Often many student jobs require long hours or are too stressful for young adults. ... On the other hand there are many cons of working too many hours while in high school or college. Burnout is one of the most harmful consequences of working long hours while a student. ... Those working more than fifteen hours per school week have less success in graduating. ... Forty three percent of them work more than fifteen hours per week. ...

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The majority of high schools in the United States have a graduation requirement consisting of completing 60 hours of community service. ... Whereas, college students have different schedules, some of them go two to three days a week others go five times a week but with shorter hours or longer breaks between classes in which community service hours could be done. ... My sister had a service learning class in CSUMB that required 30 hours of community service hours. ... Finally, Eggers' says "there are many hours in the days and weeks that need killing."" ... When in fact if they had communi...

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They think it would be easier to just open up a laptop and log in instead of getting up early in the morning and going to a 6.5 hour school day and be tired when done. ... I'm pretty sure that there are probably close to your hometown even if that close is 40 minutes to an hour long drive and maybe that college may not be the best college but you will definitely benefit from it and learn a lot and even earn a degree. ...

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This will help me get four hours for college in advance. ... By taking four years of foreign language I will be receiving four collage hours. ... That is another class I will be getting four college hours for. Next year, if approved, I am planning to take honors English and AP US History, which is another course for which I get three college hours for. All together, I will have 20 college hours before attending college. ...

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., yet they're forced to "rise and shine- at the wee hours of the morning. ... Teens need between 8 ½ to 9 ½ hours of sleep a night, however, according to the article "Sleep Trouble in School-Age Kids- by Patty Rhule, thirty percent of teens do not get enough sleep. ... In a survey done by the schools, 92 percent of parents said they preferred the later start times because the extra hour made an "extraordinary- difference in the students' performance. ... In fact, I have found that I can obtain these factors on Wednesday late start days when I get to sleep for an extra hour and a ...

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Learning School the Hard Way School is very important in our society today. More so then it has been in the past. Fifty years ago, you could not go to school and still be very successful. Today you could be successful without school but it would require a lot more work because you are competing wit...

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Along with academic and financial worries, students also face personal pressures because there are not enough hours in the day. ... Furthermore, the pressures of college can cause students to become stressed, especially if they work fifteen-hour days and then come home at night to work another four hours on their college assignments. ...

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Student athletes in-season may only practice/play up to 4 hours per day, 20 hours per week, with one guaranteed off day. Student athletes out of season may practice up to 4 hours per day, 8 hours per week, with two mandatory days off instead of one. ...

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My high school days were six and a half hours long. In college I rarely have more than 4 hours of class a day. ... In high school, I was able to work set hours every week because my school schedule allowed it. College class hours are relatively random so it is hard to work for an employer who hires shift workers. ...

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Every hour of each day of a school year, nine hundred teachers are threatened, and nearly forty percent of teachers are physically attacked on school grounds. ... Some other school wide strategies that are being developed include staff monitoring and guards and extending school hours to offer extra-curricular activities. ... Extending the number of hours a school is open is also an effective strategy to curb school violence. Having the school open later hours keeps kids off of the streets, by having them have the opportunity to participate in activities such as sports, arts, crafts, and mus...

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Before entering college, I wasn't too sure what to expect. After getting different opinions for different people, I had mixed expectations. Some of my expectations were good, others not so great. I knew I would have to adjust to the transition from high school to college. I knew certain aspects of c...

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College and high school are two very different worlds; however, both are a vital part of the journey towards achieving a good education. Everyone has different opinions about high school and college life; however, not all are aware of the possible similarities and differences between them. The life ...

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All my life people have told me have the potential to do many things with my intelligence. I may have slacked a bit in school but no one really thought that I would be like kids just repeating grades and dropping out of school - something I never did. I had my child young which never stopped me from...

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It tells us we need to have a step-by-step plan of what we are going to do for the rest of our lives and what we're going to do for eight hours every day five days a week, and truthfully I think it's a bunch of garbage. ... My plan was just to go work at the shipyard and work a labor job for eight hours a day, everyday, until I was sixty-five. ... Starting wage is fifteen dollars an hour and by the end if your first year there you're making eighteen dollars an hour. ...

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It also gives the students who have jobs enough time to get to work, and work for the evening hours. ... They will be allowed to leave during their lunch hour to go out eat lunch somewhere else, or to their houses if they choose to eat lunch at home. ... Teachers will be required to let their students know specific office hours when they can come seek additional help and tutoring for the class. ...

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I was working a full time job, sometimes greater than 96 hours in any given week. ... I only have 15 hours a week that I have to be doing something. ... I allow myself a few hours every day after classes to watch TV, or to take a nap. ...

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I hesitantly wake up to the sound of the same repetitive beep of my little black alarm, and prepare myself for a long day of uninteresting classes, and hours of work at a mall full of impolite costumers. ... I sat in the Ritter library on a Sunday night and reviewed notes on the history of life for a grueling 6 hours, and in return expected to earn a good grade from this. ... Today, I am expected to attend college, along with working several hours, excel in soccer, and give up my time to my sorority. ...

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After another hour my school day is over. ... My next class didn't start for two more hours so I decided to exchange my books and get it over with. ... Two hours past and it was time for class. ...

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You are accepted to a four-year university , north of your hometown, and your boyfriend or girlfriend is attending a different university two hours away from yours. ... You"re fine with the person you have two hours away. The two of you spend hours every night on the phone, crying to each other and saying how much you miss each other. ...

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Are you a senior in high school and dreading the changes that you will soon have to make when you go to college? All throughout your fourteen years at elementary, middle, and high school you have become comfortable with a certain way of living. Yes, jumping up to different schools is a small change,...

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I"d give anything to go back to high school, because that was a time when the class work was so easy it was pointless, eight hours in school was just daily social time, and the pressure in your life only went as far as what to do on the first date. ... From the minute you get on the bus to the minute you leave your high school, it's social hour. With the exception of a short, hour-long detention break at the end of the day, your mouth runs gossip to your friends. ...

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"Work and How I Got There- Its 5 am, and I am sitting at my dining room table, studying never-ending notes on how Minoan art affects today's society, and why men who lived so long ago are important.   The fluorescent lights of my dorm room cast a dim light on my mountain of books, a harsh re...

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Early in my fifth secondary school year, my school organized a field trip for my class to visit the Sea School located in Apapa, Lagos (Nigeria) under the aegis of the Citizenship & Leadership Training Centre. My teachers have always enlightened me and my classmates about this training program since...

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They put hours upon hours into practice and learning the system of their respected sport. ... "The college athlete in tier one, division one sports, in sports such as football and basketball have spend 40 hours per week on their sport, more than a full time job" (Edelman). ... They are "employees" under federal labor laws and entitled to form unions and negotiate wages, hours and working conditions (Cooper). ...

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Neither do I recall any complaints about troublesome students out on the town during school hours. ... The resultant amount of time would average to about 221 minutes of homework per night - about three and a half hours. ... That's six hours of homework per night! ... Last year, teachers could teach up to six classes a day, with one hour for "prep-time" - time to prepare for classes. ...

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