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.
Prom is over now and I hope everybody had a wonderful time. I have some retrospective advice I would like to offer to future prom attendees.
The first thing you need to do is to start planning early. Find a core group of people, talk to all of them and make sure everyone is on the same page. The page you all need to agree on is money.
Everybody has a different idea of prom in his or her head. Some people envision jewel-encrusted spoons whereas others want to bring a tablecloth to McDonalds. Both are fine.
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.
In what should have been a routine activity, the process of getting class schedules the week before the start of school had a foreign twist. The coordination with friends about which classes we shared included looking up which lunch blocks we had together due to the incorporation of a Learn block separate from Lunch.
On April 10, Rick Santorum dropped out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination. This was a sad day for politics. Let me explain:
I find Santorum’s social policies odious in the extreme. I feel that his crusade against abortion and contraception represented, whether he viewed it this way or not, an attack against women’s rights. Which are, in fact, human rights.
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FCPS needs to stop relying on other online course providers without testing them against its students. Although it can do a decent job with online classes, it is in FCPS’s online offerings for AP where it just failed.
FCPS’ provider for online classes, Apex Learning, has caused me more stress than IB. I am taking AP Calculus AB online and I had been told that it would be easy, especially since I took IB Math SL 2 last year. However, the general failure in teaching me the concepts behind the math have made me question why FCPS decided to use Apex Learning.
Having an international perspective in an IB school is invaluable to the learning experience.
I lived overseas for two formative years that shaped me as a learner. I was in Stuttgart, Germany for fifth and sixth grade living on an American military base. Although I lived on base, my parents sent my sister and I off base for school and made every effort to spend time in and around Europe.
Living overseas gave me language immersion, cultural acceptance and a new outlook on global issues. Despite living in a fairly metropolitan area, it is very easy to avoid cultural diversity.
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.”
Recent happenings, which do not need to be identified, show that negative stereotyping persists. As a moderate Middle Eastern Muslim, I learned this two weeks ago.
In school, English teacher James Macindoe said, he and his friends were bullied.
“I don’t think we thought of it as bullying at the time,” he said. Macindoe cited petty incidents in elementary school and times that he saw physical violence between his best friend and upperclassmen in high school.
“My best friend played on the soccer team and every day after school one of the seniors on the team would beat the crap out of him,” he said.
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