...THE CAUSES OF DRUG ABUSE AMONG HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT’S 2 The parents of a teenager who talk to his or her teenagers about the use of drugs on a regular basis are 42 percent to not abuse drugs than a teenager whose parents did not talk to him or her. There is a higher amount of male teenagers arrested who have been tested and found positive for marijuana (The National Institute of Justices Arrestee and Drug Monitoring System). With many teenagers, drugs and alcohol are the most commonly abused drugs. Those teenagers do not see what drugs and alcohol can to him or her, or even see the consequences that can result from the abuse. The abuse of drugs can come from a variety of negative problems that the teenager may be going through. Why has there been an increase in drug abuse among high school students in the United States? Teenagers in the United States have one of the highest rates of drug abuse among other countries, and alcohol and tobacco use also still remains high (Higgins, 1988). Peer pressure has been acknowledged as one of the components that affects high school students in the United States. When a teenager is addicted to drugs or medication that he or she is prescribed, he or she may not be able to have control on the amount that he or she uses. Medication that has been prescribed to a teenager may make him or her feel better, but if the medication does not help than he or she may take more of the medication or look toward...
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...Jamie is a junior in high school, and she has a part time job, attends school for seven hours a day, take college classes as a high schooler, maintain good grades and keeps up with her school work, and currently in a relationship. America’s society is in a big rush to have teenagers mature and grow up before they reach adulthood. Many adults in today’s generation expect high school students to have all their eggs in a basket by time the student is eighteen. High schoolers are only young once, let them be teenagers and enjoy it. The stress of a high school student is too high because America’s society expects students to keep up with course loads, participating in extracurricular activities, have a job while attending school, maintain relationships, and testing and...
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...every weekday, high school students are waking up around six o'clock in the morning to get ready for school, some even earlier. It's not practical for high school classes to start at 7:44. It's just too early for teenage minds to function properly. Our school should start at least an hour later than that. With the extra hour, our attendance would improve, as well as our grades and attitudes. The facts are all there, so why shouldn't the hours change? On average in today’s society most teens don’t like going to school that early in the morning. To have to wake up so early when they only get about seven hours of sleep, to have students be coming into school at 7:30AM or maybe even earlier in some other schools, is not right. Students need to have time at night to get work done, not only schoolwork but also non-schoolwork. Needless to say, the school schedule for high school students needs to be changed and be made where they go in later. That way they get their work done and get enough sleep because without much sleep students will not be getting high grades. A health survey that the University Health Center administered showed them that one in four students say that lack of sleep has affected their academic performance in a bad way (“Sleep Rocks”). Sleep deprivation impairs students’ ability to be alert, pay attention, solve problems, cope with stress, and retain information. Academic performances on students are low due to lack of sleep. For the 1997-1998 school year, the University...
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...Almost every weekday, high school students are waking up around six o'clock in the morning to get ready for school, some even earlier. It's not practical for high school classes to start at 7:44. It's just too early for teenage minds to function properly. Our school should start at least an hour later than that. With the extra hour, our attendance would improve, as well as our grades and attitudes. The facts are all there, so why shouldn't the hours change? For the 1997-1998 school year, the University of Minnesota conducted a study on Minneapolis high schools. Their starting times were changed from 7:15 to 8:40. The results of this change were obvious. Teachers reported that students were more alert during the first two periods of the day and that attendance improved by five percent. After such a revealing study, why aren't more schools catching on? It's a proven fact that teenagers need between 8 ½ and nine hours of sleep each night. It's also a proven fact that only fifteen percent of teenagers get the sleep that they need. Can you believe that more than twenty-five percent of teenagers sleep less than seven hours a night? Are you one of those teenagers? Well, part of the reason why this is happening is because school starts so early in the morning. If school hours were changed, teenagers would be much healthier and feel better about themselves. Furthermore, school officials are always complaining that so many of their students are constantly tardy to school. They even have a...
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...has shown that teenagers experience a change in their internal sleep clocks so that waking up early and going to sleep early are difficult. Should high school classes begin later in the day and end later in the day to accommodate students' natural sleep clocks? Consider some of the benefits and disadvantages to starting school later in the day. I agreed for trouble sleeping, for their sleeping patterns are in the different way by time for to sleep, by going to school are starting the school later in the morning. I actually agree, because students from high school do have problems of their sleeping patterns at night time for sleeping early, or some students are stressed out by staying up late for other things to do like finish their...
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...LAGUNA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY SAN PABLO CITY CAMPUS S.Y 2011-2012 ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF RESERVED TYPE AND OUT-GOING TYPE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY TEENAGERS ABIGAIL ROSE O. MONZON BS PSYCHOLOGY 2P1 SUBMITTED TO: MS. MARIZ BORGOÑOS 2012 I. Title ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF RESERVED TYPE AND OUT-GOING TYPE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY TEENAGERS II. Introduction Extraversion-Introversion is a key component of what makes up the human personality. More aggressive and gregarious individuals are generally referred to as extraverts or out-going type, while introverts or reserved type tend to prefer solitude and worry less about being social. By no means are introverts lonely people, they simply prefer to socialize and work in smaller groups. Extraverts live to meet new people and constantly expand their circle of friends, and they often do this quite actively. The important thing to notice in the description above is that being an introvert has nothing to do with being afraid or anxious about socialization. Introversion is a choice, or at least a preference. Out-going type or so called an extroverted personality. It's a person who is confident, has good manners and when they come into a room they are a breath of fresh air. Their manners are impeccable and they make each and every person feel important. They can have a good sense of humor without being anxious or loud, ask how the other person is doing or congratulate someone who has had...
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...our learners." (Mary A. Carskadon, PhD) High-Schools throughout the United States can start as early as 7:15 am. Studies are proving that this is having a very negative effect on the student body. Not only are the students not performing as well as they could, but their physical and mental health is in jeopardy too. Schools should start later in the day. First, the early start times have been proved to be affecting the teenager’s health. Dr. Judith Owens, Director of Sleep Medicine at Children’s National Health System, says “The research...
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...High School Years Those four years of high school can be quite difficult. They can either be the easiest years of your life, or the hardest. It all depends on how you make it out to be. High school is so complicated when it comes down to your social life. Nowadays teenagers are bullies. They try to fit in with the “in-crowd”. They usually don’t care about hurting someone’s feelings, so that can cause a teenager to feel out of place. No one wants to go to a place 5 days out of the week, if they feel as if they are unwelcomed and are going to get made fun of. Nowadays, high school is driving teenagers overboard. High school can also make you feel out of place by your grades. Making D’s and F’s can make you not want to come. You feel as if the teacher takes you as a joke, doesn’t think you serious, as if he thinks you don’t want to succeed. Most kids that make bad grades tell their parents it’s the teachers fault. They always use the same lines that every teenager that’s failing terribly says; “My teacher doesn’t like me” or “My teacher doesn’t even know anything” when really it is the teenagers reason they are failing. The teacher doesn’t give you a grade, he or she gives you what you earn. Feeling out of place in high school can also have a positive effect; not wanting to go all the time can make a teenager work harder to graduate, strive harder to get all their credits, and even graduate early. Maybe even make straight A’s! High school is very stressful at times, so...
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...Should high school classes begin later in the day and end later of the natural sleep clock? No because teenagers have jobs in the afternoon when they get out of school and teenagers don't want to be late for there job. Some people have kids they have to go pick up after school at a certain time of the day. If we go to school later in the day it will be so many hours we have to stay in school, people probably tired and have stuff to do after school. Teenagers have practices for sports or any type of activities in school and they have to be there a certain time. In my opinion classes shouldn't start later or end later of the because it will stressful to get things done in the day. Mostly, teenagers that are in high school have jobs...
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...The Surprising Way Teenagers Make Friends | Parenting - Yahoo Shine 11/19/13 5:52 AM Home Mail News Sports Finance Weather Games Groups Answers Screen Flickr Mobile Sign In More Mail Search Shine Search Web The Surprising Way Teenagers Make Friends By Elise Solé, Shine Staff | Parenting – 4 hours ago Watch a classic teen movie like “The Breakfast Club” or “Mean Girls,” and you may think you have high school life figured out: Kids make friends based on what group they identify with, be it the jocks, the cheerleaders, the geeks, the weirdos, or some other clique. However, a new study of 3,000 students published Saturday by Michigan State University smashes stereotypes about the way teens pair off in school. “People want to believe that high school kids are making friends based on what clique they identify with, but that’s not completely true,” Kenneth Frank, PhD, a professor at Michigan State University's College of Education, tells Yahoo Shine. “People may rely on these stereotypes as a reference point to make sense of how high school kids operate: however, the classes students take are also an important indicator of who they’ll be friends with." Universal Studios The study found that kids will seek out like-minded people within the pool of peers they have access to. In other words, if your child loves playing musical instruments, he won’t necessarily make an effort to meet musical kids from other classes, but if there’s...
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...Native American Reservation and Its Impacts Native Americans have suffered through many issues since they lost their lands to the U.S. government. Especially the Indian teenagers, they are not only losing their traditional culture, but also a proper environment for them to get education and be prepared for life. In Sherman Alexie’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, he uses two teenagers’ scope to describe the life in Native American reservation in Spokane. The two boys, Victor Joseph and Thomas Builds-the-Fire, tell the stories of conflicts with family members and struggles among their peers. In Indian education, Victor narratively tells the fights, discrimination and confusion he and his friends went through. High rate of violence, substance abuse and mental health problems appear among Indian students in the reservation schools. It is clear that the defective education system and school environment in Native American reservations leads to those severe issues. Violence is one of the key issues that appear in Native American reservation schools. In Indian Education from The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, the main character Victor witnessed a fight between Randy, the new Indian kid, and Steve. Randy was transferred from a white town. Within an hour after he first arrived his new school, Steve Flett picked on him by calling him names. Many students gathered around in the playground to witness the fight. During the fight, Steve kept demanding Randy to throw...
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...It was an early school morning and Sally still has not gotten up. Her bus would leave in approximately an hour. Sally has always had a difficult time waking up in the morning; she would always stay up past her bedtime because she had a difficult time falling asleep at night. This particular time, she stayed up and was worked on her group English project; she only had two hours and thirty minutes of sleep and was expected to wake up at five am. During peoples' teenage years, they experience a change in their internal sleep clock. Teenagers should have their high school classes begin later in the day and end later in the day. High school starting later benefits the students in many ways. First, they will be wide awake in class and ready to learn....
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...Almost every weekday, high school students are waking up around six o'clock in the morning to get ready for school, some even earlier. It's not practical for high school classes to start at 7:44. It's just too early for teenage minds to function properly. Our school should start at least an hour later than that. With the extra hour, our attendance would improve, as well as our grades and attitudes. The facts are all there, so why shouldn't the hours change? For the 1997-1998 school years, the University of Minnesota conducted a study on Minneapolis high schools. Their starting times were changed from 7:15 to 8:40. The results of this change were obvious. Teachers reported that students were more alert during the first two periods of the day and that attendance improved by five percent. After such a revealing study, why aren't more schools catching on? It's a proven fact that teenagers need between 8 ½ and nine hours of sleep each night. It's also a proven fact that only fifteen percent of teenagers get the sleep that they need. Can you believe that more than twenty-five percent of teenagers sleep less than seven hours a night? Are you one of those teenagers? Well, part of the reason why this is happening is because school starts so early in the morning. If school hours were changed, teenagers would be much healthier and feel better about themselves. Furthermore, school officials are always complaining that so many of their students are constantly tardy to school. They even have a...
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...come a long way. In the late 1950s churches began to invest significantly in salary funds in staff positions for youth ministry before that the youth ministry was done by mostly volunteer workers who were unqualified and poorly trained. Also it can be said that evangelical churches grudgingly instituted the youth ministry because they feared that Para church organization would take the youth away from the churches. GAINING A SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE Youth ministry in the 1950s was a calculated attempt of countering the influence of secular entertainment on Christian youth and they introduced 1. Christian film in the hopes that to be a possible alternative to movies in secular theaters. 2. High powered recreational and social programs were developed as an alternative to school dances 3. Large rallies were organized in major cities with famous Christian entertainer as a way to convince youth that they could be Christians and still be popular and well liked In the 1950s entertainment was used to retain youth within the church .The 1960s was a landmark decade in the country. The church’s approach to youth ministry was greatly affected by the sociological and cultural times. Youth in the country began to demonstrate that they cared greatly about the issues related to the world they lived. Those involved in youth ministry realized that young people cared for their leaders than mere entertainment .Some even rejected entertainment as worthy activity for youth ministry. They...
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...Teen Pregnancy Teen pregnancy hurts our socially, it is messing the world up as we speak. 352,000 babies are born every day worldwide. Teen pregnancy is one of the worst things in the world, today, it is causing problem because more teenagers are choosing abortions, the jobs are going to teens and not adults, and most teenagers can’t take care of the baby and themselves. The U.S. teen pregnancy rate dropped six percent between 2008 and 2009. About 750,000 teens get pregnant in the United States each year. Nevada has the highest teen birth rate; 113 out of every 1,000 teens will get pregnant. About 1 in 3 women become pregnant at least once before they're 20. A sexually active teen that does not use contraceptives has a 90% chance of becoming pregnant within a year. It affects education - only a third of teen mothers earn their high school diploma. And only 1.5% has a college degree by age 30. It also affects their kids - girls born to teen mothers are more likely to be teen mothers themselves. Boys born to teen moms are more likely to end up in prison. 75% of girls and over half of boys report that girls who have sex do so because their boyfriends want them to. 8 in 10 girls and 6 in 10 boys say they wish they had waited until they were older to have sex. Most teens (6 in 10) and adults (3 in 4) believe that teen boys often receive the message that they are “expected to have sex.” Diapers are expensive, but it's nothing compared to the $9 billion that teen pregnancy...
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