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.