Question+2

**2. Describe how your school encourages personal responsibility and engages students. (200 words or less)**

In this essay, provide an explanation of how your school encourages student engagement and attendance. Why do students want to come to school every day? Include relevant information that might include course offerings, project or community-based learning or service-learning opportunities, programs to encourage appropriate behavior and social skills, extracurricular activities, and support for students with excessive or chronic absences

Our school encourages responsibility because you have to have everything on time. Your attendance, homework, even to practice or you don't play. Also if you come late to school, they wont let you play in the sporting event, and if you not at school, you cant attend the sporting event. - Paul Leitner

Responsibility is an issue at hand daily. Homework must be in on time or you risk reduction of points or accepting no credit. Lates to school add up to count you absent, which counts against you. -Chad

Cornell encourages responsibility by bestowing honors such as student of the month and various awards. They also encourage responsibility by allowing our parents and or guardians to view our grades online through edline. There are also discipline measures that are taken. Cornell definately instills academic. community and citizen responsibilty. -Calie

Our school gives its student body various tools that require responsibility on a daily basis. These include the laptops, smart boards, cornell wikispaces, blackboard.com, and various other smaller things. -Cory

Much like many other schools, Cornell gives out homework. This makes the students responsible for their own grades, and provides that they must be responsible for their own actions. Student also do a lot of fund raising for various events, and sports teams. That makes us be more responsible, so that we have to work if we want something. -Jamie

Cornell applies homework and activities to all their students in many forms. May it be a page of questions, reading a couple pages of a book, completing essays, and even answering things online. It also allows its students extra curricular activities and special honors for working hard within the school. -Walt

Our school encourages responsibility by not accepting anything that was not given 100% effort. Our teachers do not let us slack off on our work so it pushes us to work harder to do the best that we can do. We must have homework, projects, essays, etc. turned in on time. This helps us gain a sense of responsibility. - Ashley

Cornell has various programs and awards for students who excel in either athletics or academics. Some include, student of the month or the sportsmanship award. -Kyle Donahue