According to the Institute of Education Sciences, there were a total of 1,420,900 crimes committed among high school students in 2013 alone; in addition, the violent crime rate at these schools was numbered at 62 percent. These staggering numbers show just how much illegal activity and violent crime that is being committed in high schools alone. Imagine the amount of innocent children being violated, hurt, or even killed. The people that are arrested for these crimes lose everything. They get expulsion, a bad record, and for some, even jail-time. This is a lose-lose situation. Whether you are the victim or the person committing the crime. Why can’t these schools just prevent these crimes from happening in the first place? These schools need
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From stopping crimes before they get out of hand to just preventing them in the first place, a behavior policy would not only keep the students out of harm’s way, but also stop the perpetrator before he or she does something drastic. Knowing this, Emmitt Smith High School is planning to put their foot down to the crimes and put the behavior policy in action. The policy has proven to have its downsides, with a good amount of people arguing that it will take away the student’s rights. However, Emmitt Smith High School needs the behavior policy because it’s essential in order to put an end to the illegal activity and to an example for not only other students, but also other children. Emmitt Smith High School needs to include the Behavior Policy because of the amount of illegal activity amongst the student body. Emmitt Smith High School has had a very large increase in the number of arrests that have occurred. The arrests have quadrupled in 8 years, going from …show more content…
At Emmitt Smith High School it isn’t just upperclassmen attending these events, but it is in fact the underclassmen that makes up the majority of the student body at these after school events. In the data sets, it shows that over 90% of freshmen and sophomores attend these events. And whom do younger students look up to? The upperclassmen and older kids. If the older kids are bringing drugs, alcohol, and violence; the younger kids will follow. It’s just human nature. Emmitt Smith High School is unable to tell the students that they shouldn’t choose to be like the juniors and seniors, therefore the policy needs to be put into place in order for the juniors and seniors to create a better image that the underclassmen will want to follow. Unfortunately, even with the policy put into effect, the policy is worthless without the support of the upperclassmen. The behavior policy is only going to do so much. Kids are still going to drink and do illegal activities, even after the policy has been put into effect. Jonathan Paladecki, a senior who attends Emmitt Smith High School, explains very ignorantly why he believes the policy shouldn’t be put into effect. He states, “The school has no business punishing us for things that happen outside of the school day”. After, he concludes his explanation with the following statement, “But
From stopping crimes before they get out of hand to just preventing them in the first place, a behavior policy would not only keep the students out of harm’s way, but also stop the perpetrator before he or she does something drastic. Knowing this, Emmitt Smith High School is planning to put their foot down to the crimes and put the behavior policy in action. The policy has proven to have its downsides, with a good amount of people arguing that it will take away the student’s rights. However, Emmitt Smith High School needs the behavior policy because it’s essential in order to put an end to the illegal activity and to an example for not only other students, but also other children. Emmitt Smith High School needs to include the Behavior Policy because of the amount of illegal activity amongst the student body. Emmitt Smith High School has had a very large increase in the number of arrests that have occurred. The arrests have quadrupled in 8 years, going from …show more content…
At Emmitt Smith High School it isn’t just upperclassmen attending these events, but it is in fact the underclassmen that makes up the majority of the student body at these after school events. In the data sets, it shows that over 90% of freshmen and sophomores attend these events. And whom do younger students look up to? The upperclassmen and older kids. If the older kids are bringing drugs, alcohol, and violence; the younger kids will follow. It’s just human nature. Emmitt Smith High School is unable to tell the students that they shouldn’t choose to be like the juniors and seniors, therefore the policy needs to be put into place in order for the juniors and seniors to create a better image that the underclassmen will want to follow. Unfortunately, even with the policy put into effect, the policy is worthless without the support of the upperclassmen. The behavior policy is only going to do so much. Kids are still going to drink and do illegal activities, even after the policy has been put into effect. Jonathan Paladecki, a senior who attends Emmitt Smith High School, explains very ignorantly why he believes the policy shouldn’t be put into effect. He states, “The school has no business punishing us for things that happen outside of the school day”. After, he concludes his explanation with the following statement, “But