Lessons Learned

Lesson One – Dress Your Age Ahhhh…Finally Friday! It’s been a long week here in Fayetteville, but we have learned some valuable lessons this week so let’s get to it. Recently I shopping and purchased a new pair of shoes. This pair of shoes seemed fairly harmless at the time of purchase but little did…

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Finally Friday

Congratulations! You made it to Friday…I thought I would provide a little comic relief and some Friday music to coast you into your weekend. Enjoy. Mr. McClung

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‘Hamburger instead of Steak’

Our fifth period teacher, Mr. Mcclung, has asked us to write about saving money with our families. The economy has been pretty much down the drain and money is very tight. Saving money has drastic benefits in this time. Families could change to “cheaper” insurance companies, get rid of cell phones or home phones if…

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Don’t be mad, get GLAD!

Mr. McClung has given us an assignment to do a blog post.  We could choose from three topics and I chose why Arkansas was rated the 48th happiest state. Wow, I knew that Arkansas wasn’t ranked the smartest, or the wealthiest, or ranked highly in most things but I always thought we were happy!  In…

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Don’t Worry, Be Happy

According to a resent survey, Arkansas is the 48 happiest state in America. Our fifth period teacher, Mr. McClung, asked us to write about how we can make our state of Arkansas more happy on according to acces to health care, work happiness, self image. The top ten states and their average well-being scores (out of a…

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Important or Useless?

Lately, many high school teachers, parents, and students have been debating whether or not students should be able to learn skills and take classes that appeal to their interests as opposed to more traditional schooling. Many think that students should be more well-rounded in skills and abilities while some feel it is more important to…

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Traditional vs. Contemporary

Mr. McClung has asked me to do a blog post on this subject: The debate on traditional education vs. the modern way of educating. I think that the contemporary way of educating is better than the traditional way. I am a strong believer that we as people should work on building up our strengths, instead…

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Least Happy

In Mr.Mcclungs class he told us to pick a blog post option and I chose the fact that Arkansas is the 48th most happy state. Recently they had a contest on the internet to see what the most happy states were by taking facts about that State. I feel that we \m/(^_^)\m/  (rock). I also think…

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What the heck Arkansas?! Cheer up Already!

Mr. McClung asked us to pick a blog post option and I picked one about Arkansas. It was a recent survey of people in Arkansas that revealed that we were the 48th most happy state. How do I feel about that? I really don’t care. But I didn’t figure we were that unhappy Here’s is…

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Tradition Vs. Modern

Lately there has been much debate on whether a student should be well rounded and take tradition core classes such as math and english, or should students follow their interests in school and take classes such as journalism or technology. As the world starts to change school systems are changing too. So what might have been…

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