http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/05/living/parents-too-much-homework/index.html?hpt=li_c2
By: Kelly Wallace

Homework: Too much or too little?

               CNN asked a question to see all of the different opinions of homework. "Is there too much homework or is there not enough?" People had all different outlooks on this topic. I agree there is too much time spent on homework. Some teachers need to be more considerate.

               School work is not our whole life. "As students go back to school and parents negotiate balancing family time and take-home assignments, parents shared that their children are stressed out and exhausted by the volume of homework they receive." When some of the teachers assign homework they forget to think that every other teacher is giving us homework too. Some teachers assign homework that takes about forty-five minutes and they think it is not much. They don't realize that every teacher just giving forty five minutes worth is already more than 4 hours of homework. "After school students need to unwind and engage in nonacademic activities." Being involved in other activities makes you a more well-rounded person. School work is not the only activity in our lives. We need time for other activities too. 

               Stressing because of homework causes you to rush through it. "We need to figure out the right dosage. Currently, it is too high." Educating your students is very important, but school already takes up six to seven hours. Some students have school, sports, and have to work. Hours of homework cannot fit everybody's lives and isn't necessary. If your schedule is already full when it comes time for homework you will rush through it because theres so much and you want to get it over with. "The movement away from homework completely would hurt students performance and the US education over all." There should definitely still be homework for a better education. Teachers just need to realize how much time homework actually adds up too. 

               Education is very important, but students need time for other activities as well. Family time and resting is also very important in anybody's life. Evening out time for activities is very important and thats something some teachers need to realize. 

Texas man convicted of starving his son and dumping his body
By: The associated press
http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=19026995&sid=81

        No child should be put to death by their parents. No child should be starved to death by their
parents. "A father accused of slowly starving his 10-year-old son to death, slipping his body into a sleeping bag and dumping it in a rural area where it went undiscovered for a year." Even if you and your kid aren't getting along or something isn't going right it's not okay to just kill your kid. This was a 10 year old little boy. Nobody deserves to get their life taken like that but especially a person so young that hasn't even gotten to really live yet. "Prosecutors said the father locked his son in his room, where he slowly starved on a diet of bread and water." The dad was found guilty. I think it is so wrong for him to lock his little son in a room and starve him. I don't understand how you couldn't feel horrible about yourself. This is kind of like the Casey Anthony trial. She drowned her kid and then dumped him too, but she was found innocent. I think this guy deserves his whole life in prison and that's what the prosecutors are saying is going to happen. Even if the little boy was a trouble maker he still didn't deserve death. There's other ways to discipline.
        If a parent is so sick of a kid that he wants to kill him he should just let the kid live somewhere else. "The boy's mother, Judy Williams, and other relatives did not see him for months." The boy didn't even live with his mom. His parents were divorced and he lived with his dad and step mom. If his dad was that mad at him he should've just sent him to his moms house. It's crazy how many lives are taken every day. Just like with all the shootings and explosions that have been going on. It's killing innocent people.  "Johnathan's grandfather, Edward Ramsey, had contacted police early last year to ask them to search for the child because he had not seen the boy for more than a year." After the dad dumped his son he didn't even contact anybody saying he had went missing. After a year of him being gone the grandfather finally contacted the police. It's so wrong that the dad did that and the mom didn't even get to say bye or have any idea that he had killed their son. I think he needs to sit in prison for the rest of his life. The dad should've thought out other ways to not have to live with him if it was that bad.

http://pix11.com/2013/02/07/school-kicks-out-6-year-old-after-she-gets-cut-in-classroom/?hpt=us_bn7#ixzz2KH1Kxsm6

School kicks out six year old after she gets cut at the school

       A little girl gets kicked out of the private catholic school that she goes to because her mom complained about the safety there.  "I was crying. I could not stop crying because it was painful." The little girl went to throw trash away in the trash can. When she bent down to throw her trash away she hit her head on a sharp corner of a shelf and cut her forehead open. She was crying and ker head was bleeding. "The teacher cleaned it off with clorox wipes." The teacher used clorox wipes to clean the little girls cut on her head! There was not even a school nurse there to check things out. I  think there should be a school nurse or atleast someone that knows what they are doing if a child gets hurt. Not somebody that uses clorox wipes on the kids face. 
The school got mad when the mom complained. "I called and demanded an accident report." After the mom called and wanted to know what had happened and asked about her safety her daughter got kicked out. They recieved a letter in the mail saying the school was "invitation only".  "They broke my heart and my daughters heart." The mom had every right to be concerned about her daughters safety there considering there wasnt even a school nurse when her daughters head got cut opened. The little girl ended up having to move schools and the parents have to pay even more for this school. I think that situation is totally wrong and the little girl should not have had to move schools just because they were mad her mom complained.

Too Many Tragities 

http://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-college-shooting-suspects-custody-lone-star-college/story?id=18287086
           Recently  in  the  US  there  have  been  quiet  a  few  shootings.  A  movie  theatre,  then  a preschool,  now  a  college.  I  think  it  is  scary  that  shootings  are  happening  so  much.  "A  fight  at  a  Houston  college  campus  today  resulted  in  a  shooting."  Today  there  was  a  fight  at  a college  in  texas  and  one  of  the  guys  ended  up  pulling  a  gun.  This  incident  relates  to  all  the  other  shootings  that  have  been  happening.  The  bullet  didn't  only  injure  the  other  fighter  but  also  a  maintenance  man.  Both  fighters  and  the  maintenance  man  ended  up  in  the  hospital.  I  think  people need to think before they do things because shootings have became a big problem lately. "The shooting comes only a month after the massacre at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Conn." These gun shots had everybody scared that it was a shooting like what happened in Conn. The college was on lockdown for an hour and a half and the school told everybody to take shelter. All these shootings are also leading to stricter gun control laws and school are also having to be more strict on the students because everything has been so out of hand. All of the shootings make you really take caution which is good, but I think that people need to relax and deal with their problems a different way.

Current connection

Sandy's disaster has caused people to take advantage of the local stores, and disrespecting their towns.
"People were running in and out of Rent-A-Center carrying these big flat screens."
With all of the disaster and people being cleared out, others are taking advantage of it and breaking in and stealing.
Nobody is there to arrest them because they are trying to keep people safe from the storm.
"They broke right in through the roof while the cops were standing outside."
The guys broke in through the top of the liquor store and stole so many bottles of liquor.
Instead of trying to help out during this disaster, tons of people are just making it worse.
People should have more respect, store owners are already having to deal with the hurricane damage.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/09/living/real-simple-social-media-job/index.html?hpt=li_c2

Keep Your Social Networks Clean

        This passage I read explains how having inappropriate pictures or post on different social media websites can effect getting the job you want. I agree that social webpages should be kept clean and appropriate.

        "Your first impression isn't made with a firm handshake-- it is with a google search." I agree with this statement. Now that technology plays such a big role in our lives it can also effect your life. When going for a job interview before you even get there they can know so much about you just from what it posted online. Yes, it is okay to take fun pictures on the weekends, but it is not okay to be posting them for the public eye. If your page is full with bad things they wont want to hire you because A- they have a bad impression of you and B- it can also make them look bad. "70 % of the US business managers say they decided not to hire a job candidate based upon something they found online." 70 is a high percentage of bosses to not hire because of something that could be fixed so easily. If the boss sees rude post about your last job or last boss then he may see you as a disrespectful worker. If the boss was to come across drunk pictures he may assume that you're a big partier and wont always show for work. I can relate to this from when my sister was going through rush to be in a sorority. One of the things they would do was go look through the facebook pages and twitter pages of the girls that were pledging. They were looking for clean pages not pages with junk on their. My sister got accepted and the next year she was one of the ones having to check out the girls social networks. She said "It is crazy how much of a difference it makes from having a clean or inappropriate page."

        If it is just as simple as deleting a few pictures and post off your pages to make them clean then why not do it? Its a good idea and can help your reputation and jobs if you do so. 

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/nyc-gym-teacher-claims-6-old-student-beat-195314203.html

6 Year Old Beats Up Teacher

         Who would think a 6 year old boy could beat up a two hundred and twenty pound gym teacher? Rodrigo Carpio has tried to hurt many people at the school and finally did. It does not matter if the person is six or seventeen. In my opinion they need to be diciplined. I think the parents have a lot to do with how kids will act at school.

        Rodrigo Carpio is a six year old that has been described as "an angel devil sort of thing" because of his sweet looks, but horrible behavior. Rodrigo has already kicked the school princible and pinched other individuals, including the school security officer. Rodrigo now has charges pressed against for actually damaging the gym teachers knee. "He kicked me in the ankle, and one kick landed right on my knee. I felt a pop," says gym teacher, Mr. Webster. I think they have every right to press charges, but Corpios dad thinks differerent. "This lawsuit is totally absurd." I disagree with his dad. This child already got away with physically hurting other members of the school faculty. He does not need to get by with damaging the teachers knee. I do understand where they could think that pressing charges on such a young kid is not necessary because he is only six, but discipline is definitely needed. The gym teacher tried holding on to the kid so he could not do anything, but he couldn't control the kid kicking him. This also ties in with parenting. For the dad to think his child should not be in trouble for this maybe shows what kind of parenting they apply. I know that if I were to do something like that in school even if I was that young, I would have been in twice as much trouble at home then at school.

        Different situations like this happen all the time. Of course a teacher can not do anything physically back to the child because of the young age. This is why something needs to happen through the law. Kicking people because you're mad or in trouble is not acceptable. If Rodrigo would have already got in trouble by his parents and teachers at school, then this probably would not have occured again.