people attempt to censor books and textbooks in classrooms and school libraries‚ they are infringing on the Constitutional rights of the children in said schools. Also as ruled in the supreme court case Tinker v. Des Moines‚ students do not leave their Constitutional rights at the door. Both sides of this argument are well grounded in logic‚ and both can find support in our laws and the Constitution. The argument for censorship in schools can be taken both
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to change school start times. I believe that we should just go to sleep earlier. This is because we would not have to change schedules‚ Students aren´t guaranteed to go to sleep at the same time ‚ and after school activities would not have to go into the night. Firstly‚ changing the school start time would cause schedules to have to change. As Justin O’neill says in his article ¨should schools start later?¨ ¨School bus schedules are arranged not just the needs of not just one school but all the
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researching gun control the first information I found was about school shootings. ‘The Academy for Critical Incident Analysis at John Jay College of Criminal Justice reports 294 attempted or actual school killings with at least two victims over 250 years in the U.S. and 37 other countries.’ I agree‚ and understand these numbers are outrageous and something has to be done. In recent history Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown‚ Connecticut‚
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In order to get into majority of colleges‚ high school students are required to take the ACT or SAT. The score you receive determines which colleges you get into‚ which consequently determines the rest of your future. These difficult standardized tests cause an unnecessary amount of stress for high school students‚ as if they aren’t already stressed enough. Students are expected to take multiple AP classes‚ participate in multiple extracurricular activities‚ and find time to study for these standardized
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February 2014 Proposal Independence High School‚ located in San Jose‚ California is known to be the largest high school in the East Side Union High District. It consist over 3‚000 students per year‚ and yet only 31% of the student population has free-reduced lunch‚ according to High-Schools.com. But what the school of Independence serves for not only free-reduced lunch students but for non-reduced lunch students is not as nutritional as it seems. I believe the school lunch program at Independence does
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Standardized tests in school Standardized tests are very common in our schools today. Many school require that we take tests in some form and there is a big debate on whether these tests are actually helping students. There are many people that say that standardized testing is good for our schools and students‚ while others believe that standardized tests shouldn’t be used and are not necessary in our schools. My stand on the issue‚ is that standardized tests should not be used in school. Standardized tests
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Uniforms‚ Reduce Bullying In public and private schools‚ students are constantly being judged on what they wear and how they look. These judgments influence students to pick on others and induce bullying. If schools make uniforms mandatory‚ this cause of bullying would be eliminated‚ thus reducing the number of bullying incidents. Therefore‚ school uniforms should be required for all students because they will reduce bullying‚ relieve stress and make school a safer place. People are judged on what they
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The Wait Schools around the United States have been changing their lunch programs to a healthier option that will cut down on food that is unhealthy to the body. The high obesity rates were the leading cause of why schools began to cut out unhealthy food because of the results of “ child obesity has doubled in children and quadrupled in adolescents in the past 30 years” (Childhood Obesity Facts) . The reason why this will lead to an unhealthy life is that adolescents will not change their eating
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School Cheer A game was played in 1869‚ between Princeton University and Rutgers University in New Jersey‚ and by the 1880s‚ Princeton had formed an all-male pep club. In 1898‚ U of M was on a losing streak‚ and a medical student named Johnny Campbell assembled a group to energize the team and the crowd. Johnny picked up a megaphone and rallied the team to victory. Cheerleading grew from there. It wasn’t until 1923 that women were allowed to cheer for the first time. During this decade‚ cheerleaders
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Homophobia in schools Homophobia is a problem in many public and private school systems‚ denying homosexual students a safe learning environment. Everyday a student is discriminated against because of his sexual orientation. Gay‚ lesbian and bisexual students are being verbally‚ physically‚ and academically abused. Homophobia is taking hard working students and creating a negative and damaging learning environment for them. It’s time for a change. Words like “faggot‚ queer‚ homo‚ fairy
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