School-Debate--Areli,+Angela

**Another BIG debate going on through out the United States schools, this is the debate of the cell phones in school. We see where the staff is coming from not texting in class because of cheating in all, but is not fair that you can’t text in passing time or at lunch. Lunch is YOUR relaxing time; you only real school fun time. Really all the kids have to do is either put it on vibrate or all sounds off and hide it somewhere. I know many people that carry their phones with them, and teachers never find out, it's not difficult. If we could have cell phones, then not so many people would get in trouble for having them. Texting won’t really hurt anything if you’re not cheating. Maybe if we CAN text during our lunch then maybe people won’t be so sneaky with their phones. We have it then put it away. What are your thoughts on this cell phone free zone? Do you agree with the ban?**
 * Hey! Areli and Angela here, talking about some middle school debates going on right now. One debate going on is to ban junk foods from schools. We think that it’s a bad idea, its okay for the students to be able to eat what they want to, As long as you have something on the more healthy side to go with it. But on the other hand, schools pay $30,000 a year for school snacks. According to []. [|html]  in Arizona the schools almost completely took out every bit of junk food, but instead some students and teachers wrote a 19 page booklet to the Education Department on why they shouldn't, so that didn't pass, and if they ban snacks, students will just bring snacks to school from home. Also according to that same website, an eighth grader from Arizona schools said "You are not going to be effective in solving childhood obesity if you don't look at all the causes of childhood obesity," he said. "Exercise goes hand in hand with dieting, and you cannot just look at the junk food portion." No offences to the schools, but the foods they make aren't the greatest with all the grease on it, also how they only have here and there a lunch that is healthy. We see how America has some childhood obesity, but one little snack at lunch here and there won’t hurt, the ban of ALL junk food? Well that can also keep kids going, if they decide to choose to eat some fruit snacks or have a shake then that’s their choice, they want it and are spending their money on it. We already have enough bans in school, we don’t need another. What do you think about this school ban? Is it really necessary? **

Two very good topics. You have some strong opinions! Couple things I want you to do. First, work on your grammar and sentence structure. You have some fragments and incomplete ideas. Second, find some statistics to back up your ideas. Look for articles about childhood obesity and school cafeteria food, junk food, etc. Look for articles about how different schools around the country manage cell phones. What kinds of rules do other schools have? Are the different for different grade levels? Ms. Darga

1. Analyze the contents of the wordle made from all of the posts in your category. Remember that this includes all the posts on your topic...not just your own. What are the common ideas that are being discussed and debated? What trends do you see? Common ideas in the blog posts were about gum in school, about bans, iPods, cell phones, hats, and how to dress. There are many things alike and different.

2. Go to Wordle and make a word cloud of just YOUR posts. To do this, open a new wordle space and then copy and paste all of the text from your posts into the space. Create the word cloud. 3. Compare the two. What is similar? What is different? There are some same words and things being debated are different; then some are the same. simular- School different- gum, hates, and iPods.

4. Right before break, your assignment was to search the internet for blogs about your topic. Include the links to the blogs you found as the response to this question. Be sure to give the title of the blogs as well. [] [] [] []

5. Compare your ideas to the those in the blogs that you found. What is similar? What is different? ​ ​On the blogs we found they all had many more debates. Each one is more serious. They have good questions and answers to thiers as well. Their blogs are also more information packed.

6. Begin to brainstorm about the topic of your next post. What research do you need to do? Where will you find the info that you need ? We will need to serch for new things to blog about at school and we would have to search other blogs so we can get new and more information for our topic and ask new questions.

Is student’s safety more important than their privacy? Areli and Angela here with a new debate. Our source ; [] tells us that: · //At least 100,000 students bring guns to school.// · //160,000 students skip classes because they fear physical harm.// · //40 students are hurt or killed by firearms.// · //6,250 teachers are threatened with bodily injury.// · //260 teachers are physically assaulted.// So in 2002 the school board came up with a solution to put in something called “smart lockers” so the principle can track how many time a day somebody opens their locker a day. It is activated by swiping a card rather then a combination. They all can open at the same time. Many people come up with the fact that the locker checks are against the fourth amendment “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” What do you think? Does it affect the fourth amendment? Or should they put the lockers in? 

​  I think that for our safety it would be a great idea to have those lockers in, because I don't think anyone that doesn't have a gun on their power would want to expose their life to a mortal thing. If I know that I don't have a gun in my power, why saying no? right? So, I believe that putting smart lockers would be a good idea for the safety of the innocent students.

yeah it would be a good idea. Having these lockers could keep kids safe, but why would the principle go through everyones locker theres no point! maybe if they have it to where some one was absent and was there in other classes you could i dont really know but it would be a good idea What school came up with this? What school board? What state? I would like to know. Zico123

 High school Debate- ​ A debate in high schools across America is getting everyone! Hey Areli and Angela back with a HUGE discussion in tons of high schools. Do we get enough fairness? According to [] there are many students that say not. In this High school there are many seperate debate teams. One says "For many of our students, English is a second language, and many of them are poor . . . and debate has nothing to do with that," said Supt. Ramon C. Cortines, who was a member of his college debate team. "They learn, in the end, that they can succeed with their words even when society tells them they can't." This is a very good way to put it. Other debate teams will talk more about children being too lazy now days.