This is a very controversail subject that i discovered in the Denver Post. The article was titled Boy, 8, suspended after sniffing Sharpie marker . What really caught my eye when I saw this article was the fact that a third grader was supsended for "huffing" a sharpie. This just sounds rediculous.
What matters:
Ok so if it had been a middle schooler who was suspended for this action then I would think it was a reasonable punishment because that student needs to learn that they should never sniff a sharpie to get high. But the fact that it was a little third grader who got suspended for three days at Harris Park Elementary School because of this just seems ridiculous. I don't think 8 year old Eathan Harris even knew the severeness of his actions. I don't think he even knew what huffing, or getting high is. Principal Chris Benisch says that the boy was punished so severly because the markers present a serious safety risk if misused. I don't think that elementary schools should be spending so muc time worrying that an 8 year old is trying to get high off of a sharpie. I think schools should be focusing more on other things like preventing middle and high schools students from getting pregnant, doing drugs, and getting drunk.
What matters to me:
There are serveral techniques to getting high without using weed and other drugs. It used to be only high school students got drugs and did things like get high off of sharpies or white out. But as the years go by more and more younger students are getting into that kind of stuff. Like Powell Middle school or example. Now I went to that school for all three years and my grade was only a little like that. The younger grades are even worse than most of the high schoolers at AHS. So I can see why the younger schools are cracking down on drugs and getting high off of school supplies. But can you seriously think that a third grader would try to get high off of sharpie. He probably sniffed it cause he was curious and he liked the smell. He is only a little kid. Especially since he drew on his shirt with the sharpie after he smelled it. That shows that he was just being a little kid.
12 comments:
Angelica,
I thought you had a good presentation. You spoke pretty fast so next time slow down a bit. Good job expressing your opinions of each post. Also more eye contact would have been great. Over all good job!
Angelica, good job on clearly explaining your articles and making relations. Try making a more eye contact next time, but good job.
You did good on speaking loudly and clearly, but you read from your notes pretty much the whole time. Just try to know your material a little more so you can make more eye contact.
Angelica! Great presentation. I think it's cool that there is talk about a wind powered car. I don't think that the 8 year old shouldn't have been punished so severly with the Sharpie. Well done!
Angelica,
I think you did good. You spoke loud and clear. Maybe next time you could look up a little more but other than that everything else was good.
Angelica,
Try not to talk so fast when you are presenting and try to make more eye contact. You had some pretty good ideas and explained it pretty well, maybe a little more would have been good, but good job.
The story about the boy and the sharpie is really, uh, weird and iteresting. I don't think he should have been punished like that though.
Angelica, you did a great job on your presentation. I liked the articles you talked about. You had good eye contact, but you kind of spoke a little fast. But you did a great job.
Good presentation. You spoke clearly and you had some very good points. You had good eye contact. It was easy to understand your presentation with the way you presented it
Angelica- good eye contact and good relating the articles to yourself.
Angelica, you did an amazing job. I totally agree with what you said about the little boy who was suspended for sharpie sniffing. You made excellent points on your PLNs and had great opinions. Just make sure that you make eye contact, and you'll be golden for your next presentation.
Angelica, you had a good presentation. You spoke clear and had good PLN entries. Try to look up a little more and slow down. Other than that good job!
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