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Did you know that it takes about 1 hour for 3 people to scrape gum in 1 classroom? Well, there are 3 reasons this gum policy: costly gum removal, parents complain about gum on their children’s shoes, clothes, and hair and the parents are not happy about the cleaning bills. There was a questionnaire given to one class in grades 5-8 and 3 of the questions were: how often do you chew gum at school, how do you discard your used gum, and why do you think students put gum under chairs and desks? Do I agree with this ban? No, I don’t agree with this policy because there was never a time when gum was allowed at school so the ban is based on guesswork. The guesswork was that if gum was allowed, kids would put it on desks and chairs.
The way we started to investigate this problem was to distribute a type of census to one class in every grade, from 5th grade to 8th grade. One of the queries was “How do you discard your used gum?” The options were: in the trash, on a chair, on a desk, on someone else, in a textbook, or in a napkin. In 5th grade 84% said in the trash, 5% said on a...

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