How Many Parents Are Involved With Their Children's Education?

The Sacramento Charter High School's curriculum has improved greatly over the passed five years. However, the real question is, how much effort is being put in to motivate the student's parents to be involved in their child's education? Kids might be doing their homework, but how good are their test scores? They might be showing up at school, but what are they doing in class? What are kids doing when they go home? The questions go on to no end, but they can be answered easily. Kids play video games, go to parties when they go home and on weekends. I have multiple sources confirming this accusation, for example, a young African American in 10th grade stated, "When I come home from school, I play my X-box, play X-box online and eat," Never once does he mention studying or doing homework. And yes, you can count on his parents not stepping in. The last thing they do is study for their tests.

Sac High has a great curriculum and great teachers, but how many parents are involved in their children's educational life? The Sac High teachers make numerous phone calls home and check in with the student bodies parents, however, it never makes a difference. The adults can go to as many parent teacher conference meetings as they want, but if they're not going home and getting involved with their kids, then it doesn't make much of a difference. Statistics have shown the more parent involvement the less suspensions and higher scores on their tests, as shown, "Lack of parental involvement is the biggest problem facing public schools. Decades of research show that when parents are involved students have:
- Higher grades, test scores , and graduation rates
- Better school attendance
- Increase motivation, better self-esteem
- Lower rates of suspension
- Fewer instances of violent behavior,"

According to http://www.michigan.gov



Putting on a show for the public eye won't help the child and will not get he or she to college. Sacramento High, or better yet every school should make it mandatory for the parents to make an effort to better their child's education. Because let's face it, without a parents support, the child doesn't have much of a chance in making it to college. We as a charter high school have to make an extra effort to make our dragons fly, but we cannot do this without the parents support. It's a cold world outside of high school; and frankly, colleges don't look at students home problems.

But, however, we can't force Sac High's parents to get involved in their child's lives, so we need their cooperation. Parents can be just as stubborn as their children, so we have to confront them gently and carefully. But, we can't supervise the PARENTS in the situation.

Steve Jobs Questions:

1.  Genius, legacy, imaginative, fun and not a good friend.

He was a genius because he was the first to come up with a computer that could actually type, write send emails, but while he was on his way of creating new innovations and inventing a new legacy, he hurt some of his close associates along the way and would only have them around if he truly needed their assistance.

2. He was associated with pixar, itunes and pc

3. Steve Jobs was different from Bill Gates because he was more imaginative and took more risks. Steve jobs company excelled more because he had better taste, according to Bill Gates.

4. They said he wasn't a very "good" friend. Some sources said he would back stab everyone that came into his path and only used people he needed. If he no longer needed them, then he would just throw them away.

5. Steve Jobs took more risks than others and looked outside the box.

6. He revolutionized Film making, music, computers and phones.

7. I do believe Steve Jobs had a huge impact like the film described because he reshaped how we as a world use technology in almost every aspect

8. I use an apple computer every time I go home and finish my homework. I also use it when I listen to my ipod. Almost every one of my friends have an ipod 

Journalist: a person who collects and distributes information about the world, current events and people.

Free lancer: is a self employed journalists who mostly depend on their selves and are not committed to a specific employer for long term. These workers are mostly represented by a company or an agency that resell their labor to their clients with or without project management. Free lancer's activities include acting, planning, screenwriting music, copy editing ect. This job includes many different positions. Some require clients to sign contracts. Others, finalize a deal with verbal agreements.

Production manager: are in charge of organizing almost everything that's involved in film making. This includes very hard work, which is why there is a production management team who works together to gather everything and put it in place. They're responsible for being able to recognize the director and producers visions. This involves organizing wardrobe, lighting automation, sound ect. Production management involves skilled work, so you must know what you are doing in order to work with the responsibilities production management comes with.

Advertisement: is a way to inform someone about a product and pursue them to buy it at the same time. Advertisements are usually found in mass media, magazines, television, radio ect. There is different types of advertising such as commercial advertising, which aims their focus on increasing people to buy their products.

Copy editor: is the field when someone edits the formatting to improve the text style and quality.

Correspondent: is the person behind all the makeup, speakers and provides them with the scripts and information. They play a huge role when it comes to news paper, radio and television. The biggest network corresponding are located in Germany and BBK.

Illustrator: an illustrator is someone who specializes in the field of making a visual representation of the content within the text.

Salesman: is a person who's job is actively promoting commercial products.

Blogger: a person who manages and updates a blog.

News anchor: a person who presents a news show on television, radio or the Internet.

Producer: there's more than one kind of producer. For example, a hip hop producer creates and edits music on electrical devices. On the other hand, a film producer oversees the makings of a film.

Photojournalist: is a form of journalism but creates a image or picture to tell a news story.

Columnist: is a journalist who creates articles that are based on opinion or commentaries.

The Gossip Girl series was published on April, 2002. This novel contains drama and suspense to what's going to happen next, or who is going to get hurt next. There's never a dull moment while reading this book, nor do you ever want to take your eyes off the pages. It's like a on going reality t.v show going on in your head. The plot of it all leaves you wanting more. If one is looking for a book that contains drama, conflict and romance, Gossip Girl will be the book to satisfy your hunger.

Will this year's Hajj have an 'Arap Spring' effect?

The Hajj is the biggest gathering of Muslims that exists in the world. In Kaaba, Royal unelected families are becoming worried because the Muslims attending the Hajj, are starting to want more freedom and are watching closely for freedom motivated flare up Saudi Arabia, which is governed by a government that contains limited rights. Because of these events, the monarchs power is threatened and are trying to prevent any outbreaks of attempting to make a change because if they get far enough, they could overthrow the monarchs power. Therefor, there could be a potential conflict between the royals and the common Muslims.

Photojournalism: is a particular form of journalism that creates images in order to tell a news story

Old famous example of photojournalism:

This memorable and historical photo Albert Einstein was taken by Arthur Sasse on March 14th, 1951

You can read the article here:

http://www.worldsfamousphotos.com/index.php/2007/03/28/albert-einstein-1951/

New famous example of photojournalism:

This beautiful picture is of Filda Adoch, a 53 year old woman from Uganda, trying to break a stick with her head because she didn't have the tools to do so with. Martina Bacigalupo took this picture in May, 2010.