When she hit me I blacked out and we got into a serious fight. She was bleeding everywhere and the St.Petersburg, FL Police Department, covered me in mase. Next, we got took to the Juvenile Detention Center and suspended for 10 days, I was crying because I’d never gotten into any trouble or had referrals until this incident. I was afraid of loosing my scholarships and thinking of how this would impact my grades. I was able to maintain a 3.8 GPA through everything but I was put on academic probation for my scholarships.
There are many positive and negative effects to requiring uniforms and dress codes in school. One negative effect school dress codes and uniforms have on students is the fact students feel they can’t express themselves the way they feel. Many who oppose of dress codes and uniforms say they can’t get up in the morning and wear what they feel like for that day. Students feel if they want to dress down that day and wear sweatpants they should be allowed to. Sara Jane wears dresses almost every day to school.
No one from her school has ever had a offer like this. Since Akeelah has ditched some of her classes several of times her principal threatens to give her a bad punishment for the rest of the year or she can substitute the punishment by accepting the spelling bee nationals. Under the pressure of the punishment Akeelah gave in the spelling nationals. After getting the hang of the whole spelling bee Akeelah begins to get the hang of something she finally can enjoy. Akeelah is coached by a English professor Dr. Joshua Larabee.
When thinking about Zachary’s High School and all of the Stereotypes listed, the feeling of him not fitting in with anyone gives the tone a depressing, almost sad emotion. Tone plays a huge role throughout the story, but is really shown in the beginning and end; when Zachery commits suicide. Characterization comes into play in Life After High School. An example of characterization would be how “Sunny” Burhman (Barbara Burhman) got her name. “…Her teacher had said, to all the class, in one of those moments of inspiration that can alter by whim, the course of an entire life, ‘Tell you what, boys and girls- let’s call Barbara ‘Sunny’ from now on- that’s what she is” (Page 578).
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.
In 2003, Savana Redding, a thirteen year old girl, was suspected of having drugs in school. Two female school employees checked her after she was forced to strip. This left Savana traumatized, and eventually motivated her to switch schools. She also developed stomach ulcers from this experience. No one actually had valid reasons to suspect her.
School Dress Codes and Uniforms: The Best Dressed Solution Linda Robbins Grantham University “Virtually with no exception, schools have minimum dress codes in place: rules about what cannot be worn at school. Uniforms policies state explicitly what must be worn in schools. And while this is common practice in schools,” (Gereluk, 2007) the controversy is to what extent should students be allowed to show their skin and wear undergarment exposing outfits, or clothing that has offensive graphics and demoralizing pictures. It often comes up that parents are tired of going to battle with their student-children, over the issue of minimal dress of today’s fashions. As a parent of my own two teenagers, being in agreement with their choice of clothing sometimes comes to a battle stand.
In one school a 12 year old girl, a survivor of cancer who had under gone extensive chemo and radio therapy was being bullied due to the length of her hair and her height. Quite a few days of the week she would come home crying due to the rude remarks of the children around her, they called her baldy, spazz and midget. Obviously they don’t know what each of these words mean. The last thing this girl needed was to be called names because of the complications of the treatment. She now feels that she has to wear a wig.
Thousands of children go to school every day filled with fear and trepidation; other feign illness to avoid being taunted or attacked on the way to school or in the school yard, hallways, and bathrooms; still others manage to make themselves sick at school so as to avoid harassment in the locker room. Children who are bullied spend a lot of time thinking up ways to avoid the trauma and have little energy left for learning. It is not only the bullied child who suffers the consequences of bullying. Many children who bully continue these learned behaviors into adulthood and are at increased risk of bullying their own children, failing at interpersonal relationships, losing jobs, and ending up in jail. Bystanders are also affected by bullying.
There are different types of bullying of which bullying statistics reveal almost half of all students have experienced. 35% of kids have been threatened online and six out of ten teenagers say they witness bullying in school every day. 75% of school shooting incidents have been linked to bullying and harassment. Verbal bullying is the most common type of bullying, with about 77 percent of all students being verbally bullied in some way including mental bullying or verbal abuse. 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.