Freshmen, this one’s for you! How high-school academics will be different….
High school transition
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Electronics policy
School electronics policy is fair, reasonable Talon staff Many students may think that the school's personal electronic devices policy (referring to use during free hour and flex) is unreasonable or...
Controversial scanners
New security system good addition to airports By Meera Goswitz Talon staff writerTake off your shoes and belts. Remove your cell phone and keys. Remove any other metal items from your pockets....
Unwritten rules
Freshmen go into their first year of high school with little to no information about what to expect. Many kids don’t have siblings attending the upper school so it can be a challenge to figure out the in’s and out’s of high school. It’s not necessarily the classes that freshman get so worried about, it’s not always about making friends, but it’s the “unwritten rules” that they need to know. Let’s take a walk through a day at Minnehaha Academy….
Texting vs. talking
Sometimes shutting the phone off and interacting with the physical world around you is better….
End summer break?
It would be wiser to have the school year last the whole year. Breaks would be more frequent and longer to compensate for the loss of the three summer months, but this way students would constantly be in the educational mindset, which would help them learn better, more, and faster. “If they’re just going to be hanging around at home playing video games,” says DiNardo, “it would be better for them to be in school.”
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