Year-round schooling is not effective and unworthy our time. Kids who are in the year-round schooling systems are slowly losing opportunities to be themselves. Likewise the students are being put in positions to fail and become less healthy. Although some may still believe that a year-round school calendar could benefit the majority of students, keeping the traditional summer calendar has many benefits including allowing time for families to plan vacations, decreasing the physical strain put on the
Year-round education Its mid June and students are anxious and have been long waiting for summer break. After about 10 months of hard work students should have the next 2 months to themselves. Over 3,000 schools in the country have made the switch to this new schedule. But is it really the right change? No, Schools should not change to this new schedule. With this change comes a rise in cost, difficult situations, stress and many other complications that would not be present with the traditional
this break. The long 3 month break that a student gets in school to relax, go on vacations, and to be as lazy as they want to be. This is known as Summer Vacation. But as good as Summer Vacation is, how would you like the opportunity to have more frequent breaks and improve school academics? This is all possible with switching our school calendars from an agricultural calendar to a balanced calendar. Schools should switch to a balanced school calendar because there is no longer a need for an agricultural
is one of the leading cause of deaths in the U.S. Food companies see it in their best interest to genetically modify food, but fail to realize there are causing harm to human health and the environment. There needs to be a
that students are carrying more than just textbooks and pens in their backpacks is not uplifting. The debate of whether gun control should be banned is a controversial debate that has been going on for years in the United States. Would guns make a situation better or worse? Is the answer to no violence, more violence? Guns will only make matters worse. It is like adding more fuel to the fire. Legalizing guns is not a smart idea, let alone allowing it to be carried on school grounds. To ensure the safety
children must have vaccinations to attend public school. However, if these
States a safer home for its citizens? Due to random shootings and gun related massacres that have occurred in public places such as schools, many people believe so (Richman). Although this is a major problem that needs to be dealt with, artilleries are commonly used by law-abiding citizens just as much as felons. In fact, there are about 100,000 defensive gun uses every year (Huemer 47). Many people refer to the Second Amendment when arguing about gun control laws including radio host, Lars Larson, who
The My Lai Massacre is a prime example of America’s actions in an attempt to preserve their image, but this genocide also indepthly grasps the concept of the transitional period from war to sadism. The 23rd Infantry Division of the Charlie Company under the command of Lieutenant William Calley Jr. committed this heinous massacre, in sum murdering around 500 unarmed civilians. The victims included men, women, children, elderly ... no one was spared. According to Dr. O’Connell, a sociology professor
United States of America the shooters got their guns illegally, of the 139 guns possessed by the killers, more than three quarters were obtained legally (Mother Jones 2012). Times have changed and so should our gun laws. The federal government should ban all personal guns in order to reduce gun-related deaths, as we have a strong military system to defend us, and other countries have an example of why banned personal guns are effective. Guns are a huge percentage of leading deaths in United States. If