good food. In fact‚ today two- thirds of adults and nearly one- third of children struggle with obesity. There are many causes of obesity‚ including overeating‚ lack of physical activity‚ and genetics. There are also many health issues caused by obesity. The effects are depression‚ eating disorders‚ and death. For these reasons‚ the government needs to address this serious health concern. One solution to do so is raise Junk- Food taxes. Junk- Food taxes will encourage healthy eating in schools‚ consumers
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Should: One of the chief benefits of school uniforms‚ say proponents‚ is that they make schools safer. Uniforms are said to reduce gang influence‚ minimize violence by reducing some sources of conflict‚ and help to identify trespassers. Parents benefit because they are no longer pressured to buy the latest fashions‚ and they spend less on their children’s clothing. Having a uniform stops gang members from displaying their colors and garb. The schools also believe it helps stop violence and helps
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free speech. In a school setting‚ there are certain parameters that one must stay within and because of this; there are positives and negatives of freedom of speech. Strike and Soltis (2009) reference the NEA Code saying that teachers “Shall not unreasonably restrain the student from independent action in the pursuit of learning” (p. 38). This could broadly be interpreted as teachers may not censor students. There are many different ways that censorship could happen in a school setting. Students
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Driving to school has been tough because most kids at my school dont know how to properly drive within the lines and park straight‚ so dodging a bunch of reckless rednecks in trucks and preppy girls in smart cars is a struggle. It’s not getting to school that’s the problem for me it’s the leaving at the end of the day with the other 1‚700 kids that drive. Our school population is about 2‚400 something and the more kids that decided to try for a parking permit is only making traffic worse. One evening
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Uniforms in schools won’t make things better‚ it does not improve school safety or academic discipline. It violate a student’s right to express themselves and freedom. It’s also a problem for families that don’t have good finances‚ because the uniforms are expensive than regular clothes. It’s also harder for a school to enforce the rule of students having to wear only the school uniforms. Uniform suppresses individualism and treats students’ en masse rather than encouraging teachers to recognize
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driven to an unfamiliar school many kilometers away? What would it be like to live in a strange dorm where you cannot speak your language or follow your religion? Why would these peculiar people drag you here and abuse you? 150‚000 Indigenous people have experienced that torture and shame‚ which has then continued into many other issues for many of those people; such as depression‚ alcoholism‚ drug addiction‚ lower socioeconomic status on average‚ and suicide. Residential schools powerfully damaged Aboriginal
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Beating our Junk Food Generation with Tips from a Local Expert An insight into how we can provide healthy food choices for our kids but while keeping it fun! By Claire Whittleston March 8‚ 2011 “I don’t want Brussels sprouts‚ Mommy! Can I have a cookie with ice cream on top?”Sound familiar? It’s frightful to say‚ but we are living in a junk food generation and many of our children don’t eat enough of their fruits and vegetables. Over the past three decades‚ childhood obesity rates in America
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biggest debates in the world ever known for today is the restriction on gun control and weather or not government and Obama should take away gun control or leave it alone. Just since 2013‚ there have been over 143 school shootings in the United States. Just in 2015‚ there has been over 45 school shootings in the United States. In some states‚ new laws have been added stating that if you’re going to buy a gun‚ you will need a background check. They do this for the safety of other people but not only that;
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Junk food is not healthy and excessive is good. If kids keep eating junk food then they will get fat. They will keep eating junk food and spend all of their money on junk food. They will end up living alone because no one wants to live with a fat‚ lazy‚ money-spending junk food eater for the rest of their lives. Even though it sounds really mean‚ it is most likely true. Junkfood should be banned from school canteens. If young kids eat too many fattish/sugary foods‚ they could fall ill and possible
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The Ugly Side of Vending Machines in Schools “The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk” cautioned Tom Vilsack‚ a United States Agriculture Secretary (2010‚ pg. 1). The majority of vending machines in schools today have little or no nutritional value which is believed to contribute to childhood obesity. America has been labeled as an “obese nation”. Those labels can easily change if schools start making the right decisions as to what they put in their
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