Academic Language Written Assessment Week 38 6/6

In my opinion video games should not be part of the school curriculum. An aspect of why I think this should not be available is what it does to kids at home. Kids at home get addicted to video and they soon loose interest in going outside and doing something physical. This brings consequences like, gaining weight, have health problems, and they stop doing school work. I think the same would happen at school. Even though video games have cool features, i think we should stick to books.

CW/A: Academic Language Written Assessment Week 35 5/16

Are sweatshops a violation of human rights? In my opinion I think sweatshops are a violation of human rights for the following reasons: sweatshops don't have a contract saying that they will have medical insurance so if they were to lose an arm they wouldn't be covered. My second reason is that usually they would have kids working on these shops, so not only does this apply to adults but also children as well. And last but not least, it is bad labor. The workers don't get paid well enough for what their doing and they are probably not treated like they should be treated.

HW/A: Academic Language Written Assessment Week 30 4/11

In my opinion I don't think teachers should eliminate D grades. I think a letter D grade is a way for teachers to compensate so that the student will see that they're not failing but they still need to improve in their grade. Also, the initial problem is that students are failing in their classes so the D grade keeps them from failing so easily, it gives them more time to improve in their work so that that D turns into a C. In conclusion, I don't think the D grade should be eliminated, teachers should just interact with the student and help them raise their grade up.

HW/A: Academic Language Written Assessment Week 29 4/4

I don' think that parents should face jail time because they didn't attend their kids conference. The reason why I think this is because sometimes parents can't make it to the conferences for very valid reasons. Maybe they couldn't make it because of their job? Or maybe they couldn't make it because their car broke down, and they couldn't be transferred by a tow truck.In general maybe the parents didn't have the resources. I think that schools should seek other things to do besides arresting parents for not being at conferences.

HW: Choices 32A Week 33 4/22

If I could fly whenever I wanted I would probably have so much fun. I would fly with birds and I would travel to other countries. Also I think it would make life easier since it would make chores and grocery shopping easier. Being able to fly would be something great for the environment too,because if I could fly I wouldn't need a car.

HW/A: Academic Language Written Assessment Week 30 4/11 (24 points)

Should schools eliminate D grades? In my opinion I don't think so. D grades are one step away from an F. F's are bad because they're like a zero D's at least are something but a zero. Initially students shouldn't be having bad grades in the first place so parent's need to interact with their kid and tell them that they need to work harder.Also, I think D grades help the student's compensate so that feel that having a D is better than an F.

JCCS Academic Language Assessment Week 28 - Truant Students

Should Global Positioning System (GPS) devices be required for habitually truant students?   I think it shouldn't. In my opinion chipping someone with a GPS just seem a little too irrational. I think for this for many reasons; for example, to be chipped by someone so they know at all times where you are seems unnecessary to me because even though truant students should be kept supervised putting a GPS chip on them is going to the extremes. The element of this all is students ditching and not attending school. This isn't a good thing but it can be resolved by doing other things. To restrain their conduct schools should just call their parents to inform them that their kid hasn't attended school. This administers that they're others ways to control the situation besides using a GPS system on students.