High School Sports: An Unhealthy Alternative to a Fit Life According to the Center of Diseases Control and Prevention‚ the American people should exercise for at least thirty minutes a day. Most adolescents obtain that physical activity by participating in high school athletics; on average‚ 73.8 percent of high school students compete in such events (Ball‚ Bice‚ and Parry). These activities are not always the best practices for physical fitness; fitness can be obtained in other‚ safer forms
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Drug Testing in Schools Kortney Gherardi DeVry University Drug Testing in Schools Drug testing in schools for extracurricular activities has been a controversial issue for years due to privacy reasons. There are schools that have already implemented drug testing for extracurricular activities. Drug testing teaches students that using drugs while participating in extracurricular activities is not acceptable. It is a good way to teach the students responsibility. It teaches the
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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School uniforms are an outdated tradition. School uniforms have been around for many years‚ but in this day and age‚ isn’t it time schools begin to phase out uniform and allow students to make their own decisions on what they wear to school? The main topics are comfort‚ cost and respect. I believe that allowing mufti in schools is in the best interest of the students and families. Comfort is one of the leading reasons for preferring mufti to uniform‚ because let’s face it‚ in order for students
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School Locker Searches: Protecting Your Children “The National School Board estimates that more than 135‚000 guns are brought to school each day” (Debate). Besides weapons‚ drugs like marijuana are reportedly used by up to 22.6 percent of 12th graders (Drugabuse). With rising danger in schools‚ locker searches seem like the right thing to do. A locker is owned by the school and loaned to the student‚ therefore entry is always legal. With this legal authority‚ schools should flex their rights
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Within the past twenty-five years the number of teens with an eating disorder has increased to 1.2 million. Eating food is a necessity in our everyday lives so we can strive to succeed and provide energy for our bodies. Learning how to have a healthy relationship with food isn’t always a given and for many teens in the United States they have an unhealthy relationship with food which results an eating disorder. Throughout the years researchers have proven how beneficial education on eating disorders
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want the school board to know how dumb the school dress code is.I need help to stop making school dress code worse.Im going to explain why the school dress code is retarded‚useless‚and unfair. Retarded.School dress code is retarded‚I mean it’s not used for anything.We don’t have to go dress up all nice and fancy just so we can go to school and plus we don’t have a choice to go to school or not. If we had a choice then i would skip school sometimes.I really just wish we could get rid of school dress
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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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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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one hundred twenty-eight million school aged kids able to learn but only one hundred eleven million of them can go to school leaving seventeen million of them without education. What makes it worse is that thirty seven million of those kids in school will learn so little that it wouldn’t make a difference whether they were going or not. That’s only seventy four million kids going to school with good education while in America there are ONLY 2‚000 kids out of school which is a huge difference which
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