School Start Times Have you ever went to school in the morning and not even remembering what went down? I know I have and I didn’t get anything accomplished during the first few hours. All I thought was how much I wanted to go home and sleep. To fix a lot of kids problems I think we should start school about 40 minutes later in the day if not more. One reason I think this is that kids go to bed late staying up doing homework or getting back from school events. Kids in our school district are
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Brittney Petri Mr. Soares Comp 2 September 13‚ 2013 Keep the Arts in Schools School can be viewed as an extremely boring place to spend most of the day. Plain colors of paint cover the walls and the only sounds students and staff hear are the talk of other students and teacher lectures. The only imagination and color that comes out of schools are from the band rooms‚ art rooms‚ and the stages. With these classes and extracurricular activities students can not only express themselves‚ but music
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School Uniform Persuasive Essay At a school‚ a child wearing a stained ragged-patched up sweat shirt and old tired pants full of disgusting mud stains‚ she goes to her locker quietly‚ suddenly after getting out her books‚ five older students surround her. The oblivious teachers and distracted staff don’t even bother noticing older pupils ridiculing the young girl’s outfit‚ teasing and tormenting the juvenile girl about her revolting clothes till she cries
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miss out on that because of school. Year-round schooling shouldn’t be in our districts. But some may say that year-round schooling is beneficial and should be in are school districts. But it causes stress on kids‚ It’s more expensive for schools. Lastly it interferes with after school activities. Year-round schooling cause stress on students. How it cause stress on kids? Kids may have more homework than their use too; They can have more stress because the school may be pushing kids to have higher
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than 25% of students nation wide have been offered‚ sold‚ or given illegal drugs on school property.” Adolescence who abuse substances are at risk of long- term impairment of cognitive ability and memory‚ lack of motivation and self –discipline‚ and have reduced school attendance. (American Academy of Pediatrics‚ 2007) While some professional organizations may disagree with randomly drug testing students‚ some schools who have adopted student drug testing are hoping it will serve as a deterrent and
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School lunches are not always healthy. According to research from multiple health organization studies more than 40% of all students in the U.S were overweight. Many schools are changing to healthier alternatives and I think it’s a wonderful idea. Several students would be getting better meal choices and along with it they would get decrease chances of obesity‚ promote good nutrition‚ and even improve academic performance. Upgrading to healthier nourishment would benefit all students in many different
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Throughout the years researchers have proven how beneficial education on eating disorders actually is and how schools should have a required curriculum. Educating adolescents about positive‚ negative causes and effects of eating disorders can have a significant impact or prevention and treatment. Before educating teens about eating disorders most high schools in the country ignored the taboo topic. Schools were not sure if educating teens on eating disorders was their place to educate or for the families.
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Many people have argued that‚ “Should we ban high school football?” One of the main reason’s why we should outlaw the sport is due to head injuries‚ or injuries in general. Now granted‚ we cannot protect kids 24/7. Injuries in sports are just common things that occur. We can only do our best to prevent children from hurting themselves. 60% of head trauma actually comes from football. This head trauma is commonly known as Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy or CTE. Though CTE’s symptoms are not
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In order to reinforce the school dress code‚ Stacy Carol is scheduled to have a disciplinary hearing to remove her lip piercing on April 10‚ but Carol refuses to take off her piercing because she believes it is a way to express her faith to her religion. “We have dress code to have order and discipline in our schools‚” superintendent Parker Gordon said. “We also want our students to understand expectations in dress. Employers have dress codes. We are modeling the business world with our expectations
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fallen victim to a school shooting. These horror stories many times have no explanation as to why the school shooting has occurred‚ leaving us in shellshock. Since the columbine shooting on April 20th‚ 1999 when thirteen people lost their lives‚ some due to religious belief‚ there have been thirty-one school shootings. This is a staggering number of shootings that have resulted in a death toll of 162 victims – not including the Oklahoma City bombing. Thompson tell us that the “school system is trying
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