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An Essay On Peer Pressure

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Rivera, Roi Meynard M. October 1, 2014 K1A/COMMUNICATION SKILLS1 DLSL-FGMR “PEER PRESSURE RUIN ONES LIFE” “No child is immune to Peer pressure”- Kathi Hudson. In fact, according from (Borkar R. 2011) “Teens are infected by 4 million new STDs every year” and “25% of 17 and 18 year olds smoke daily. Further, according www.learnersdictionary.com/definition peer pressure is a feeling that you must do the same things as other people of your age and social group in order to be liked or respected by them. Peer Pressure for the students should be stopped because it might lead to negative behavior, poor academic performance, and alienation from their families. Some people say that it has good effect in our lives. They say that friends can …show more content…

First, according to Ortiz (2012) due to the influence of their friends’ students are forced to cut their classes in school. Students just go to computer shops and play computer games, or even become bystanders. Peer pressure should be really stopped because this has a really bad effect, because the time that the students should be used for their learning will just be wasted, the money that their parents are given to them will just go to non-sense things. Second, according to Ortiz (2012) because of peer pressure students change their attitude in studying. The negative influence of their friends let students get bored or discourages them in their studies. Third, peer pressure teaches students to depend on their friends in their assignments, and quizzes. Students will just copy their assignments and quizzes in their classmate instead of studying their lessons on their own. These negative effects to the students will be the hindrances in their schooling to get high and consistent good grades. Peer pressure should be definitely resisted because if students will not finish their schooling they will not have a good and stable job that can sustain the needs of their

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