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    High School Dropouts

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    The issue of high school dropouts is a serious concern for educators, policymakers, and the public. High school dropouts experience numerous adverse consequences in response to an incomplete education. For instance, high school dropouts are more likely to lack the skills necessary for successful employment and further education, to be unemployed, to be welfare recipients, and when employed, to make less money, lack health insurance, suffer health problems, and to be involved in crime on average than

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    High School Sports

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    of a high school athletic team is something that is very common in today’s society. Whether male or female, there are many different sports to choose from. Baseball, football, and soccer are three of the main sports that boys participate in. For girls, it may vary from softball, soccer, tennis, and sometimes even cheerleading. Whatever a person’s preference may be, playing any sport can be very demanding. The number of high school students who play a sport is one that increases every school year;

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    High School Athletes

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    Every high school has different social, stereotypical cliches. Throughout various schools, there are “the nerds” who enjoy completing assignments and value high grades, “the loners” that stick to their secluded, individual group, and “the jocks” or athletes that participate in every sport possible. High school athletes dedicate a numerous amount of time to practicing and playing sports. Multi-sport athletes never receive a break between seasons, after one sport concludes the other begins in a matter

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    themselves their grades, and those of others, which creates a system of stereotypes in high schools. At academically challenging schools, high-achieving students boast of their successes like scoring solid As in difficult classes. And as a result, some look to the lesser “smart” students who aim for As and Bs and treat them with pity and scorn. And then, the tier continues down. The people who make Bs

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    High School Athletes

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    During high school, students have the opportunity to play some sort of sport whether it is; soccer, football, basketball, rugby, cheerleading, and so on. These times are crucial for students because not only are they signing up to participate in practices and games, but they are signing up to learn how to balance sports and their academic success. Being involved in a sport allows an individual to be surrounded by leadership skills and discipline traits, which in return can improve academic success

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    Graduating High School

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    Graduating High School Is Not Enough to Stop Learning According to “Obama Urges Students to Pursue Higher Education”, writes by David Jackson, USA Today editorial staff; I agree with President Obama that high school students need to continue the higher education to get a better life for themselves and also for their country. I think the diploma in higher education is really important because by growing of the socioeconomic, almost the jobs today or in future need the higher education workers than

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    High School Hardships

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    High school is full of many twists and turns and no one knows exactly what's going to happen in high school. There can be many things that can help to have a simple high school life but there is also things that can make it harder. I am going to be talking about three of my hardships I have faced during high school. Well for starters throughout all of high school I have procrastinated and put everything off till last minute and sometimes not even do it. I would sit there knowing I have some

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    Going To High School

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    the time came to decide what school I would be attending for the next four years at the high school level. At the time, I was attending a small catholic elementary school, Regina Coeli, where there were only twenty students in my class. There was no high school to directly advance to from Regina Coeli, once you finished your eighth grade year you split off from everyone else and were forced to choose the high school in which you would attend. Who knew going to high school was going to be a significant

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    My High School

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    When I began high school I couldn't wait for the four years to be over so I would not ever have to set foot in classroom again. The idea of finishing thirteen years of school was all I could think of. I knew my parents expected me to finish strong. I knew I would and do my best to finish strong enough to keep them off my back. The plan seemed simple enough. But, my sixteenth birthday came during my sophomore year, that is the year everything that I thought I knew changed. My parents let me know that

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    High School is one of the most prominent time in one’s life. During this time, one is taught to be financially literate, how to use grammar and punctuations wisely, be mathematically inclined and aware of different sciences. Notice how I excluded history, but there is a reason for this. History is often manipulated and told by those who are comfortable telling fabricated stories made up by the white man. This causes for students, especially African Americans have a false interpretation of their

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