kpjumps 0 #26 March 15, 2004 QuoteWe were never allowed to carry water, gum, candy, food, etc....and book bags were not allowed either. It was a big deal if you were sick and the teacher allowed you a glass of water at your desk. Why do kids need this stuff in class? We allow it in our school because study after study has shown that most Americans are under-hydrated. It has an adverse effect on the brain. Drinking during class when you are thirsty allows you to retain more of what you have learned. Also, if the kids are drinking water all day they are less likely to drink soda which is contributing to an huge weight problem among kids. In an in-service a couple of years ago we had several doctors presenting all of the research which points to multiple benefits of keeping water with you all day. It is now a distric wide policy that children are allowed water bottles. I am in a k-4 campus, but it would seem to me a simple solution for the high schools would be to only allow sealed water bottles. If a teacher finds a water bottle that has a broken seal, it is trash. Kids get all the health advantages and have remain sober all day. Gotta love my little kids...Your character will ultimately determine your destiny. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnRich 4 #27 March 15, 2004 QuoteBut come on - it is school! Go and get an education, do the rest outside. I don't see how focusing on safety for the kids and their education is going to hurt them. How about a reality check here. Because I happen to think that school kids deserve the same constutitional rights and presumptions of innocence as adults - that makes me a paranoid nut? Kids learn what we teach them, and if we teach them that they have to rights in school, they'll grow up accepting that. I think that's a bad thing to teach the future leaders of this country."Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom, it is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." - William Pitt, to the House of Commons, 18th November, 1783. "Never could any increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty." - Hilaire Belloc, English writer & M.P. (1870-1953) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 3,114 #28 March 15, 2004 >Because I happen to think that school kids deserve the same > constutitional rights and presumptions of innocence as adults . . . They absolutely do not! A child of eight claiming she can scream as much as she wants in a restaraunt because of "free speech?" A ten year old who wants an AK-47 and takes her father to court because he won't let her buy one? A twelve year old who sues her mother because her mother forces her to take antibiotics for a staph infection, and she doesn't want to? Absurd. Children do not have the same rights as adults. That's why parents have special rights over them. A parent can decide what's good for a child better than the child can, and the government has absolutely no business interfering in that relationship. Once they become adults (and you can define that however you want; generally between 16-21) the full protections of the constitution apply to them. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
