The Importance Of Education: Six Cruel Hours Of Our Lives

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More Unified than Just Looking Unified with Uniforms On

What do you think when you hear the word ‘school’ ? I think of school as acronyms that stands for : Six Cruel Hours Of Our Lives. If we change that, we wouldn’t remember school as cruel, but a place that we look forward to and be compassionate about. To do this, we must assemble changes that’ll indulge everyone. First we must know the fine and the not so fine parts and do something about it. Looking at Aiea High-School, the fine parts are having a variety of clubs, sports, use of technology, having a college and career center and extracurricular classes. On the other hand, not all teacher and staff enforce the school rules, a disengagement between students and staff, the style of teachings
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Just like the first paragraph, students still don’t seem to care and just want to do whatever they want to do, this is related to a disengagement between school authority and students. During the three years of school, the school each year changed their schedules by ending 12 to 1, to having study hall and ending late and to now having uniforms. Since the policies been changing, students myself included, don’t trust the school because of these changes. These changes have put us in burdensome times and a waste into our studies. Although uniforms make us look united, at least make them easy for us to breath and take into account the weather we live in. As the school creates rules for the next year, they should bring it up to the students so that we feel included and we can both agree to something. For example, uniforms. From the previous year, students broke the rules by wearing crop tops, crop shorts, and clothing that is revealing, but they wouldn’t be dressing like this if the teachers and staff done their job by speaking to us in a kindly manner. When teachers do this, students will also return back the favor by following the …show more content…
As teachers reinforce school rules, it’ll lead to an engagement between school authorities and students, take into considerate of new styles of teaching and possibly improved meals, Aiea will become more united just as how united we look wearing uniforms. Aiea may not be the school I hoped to be in, but I’m thankful to be in a school with many freedom, even though we have to wear uniforms. Robert F. Kennedy, a U.S. attorney general from 1961 to 1964 and as a U.S. senator from New York from 1965 to 1968. He spieled that “Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and

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