Chewing Gum In School

I've been researching about why schools don’t allow students to chew gum and why students should be able to. A lot of schools, all around the world don’t allow chewing gum in school.

Schools don’t allow chewing gum because a lot of teachers think that it’s terrible for public speaking ( which is kind of true ), it’s distracting, and because it probably not the best thing for your teeth. Even though some of those reasons are true that doesn’t mean that there's not much good things about it, in fact there's a lot of good things about it.

According to Fox news chewing gum may boost teens academic performance. A team led by Craig Johnston at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston found that students who chewed gum during math class had higher