...They set goals high, and dream big that one day they will reach a professional level of sports. High school students have huge aspirations on pursuing an opportunity to the next level during their four years in high school. They play high school sports because they center their attention on teamwork, winning, getting in better shape, and building character traits that they’ll use forever. But, what if one year one student endures an injury that will forever hinder his or her ability to play the game he or she loves the most? How will the contributors of this article encourage high school students to participate in sports despite that fact that safety is the main issue? Students in today’s society fight the ongoing battle against obesity or being overweight. They struggle finding ways to get active in school and it shows significantly. According to sports advocates: Many health experts maintain that the rising popularity of high school athletics is a good sign. They stress that sports can help to keep students physically fit and healthy, and counteract the current trends towards inactivity and obesity in the U.S. High school...
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...Wood bats are safer for high school and college; however metal bats have better performance. With the ball speed off of the bat as the big safety issue for high school and college, wood bats have a slower speed than metal bats do. With every solution there is a problem to the solution; wood bats do not produce like metal bats do. The game play is different with each bat. The changes that the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) and the NCAA make for bats for play will have an effect for upcoming students. In High school and college the players get to use metal bats instead of wood. The performance of metal bats is a lot higher than wood. That is why college and high school use metal instead of wood bats. Metal bats have a higher ball speed off the bat, which is the safety issue that the NCAA and the NFHS have right now. There is a new standard for baseball bats which took effect in 2011 which is the Batted Ball Coefficient of Restitution (BBCOR) bats. They have almost the same ball speed off of the bat as a wood bat does, but the metal bat has a bigger sweet spot. A sweet spot is the part of the bat that will give the biggest trampoline effect to the baseball. Metal bats have made scoring runs in high school and college a lot easier than wood bats. The BBCOR bats have had a slight decline in runs and hits unlike the Ball Exit Speed Ratio (BESR) bats. The change from BESR bats to BBCOR happened in 2011. BESR bats had to high of a ball exit speed off of...
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...explore how Texas Teachers feel about the possibility of other faculty or staff members carrying a concealed firearm on school property as a means to protect the students and staff from an armed attack. A survey was sent to 720 teachers across the 20 Texas school regions. The survey is made up of nine questions; the first seven are general information questions to provide researchers with demographic data; the remaining two are opinionated questions concerning how they feel about themselves or other trained faculty or staff carrying firearms in their school. Results were divided evenly between those that were for and those that were against having concealed firearms in their schools. Gender, prior military service, school population, and the type of school setting, i.e., elementary, junior high, or high school, generally, were not factors in determining how teachers felt about the subject; however, there was one significant finding, among teachers that possess a Texas Concealed Handgun license (CHL), results were unanimous when asked if they would volunteer to carry a weapon at their school. Table of Contents Abstract 2 Introduction 4 Problem Statement 5 Literature Review 5 Methodology 6 Limitations of Study 8 Results 9 Conclusion 11 Reference List 13 Appendix A (Letter for Survey) 15 Appendix B (Survey Questions) 16 Appendix C (School Setting) 18 Appendix D (Rural Responses) 19 Appendix E (Question 8 Female Responses) 20 Appendix F (Question 8...
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...Perceptions about School Safety in Doroodzan Middle School, Marvdasht City, Fars Province, Iran MASOUD MOHAMMADI DEHCHESHMEH*, ALI ASGHAR POUREZZAT, ARIAN GHOLIPOUR Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran Received June 5, 2011; Revised November 11, 2011; Accepted December 8, 2011 This paper is available on-line at http://ijoh.tums.ac.ir ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate students' perceptions of factors related to school safety in Doroodzan middle school, a rural school setting located in the north section of Fars Province, Iran. By examining students' perceptions of several specific aspects of campus safety, schools can prepare a program that addresses safety concerns and creates an holistic environment that decreases the possibility of safety challenges. The instrument used in this study was titled "Our School's Safety", designed by the California Department of Education, consisted of 36 Likert-scale questions and examined the physical, social and cultural aspects of school safety in order to procure a comprehensive overview of important factors related to safety. The completed surveys were analyzed. The results showed that, the school physical, social, and cultural safety levels were in an acceptable situation. Majority of all students agree or strongly agree that social environment safety (73.2%), cultural environment safety (71.6%) and physical environment safety (65%) levels were...
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...Incorporating School Safety Devices into School Plant Planning Michael Hassell Providence College October 7, 2013 Background and History Schools should be safe and secure places for all students, teachers, and staff members. Without a safe learning environment, teachers may have difficulty teaching and students may find their environment a difficult one in which to learn. (DeVoe, J. et al., 2012). Priorities set by schools, local authorities, and state and federal government have prompted the nation to focus on improving the safety of American schools. The safety of our school facilities has become one of the largest issues in education and has continued to be a concern of great importance. Although the most recent national indicators demonstrate that larger gains have been made in recent years, safety issues remain substantial problems in US school buildings. Between 2004 and 2012, there was a 46 percent decrease in the violent crime victimization rate at school. Despite this decline, students who are between the ages of 12 through 18 were victims of about 700,000 violent crimes and 1.2 million crimes of theft at school in the year 2012. (DeVoe, J. et al., 2012). Among the top trends in school safety are violence, theft, bullying, drugs, and most importantly, firearms. These issues continue to grow in many schools throughout the country indicating that more remains to be done to make our school facilities safer. Furthermore, accurate...
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...all time high and steadily growing at an alarming rate. With no definitive solution to this problem in sight, provisions must be put in place in order to protect our youth and professional athletes alike. Precautionary safety measures have been lackluster, and research on the issue, all but forgotten. With the advancements in technologies it is up to the authorities and more importantly the people to implement more effective means of safety, education, unyielding policies and severe punishments in order to protect the youth and professional athletes. A concussion is defined as a traumatically induced physiological disruption of brain function with a short period of altered or loss of consciousness, when a concussion occurs the brain is shaken in such a forceful way inside the skull that it causes injury. Concussion rates have doubled in this decade and account for 1 out of 10 of all contact sport injuries (Barton, 2008), the Center for Disease Control (C.D.C) has concluded that concussions in the United States have reached an “epidemic level” and there are between 1.6 and 3.8 million sport related concussions every year (Halstead, 2010) (Lincoln, 2011). Symptoms include but are not limited to confusion, headache, amnesia, nausea, sensitivity to light, double vision, sleep disturbances, loss of consciousness and were reported to be linked to more serious conditions such as, dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. Participation in high school athletics...
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...with raising a baby. The solution to this problem in the public school system is providing daycare services for the teen parents. This solution may seem like the perfect way to help teen parents stay in school, but this only leads to more problems. Although school daycare services ensures the safety of children and allows teens to stay in schools, these services inevitably encourages teen pregnancies. According to the CDC, in 2013, 273,105 babies were born to women between the ages of fifteen and nineteen. Most of these pregnancies were unplanned and left adolescents in a difficult situation. The biggest concern for teen parents is whether or not the teen will finish school. Many public school systems have thought of a solution to this problem, daycare service. Schools that have a daycare service allow students to stay in school and not worry about where their child is throughout the day. This will help the student focus on their schoolwork instead of being stressed because they know their child is in a safe place. The thought of walking into a high school and encountering a daycare full of children is insane. Many questions have been thought of when it comes to high school daycare services but the main one is: “Does this encourage teen pregnancies?” To answer this, yes. High school daycares do encourage teen pregnancies. This allows the students to know they have a place to bring their baby, but a high school student should not have a baby to begin with. Although these services...
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...Valley High School soccer team. Every summer, the soccer-training program is held for players who want to display their talent to the head coaches to prove that they belong on the varsity team. Even though these practices are not within the soccer season, the head coach, Leona Messi sends out emails about summer practices from her school email (Louis Suarez Dep. 1). Based on the emails it was clear that the players were running them, but it was also clear that the practices were part of the school soccer program (Ronaldo Suarez Dep. 1). Before the practices, Coach Messi did not inform the team captains to keep an eye out for concussions (Messi Dep. 6). On August 12th, 2015, Louis Suarez along with his fellow teammates began warming up and performed shooting drills. After completing warm ups and drills, the team proceeded to have a scrimmage. During the...
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...odd for the author to start the article by talking about police officers in schools. However, since we are already on the topic, I definitely agree to having officers in school. Not exactly why the idea is so foreign to the author but it’s for the safety of everyone. Most of the time cops provide the presence of safety to everyone around them. In all honesty, their job is less about stopping fights. The school’s administration should take care of any violent activities, the police officers are there to oversee. The paragraph where the author mentions several things that a teacher should not be is probably the most unrealistic thing I have ever read. Teachers are the biggest support system once we step into a learning institution. Their main job is to mentor and nurture students to improve and become better. In certain situation, teachers can become a parental figure that some people need in life to really succeed. I think rather than looking at a teacher as someone academic, we should view them as equal who are spending time and effort to better us. Assuming that the author is talking about high school since they are kids fighting, I think he fails to realize that public high schools are all free. The dynamic is a lot different when parents have skin in the game paying for K-12 education. In all honesty, most public schools are not funded enough for the school administration to even maintain high standards. The easiest way to lose productivity and efficiency is when employees...
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...go is a danger, no where is safe. No matter what anyone says there will always be danger. Scott Community High School, an amazing school, built very neatly, in the town of Scott City, KS. This high school well taken care of, but built not so well for safety of the students or teachers. For instance, we have way to many entries, and windows. In other words, the school is two floors, plus a downstairs. SCHS amazes me looks very ancient on the outside, but the inside so beautiful. Since the school is very big and has plenty of open spaces, an intruder or active shooter can easily come in. We have doors where teachers and students are never at. For example, a student can go crazy, also they know every entrance in the school and where teachers are at all times. Besides they know when the passing periods of classes are as well. First of all, we have four rooms that lead to the halls, windows or absolutely nothing. The school has a little picnic area that...
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...“Should Teachers Carry Guns in School?” The Premier Online Debate Website, www.debate.org/opinions/should-teachers-carry-guns-in-school./works cited page This website was important and critical to my essay because it offered ideas that supported my thesis on why teachers should be allowed to have a gun in school. The questions of students getting their hands on the gun, mentally unstable adults being able to get their hands on the gun and training the teachers were answered. Ideas on how to make sure that the teacher is mentally capable of protecting the students, the gun is well hidden and no one who wants to harm the students gets the gun were given by many people. Many people digged deeper into other issues besides a student getting the weapon. Different avenues were explored and the people on both sides had something about this topic to say. 2. “Arming Teachers and School Staff - School Security.” School Security, National School Safety and Security Services, www.schoolsecurity.org/trends/arming-teachers-and-school-staff/. This website was important and critical to my essay because it gave me a broader view of one of the main reasons why some people think teachers shouldn’t be allowed to carry a gun in school. Some people think that the student or unstable teacher could grab ahold of the gun. Kenneth Trump, a member of the National...
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...Memphis School District had a transformational change happen, when Superintendent Willie Herenton left his position to become the first black mayor of Memphis, the school district hired Dr. Gerry House, in 1992, from the outside because they felt that her experience in a school district that had already been restructured would lead Memphis school reform. It was noted in that case written by Ferrero (1998) that school board thought she could unite “progressive white and African-Americans, based upon an unassailable intellectual vision of high quality schooling” (p. 4). There was escalating violence against staff in the Memphis School District. They adopted the National Gun-Free School Act into their Student Code of Conduct and later added battery of school personnel and drugs possession as a Zero-Tolerance offense. The teachers looked at the revised policy and as a tool to get what they considered as problem students out of their classroom so they could concentrate on teaching the students that wanted to learn. This caused a conflict between Superintendent Gerry house and the Memphis Teachers Association. Superintendent Gerry House put incremental changes in place with her “Basics Plus” plan that allowed the schools to choose one of eleven school improvement models by 1999. The School Boards adoption of Zero-Tolerance reversed a long tradition of keeping the children in school. The...
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...type of education or school. There are public schools and private schools. To decide which one we will choose, we have to know the differences and similarities about the public and private schools. We can compare the two types of schools in the light of some criteria such as things which are taught, teachers, cost, safety, graduation rates. Public schools must adhere to a curriculum or state standards relating to what can be taught and how it is presented. Certain subjects such as religion and politics are taboo. Rulings in many court cases over the years have determined the scope and limits of what can be taught and how it is presented in public school. But a private school can teach whatever it likes and present it in any way it chooses. That’s because parents choose to send their children to a specific school which has a program and educational philosophy with which they are comfortable. But these schools have also similarities in the aspect of what is taught. They both teach some basic subjects such as English, mathematics and science in order to graduate. When we think of there are some slight differences between private and public schools. For example, public school teachers must be certified by the state in which they are teaching. Certification is granted once statutory requirements such as education courses and teaching practice are met. In most states private school teachers can teach without a teaching certificate. Most private schools prefer teachers to become...
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...vulnerabilities to the existing infrastructure concerning security and load management. Most devices come preexisting manufacture security features, but these features are usually deactivated from the manufacture in order to provide an open source concept. IT and district administrators look at the overview performance of the Ipad and mobile devices and to ensure optimal performance not only in hardware and software. Mobile devices cannot jeopardize the Current school privacy and security policies as each student will be allowed to access and manage their own user account. Cost of each device would have to be considered by district administrators, as each device would have a wide range of in price. Even Teacher will be tasked to apply current curriculum in class via apps, emails, and peer-to-peer configurations. In essence, this article overviews the importance of added safety features each Ipad will need and increasing flexibility teacher will have with their students. Higgins, J. (2013, August 8). BYOT: Bring your own tech to school. USA TODAY. Retrieved from http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.umuc.edu/eds/detail/detail?sid=0e0cd59a-4cde-4f7f-956f-6c616eac6def@sessionmgr4005&vid=0&hid=4202&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmUmc2NvcGU9c2l0ZQ==#db=a9h&AN=J0E016843023213 District administrator and staff have always found the use of technology in the classroom inappropriate in...
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...A strategic plan is essential in the production of a school. I once heard that it is “the road map for success.” A school cannot function properly without a strategic plan in place that allows all stakeholders the opportunity of awareness on all standpoints. Within a strategic plan, there are many components. They include the school’s vision and mission, strategies that meet the needs of the stakeholders, descriptions of the curriculum and instructional programs, the School Profile, and the school’s role in the larger community. ISLLC 2008 Standard 1: An education leader promotes the success of every student by facilitating the development, articulation, implementation, and stewardship of a vision of learning that is shared and supported by all stakeholders and ISLLC 2008 Standard 3: A school administrator is an educational leader who promotes the success of all students by ensuring management of the organization, operations, and resources for a safe, efficient, and effective learning environment both frame the plan in which I will develop. (Green, 2008 pgs.6,10-11) Background Pleasantville High School has about 1000 students. This school is located in a rural area where 75 percent of the students are Hispanic, 23 percent are Black, and 2 percent are Caucasian. This is an extremely poor area, and many of the students are involved in or exposed to gangs, violence, and poverty. Within the past three years, there have been six principals. A new one just arrived last week. There...
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