Dear Miss Emerson, The study of quality texts has always been an essential part of the Australian English curriculum in Year 7. At Brisbane Grammar School, selecting a quality text that is not only interesting, but includes a wide range of characters, personalities, and perspectives is critical. Detention by Tristan Bancks must be studied in Year 7 because it exposes students to significant concepts and ideas that are relevant to them, presents a range of characters that have different backgrounds and perspectives, and explores ethical dilemmas. Detention absolutely must be on the Brisbane Grammar School booklist.
Kids are allowed to do whatever they please. There are bars on the windows, music blasting, card games instead of worksheets. The constant comparison to a school to jail just goes to show how bad it really is for these kids and why they act up. Watkins did a superb job with his use of hyperboles to connect with the reader's
Although the artist Richard Serra had his own ideas and reasoning for placing the Tilted Arc in the Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan, I agree that the piece needed to be removed. Richard Serra considered himself to be an abstract artist and a minimalist sculptor, who did not value creating beauty or function in art. Instead, he strived to make the viewer the subject of the art piece, and force them to reconsider their ideas of space, time, and movement. An example of his work, entitled The Matter of Time, was constructed out of weatherproof steel twisted into, "a complex spiral(1). " A viewer is able to walk through the piece and experience how the steel walls tilt in and out, making the walkway bend and increasing or decreasing the space.
In the article “This school replaced detention with meditation. The results are stunning.” Gaines explains how an elementary school in Baltimore has changed their views on punishment on their students to improve their mentality. Apparently, instead of assigning detention and time outs they had misbehaving students sit in a room and meditate and breathe as their punishment. Basically, this new type of approach to young troubled kids in a impoverished neighborhood produced an astonishing result that was meditation and relaxation helped these misbehaving student improve their behavior and their academics.
As a student do you ever feel stressed or overwhelmed by the amount of homework or studying you have to do? This is why I believe that schools should provide an in-school study hall. With this, students will be able to work on their work and study in a good environment. Providing a study hall has numerous advantages; the most evident one being that the students will be able to get their work done in a good environment with help all around from teachers, and it eliminates the excuses of kids not being able to get their work in on time. With a study hall for everyone students can get work done before they have practice and before they even get home, and they can practice time management with how they spend their time when they get home.
First of all, I am for replacing detention because many kids will not change their behavior of being bad and will instead keep doing what they are doing because they are so angry. That is why I’m for replacing detention. “Misbehaving kids are encouraged to sit in the room and go through practices like breathing or meditation, helping them calm down and re-center. Author James Gaines wrote from ¨This School Replaced Detention With Meditation. The Results Are Stunning.¨ First of all, With exercises and having to rethink their thoughts, students would then learn and know that what they were doing was wrong and that instead of having a subsequent punishment, they will do better in school and most likely wouldn't do the wrong thing and then would be more successful.
Introduction If you were to be put in prison as a child, what would you think it would be for? Many children are put in prison each year getting bad education, being taught to deal with problems by fighting, and are grown around other bad people. Kids in prison are surrounded by barriers, the real ones of course with the barbed wire and electric fences, but also the ones where they are grown around fighting, bad education, and the fear of being let out of prison. Kids should be in prison if they have done something to deserve it, and our government shouldn’t be funding this, the child’s family should be paying for their food, education, etc.
To trust the information given by a terrorist who is under countless hours of torture really can do more harm than good. When a terrorist is tortured they go under five documented types of torture this includes: stress positions, sensory deprivation, sleep deprivation, constant noise, and starvation. Sean O’Mara, a professor of experimental brain research at Trinity College Dublin, released an article talking how the brain works under fear, starvation, thirst, extreme temperatures, immersion in water, and sleep deprivation. O’Hara states, “These stressors create problems for memory, mood and thinking, and sufferers, predictability, produce information that is deeply unreliable” (O’Mara) he goes on to state, “I don’t know why more scientists
Homework becomes very unpopular with the students. This is because homework is perceived by students to have taken their time away from school. Homework is also considered to stress students. Many of the teachers consider homework is very important given to students.
If the children cannot go to school and feel it is safe something in that system is wrong. The school system allowed teachers to send these children to rooms without windows, bathrooms, and block them in there until they can behave. What is this teaching children about the institution of school? They are scared to enter the school and feel that they will be placed in isolation right when they mess up. These kids are being labeled “bad apples” when really the institution or “bad barrel” is a large contributor to the behavioral issues these kids are experiencing.
The video that made me think the most, was Prison Kids: Juvenile Justice in America. They interviewed many kids, parents and the government officials who worked alongside these programs. This video was the most interesting to me because you do not hear much about kids being arrested. The video goes into something that was discussed in class several times, as well as a controversial topic in society.
Would you say that spanking is appropriate? Many people say yes, because it has been used as a means of punishment for so long; however, more and more people are beginning to realize that corporal punishment may lead to even more problems in the future. Many factors can contribute to your opinion on spanking, such as your ethnic group and religion. For example, African Americans and people who translate the bible literally are more likely to use spanking as a means of punishment (206). There are many good arguments for both sides; however, it is clear that spanking is not necessary and can be avoided completely More people in the United States are beginning to realize how ineffective and dangerous spanking is.
School Suspensions Are a Waste of Time Would you take school suspensions away if it would benedict the school? Many school have always used school suspensions as their way of chastisement, simply because it is the easiest way. School suspensions became popular around the 1960s and 70s because many more fights were occurring due to desegregation. Although school suspensions are widely used throughout most schools, it is time we found a more effective way of discipline. School suspensions are not working because students may not understand what they did wrong, suspensions feel more like time off than a punishment, and students are more likely to act out again after being suspended.
Albert Einstein once said, "Everybody is a genius... But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid". Unfortunately, most school systems depict this quote. They judge a significant amount of the population by their ability to answer a few questions. They rate them with letters and numbers, and force students to be represented by these letters and numbers for the rest of their lives.
There is a worldwide trend in the use of penal imprisonment for serious offenses as capital punishment has been renounced by an increasing number of countries. Harsh punishments include capital punishment, life imprisonment and long-term incarceration. These forms of punishments are usually used against serious crimes that are seen as unethical, such as murder, assault and robbery. Many people believe that harsher punishments are more effective as they deter would-be criminals and ensure justice is served. Opposition towards harsh punishments have argued that harsher punishments does not necessarily increase effectiveness because they do not have a deterrent effect, do not decrease recidivism rates and do not provide rehabilitation.
