Abstinence is not the key to sexual education. The facts are most children are already experimenting and trying new things all the time: “By the age of 19, 70% of teens have engaged in sexual intercourse at least once” (Crary). It has been proven that abstinence does not and will never work; “The United States leads the world in teen pregnancy rates. Compared to France, the US numbers are more than tripled” (Jackson). The reason the United States is leading in teen pregnancy rates is because of the abstinence only program taught in schools.
In a USA Today Sarah M. Coyne, an assistant professor at Brigham Young University, was quoted in a news article saying, "As a society we've gotten pretty lax concerning profanity. We're desensitized to it.” More specifically, kids are desensitized to using homophobic slurs. The problem is everywhere, including at Downers Grove South high school (DGS). Many teachers and students at DGS claimed they hear homophobic slurs multiple times a week, if not multiple times a day. According to the Gay and Lesbian Education Network (GLSEN) Over half of all students have reported hearing homophobic remarks often at school.
A recent article states that about 77% of students have admitted to being the victim of a bully. The American Justice Department bullying statistics show that one out of every four kids will be bullied at some time by their adolescence (Bullying Statistics, 2013). One of the most unfortunate parts of these school bullying statistics is that in about 85% of bullying cases, no intervention or effort is made by a teacher or faculty member of the school to stop the bullying from taking place (Bullying Statistics, 2013). The consequences of bullying are numerous. Children are facing physical and emotional damage.
And while she said she's "counting the days until graduation," she doesn't plan to leave high school without fighting back. She and her mother are preparing a lawsuit against her bullies and their parents. "I think parents can do their part by raising children who understand that there are all different kinds of people and it is in no way acceptable to bully any kind of person for any reason," the resilient student told CBS2. According to figures from the National Center of Education Statistics, almost one-third of students report being bullied in school. A new study from the Justice Policy Center's Urban Institute found that 17 percent of youths had been cyberbullied in the past year.
Much to the chagrin of my teens, I will be voting in favor of uniforms, or the strictest dress code policy options available. This essay was written to analyze some of the pros and cons of uniforms or standardized dress code for students and to view some of the issues educators are addressing in the educational environment concerning dress codes. School board members and educators are trying to use policies of standardized dress code or uniforms to solve some of the toughest issues in schools today. By eliminating the clothing factors that lead to false overtures of insults to gang activities, bullying, singling out of individuals, high rates of academic low grades and failures and absenteeism. Although, today’s pop
While some argue that this action is a violation of student privacy rights, others feel that drug testing will help students make positive and healthy decisions in their everyday lives outside of school. For those students who test positive on any of their drug test, they are kicked off their sport or club for the remainder of the season. Though with approximately the cost of fourty to sixty dollars per hair sample drug tests, the schools cannot afford to test everyone. All students not participating in any sport or extracurricular activity of any kind are excluded from this process, and still then Lake Zurich Community School District only tests fifteen of those students a year. Whether this process is effective or not, many parents and students concern that this action is a violation of student privacy rights and that will draw attention to other students and athletes that people see as "leaders of the school".
Positive relationships between students and teachers, children and parents, and peers-to-peers are crucial to strength, self-esteem, and wellbeing. The relationship between a student and a teacher can greatly effect the way children deal with peer pressure. The benefits of having a role model are clear; however often times teachers are not able to connect on a personal level where they can be of help. Neil Miller, an experienced observer of gay/lesbian studies wrote the essay “Gay Teachers, Gay Students,” which gives a look at why it is important for authority figures to be honest: “Openly gay and lesbian faculty offer a variety of responses as to why it is important for teachers to come out in school: to provide role models to both gay and straight students” (238). Although this issue does not center in substance abuse, it is another taboo subject that should be taken into account and its principles directly applied.
I am an eighth grade student at Sandcreek Middle School. I would like to inform you of the fact that members of the LGBTQ+ ( lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, etc.) community are constantly being discriminated at your school, so I, and many other students at this school, would like you to help stop it. To start, one issue is the slurs that have been going around this school that are constantly to objectify those in the LGBTQ+, and it has become quite a problem. Walking around Sandcreek Middle School I often hear students saying phrases such as “That’s gay” referring to it as if it were another word for stupid, or calling each other “queer” and “faggot” as a way to address their friends.
These types of bullying can also include spreading rumors, yelling obscenities or other derogatory terms based on an individual's race, gender, sexual orientation and religion. Nearly nine out of ten youth reported being verbally harassed at school in the past year due to their sexual orientation. It is estimated that 160,000 children miss school every day due to fear of attack or intimidation by other students. One of every ten students who drop out of school do so because of repeated bullying. Bullying is associated with serious health concerns.
Multicultural Counseling Beyond the Relationship: Expanding the Repertoire With Techniques This article from the Journal of Counseling and Development outlined some characteristics of the immigrant student population that counselors from the dominant group need to remember: culturally and linguistically diverse students may fear authority, school staff, hospitals, counselors and social workers. This fear could complicate the efforts of the school counselor to support them in achieving academic success. Multicultural counseling and awareness is a necessity for school counselors as the population of documented and undocumented immigrants in the United States of America has surpassed 38.2 million (Hanna & Cardona, 2013). This will have a great impact on the school population in many United States school