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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Year-Round School In America‚ most children spend all year wishing that it was summer‚ so that they do not have to be in school. They could probably never imagine not having those three months to do as they please. Would they be able to survive without it? As it turns out‚ two million of the nation’s children already do. An extended year-round school calendar would immensely improve the problem areas in the education system‚ including summer learning loss‚ the wide range of academic capabilities
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Drug Testing in Schools Normal everyday school: suffocating smoke coming from the restroom‚ trading money for “goods” at lunch‚ and popping pills before fourth block. There are illegal drugs present in most schools‚ readily available to students. A drug test will test for any illicit drugs a student might have taken. There can be random or mandatory testing in schools if a policy is adopted. Unfortunately‚ most schools do not have a drug testing policy. More drug testing in schools would diminish
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Uniforms 1 Implementing A School Uniform Policy: Eliminate the Distractions & Improve Education Michelle R. Bennett Educational Psychology - 301 Dr. Judy Stechly Uniforms 2 Thesis: Requiring school uniforms in the public school system would eliminate violence‚ lower the clothing expense for parents and lead the way for higher education. Introduction: The requirement of school uniforms would improve the over-all education experience for students. Do you concentrate better with
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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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Advanced Driving Schools step in here‚ to help us in avoiding possible accidents and imparting that extra bit of driving skills. Advanced Driving courses can be taken at any time. Beginners and experienced drivers can enroll in an Advanced Driving School. Schools such as Advanced Driving and Security (ADSI)‚ White Mountain Chapter‚ Alberta Advanced Driving School‚ Advanced Drivers of America‚ Inc. (ADA)‚ Accent Driving School in Ontario‚ and Maxwell’s Advanced Driving Schools‚ Inc offer Advanced
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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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said I had to move schools. I would have never thought this would ever happen‚ but my parents just decided to move where it was halfway from work both ways‚ so they decided Royalton. Moving to Royalton was very scary‚ but also a great‚ fun change. It was scary being the new kid‚ but I worked my way around it. There was a bunch of different changes I went through. I also had a very fun time living at royalton since fourth grade and to graduating. It was the middle of the school year after Easter break
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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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School dress codes are used for the purpose of equality and the opportunity for higher learning. There is a belief that what students wear can affect and distract others from acquiring the education they come to school for. While some clothing articles may seem disruptive in a classroom environment it is taking away the personal identity of students. Not being able to wear things that have been seen as inappropriate for school has left students striped of their individuality‚ feeling discriminated
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