Sports keep teens out of trouble Nate Rowe Avid 1B High school sports require around 14 hours per week‚ of a students’ time. This time is only the time spent with the team at school mandated activities. It does not include events like team dinners‚ fundraisers‚ time practicing by yourself. After an athlete spends all this time at practice‚ why would they want to go cause trouble? Most athletes would be too exhausted to even do anything after the time they spend at practice. I believe sports
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Participating in Sports Keep Teens out of Trouble? Being a teen sports participant myself‚ and rearing six children who participated in sports my views on this subject are based on my own experiences and may be a bit biased. I believe that sports definitely keep teens out of trouble. By playing sports teens‚ sometimes may feel a sense of accomplishment. It may also build self esteem. Sports may challenge their abilities and may contribute to them doing well in school. To play sports‚ teens must maintain
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Does participation in sports keep teens out of trouble? Teens should participate in sports because it will keep them healthy and out of trouble. Not only does it keep them healthy and out of trouble but it shows them many aspects in life. Sports can also lead athletes to the use of drugs‚ alcohol and having a high stress level. Some of the benefits to participating in sports can have are‚ staying healthy and fit‚ academic success‚ and lifelong everyday skills. They will be at practice more than
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Amber M. Morgan Claudia M. Matz ENG 100-622 9/22/14 Troubles of a Teenage Boy There’s a cigarette bud next to my right foot‚ also the essence of marijuana. James‚ my brother‚ a scrawny 16-year-old Caucasian male and a group of tall‚ buff African American guys come down the driveway. James tells one of the fellas to “roll up” another one; he decides to do it in my enclosed porch. Then Amy‚ my mother‚ comes outside and asks‚ “Is that what I think it is‚ because if so you can leave my property
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Youth curfews are popular. In poll after poll‚ Americans support laws that restrict teenagers’ activities during certain hours of the day and night. Youth curfews are also logical. If youngsters are getting into trouble‚ it makes sense to get them off the streets. There’s only one problem with youth curfews: They don’t work. And we shouldn’t kid ourselves that they do. Yet that’s what we’re doing in Philadelphia‚ where Mayor Nutter recently extended a 9 p.m. curfew on Friday and Saturday nights
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Do curfews keep teens out of trouble? I personally believe that curfews will not prevent teenagers from getting into trouble. Even with a curfew teens will eventually find a way to do whatever they want. If that means skiving school‚ sneaking out or lying. Sneaking out would give teenagers that adrenaline rush which would make them feel powerful and unstoppable‚ so why wouldn’t they want to do it? Also‚ having a curfew just adds stress on a teen‚ because we will freak out about running late. Does
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comes to teens having curfews‚ it does help keep them out of trouble. Parents don’t like setting a curfew for their teens‚ but it is sometimes enforced. Curfews where set in the 19th century when America’s cities swelled with millions of unsupervised teens. Like laws mandating school attendance and banning child labor‚ the argument went‚ curfews would improve individual lives even as they protected the social order (Zimmerman). Curfews are to help protect the teens from getting in trouble with the
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In the U.S.‚ cities are debating if teens should have a curfew in order to keep them out of trouble and safe. During a person’s teenage years‚ teens often feel like no one understands them; they are trying to seek their own independence and most of the time it ends them getting into trouble. Having a curfew in place also means that kids under the age of 18 have to be under some sort of adult supervision and keeps teens of the roads at later hours. Parents tend to feel more relieved when they know
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really keep teens out of trouble‚ or do they make it worse? Parents like to give curfews for their children like "you have to get home at XX time" and "you can not go anywhere without my permission‚" etc. If they are grounded‚ they may resist it and get into trouble sometimes. In Irvine’s (2009) article‚ she cites Sanchez’s words that giving family curfews is like "putting a Band-Aid on the problem" (para. 25). You can not solve the problem your children have or prevent the trouble that may happen
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for all teens. A curfew law shouldn’t be necessary to keep teens out of trouble. Teenagers are just kids and are going to make mistakes. You can’t punish all of the teenagers in the town‚ because a few are getting in trouble. It’s unfair to kids and unfair to the parents that have trust in their kids. You don’t want to punish all of the teenagers with a curfew law‚ because it limits the teens lives. A curfew law gets teenagers home before a certain time and makes it almost impossible for teens to hold
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