"School in a Perfect World"

   If I could choose what school would be like, it'd definitely be different. Lets start with the rules. Phones would be allowed. Period. The no phone rule is a tad ridiculous. I am aware that they van be distracting, but if it's the lunch hour and break, why the heck not be able to use them? There's no harm in texting and going on the websites we choose. We pay a lot for our phones and we can't use them seven hours out of our day? That seems rather obnoxious. As well as the fact that teachers think it's okay to take them away from the student. If they can take away our personal things, we should be able to just take theirs. So people think it's okay that they take it away because they're older and can read from a textbook? Doesn't sound too fair to me.

   Now, on to the hours. If the teachers think it's necessary to keep students locked in a school for seven hours straight, we have a problem. It shouldn't take that long of time to teach a few subjects. I'm not trying to be rude, just stating what I think. People have lives and school is stressful. Maybe 10am-2:30pm would be more rational. It's have enough time to learn everything we need to and still have a life. 

   Lastly, lets get more serious here; no more bullying. Each day an estimated 160,000 students in the USA refuse to go to school because they dread the physical and verbal aggression of their peers. Many more attend school in a chronic state of anxiety and depression. Bullying can result in reluctance to go to school and truancy, headaches and stomach pains, reduced appetite, shame, anxiety, irritability, aggression and depression. Bullying is a direct attack on a student’s status, sense of belonging and core identity, and often results in low self-esteem. The effects of bullying often continue many years into adulthood. In the most extreme cases, targets have taken out their anger and despair through school shootings or by committing suicide. Now you try to tell me that school making you want to kill yourself is normal.