Tag: school

The temperature is at the freezing point, possibly well below, as a seventeen-year-old boy walks to school. No big deal. I grew up in the mountains and did the same. The difference? I was allowed to wear a jacket. This boy in Kagoshima City could only wear his thin school uniform. Something barel...

School is one of, if not, the most recognized emblem of a modern society. Think Human Development Index or the notion of classroom being our best initiator of cultural change. It’s hard to find an infrastructure so widely acknowledged, yet so brutally criticized. They say high school is your b...

Hi my name is Bella and I was once too, like many students, studying calculus in high school. I am now starting the publication High School Calculus to build up a comprehensive library of calculus content for high school students and beyond. The publication will have 7 subpages, ea...

Myelementary school teacher loved horses. Her family raised them on a ranch outside of town. There were photos and posters of beautiful horses all around her classroom, and she always dressed like she was going for a ride. Mrs. Dotson wore bolo ties, blue jeans and boots nearly everyday. And, once i...

It’s Valentine’s Day and Kaycie López Jones is wearing a pink hoodie emblazoned with “love” in block letters as she guides 15 students and one proto.life contributor through a mindful movement practice on Zoom. At 6pm, it’s dark outside as we stretch and sway to ...

“Medical Student, Year 3, Burg?” inquires the Whippledick-Worthingham Endowed Professor of Internal Medicine and All Other Forms of Brilliance and Scholarship. “Did you send the stat serum stool velocity titer (sssvt) and the cerebrospinal fluid Tupperware level assay (cfTla) on...

A short teenaged boy goes to school at 5 am on a Saturday in mid April. He recently enrolled in his new high school and does his best to follow the path he started on at his previous school. He arrives at school, bleary-eyed and in time to ride with his track team to the meet. It’s a three hou...

Sofar in 2023 alone, there have been 54 school shootings in the United States. Per reporting by CNN, of those violent events, 17 occurred on university/college campuses with the remaining 37 happening in schools K-12. In this nation, parents of school-age children must contend with the viola...