Flu and School Policy Its winter time and along with everything that winter brings, it means that it's also flu season. For students, flu season is especially worse oftentimes due to the controversial problems that poorly constructed school policies present. What was originally created to benefit students has, over time, created a irritating quandary. Schools pretend to say that they encourage sick students to go home and get better. Yet, despite what schools say on paper, it actually benefits students to come to school when they are sick. Schools offer no incentive for students to stay home when they are ill and actually punish those who do. This is perceived by the prevalent “Two Day Policy” and by strict attendance rules in athletics. …show more content…
On paper, the Two Day Policy sounds like a good idea; it seems fair to give students two days to make up work for missing one day of school. But that’s not quite how the policy works in reality. Day one is the first day a student returns to school and the student receives the work from their instructor that they are required to make up. Day two is the day that that work is required to be turned in. If it isn’t in by the end of the school day, teachers will put in zeros in the grade book, the make up work will be considered late work, and it is up to the teacher’s own grading system to determine how much credit a student will receive for that work. Essentially, the way the Two Day Policy works out, students have one night, not two days, to complete all makeup work without receiving a penalty. That means making up 8 hours of instruction in one night on top of regularly assigned homework for that day. It is almost significantly better for a student to “tough it out” and go to school even when they very ill. And when sick students go to school, it only spreads the flu and gets other students and teachers sick. In order to help convince students to stay home when sick, schools should be more lenient when it comes to accepting makeup work. This would help encourage students to take time off to get healthy and still be able to complete their …show more content…
Students feel extremely pressured to come to school when they are sick in order to remain eligible for sports. In many schools, missing a couple of days due to being ill could cause a student athlete to be ruled ineligible for competing in games that week and in some cases could lose a starting spot for a couple of weeks. Another problem is that some coaches will trying to keep sick athletes in school and practice by telling them not to turn their backs’ on their teammates. When this happens, athletes will spread the flu to their peers, teammates, and other teams and schools. One way schools can fix this, is by changing their policy towards sick days in athletics. Schools can make it mandatory for sick athletes to stay home without there being consequences in their playing time. Athletes would still have to be completely responsible for making up any schoolwork they missed and they could still be ruled ineligible for competitions if they failed to get their make up work in. But instituting a change in policy regarding sick days in athletics could benefit the whole community. Student athletes that stay home when sick help prevent spreading the flu. Teams play better and win more often when they aren’t sick and the whole community feels overall better when it’s healthy. That’s why revisiting policy over sick days in high school athletics would help solve the
Over the course of time, schools have invested all their finances on sports like football. Primarily, the sport had initiated as a form of recreational fun, but therefore lead into a trend. This popular trend later spread into competitiveness and in some schools, even idolized. At Premont High School, a small school in Texas, it was threatening to be shut down for the neglection of academics and a misuse of finance. All money funded was focused on being used to support all sports and the money raised, was a large amount of money. The solution was to suspend all sports and with that, changes were made. Teachers were retrained, the curriculum was raised to the appropriate standard, and too much avail, academics improved significantly. According to the article, when sports have been dominating, only 50 percent of the students were passing their classes. After changes were made, 80 percent were now passing. The author argues that with the suspension of sports, academics would be at a higher level than they are. With this argument, I agree with Ripley’s motion to cancel all sports. To many students, such as myself, it may seem irrational and absurd at first, but realistically it is a reasonable solution. Tons of money is being spent primarily to a sport and most times, aren't even at a winning season. Sports should not the prime focus. Schools are not instituted to emphasis on sports
I have mentioned previously my proposition for the college athlete attendance policy. I propose that there should be a national rule that college athletes, with a GPA above a 3.0, should be allowed to miss class to train, work on homework, or rest. The athlete would have to notify the professor that they wouldn’t be in class and find out what is being covered in the class session. If the athletic department, students, and professors work together, I don’t see why this solution would not work.
School is usually a huge part of every child’s daily agenda. Teenagers in high school basically dedicate their entire day to school and homework. Students in grade 8 are similarly going through the same process as high school students. As students work 2 months after the Winter Break, some of them tend to start reducing their quality of work. When we’re tired of doing school work for two straight months, why should we only receive a short March break?
Schools, offices, and any workforce should require students and employees before entering to protect those who surround them from getting sick. Students, in fact, before they enroll to school, they are required to get their yearly flu and other required vaccinations. Hence, this should continue so none of the students and staff would get infected. Despite that many people still do not believe in vaccinations, there is more proof shown that vaccinations had been a great help to many. It decreases the number of people getting sick and getting infected with serious diseases. Furthermore, it lessens the pain of a person who is ill because he or she is protected due to the vaccinations that was given to him or her. However, people should not take for granted of getting vaccinated, especially for the parents. Immunizations will protect their children and themselves from getting sick. Vaccinations are surely safe and they, indeed, prevent illnesses such as measles, chickenpox, shingles, polio, etc. that anyone may encounter. Hopefully, more vaccinations would develop and continue to be given for different types of diseases that may develop in the future. People need to keep in mind that the more people will vaccinate, the more healthier and safer the surroundings will become. All the more people will be encouraged and they will believe that
According to some school districts, "teachers and student absences have decreased with the four-day school week. The reason for the decrease in teachers and students' absences is logical because that one extra day will help them finish what they need to in the right amount of time. Another issue that can be prevented with a four day of school is the increasing drop out rate and disciplinary referrals in high school. Having disciplinary referrals can cause a bad impression on teachers and colleges.
I believe schools should not force students to participate in organized sports. Medical conditions, such as asthma, prevent students from being able to participate. Family situations may leave the student with no ride to or from practice. Students may not have time to be able to
Student athletes live very busy lives. A typical school day runs from 8:00-2:30, add in a two- hour practice or game, score a part time job, dive into some family time, a grand slam of homework and catch a little bit of sleep. Students are more stressed due to the many activities they are a part of. This issue affects a lot of people not only in this school district, but most other high schools throughout the country. All student athletes exercise more than other children who are not involved in an extracurricular sport. In school athletics, the players are called “student athletes” meaning that school activities come first. There are strict rules for student athletes, not only on the field but in the classroom as well. In physical education
With all the revenue and profit the athletes bring in for their school, athletes believe that they should receive at least a small portion of the profits. The NCAA’s codes are making it harder and harder for athletes to survive the college life as their rules get stricter. The more the NCAA tries to keep from paying athletes, the more student-athletes will fight back (Pattern 16). Worker’s compensation, not harsh rules, will satisfy the student-athlete population and bring an end to this controversial debate (Pattern 16a).
I remember one time, back in high school, I had basketball practice right after school, but I decided to tell my coach I was sick. The night before I had stayed up way too late doing homework and just really needed to go home, relax and catch up on sleep. The next day, I found out the team had to run extra laps because three girls, including myself, had called in “sick to practice. I felt so bad that they all had to run extra, they were probably tired too, but went to practice anyways.
Schools can be a danger zone for sickness and disease, but if other families are able to maintain a healthy living, there is less risk. Mandating
Students went to school for five days a week. For students earn a spot of weekend school, they will go to school for the whole week. How they earn a spot for the weekend school is simple, like tossing a small piece of trash on the road. When a student either commits a small misbehavior against the school rules or receives a huge zero on different subjects. Then he or she would be the next candidate for the infamous Weekend School program. There are protests between students and teachers but the only victor is the teachers because they are the enforcers, the masters, and the second family of the students. They would be free of the weekend school in exchange if they reflect their action or did improve their studying, and then they can leave the weekend
Imagine spending hours on an important homework assignment due as soon as you walk into class the next day, and then go in to find students that were absent have an unlimited amount of time to complete it. Students should not be allowed an unlimited amount of time to make up or complete missing assignments because it is unfair to other students, a management issue for teachers, and is a necessary life skill to be able to get work done on time. If students that were absent from school were allowed unlimited time to complete their work, then it would be incredibly unfair to other students. If a student is given a day to complete an assignment, then it should be no different for any other student that receives the same assignment, whether they were absent or not. Students consistently put in the effort to do their work and get it turned in on time, so
This does not solve the main problem, which is that sports fail to recognize that education is the main reason a student athlete attends a university. Less than 2% of student athletes participating in hockey, football, and basketball go on to play professionally, so the education that they receive is the main priority. Other students who pursue their passions like the arts or music, most likely do not go on to hold jobs in those subjects. These students just like student athletes are both following their passion through hobbies, not jobs. The regular student does not get paid for spending extra time to paint a canvas.
It 's been outrageous , how many kids get injured per year playing youth sports for school and organizations. The youth who play sports receive plenty medical attention throughout the year due to injuries cause from actions made occuring in games. Health plays a big part in sports because if your are are not healthy many things can go wrong with the body including dehydration, heart problems , and muscle spasm. Playing a sport can be very hard to juggle with school and also getting talked down by coaches and parents. Dehydration is a high possibility because of outside sports that happen in the spring/summer and playing and practicing in humid conditions that you are not well prepared for can be bad and there will be consequences. Parents and
...s rarely notify to students when there's some change in schedule. We students just get up early, go to class and are told that now we have no class as usual. That's so trivial but that annoys many people. If we do not have a strict policy, then no more getting up early, no more hustle and bustle on bus and no more waste time like this. Furthermore, teachers may have more free time if students just stay at home and do homework. They just sit at the table with a Internet-connected computer and communicate with their students via email or such thing. Then they will have more time for scientific research - is it more productive? Vietnam now has very few scientists - many of whom just rush in teaching and be trapped with heave work-load. If we relieve the policy, then we will have more part-time scientists-that are teachers.