Kids Rebel Ideas from the School

Recently all the schools across Saskatchewan have been made non-smoking schools. This means that you aren’t allowed to have tobacco products on school grounds at any times. Teachers have the right to take away any kind of tobacco products that you may have. Some people think that this is unfair because it isn’t harming anyone to begin with. Another issue with school is that they are now energy drink free. Most people think that it is unfair. We are allowed to have them but not in schools. So if teens go and buy one at lunch time and cant bring it into school they end up drinking it really fast which is worse then sipping on it during breaks between classes or actually in the class. Personally most teens don’t think that this is a fair thing to be in school, it hasn’t been a problem and we don’t think it will be. Teens are smart enough not to have too much unless it’s needed to stay away during school.

Starting the new school year all the schools have been non-smoking. This is posted everywhere. But some don’t see how this will make a difference, kids will continue to smoke off of the grounds and most likely be late for class which will cause a problem to the school. So this idea pretty much isn’t helping anyone at all, just making everything harder for everyone. Some of us teens are not quite sure why they have decided to do this, but it may have something to do wit passer-byres maybe accidently inhaling some of the smoke as they walk by. But if it was really a big deal they wouldn’t even go near the tobacco to begin with. Also at the starting of this year the schools don’t allow energy drinks in the school, this confuses and frustrates most of the teens in school because some of us have them at lunch because most of us are tired from getting up so early. Schools may have band this because caffeine can be harmful to kids and so can most of the other things in the drinks.

Adults are thinking that all of this is better for the students because all these things are bad for us. Parents and Teachers are thinking that this is helping the kids because if we can’t smoke on school grounds we may as well quit then. They are thinking that if we don’t smoke now we are less likely not to smoke when we get out of school. In a way they will be helping us kids but in a way making everything harder for us. The government is thinking that this isn’t going to help them much because they find teens spend a lot of money on tobacco products.

Students should be allowed to have things that they want in school because I don’t think that this is going to make a difference in the way that kids think but make things harder for everyone else!