Students desire a challenge

High school, page 1 the nation are willing to do the homework and tests if they feel the class will benefit them in their future. Classes that are of little or no interest to them bore them and subsequently the students do not take anything away from such classes.

“In high school I took an introductory class in psychology and it really helped me to choose a major in college. I had a few challenging classes but I feel I have to work much harder in college. There is a totally different set of expectations in college than there is in high school,” said Cristina D’Amelio, a junior psychology major.

According to the New York Times, “Avast majority of respondents in the survey, 89 percent, said they intended to graduate, fewer than twothirds of those said they felt their schools did an excellent or good job teaching them how to think critically and analyze problems.”

“Even among the remaining 11 percent, a group of 1,122 that includes teenagers who say they dropped out of high school or are considering dropping out, only about one in nine cited “school work too hard” as a reason for not remaining through graduation.

The greatest percentage of those who are leaving, 36 percent, said they were ‘not learning anything,’ while 24 percent said, ‘I hate my school,’” according to the New York Times.

John Meidt, 21 of Las Vegas, Nev., dropped out of a Catholic high school in South Jersey during the middle of his senior year.

“Everyday I was wasting eight hours sitting in a desk listening to lectures on subjects that didn’t pertain to my interests. Being a 17-year-old boy in school is hard enough, I need to be engaged and interested to learn. I was simply bored. I dropped out of school not because it was too hard, actually it was just the opposite.” said Meidt.

According to the New York Times, “Marc Tucker, president of the National Council on Education and the Economy, an organization that helps states and school districts create programs that are more tailored to contemporary student needs, said he did not believe that American high schools could adequately prepare students without a fundamental change in how they operated.”

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Charlie Spencer said, “I find the seniors that enter the admissions office are not concerned with challenging themselves during high school. Rather they are more worried about being accepted to a college, passing their classes, adjusting to living on campus and meeting new people.” building’s development, like Dr. Joseph Smith and Dr. Kim Boyd, would have all their wishes come true.

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“We’ve increased our departmental facilities three-fold and gone from three fume hoods [a critical piece of safety equipment in any chemistry laboratory designed to ensure proper ventilation of hazardous fumes] to 38,” Fuller-Espie said.

The SETbuilding will offer students four different majors, three minors and four pre-professional allied health programs, including biology/pre-medicine, biotechnology, chemistry, and clinical lab science/ medical technology, helping to mark the college’s devotion to staking its place among the top of higher learning institutions.

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