Archive for October, 2009
Saturday, October 31st, 2009
I was looking at college, (I'm a sophomore in high school) and I was looking at some prospective college facts. I saw that in one college, there was a 15/1 student/faculty ratio, but there were an average of 29 students per class. What causes this difference?
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
I'm asking about middle school/high school students. I believe that before addressing the outburst directly with the student, he or she needs some time to cool off from the anger immediately after the outburst. I'm not sure what to say or where to send the student to give him the time to cool off. Ideally I think he needs at least a few minutes kind of away from the teacher and class, but I don't know the best place to put/send him.
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
I'm a student and most loans for students i've found won't give you more than the school approves. I need money for living costs, etc. What's my best option? This is the only loan I plan on taking out, as I have excess aid I will use for the future. I'm pre-med, so I'm fairly sure I can pay it back. I just haven't been able to work as much lately due to my schedule.
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Sunday, October 25th, 2009
Im a freshmen and i want to run for student council. All we have to do is write a paragraph about why the teachers should pick me for student council. Theres 12 spots. Im on the track team, school paper, community service group. Any tips for writing my paragraph? I want to join so i can start a foundraiser to collect money for the homeless living in los angeles. (based off the movie the soloist) thats not my only reason. Please hlep, any tips?
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Friday, October 23rd, 2009
I have a student loan that is about 50K. I am making payments on it but I am on the income contingent plan and every month I get a statement showing that what Im paying is not enough to pay even the interest, so the balance is higher every month. Does this negatively affect my credit, I pay every month on time but I want to know if this will affect my credit. Does the 50K count towards debt to available credit ratio also. How does the student loan affect credit ratings?
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
A foreign student came to Ontario as an international university student. However, he got suspended because of failing grades. He would not be able to continue studying for 8 months. Does the VISA allow him to work in Canada during that period?
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Saturday, October 17th, 2009
This is an age old question in the school system.
How do you deal with a female student who is allgedly prostituting herself? (a student under 16 years old to be exact).
I've had a recently surfacing problem in classroom management which is only getting worse by the summer. Female students are wearing provocative clothing that makes them look older and more developed (despite the fact they aren't). One such student in particular has stopped wearing school uniform and wears tight pants, a tight shirt that shows off her bust - and if that wasn't enough, the administration has told me she used to invite boys from school and her neighborhood to her home to "hit it" for $.
How do you even deal with this?
Her parents supposedly know about this as they removed her from school for a semester and sent her back to her country. WELL she's BACK IN SCHOOL and I assume she's "BACK ON THE BLOCK".
I've asked if the AP could force her into school uniform because I'm tired of her coming to class dressed like an adult - a woman I'd be dating at 26.
The boys try to sit next to her all the time hoping they can roughhouse with her - tickle her - o for lack of a better term "COP A FEEL".
Today she was in a group table in this 8th grade classroom surrounded by boys and when I saw one of them "tickling" her, I forced her to move and sit by herself in the back of the room.
I looked one of the boy's square in his eyes and if by telepathy I used eye language to tell him...
"I KNOW WHAT YOU GUYS ARE TRYING TO DO, BUT I'M NOT GONNA LET YOU DO IT."
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Thursday, October 15th, 2009
The IRS' website is not clear on whether the student loans need to have defaulted or not. It just says if you owe the government for student loans the rebate will be applied to that. Any help is appeciated.
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Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
A student was given liquid and told that it contained a mixture. How could the student determine whether or not the mixture was a solution, suspension, or colloid?
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Monday, October 12th, 2009
Like if I have 00 now gathered from working as a student for 2 years, can I use that to pay some of the loan back? Or, is it that once I start paying back loans, I can't stop, and I must consistently pay them back every month?
Also, do student loans have minimum sums we are allowed to pay every month? Like can it be that i'm only allowed to pay if i'm paying in a minimum sum of 0 or 00?
P.S. this is not for me, so its not like I can look over a contract or anything like that.
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