I am doing a report for school and it is about how schools, the workplace, and everything in general has changed since you guys were teenagers.  Help would be much appreciated :]  thanks!
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well we had more time to spend with our mothers and fathers ,we only go out on weekends for a movie back home by 10pm we had very good relation with our family members more time to go tothe liprary ,we did not do drugs ,our parents belong to the 1945 to 1950 generation work hard play little plan for college savings we worked every saturday and sunday just for 9 dollars doing stupid jobs ,now most of my generation are still have that spirit .
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I think that kids today  have a lot more homework than we did say "went to grade school in the 80's". I feel sorry for students today...way to much homework!
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A THOMAS JEFFERSON EDUCATION TEACHING A GENERATION OF LEADERS FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY by Oliver Van DeMille.  It is mainly on the differences in choices of education that is available to parents for their children--mainly homeschooling.  It does have a lot on how public and private schools came about and why.  I think it may have some references for your paper.  I hope so anyways.
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High school for me was rough but fun. I didn't really start coming into my own until late my junior year. I was still a pimply teenager that resembled Beavis. But looks can be decieving. After awhile I took care of myself a lot better and I found myself being the person that people turned to for advice or a quick joke. I got along with just about everybody. Basketball players, nerds, and everybody in between. Though I enjoyed high school, I would not want to go back. Academically, I struggled through but I did graduate.
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I think that you're starting to see some resentment from younger people in the country, but I seriously doubt that anyone would take that kind of initiative for protests.  There have been nationwide protests of the Iraq war in the past, but they didn't get nearly as much media attention as Vietnam protests did.  I think that young people today are also a little bit more worried about things.  Personally, I'm in school full time and work a full time job.  As much as I'd like to get involved on something like that, I simply can't afford to walk away from my job and continue to pay for school.  I think that a lot of people my age are in similar positions.  Back then, it was a lot easier to get away with something like that because a college degree was not a requirement to having a successful future.  If I took any time off school, I would suddenly become an older student and less appealing to employers once I earn my degree.  There's simply too much at stake.
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try http://www.nea.org/columns/presview11-06.html and this link I will give you is good http://www.ask.com/web?o=ie7&qsrc=6&l=dir&q=Why+Do+High+School+Students+Drop+Out%3F\n\nGood Luck!!!
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...things were better because I think I grew during the last decade where parents weren't breathing down kids' necks about one thing or another (the '70's).  Now, kids seem to be on lockdown because of crime of one sort or another, stress over getting into the right college, and the pressure to make a lot of money (and buy a lot of stuff) in the future.  We could play outside until the streetlights came on, and there wasn't the competition to get into college (I only applied to one school -- a pretty good one, in fact, and got in).  Kids could just be kids, and not expected to act like mini-adults.
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when i graduated from elementary school i was very proud.  i loved school and studied alot.  then summer came...i cried.  i was happy for the accomplishments i've done, but sad to know that came to an end an what was left was uncertainty.  it's a big transition to go from elementary to the high school level.  you go from being the oldest in your building to the youngest.  that in itself is scary.  then you have to decide what cirriculum you want, college prep, business, etc.  such big decisions for a young person.  add that all together with puberty and it's a crisis.  when i started jr high, i was upset and sick in the stomach for about a week or so.  then i realized, everyone was just as upset as i was and we all felt the same so why not just talk it out.  most people don't want to tell you how scared they are.  it's difficult wondering if you will be accepted or if you will be the nerd.  regardless of whether you are the class president or the class nerd, the best years of your life will be in high school.  after that, you have to get up in the morning and go to work so you can pay your car, house and everything else.  soon you will realize how great it was to be in school with no worries, which when you were in school seemed like a life or death situation.  all the people that ignored you or were just plain nasty will say hi to you like you were their best friends.  but high school will be great.  join everything you can, all the sports, clubs , activities, etc.  it looks great in the senior year book next to your name.  good luck
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Greetings from inside the Yahoo Brain in New York City!\nHope you're catching the live webcast at: http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/asktheplanet/brain.html !\n\nI went to my 10-year reunions (yeah, there were two of them) 2 years ago and I have to say, I was VERY surprised at how little most of the people had changed. Sure, there was the occasional nerd that had turned it around, or wallflower that had blossomed into a hottie, but for the vast majority, it was all the same.  The jocks were still jocky, the geeks were still geeky, the popular girls still thought they were popular, and the troublemakers weren't there because they were all in jail.\n\nHope this helps!\n--J.
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High school in the US is a popularity contest: who can have the cutest bf/gf, who can make the cheerleading squad/football team, etc. I enjoyed high school, I had friends, I'm not trying to be cynical, but it was always about who was the most popular flavor of the month. Kids cheated all the time on exams, I did too (mainly on homework), it didn't seem to be a big deal. I regret it now though, I should've just learned the info then b/c now I'm in college and don't know how to do somethings I should've learned in high school! Hope that all makes sense.
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Most schools are now using data from all three (out of a total 2400).\n\nHowever, since statistics take a while to gather, some are still using the old system, which only encompasses reading and math (for a total 1600).\n\n1300 would be a pretty low score for the new system, so I would assume it was from the old one.
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I've known stubborn set-in-their-ways people who were 7-years old.  I've known enthusiastic, open-minded, ready to learn and take on new challenges people in their 90s.  My guess is that people are who they are and the years just pile on after that, and it's who they are deep down that will see them open to change or not.\n\nBut my opinion isn't written in stone.  I'm open to changing it.\n\n;)
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I went to my 10 and 20 year class reunions. \nIn the ten year reunion I saw how many were still the same and immature people I had known in High School.\n\nIn the 20 year they all still smoked and quite a few were still getting drunk. \n\nI quit going because I felt that I did not know these people anymore. My advice: the past is the past. Let it go!
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Good organisation skills and working skills are something we learn from actully doing the job. There are so many different skills to master once you reach that age that it would be impossible to teach them all at school.\nSchool teaches us the basics of how to read and write etc, but it is not responsible for each and every career a child chooses to take. School will teach us how to write clear enough to fill out an application form etc, it may even help us in what to do at an interview but that is as far as it should go.\nThe best place to learn organisation and work skills is actually in after school activities. I used to run a Scout troop and we taught this every week with the children. They learned to work as a team, were able to sort out their own camping equipment and they were disciplined with themselves.\n\nAs far as discipline is concerned, as I wrote in another posting for you, the government has taken away this activity in schools. Teachers are unable to discipline students anymore. This takes away any authority they had and also any respect students may have had for them.
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There are many changes I would like to see by the end of the 21st century. Changes with peace, hunger, AIDs, the list goes on and on. If I had to pick three these would be it : ____,____, and ____.\n\nthat can be a help for the 1st paragraph. the next 3 paragraps can tell what you'd change & why. The last can be the 1st paragraph re-worded.
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yes, i agree with you times are definatly changing with the what they see on TV to what they see, hear about, and maybe even do in school...not to mention the responsibilty's that this time and age entale it could be that they are taking care of themselves and/or siblings or the very "grown-up" situations that they have to face everyday also good parenting of i guess our times could be a source for change not wanting their kids to grow up like they did, and alot of teens are taking a stand on what they believe whether it's moral or religious and such i guess the list could go on and on but don't get me wrong there are still alot of kids/teens that still act their age or less lol but the good in alot of ways out ways the bad
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yes it disappoints me. i actually had to work for my diplomas...now kids just point and click. no wonder the work ethic in the country has gone so far downhill....