Persuasive Essay About Drowning In Schools

The function of the education system is to improve students education and prepare them for the real world. Students within that system should receive an “A” when they have mastered the information they are being taught. However, grades no longer accurately reflect how much students have learned. Since 1998 teachers have handed out more A-grades while the average SAT scores have actually fallen. In fact, as Greg Toppo states, an author for USA Today, the amount of A’s handed out actually went up close to ten percent (4). Students can manipulate their courses so that they can get good grades without actually learning much of anything. With grades not accurately representing what students have learned and charter schools failing to solve problehms, teachers need to change how they structure their class or grade assignments.

A little boy jumped into the townpool with no lifejacket on. The lifeguard suddenly jumped right into the water. The little boy was in the deep end of the water that was twelve feet. The lifeguard dove in and grabbed the boy out of the water in seconds. The little boy was alive. He knew how to hold his breath but not swim. The lifeguard was a hero and saved him. Otherwise, the boy would have died. It is clear that people should have the right to have rescue services rescue them when they put themselves at risk. This is a controversial topic because there are many arguable opinions about this. Others believe, rescue services shouldn’t go out and rescue them. For example if you’re trying to rescue two people you are risking three lives. More

Kids should be safe in schools. Recently, people have taken their anger out on kids in school. This causes kids to not be safe in schools. This is usually unexpected. People are hurting innocent kids because they have their own anger. We need to add an metal detector for all of all of the schools around the world an they need guards in the schools that they will help kids in the school that they need help from bad people in the world.

“As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands- one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” – Audrey Hepburn.

For an entire week, I put my efforts towards conserving as much water as I could. Saving water could include a variety of activities, however, I specifically chose to focus on a few in order to not overwhelm myself, as the act of water conservation can take many forms. The first activity I chose was to refrain from washing clothes for an entire calendar week. The second activity I chose was to take less showers throughout the week. Both of these ideas together, I thought, made up most of my usage of water on a daily basis. Since the majority of my water usage could be boiled down to washing clothes and taking showers, cutting back on these two activities specifically has netted the most benefit in respect to sustainability. The main motivation behind choosing to save water came in the form of my observation of people wasting bottled water in large amounts. I don’t purchase bottled water for this reason, however, for this sustainability initiative, I wanted to see how far I could push the act of conserving water, since I already had been through small instances for years.

Everyday children under the age of 18 are maltreated. One out of eight children throughout the U.S suffers from either physical, emotional, or sexual abuse. Unfortunately, emotional abuse is not even considered a maltreatment when people think of child abuse. When people think of child abuse the first thing they think about is physical or sexual. Now do not get me wrong, any abuse a child receives is a horrible inhuman like thing because every child is innocent and deserves to live the best life they possibly can live. Although, if we are being quite honest with ourselves nobody really notices this happens until it is mentioned later on when the child gets older. Which I do not blame anyone for because a child does not recall if something is good or bad until they have the ability to be aware of their environment.This is due to the fact that child abuse can start occurring at such an early age. This happens most during the development stage of the child because when a child is young it starts to absorb everything it sees and hears based on their surroundings. Basically, when they start noticing the difference from good or bad. The problem in this situation is that there is a high percentage rate of the youth who are diagnosed with mental disorders and are not being helped properly because most of the time the adults around them do not know how to help. The solution to this problem is simple, we should bring awareness to the main people in the child's life: their

It’s August 21s,t 2015 a week before school starts. We were at the Wisconsin Dells for the end of summer trip. It all started with Will, putting His feet in the ice cold water that feels like it belongs at the bottom of the Atlantic ocean. Will, plumped down on the tub that feels like a bean bag holding itself up he explained. Only if he knew to hang on tight, Will was pushed down the slide (In the tube of course) by the employee that sent me flying down the slide like he was soaring in the sky like a bird. On a sharp turn my tub flipped and Will, landed on his stomach hitting the plastic that’s sticking out of the bottom of the sliding feeling like small needles puncturing my stomach he explained. Will came soaring out the end of the tube to only be told he had to stay on the tube next time or Will would be kicked out of the water park for the employee's accident, Will tried to explain his story but they didn’t believe it. What if Will or any other kid was soaring down the slide and hit their head on the side of the slide going down at 30-40 miles an hour? It can be a tragic accident leading to Brain Damage, Concussions or even Death.Water slides should get more precautions for safety reasons.

People in Life or Death Situations should not be held accountable for their action. They are obviously going to want to be alive and happy, and not die or live in misery, so they would most likely do whatever it takes to survive. Whoever made the decisions weren’t fully thinking it through because we all develop mentally at a different age for childrens and adults. People who are in life or death situations don’t put themselves in that positions purposely to where they know they can die. In situations like these, everyone feels stress to the point where they have no other option until it is too late when they make their final choice. No matter the circumstances, most people would try to do what is right in a “Life or Death” situation for everyone.

The one thing humans need on this planet to survive is water. If we need water to survive, then why are polluting it? Most of our nation’s waterways are in terrible condition because of the pollution in the water. Water pollution not only can cause illnesses, but also deaths for humans. Humans aren’t the only thing that water pollution causes harm to. It is also hurting our ecosystem. Humans are the leading cause of most water pollution. We keep throwing wastes into the water making the water unsafe for humans to drink. Scientists are coming up with ways for humans to decrease the amount of wastes they are putting in the water. We need to stop polluting the one thing that keeps us alive.

It was a warm summer afternoon in 2015 near Glenwood Springs, Colorado. My family decided we needed to get some exercise on our vacation. So my parents thought it would be a fantastic idea to go on a hike. We ended up going to a popular trail called, the Hanging Lake Trail. At the top of the mountain there are beautiful waterfalls and a large lake with extremely eye appealing scenery, hence the name “Hanging Lake”. Cayden and I were not excited for this activity at all. Both of us were complaining and saying the same exact thing, “It is vacation and we are doing physical activity? No! We should be relaxing.” My parents did not care what we were saying; however, They had their minds set on the fact that we were going to go on a hike.

Pollution has had a shocking impact in the atmosphere for including many irreparable damages to ocean life, serious health issues to human beings, and negative changes to the environment. Pollution is a man-made global dilemma which is increasing to a serious magnitude. Human beings, the number one culprit, seem to be blind to this matter. Humans’ inability to clearly see the problem they are creating, will be one of the causes for the world to be no more.

Lessons save lives: Research shows that taking formal swimming lessons reduces the risk of drowning among children age 1 to 4 years old by 88 percent. The ISR lessons Janna teaches are focused on teaching children 6 months old to 6 years old how to self-rescue in the water. “ISR is a drowning-prevention program that teaches survival swimming,” Janna says. In ISR lessons, children age 6 months old to 12 months old learn the “roll-back-to-float” sequence, entering the water face first and then rolling onto their backs where they float and breathe. Older children learn the “swim-float-swim” sequence, rotating from floating on their backs to getting air and swimming until they reach the safety of pool steps or a shoreline. Janna says the advantage of ISR lessons is that they “dramatically improve its students' skills and confidence in the water.” ISR has instructors nationwide, but Janna says if you can’t find a certified instructor in your area, traditional swim lessons are the next best bet—so long as they reinforce a horizontal position in the water and don’t rely on flotation devices as a teaching

Being a first time parent can be rough,especially if you have no one there to help guide you through it. That is why classes should be recommended to first time parents and or guardians. They should learn cpr, first aid, and how to prevent fatal accidents, and what types of parent or guardians should take these classes.

It’s the twelfth time in two weeks you’re walking through sets of automatic doors to visit a loved one in Hospice care. The sounds of beeping machines that are keeping patients alive overtakes the silent, dim hallways. You feel nothing but your heart ache waiting for a magical remedy to keep your close one alive. You’re visiting your uncle with stage 4 pancreatic cancer, whose lifeless and can barely get out of bed because he’s tangled in cords attached to the machines. Its starting to hit you when all you see is a colorless figure that screams “kill me” every day. So why is this acceptable to modern day society? Assisted Suicide should be considered when dealing with the patient’s morals, cultural aspects, and the economy.

(2007), reported the main risk factors for childhood drowning, was lack of barriers between dam and children, improper installation of fences around swimming pools. Moreover, there should be constant vigilance of parents and caregivers and they should be educated via various educational programs in order to spread awareness among the risk factors involved in child drowning in swimming pools (Yang, 2007). Kenneth et.al. (1995), reported that if a child is given water safety training during swimming, there are less chances for them to get drowned. A water safety training program is being implemented and was designed for school age children and three set of skills was targeted, deck behavior, how well one can do swimming and water safety skills. Children’s Hospital and Medical Center director gave about 10% of lessons to children and their parents. Positive results and improvements were seen in water recovery skills of children after eight lessons and were associated with swimming ability of the children (Kenneth et. al,