Deadly Shooting

"Do we have the courage to stop this?" Said Nicholas D. Kristof atfer the deadly shooting in connecticut at sandy hooks elementary school.

  Why America don't take guns seriously like drinking under 21 or under age driving. It's easy to buy a gun then buy a car.
"children ages 5 to 14 in America are 13 times as likely to be murdered with guns as children in other industrialized countries" qouted by Nicholas.

The United States not trying to ban guns. But trying to decrese the numbers shooting in a America. Studies believed that is should be hard to buy a gun just like trying to take a drivers test. And students should be protected in school by school codes and safty cameras , the lunch food should be tested for safty and bus drivers should have and pass to get in the school. and vistors  must be checked before they enter the school.
Shooting is unnecessary its always a better way to haddle things.

This article remind me of the the movie theater massacre in Calorado jully,20 killing 12 people at midnight while the people was watching the last movie of the dark knight. Thinking thats he was the joker.

The article make me think about how u can't be safe any where you go now.
always be catious of where you at and what you doing and who you with
So the question is do they have the courage to stop this?

16-year-old driving

should you let your 16-year-old drive? "Researches for the Institute for highway Safety say the answer is no, and they point to statistics to back up the position that raising the driving age makes sense and would save lives."

15-year-old Linnea Greci says " she sees the issue a little differntly.

President Adrian Lund is going to push it futher. Althought Lund Doesn't expect to lobby state legislatures, he said monday he will advocate for a higher minimum driving age in his speech Tuesday. He what to raise driving ages, because every time you turn around a 16-year-old getting in a car crash.

"I dont think it matters what age you are" sophomore at the Hinsdale Central High School said Monday before hitting the road for her driver's education class, "as long as you have the practice and experience."

Studies said "but 'we're still losing a lot of teens on the road each year, ' Lund said. Motor vehicle crashes kill more than 5,ooo teenagers every year.

Studies alsoblieved that  "In a prepared statement for release Tuesday, the institute contends research shows "that licensing at later ages would substantially reduce crashes involving teen drivers."

"This is kind of the next logical step,' he said of the insurance institute's push to raise the minimum age. ' ages would substantially reduce crashes involving teen drivers."

"In New Jersey, the only state with a minimum driver's license age of 17."' "The report cited a study from 1992-96 in which the rate of crash-related deathes among 16-and-17-year-olds was 18 per 100,000nin New Jersey, compared with 26 per 100,000 in New Jersey,"
 Studies also believed that " the report also showed that the New Jersey fatality rate fell significantly for teens after a graduated licensing law was enacted.

I believed that it dont matter what age you are, if you know how to drive you should be able to drive. It all goes by the way how you drive and not your age. And also how mature your all.

Children poppin pills

Elementary students popping pills to keep there focus on task. Dr. Michael Anderson discovered  that the low income patients having a hard time in elementary school with their attention  spans.

The pills is for children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Dr.Anderson is  pediatrician for many poor families in Cherokee County, north of Atlanta. He decided that the society is to expensive to change the kid's environment. So we have to change the kid.


Dr.Anderson is outspoken of this idea its gaining intrest among some physicians. They prescribing stimulants to struggling students in schools that need extra money. Its not to treat A.D.H.D but to boost their academic scores.studies say wealthy students abuse stimulants to raise there good grades that they have already,high schools and colleges.

honestly i think this crazy because children shouldnt be taking pills just so they can stay focus in class. And children that have A.D.H.D and cant afford the medication.

This all remind me of when I use to take nigh quil to so i can sleep through the night. If this going on in high schools why are the teachers letting this happen????

CHEATING

cheating

In the last year studies discovered that more and more students cheat everyday. some of the best top schools of America such as John Hall University and military Academy high. In the top universities plagiarism is  extremely a serious problem. almost all the students in America  today cheat.


researchers believed that cheating have to to do with today's uses of the Internet what makes people lives easier, by printing or copying  other people essay's from offline  and putting there name on the top of the paper. Some students don't want to to cheat. they re lie on other peoples answers because they believed when they look on other peoples papers they've get the answers right, also students fail to see their own actions to fail. 56% of the students in majority schools cheats their way out of school.


Experts says the reason why students cheating rate is so high is because the the teachers put more pressure on the students today.

I think cheating is over rated these , if students take their time and study like they should their would be know  need to  be cheating. I blame the both teachers and parent for letting their child cheat, and giving them advice to not to cheat.

This article makes me wonder if majority of America cheat they way out is their anybody out there that never cheated before on a test. if so i would like too meet that person and interview them and ask how was your experience without cheating.