Post for Economics – College Talk
The following are posts for College Talk – that I need in PDF form on a blog in order to link them in PDF form to Schology – so this is in essence just a holding tank for these forms…
January 1,2016 – Link to Part III – Award Letters.pages
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OHS and Refugee One – Please Join Us
Personal reflective essays from OHS seniors who were touched by the children at Refugee One.
Oakridge High School Senior Current Issues…is taking donations for school supplies and accepting new and lightly used Winter clothes for refugee children at Refugee One in Chicago. Refugee One creates opportunity for refugees fleeing war terror and persecution to build new lives of safety, dignity, and self reliance in the city of Chicago.
In October our class spent the weekend in Chicago. We volunteered with kids from ages five to fifteen from all over the world. Burma, Syria, Ethiopia, Nepal, Zambia and Rwanda…I was so proud of the character of our students and impressed by the spirit and intelligence of the little ones in Chicago. We had a enlightened experience. The world is a pretty tough place right now. We decided that as a class we were going to make it a little bit more friendly and warm. If you would like jto donate money for school supplies drop us a check or cash at the High School office. If you have clothes for us…you may drop them there as well. Or contact me here…
In addition all of our students wrote personal reflections of their experience with the Refugee One children, that you will find in the Blendspace link below. You’ll see for some, the journey was life changing. Feel free to share our links, our reflections, our Movie Trailer – anything you wish that would help us to help these kids.
Please join with us and help to open this nation’s arms to some special children.
Thanks….Happy Holidays.
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Refugee One – Follow Up Survey
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What do you know? / Paying for College Survey / Econ 2016
We will be spending the next month in Economics on an issue that is essential to your future. What are you going to do when you get out of Oakridge; how will you create valuable human capital and how are you going to pay for it? Some pretty big challenges await. Post high school training is a necessity in this highly competitive globalized economy. You can’t go into this thing blind, and you cannot go into it lazy. A high school diploma is virtually worthless in today’s society; we need to lay some solid groundwork on what comes next. And we need to do it with eyes wide open.
Let’s start with this survey. It’s fully anonymous. Nobody will know its you; me included. But the fact that you are honest and detailed in answering the questions should give us a good start on a very very important study. So…take your time. Check your spelling. And do your best work. We will thoroughly discuss the responses as a class.
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