Your stomach drops. Just as you turn the corner, you see the bus pulling away from the stop. The light turns red at the crosswalk, and you cannot cross. You are stuck behind seemingly every car in the DC metro area. You will be late.
Bombing a test on a bad day should not be the factor to make or break your grade. Students can fail because they’re anxious and stressed since they have many other important assignments and tests going on the same week.
These feelings of stress can be a negative impact on a student’s grade, which continues to add stress if there is no remediation available for the student.
Without remediation some students who failed the first time will have no opportunity to bring up their grade or learn the material they misunderstood.
You are bad, and you deserved to be punished! That is what students hear from this year’s Learn policy. Having D’s in a class will get you the liberty of Learn snatched away. No more library for you, buddy!
But what we don’t hear is “Good job, kid. Here, have a reward.”
There are three statuses one can have: “Statesman in Good Standing,” “Monitored” or “Scheduled.”
While the hallways are filled with people complaining of lack of sleep, tests and in-class essays, these concerns are rarely addressed by the administration or teachers unless you enter your counselor’s office. Stress Free Day is an exception and an excellent idea. However, if the administration is serious about what Stress Free Day represents, it needs to make some serious changes.
Founded more than a century ago as the College Entrance Examination Board, College Board created and popularized standardized testing. Today, however, College Board has become a parasite to its clients, as its countless fees and lack of accountability to clients have grown rampant in recent years. Now, the time has come for parents and students to look for alternatives to College Board.
Rather than informing the public about current issues the government is facing, this year President Obama’s State of the Union address focused too much bipartisanship and patriotism.
Much of the hour -and-a-half-long speech was spent trying to encourage both parties to work together in Congress. Obama used examples in history to create a sense of patriotism that would overpower the divide the two parties are experiencing.
The administration has mandated that students register their smart phones, tablets, and laptops with the Information Technology department, the organization charged with regulating internet use at the school. Although the regulation of students’ use of technology was inevitable, the school is ill prepared for this move. The lack of warning, the limitations on administration’s power and the sheer multitude of devices owned will cause this measure to fail.
Students are quick to heap blame on their school for ugly ceilings, missing snow days, and parking snafus, but overlooked in the heap of blame shoved toward FCPS is a little shining nugget that someone got right.
I am talking about the salad bar. The salad bar, in the lunch-line furthest to the right of the cafeteria provides students not only with an alternative to an unhealthy lunch, but also with a better lunch. The result of “a confluence of good luck,” the bar is a good option for students looking to make healthy choices in the lunch line, principal Jay Pearson said.
“Do we really have to remember all of this?” Fellow students in the IB History class kept asking the question as they filled in a map of the Middle East. They had started learning about the Arab – Israeli conflict, and one of the standards for the unit wasContinue Reading
Around 100 students in the class of 2012 are in a choke hold.
They are held down by an unquantifiable amount of course work and have little time to catch their breath between this and extracurricular activities. These students are the ones who have decided to defeat the monster that is the IB diploma.
They knew what they were getting themselves into when they made the choice, taking on a challenging agenda of IB course work, an extended essay and “Creativity Action and Service” hours.
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