Did you know that it takes about 1 hour for 3 people to scrape gum in 1 classroom? Well, there are 3 reasons this gum policy: costly gum removal, parents complain about gum on their children’s shoes, clothes, and hair and the parents are not happy about the cleaning bills. There was a questionnaire given to one class in grades 5-8 and 3 of the questions were: how often do you chew gum at school, how do you discard your used gum, and why do you think students put gum under chairs and desks? Do I agree with this ban? No, I don’t agree with this policy because there was never a time when gum was allowed at school so the ban is based on guesswork. The guesswork was that if gum was allowed, kids would put it on desks and chairs.
The way we started to investigate this problem was to distribute a type of census to one class in every grade, from 5th grade to 8th grade. One of the queries was “How do you discard your used gum?” The options were: in the trash, on a chair, on a desk, on someone else, in a textbook, or in a napkin. In 5th grade 84% said in the trash, 5% said on a...
Why do you think gum should be chewed in school ? Reasons why i think gum should be chewed in class is because it can help students in class. Gum can improve student's memory and help them concentrate more.Why gum should be allowed to chew in school/classes.
The definition of grit is simple; it means being passionate about long term goals, and showing stamina to pursue them, but should students in public schools have a class dedicated to a grit-focused curriculum? This has become a major topic of discussion among teachers and mentors. Angela Duckworth, a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, claims grit is not a fixed quality but one that can be developed. Many disagree with her statement. Grit is something everyone all have within themselves, but some just do not utilize this characteristic as often or as well as others. Grit is a puzzling concept. Duckworth has had an obsession with grit for over a decade. Her obsession started when she visited West Point,
Have you ever felt stuck? Wherever you are, it’s the absolute last place you want to be. In the book Into the Wild, Chris McCandless feels stuck just like the average everyday person may feel. Chris finds his escape plan to the situation and feels he will free himself by going off to the wild. I agree with the author that Chris McCandless wasn’t a crazy person, a sociopath, or an outcast because he got along with many people very well, but he did seem somewhat incompetent, even though he survived for quite some time.
This shows why gum is not good for schools because it takes people extremely long to scrape gum off of furniture. All it does is make the school spend more tax dollars on scraping
Smack, smack, POP! “Put that gum away!” the teacher screamed. That is not what should be happening in schools. In many schools you will get a detention or get in big trouble for chewing gum in class but isn’t it ironic that colleges allow gum when your elementary, middle, and high schools don’t allow it? Gum is supposed to be helpful and should be allowed in schools because it helps you with your memory, it’s good for helping you pay attention, and it improves your test performance/scores.
One reason why gum should be allowed in school is that it can help students mentally. Studies has shown that chewing gum can combat stress and anxiety because they could reduce stress hormones. Also, it helps students to be more alerted and they also have swifter reaction time. These traits can benefit students when students have to take standardized tests such as the horrendous, nefarious SAT and the daunting, deadly PSSA. So, in order for better performing students
I am a tenth grader in the Universal American School of Kuwait. Would you like your students to get higher grades, enjoy school more, and get out of trouble? What I would like to reach to is that you should change one rule, which is "no chewing gum" to make it okay for us to chew gum in class. As I see that some of the reasons we aren't allowed to chew gum is because some students stick it on the wall, chairs, and in the table. Although it is disgusting, we really want to chew gum. Therefore, i highly recommend you to make us chew gum in school. so please allow us to chew gum because it allows us to concentrate more.
The thing I dislike the most about chewing gum is where people leave it, on the bus, under tables and on the floor. It’s disgusting! Have you ever accidentally stepped on a piece of chewing gum just walking down the street? It gets stuck to your foot all day, you try and scrape it off, but it just isn’t budging. You then have to resort to using your fingers to pick off somebody else’s revolting ball of goo. People try and stick chewing gum where ever they can. What’s wrong with a bin? I was in class the other day and my knees touched the underside of the desk. I felt something squidgy touch knee (it was repulsive). Its not exactly hard to put something so small into a bin.
In the world stereotypes and racism are scattered around and hurt many people. Some of the stereotypes people place with Indians deal with storytelling and magic, in which most of those ideas are wrong. Alexie states “Everybody thinks we have magical, spiritual powers” (Alexie), but they really don’t have any of the magical powers people claim they have. Storytelling is also a topic subject to criticism. Storytellers “read” from memories, experiences, and stories that were passed down from generations. Storytelling was also not just about amusing other people, but earning what the storyteller wanted. If they didn’t stand by the fire they wouldn’t eat. Storytelling is actually a job to Native Americans not a spiritual or magical thing. (Big Think)
As a human population, food or food additives are generally recognized as truly safe (agreement from the majority of society) when the long-term exposure to an ingredient has not been shown to cause adverse side effects. This is the case because human clinical trials are nearly impossible and these long-term observational studies are the best representation of correlation that can be established. However, this methodology tends to provoke skepticism when a novel food such as a meat replacement is invented, resulting in an ethical challenge for food companies and food regulatory agencies. If a completely novel meat replace like Quorn was invented today there are a few attributes of this product that I would, personally, want to know such as,
As Americans, we are privileged to many luxuries. Not every country allows its citizens to start their own businesses or provides the education it takes to run a company. Our free market system allows for many different goods and services to compete fairly for people’s dollars. The freedom given to us by our forefathers grants the opportunity to choose between these goods and services. Put all these realities together and it’s no wonder we have so many different forms of products. A relatively recent phenomenon that has subsequently emerged in our society is the prevalence of disposable products. Because of their convenience, efficiency, and relatively low cost, disposable products have become the choice over their reusable forms for many consumers. Everyday activities such as grooming, cleaning, eating, and child care are where most disposable products enter our lives. It is possible for one individual to use dozens of disposable products daily, from blowing noses to changing a child’s diaper. Considering the amount of disposable goods being bought and discarded after one use, problems have inevitably arisen. The most obvious and tangible problem is environmental damage. Other consequences include declining values of family, relationships, and human life. Thus, the disposable phenomenon is worth studying and researching not only because it plays a large part in nearly everyone’s life but because the problems that arise from it could be pinpointed and possibly solved.
The Game of Power Introduction: This piece discusses the relevance of power in comparative as well as absolutist terms. One thing I have found is, the word “power,” contains specific connotations to most people. They hear the word “power” and it conjures up an image of absolutist, concentrated power. A king, judge, dictator or some other esteemed or highly influential individual. However, these roles are merely the symbolic embodiments of a concentration of power, saturated power.
Everyone has a sport or a hobby that they compete in for fun or for competition. It seems easy although nobody ever looks past people’s achievements. These individuals didn’t just start something they love by being the best, they worked for it. One of the sports in which there is a heavy workload but a great payoff is running. Running started in the ancient times in Greece to please the great god Zeus.
Teachers might want to think twice about posting no gum-chewing signs in the classroom, because kid’s minds may wander more. In my opinion when a teacher catches a student chewing gum they shouldn’t get so mad, maybe that’s how they can have a more interested
“What Would Happen If People Didn’t Recycle?” The Online Gargoyle. Friday 1 July 2011. University of Illinois Board of Trustees. March 21,2014. http://uni.illinois.edu/og/opinions/2011/07/what-would-happen-if-people-didn-