...skills to be effective in the work force. Over the past hundreds of years the model that teachers use to teach has changed but the basic fundamentals are still the same. Children read write and memorize things that will hopefully make them more appealing to a future employer. But in the over the past 50 years there have been some problems come up in the school system. “National data show that lifetime use among adolescents has steadily increased during the past 15 years, with the average age of first use of inhalants (12.3 years) occurring before first use of alcohol (12.6 years) and marijuana (13.5 years).”(McGravey, Canterbury, 4) At first it wasn’t anything big, kids were chewing gum in class, and talking out of turn. Now in the year 2004 we see everything from kids getting pregnant at a very young age to students having guns and mercilessly slaughtering their peers. The one thing that all of these problems have in common is that the students are not using good judgment and are not thinking correctly. A reason for this activity that has become common in the past years is drug use. Students are finding illegal drugs at their school and using them. These drugs can do anything from make you fall a sleep to going absolutely crazy and doing something that you would have never done if you didn’t have the substance in their system. This is why illegal drug use needs to be stopped from coming into the schools and why authorities should take special measures to ensure that they are kept out. They should be able to use any means necessary up to and including searching suspected students for illegal drugs and properly punishing them.
When kids are young they for the most part love to go to school, every day they come home telling mommy or daddy how much fun they had in school that day. For some reason as a child get older and older that zeal for school just seems...
