Castle Park High School has become my home, my friends at CPHS have become my family and nothing could change that. Though it may not be perfect CPHS is the best because I believe it is. Two things I would change about CPHS would be a change in student activities and our school scheduler. These two changes will help students and our campus to increase physically and spiritually.
Increasing student activity in school would not only help the school by increasing the size of clubs and sports but help students by keeping them out of the streets and focused on school. My mother came to CPHS is in 1981- 1985 and she has mentioned to me how much the school has changed. She has told me things like how back then the school was known for its spirit and to be a part of that spirit was looked up to. Today I feel as if school spirit is almost frowned upon, people think there to cool for spirit. When I look in my mom’s yearbook the letterette team could spell Castle Park and have extra shields with emblems on them; today we can barely spell CPHS. I run cross country at my school and every now in then my teammates and I are discredited and insulted just because we train a lot. I believe if students had a taste of what their missing out in they would participate even more. This past cross country season one of are runners was constantly being berated about going to practice by his brother (who also was a CPHS cross country runner but graduated). After about two weeks cross country grew on him he soon become our 2nd top runner and missed going to state by 7 seconds! At the end of the season he even told our coach he was glad he joined cross country. If he was never pushed he would had never joined and encountered the great experience. This is why every student should be driven to participate in at least one activity.
Changing the schools schedule would affect the districts schedule but this mean the new schedule would help every school. Everyday students come exhausted from school then have to face the next day all over again. It is not easy to learn a whole subject then go to an entirely different class and learn an entirely different subject multiple times a day. A way to fix this is to limit a day of school to only two classes a day in a five hour school day (kids would be released early but then as mentioned in the paragraph above would have to participate in an afterschool activity). That way multiple teachers don’t throw subjects at students one by one by one. Students could learn better in each subject since they won’t be tired. HW can be organized in small amounts everyday so they student can constantly do the work instead of doing it all in one day and forget of the subject till the end of the semester. The only negative part of this schedule is our summer break will be affected dramatically. This can be a benefit for some students because they won’t forget the past years subjects and have to review them in the beginning of the new semester
Changing the schools schedule would affect the districts schedule but this mean the new schedule would help every school. Everyday students come exhausted from school then have to face the next day all over again. It is not easy to learn a whole subject then go to an entirely different class and learn an entirely different subject multiple times a day. A way to fix this is to limit a day of school to only two classes a day in a five hour school day (kids would be released early but then as mentioned in the paragraph above would have to participate in an afterschool activity). That way multiple teachers don’t throw subjects at students one by one by one. Students could learn better in each subject since they won’t be tired. HW can be organized in small amounts everyday so they student can constantly do the work instead of doing it all in one day and forget of the subject till the end of the semester. The only negative part of this schedule is our summer break will be affected dramatically. This can be a benefit for some students because they won’t forget the past years subjects and have to review them in the beginning of the new semester
Though not everyone may agree with my ideas i believe this could help students actually learn their subjects and help them secede in life. Driving students to join extracurricular activities at school and changing the school scheduler may seem unusual they could help and who knows they might even change the future of learning
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