high schools....

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... that a person listened and took in what happened. Respect is something that is lacking in the children of America compared to that of other countries. When a person walks through the halls of some modern day high schools he/she hears vulgar language, sees people making out and witnesses the teachers being harassed. Contrast this to the high schools that our own ... ...

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... job you may wish to pursue; it is a open door to endless opportunities, armed with a load of experience. The experience that comes with a college education is reflected inside the lecture halls and outside. Inside a class at college you are expected to interact and to just fit in, in a diverse group of people of all ages, cultures and backgrounds. This arms you ... ...

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... 1987. You first see a visual of the school. It is completely trashed, graffiti everywhere, broken glass, and garbage in nearly every corner. The students were then shown walking through the halls dealing drugs, fighting and completely out of control. They refused to follow not only the school's rules, but also rules of common courtesy toward other human beings. In addition they ... ...

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... your work schedule, you could take two classes a day and leave at twelve o"clock, or take four and leave at four thirty. There aren't even teachers and principles patrolling the halls, making sure everyone has a pass. In fact, there were no passes. You could go to the restroom, your car, vending machines whenever you wanted, as long as you didn't abuse ... ...

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... , grading tests and papers, listening to oral presentations, evaluating and observing students, and maintaining classroom discipline. In addition to having their own classes, teachers are often asked to cover study halls and supervise extracurricular activities. Being a Secondary teacher I will also help students to choose courses, colleges and careers. I will also have to provide my students with classroom presentations, individual instruction and ... ...

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... after school. In this way the clothes would not seem over worn. Another problem with wearing regular clothes, is the possibility of an intruder entering the school. Looking through the halls, trying to decide who belongs and who doesn't is nearly impossible. With increasing schools, there are more and more students accumulating, which makes it hard to decide if each person ... ...

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... help you. I knew people could not be as bad as I had always heard. On September 11, 2001, I changed the way I thought about the people of this country. Walking through the halls of my High School after I had heard the news that two planes had crashed into the World Trade Center, I had mixed emotions and feelings. Being only seventeen years old, I did ... ...

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... and it wasn't before long she was drinking and smoking marijuana. Our friendship at this point was non-existent. Throughout high school, Lucy and I would pass each other in the halls. No words were ever exchanged, I would just look into her eyes and she into mine. I could hear her unspoken words of depression and sorrow. At this point she couldn't have ... ...

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... as I left it piles of paperwork hoard my desktop. There are messages after messages on my phone waiting to be heard. I have 45 minutes to get everything situated before the halls start to fill with loud students dreading to start the day. Times goes by fast and the bell is just as annoying as my alarm clock. Students start to fill ... ...

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... wrong, therefore if a child wished not to participate in the pledge o allegiance or what ever it might be they did not have to leave the classroom, stand silently in the halls, or write a statement in stead they were allowed to just sit quietly in their seats. Religion in public schools would be good for certain students but the silent moment is ... ...

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... two or three times a week. Most of my high school classes consisted of twenty to thirty students. My college classrooms can hold up to seventy people and auditoriums and lecture halls can hold hundreds. I used to actually get ready for high school in the morning, but in college I find myself rolling out of bed, grabbing my books, and walking directly to ... ...

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... could take the books to class and home also, the school would pay less money in books for class sets. The entire school would benefit from having lockers in the halls. But there are ways to prevent the lockers from becoming a horrible waste of money. I know that lockers can be dangerous as well as useful. But there is an easy way ... ...

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... especially symbolic. Labeling them as Pool Players takes away from their individuality as people. The group is attached to the pool hall and therefore to the negative stigma of pool halls. The Golden Shovel is also no run of the mill shovel, and the seven pool players, who we by now have realized are on a quick path to an early destruction ... ...

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... before the B.C. school board and demand he be allowed to continue bringing his Bible to school. Mitchell gave this statement to a local newspaper during an interview, "I have to walk these halls every day, see things and hear things that offend me. I am forced to sit in classes where students talk blasphemy. If I am not allowed sanction from their views, why are ... ...

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... hit with a bug, " a fever for guitar playing."(VC Voices 22) Much like Dane, I was struck with a fever for music. In my freshman year of high school, walking timidly through the halls of my scary new school, I accidentally bump into a fellow by the name of Dillon Phillips. This kind sir does not look so kind. A tall, green Mohawk, studded belts, bondage loops ... ...

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