Manufacturing Teen Curfews
Mandatory curfews have been instituted throughout the country as a means to help teenagers. Too many teenagers get themselves involved in criminal or deadly behavior. Curfews have been proven to help those young people with decreasing their fun time and increasing their work times. There are those, teenagers in particular, who believe that curfews violate their rights to freedom. Some people also say that curfews don't help at all.
Curfews abide for a reason. Curfews exist to keep residents safe from possible adolescent aggression (ward). Curfews are in place to help aide in the prevention of teen violence. Facts have proven, that curfews have been used all throughout time; in the 1990's fewer urban areas had
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Research has proven that curfews do effect crime rates, they lead to less people affected by criminal activity; when an environment helps each other by working together it can help with the production of enforcing curfews (Ward). Curfews exist to help lower crime rates, by having a part of the population inside at a particular time that reduces the people out at night. "Curfew laws and ordinances have been sustained as necessary to control the presence of juveniles in public places at nighttime" ("Curfew"). Charlottesville is a city that has seen a huge drop in the number of teenagers roaming around the area throughout the evening into earliest hours of next day, since the enforcement of curfews (Ward). Cities have seen firsthand that curfews can have a positive effect on a …show more content…
Curfews exist in variations meaning that there are lots of different types of curfews; differences can be quite extensive (Brass 325). There are different styles/types of the enforcement of curfews. In order for the curfews to work people in the surrounding environment needs to help enforce the guidelines of the curfew (Ward). In order for curfews to work they need to be properly applied to a community and have the support of all they surrounding environments. Caretakers have been happy with the effects of curfews on their teens and their neighborhoods because less problems occur with the curfew in effect
Teens look forward to turning sixteen so they can drive. Driving is now considered normal for young, immature teens. Parents think of it as a blessing to them. If parents would look back to how they drove and acted when they first started driving it would be a different story. In the essay “driving to the funeral,” Anna Quindlen bluntly expresses why teens shouldn’t drive at a young age.
In many towns, communities, countries, curfews could leave many teens without the right they deserve. Many communities think that curfews are a necessity, but there are more reasons why they should go. In the book Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, would curfews have helped the Outsiders along the pages, or not? According to many people state that curfews do not violate teens' rights.
Have you ever wanted to change the world? Teen activists are a good example to look at. A teen activist is someone who wants to change the world in a positive way because they are trying to fix problems they have experienced themselves. They are hard-working, never give up, and they are inspiring in their community. Teen activists are a huge part of our future, changing things positively one step at a time.
According to Dr. Kyla Wahlstrom in a Public School District in Minneapolis, Minnesota, when school times were changed to start later results of her studies showed that 9th-11th graders attendance increased, grades improved, and decreased depression rates reported by students(Should High School Students Have a Later Start to the School Day?). This illustrates that with schools starting later in the day, students will have more time in the mornings to prepare for classes. This means less tardy students and “fewer dropouts''. The kids will have more time to debrief before school starts again. They will have more time to sleep which will improve their grades(attention).
Teen Activism Have you ever heard of teen activism? Teen activism is youth engagement in community organization for for social change. One green planet.org tells us all it takes to become a teen activist is passion knowledge and desire to bring out change. This essay will talk about these teen activists Craig Kielburger, Alex libby, and Alex lin. Craig Kielburger Craig Kielburger is a very determined activist trying to end child labor.
03 Mar. 2016. I want to use this source because it has a medical stand point to my argument. It comes from a good reliable source that is commonly known for their research and accurate statistics to help prove my side of the argument. “Even the Centers for Disease Control seem to have gotten the message. For the first time, the CDC is urging school districts and policymakers to push back start times after a study of public schools across the country found that more than 75 percent started before 8:30 AM in more than 40 states.”
“Many parents in lower income areas work at night most arguments against it talk about how and are not around to correctly supervise their teenage children.” Police have more say in what happens, others say that it will cause the youth to go elsewhere to be able to hang out with their friends. A curfew is about a teenager understanding that, yes, teens can go out and have fun, but there has to be discipline for their bad actions. Our country isn’t sure if they should have curfews for people because most people are good and they don’t break the laws like other people do. In the article America’s curfew debate it says that “curfews violate the fourth amendment and its protections against unreasonable search and seizure.”
If students have lack of sleep, they may not pay attention to the roads and the drivers on the roads, which increases the risk of traffic accidents, (according to www.npr.org). The increased risk of traffic accidents may also be because of how dark it is outside when students have to walk over to the bus stop. It’s so early when kids’ buses come, that it’s usually dark outside, and drivers may not see kids walking. The final reason why middle and high school start times should be later is for the protection of student health.
What is a teen activist? A teen activist is someone who inspires people to do good in the world. They take a little cause and make it known worldwide. I believe that if we have teen activists in the world, people will want to do good things to help them. If that is true teen activists could make our world a better place.
There are many Teen activists in the world. And they all have a lot in common and a lot they do different. All teen activists have to speak out to spread the word of their claim. For example, Malala Yousafzai chose to go worldwide and got on youtube and tv interviews. Alex Lin however did not he didn’t have as big of a problem so he stayed local in his community and spread the word by mouth in his community.
21% of teen motor vehicle accidents are caused by drowsy driving. Many teens everyday are complaining about their school start times being way too early. Teen tiredness is now considered to be a public health pandemic. School starting at a later time is beneficial because it helps students catch up on sleep. It helps students stay out of trouble.
School Start Times: Waking Up to the Truth Imagine staying up until the wee hours of the morning to finish the homework that had been accumulated during the day, only to have to get up a few hours later to catch the school bus, knowing that succeeding in class the next day would be short of a miracle. For many students, this scenario is not only feared but a reality they must face. The American Academy of Pediatrics states, “About 90% of high-school-aged adolescents get insufficient sleep on school nights…”(“Early
My descriptive setting was set in dystopia. A future no one would prefer to be in: the complete opposite of Utopia. One of the aspects I’m fond of with my descriptive piece is my title ‘Curfew’. I wanted my main focus to be isolation and darkness. The whole point of curfew is usually to get home before it gets dark and most teenagers have a curfew due to the fact that when it gets dark, it is not as safe.
Early School Start Times Most adolescents don’t get nearly the correct amount of sleep and the early school start times make it worse. Having school start later would have a great impact on teens’ overall health. Some people may say that teens should just go to sleep earlier, but its not that easy. Early school start times should be changed because they are dangerous, inconvenient, and it negatively affects body growth.
Crime is defined as an act that violates the constitution such as theft, assault, drugs/alcohol offense, curfew violations, and murder. Despite being punishable by law, many people still commit these crimes including teenagers. Teenagers should be punished for their crimes because they have the capability of recognizing their responsibility as a good citizen in the society. They are old enough to know the consequences of every action they make.