Not Enough Money, But We Can Afford That?

So a few weeks ago, one of the teachers at my school was telling us that we are not aloud to go down to the cliffs because the school is responsible for the students. The Cliffs is this make-out hang-out place, so I've heard. Anyway, she also said that she hired someone to walk around and within the school's perimeter to make sure no one goes down there. So a few kids were a little iffy with this decision but they got over it.

Just recently, something happened to one of the computers. Since we only have about ten monitors and about twenty-four students per advisory, it's important that the computes don't freeze or continuously shut down. So, the teachers were telling us that our school cannot afford to replace the computers. Then they went in a completely different direction saying that since most of the kids don't help with the fund raisers, we don't go on field trips.

In my opinion, the school shouldn't be able to use the funding to get a guard if we can't even afford new supplies for the school. Almost everything at the school is either worn down or damaged from over the years and they won't even replace them. If we can afford a guard then we should be able to afford to replace at least a few of the books and supplies that will help us in school. They should stop talking to us about financial problems and look at what they're spending money on. It's ridiculous. If needed, the student body will help out with fund raisers but they are really out-dated. No one wants some kids coming to their door wanting to sell them something that they will probably never use. What we should have is like a street fair or something like that in the parking lot of the school. We would have more of a chance selling stuff like that than going door to door. Or we could have like a kids day and family and friends could pay like a fee of $3 per child and about 25 cents per game they play. Each kid will have a card and each game that they play, they will get the card stamped. When their whole card is filled out, they could turn it in to one of the teachers and they could get a small prize or something to know to let them know that they helped the school. It's not right how they can spend the funding and the student body is responsible for replacing it. The students aren't factory workers, we are students and we are their to learn, not work to make money so the school can pay the guard, so to speak.

That's all I have to say, so I'm done.

The Heart-Wrenching Project

Well, I will just dive head first into this one. I go to a school where you get to choose the projects you do, so for health I decided to do a project on ADHD because it went along with another one of the projects I was doing at the time. I thought that if I did two projects 'in the same neighborhood', i would do the projects in half the time, and I did. When I finished my first project, which was on Indigo Children, I started on my second one, ADHD.

Throughout my research, I was shock at some of the things that happen to a child with ADHD. One of the books that made me speechless was ‘How To Reach And Teach Children with ADD/ADHD: Practical Techniques, Strategies, and Interventions’ by Sandra F. Rief M.A. I was completely fine reading the cover of the book until I saw the word ‘interventions’. I was very upset with this but not as upset as I was that parents would read this book and listen and follow what was written. The rest of my research wasn’t much better, but slowly, I made it through this heart-wrenching project. One of the horrid things was the misdiagnosis and the fact that the parents and doctors hadn’t looked into it that much and gave them prescription for who knows how long and who knows what damaged could have been caused. All in all, I would have to say this was one of the most eye-opening and upsetting projects that I have ever done and I wished that the information was different. I’m not one of those people that have a problem with the truth but just the way the health system works and the way some parents think just shocks me.

In my opinion, I think parents could, scratch that, should look into what their child could have instead of sending them to the doctor and possibly putting them on prescription that they will probably never need in the rest of their lives. The prescription could cause something much worse than what the intent of the medicine was for in the first place. How about considering all of the possibilities first? Maybe the child is gifted, or has a few phobias. Oh, here's a crazy idea i just thought of, maybe it's just a regular, plain, laid back, kid. But no. That couldn't be it. The poor kid has to be exposed for something that they DON'T EVEN HAVE. Parents like this sicken me.

That's my opinion and I'm done..... for now.