Schools, Children, and Drugs

Today everyone needs a lift, especially students. Radical modifications are necessitated by the disconcertment of high school students' lives. One way this could be improved is by implementing a powerful drug prevention and education curricula that would address students' issues. Peer counselors would aid the school by counseling students who are weakening and by creating stress reduction tools that would assist students throughout their academic life. A healthy diet program would reinforce the other programs, resulting in students with salubrious bodies and minds.

Because of a proliferation in the drug use among teens, it is manifested that a plan is requisite. One way the school situation could be improved is by the implementation of a powerful drug prevention and education curricula. When 13 to 18 year olds were asked what was the largest problem facing students today, drug use led the list. Teen students learning and productivity is abruptly halted by the use of drugs and alcohol. Unfortunately, the drug problem continues to be obstreperous. In response to this epidemic, it should be mandated that the school impose tight regulations and repercussions for the use of illicit drugs. By creating Operation Drug-Stop, a drug prevention program, students would be taught the negative effects of drugs through a series of fun television animated adventures. Once in place, the drug prevention system would make the school a pioneer in improving student life.

In addition to drug prevention programs, peer counselors could be instituted by the school to deal with social issues students many experience. Peer counselors would facilitate a healthy school by counseling students who are perturbed and by employing stress reduction techniques that aid the students throughout their academic life. The formation of the peer counseling program, Peer Ear, would pose strong benefits to shy and fearful students who are reluctant to tell their issues and conflicts to the school guidance counselor. This program will foster the advancement of the student citizenry, and prove to be a holistic experience. Only reputable persons could become peer counselors, and would have to take a mandated test devised by the school board and guidance administrators. These peer counselors would file reports, when necessary, to the school board and create awareness within the school administration of problems that need addressed accordingly, thereby excelling students academic and homelife to new standards. This program will definitely create assiduity to students issues within the school administration that would not have been addressed without the program.

Another problem facing young people today is obesity. One way to address this problem would be to instate a healthy diet program that would foster students with healthy minds and bodies. The fast food industry is paramount in students diets within America's high schools. With french fries and soda being served to hundreds of students, the reason is indubitable of why the students are drastically overweight. By creating well-balanced meals and healthy food choices, students could become physically fit. Physical education and gyms would become superannuated and students would not be forced to learn physical education. Instead, students would be instructed on how to take care of themselves, eat right, and foster a healthy mind and body.

In closing, this essay manifests the radical changes that the school could and should institute. It clearly observed that modifications are necessitated by the decline of students morale. By implementing a powerful drug education curricula, creating "Peer Ear" peer counselors, that would help students with social problems in their lives, and the instatement of a healthy diet program to help students cultivate healthy minds and bodies, the school could drastically improve the current dastardly state. By following the propositions and guidelines set herein, the school could drastically boost students morale and performance. By creating a well taught curricula and by instituting programs such as these, students could work towards the betterment of themselves and others. These programmes work in conjunction with each other to foster the development of well-rounded and mentally stable students, thereby rescuing students from the sea of perturbance they are currently drowning in.