3. There are many parks where people are able to enjoy recreational activities in US and Canada and so on. But in Korea, it is hard to find parks. Many teens spend their time on internet rather than playing outside. I think this is a serious problem. It can increase youth crime. Not only school but also government makes phisical activities for teens. This will be helpful for teens' phisical health and mental health. ------------------------ As a result, students in Korea spend more time in Internet cafes rather than exercising their bodies playing sports. Therefore, Korea should focus on building more courts and fields for adolescents to play on.
We must realize school is not only a place for studying and learning, it is also place for learning how to maintain health and fitness. Korea has a myopic focus on class work and study time. There is no time for leisure or to do the things teenagers want to do. Also, parents force their children to study more by sending them to after school classes or tutors every day.
One difference between Canada and Korea is that Korea does not value PE time and thus has reduced physical education curriculum time to force students to focus even more on other subjects.
However, taking out physical education time will not positively influence student grades. In fact, it may lower them because PE classes relieve stress and improve mental sharpness and focus. Removing them is definitely them the wrong thing to do. ---------------------- http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2920859
3. It still have gap between ethnic groups. This article is about briging gap between black students and white students. Actually in Korea, we can't see this kind of situations. So we don't know how much serious it is. I know this isn't one side problem. And looks like it is not easy to solve it. After I read this I keep thinking about what can I do for that. ------------------------ The first weeks of the U.S. school year invariably bring fresh evidence of the achievement gap that separates black and Latino students from their white classmates. Worst off, by far, are African American males.
A new study from the Schott Foundation for Public Education sets out the sorry statistics. Across the country, fewer than half of all black males graduate from high school, compared with 78 percent of white males.
In Los Angeles, the situation is similarly grim: Just 41 percent of black males graduate, compared with 58 percent of white males.
Scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the nation’s “report card,” tell the same tale. By eighth grade, a third of white males, compared with just 8 percent of black males, are “proficient” in reading.
In Los Angeles, just 10 percent of black male eighth-graders are “proficient” and fewer than 1 percent are “advanced” readers.
On measure after measure, black males are struggling. Nationwide, they are twice as likely to be left back or assigned to dead-end special education and three times as likely to be kicked out of school as white males. All too often they’re on what educators privately dub “the prison track.” And while girls of all races do better than boys, the gender gap among African Americans when it comes to high school graduation 13 percent is wider than among white youngsters.
These disparities aren’t new the Schott report could have been published a generation ago. What is new and noteworthy is solid evidence that this gap can be bridged, with well-tested approaches that don’t require massive changes in public education and don’t depend on superhero teachers and administrators.
Because African American boys are academically behind even before they start kindergarten, their education needs to begin earlier, at age 3 or 4. Decades-long studies that have monitored youngsters who attended high-quality preschools, almost all of them African-American children from poor families, show that they were significantly more likely to succeed in school than their peers who lacked that opportunity. They were also healthier, less likely to get in trouble with the law and able to earn more money. A large-scale study in Chicago found that 74 percent of the boys who attended preschool graduated from high school, compared with 57 percent of those who didn’t.
Preschool makes a good beginning, but it’s no magic bullet. An analysis of the effects of Head Start, the biggest early-education program, concludes that the program had no long-term impact on children who went to underfunded public schools. The outcome was entirely different for Head Start alums who attended well-funded schools: They were substantially more likely to graduate from high school, to earn more and to be healthier. The message is plain: Effective education can’t be accomplished on the cheap.
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3. We couldn't see this kind of article 10 years ago. But the Internet has become popular more and more, It changes our society a lot. The boy and his parents claim that school shouldn't punish him for something happened at home. In my opinion, school has some rights to punish a student for what he did as long as it's something to do with school. Even if it happened at home.
--------------------------------------- Justin Bird, 16, a sophomore at Oak Forest High School, used his Facebook page to criticize a teacher.
Oak Forest High School's superintendent says the Facebook posting disrupted the school day, and that's why the student was suspended.
Bird's suspension has raised questions about whether school officials overstepped their authority.
A few keyboard strokes, a click of the mouse and a new Facebook page is born. And almost just like that, Justin Bird was suspended.
"I did this on this laptop in my room, sitting on my chair. I don't know how they can come into my house and suspend me for what I did on my own time," said Bird.
Bird admits he created a Facebook fan page on which he called a teacher a derogatory name. About 50 people became fans. And then, Justin took it down. But the next day at school, he received a five-day suspension. His parents are now considering taking legal action against the school.
2. how parents raise their children in modern society.
3. Nowadays how can parents deal with their children? what parents should have in order to raise their children desirably? everything is quickly changed per day. When I was 11 years old, I did not feel any need for mobile phones. At that time, kids with mobile phones seems to be rare. But, smart phones like IPhone, BlackBerry are one of the necessities in modern society. Even not yet the elementary school kids who carry a cell phone can be seen. The current situation we and their parents faced is totally different from our times. So parents should devise measures if they don't want one step behind in the world of a trend.
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5. For the past few years, Andreas Haralambou has performed the same ritual. “Can I have a cellphone?” he asks his dad. “When you’re older,” his dad says. “Every year I ask him, because I get older every year,” Andreas, now 11 and still cellphoneless, said the other day. If Andreas had one, he could keep a virtual pet alien with the Furdiburb app, play the video game Doodle Jump and not get bored when his friends ignore him to watch videos on YouTube.
3.Nowdays, obesity is rising up,which is a new problem. Especially,obesity of young people is definitely increasing.I think there needs a alternative plan.
-------------------- Everyone is clear: obesity is a growing problem and must be tackled. Latest figures show that 17 percent of boys and girls aged two to 10 in England are classified as obese. This is an increase from 11 per cent for boys and 12 per cent for girls since 1995.
Obesity now costs the NHS around £1 billion a year and the UK economy a further £2.3 billion in indirect costs. The government has set targets:
“to be the first major country to reverse the rising tide of obesity and overweight in the population by ensuring that everyone is able to maintain a healthy weight. Our initial focus will be on children: by 2020, we aim to reduce the proportion of overweight and obese children to 2000 levels.”
Foundations are being laid through healthy food programmes at school, better labeling in shops and the forthcoming restrictions on junk food advertising.
3. It's the biggest concern in Korea. A lot of women doesn't want to have child. It is getting developed society in Korea, the entry of women in public affair is getting increase. Because of that reason, women want to concentrate on their work more than having baby. If this situation is kept going continually, many problems will be happened. For example, it is really hard to get a job these days, because of almost high school students enter university. So it is really competitive to get a job. But decades later, almost company will be hard to search for workers and our military force will be weak than before because of short population. The government keep making many policies to solve low birth rate, but it isn't enough yet. I hope the government try more to solve that problem and we also need to change our mind. Children is our future.
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5. Korea's youth population is on a continual downward slope due to the country's record-low birthrate, with young people projected to account for a mere 15 percent of the nation's total population by 2025. According to Statistics Korea, the number of youths aged between nine and 24 fell to slightly over 10 million this year, a 16-percent decrease from the country's baby boom period in 1978. The government has nearly tripled its childcare budget over the past five years in an effort to boost the shrinking birthrate, but the results so far are below expectations.
2. Last year, teenager's suicide rate was increasing.
3. I think teenagers don't know about the priceless value of life. The life is very precious and important. Even if it's criminal's life, except for murderer. But today's teenagers and many people don't know about that. And I think the people who suicide are very selfish. Because, when one's died, their family or friends are so sad and maybe fall into despair. For them, we have to hold our life dear. And the think that take life lightly must be changed!
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5. Last year, teenagers in Korea who suicide are more than 200. Elementary school students were 6, middle school students were 56, and high school students were 140. High school students were 69.3% of all. The first cause of suicide was family troubles. Second and third were the depression and burden of grades.
3. Especially in Korea, there are a lot of prejudice to Unwed teen mothers. this is probably for convention(custom, idiosyncratic) we think teen mothers impact bad influence about all the things. but i disagree. they have a basic human right. is it not necessarily bad itself? we help them adapt to schooling. -------------------------
Unwed teen mothers have long been treated as sinners who neglect their studies and bear children out of wedlock. They have often been stigmatized as ``bad students" who should be kicked out of school. In fact, most pregnant teens have been forced to drop out at the request of school authorities. But things are changing as Korean society can no longer ignore their basic human rights and opportunities for education.
But, depriving unwed teen mothers of their right to schooling will create a bad cycle of no education, no job and poverty. This could also make their child's life difficult due to the inheritance of poverty. The best solution might be to help teens avoid unintended pregnancies by stepping up sex education. Of course, it is hard to completely prevent unplanned pregnancies.
Thus, it is necessary to raise awareness about teen pregnancies and single motherhood as well as set up a social system to enable young single mothers to continue their schooling and the process of having a child and childcare at the same time.
1. Min Jee Kwak 2. Heavy smoking rate increasing among teenagers 3. Early Education is needed for young student for their continuous life. As lifetime get longer, People have more interest in health and the way how get along with people. Although science helped us to live longer, they couldn't help with habit. That's the reason why habits are important. Hard to change. But we didn't care about early notice even they got their bad habit like drinking smoking when they are in school.they should know how bad it is or how hard to quit smoking. we should tell them before they start. ---------------------------
5. An increasing number of young teens are smoking, and they are starting younger, a lawmaker said Thursday.
In a nationwide survey of 80,000 teenage students between 2005 and 2008, 12.8 percent of them were cigarette smokers who had smoked more than once over the previous 30 days, Rep. Lim Hye-kyu of the ruling Grand National Party said during a parliamentary audit Thursday.
While the overall smoking rate saw fluctuations in recent years, the number of heavily smoking teens has continued to grow, Lim said.
Of the students surveyed, 6.5 percent smoked every day and 2.8 percent smoked more than 10 cigarettes a day in 2008, up from 3.9 percent and 2.1 percent in 2005, respectively.
The percentage of male students who smoked every day almost doubled from 5.3 percent in 2005 to 9 percent in 2008.
The smoking age also is getting younger, with three in 10 teenage smokers saying that they first smoked when they were in middle school.
Those who said they smoked before entering middle schools accounted for 10.3 percent of boys and 6.5 percent of girls in 2008.
Second-hand smoke was serious among female students as well. In 2008, 49.1 percent of middle school students and 46 percent of high school students said they were affected by smoking at home more than one day per week.
Despite the growing prevalence of teenage smoking, only half the students surveyed said they had received antismoking education more than once a year in 2008.
“Adults try to quit smoking when they have health problems. But young teens are vulnerable to its risk and addiction. Education for prevention should be done in the long term at schools,” said Lim.
3. crime is more and more increasing. especially in after school. I hope the schools teach teens about dangerous street after school. teens is vulnerable to attack. and the police guard teens in dangerous street after school. if we continue to be defenseless on crime, these crime will persist and teens are attacked continually. we should guard our teens.
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5. Teenagers were victims in four after-school street attacks in the 88th Precinct last week. Among the other violence in today’s blotter: A man was hit in the head with a wooden chair during a fight, police said. A woman was punched in a mugging, two attacks involved knives, and one man escaped injury after being held up at gunpoint.
Though it’s on the other side of Atlantic Avenue in Prospect Heights, part of the 77th Precinct, we should also note the stabbing death early this morning of bartender Chai Eun Hillmann, 42, outside the Branded Saloon on Vanderbilt Avenue. A waiter from the bar, Daniel Hultquist, 35, was slashed in the neck in the fight, which began as a tussle between dogs, the New York Post reports. Daniel Pagan, 36, has been charged with murder, according to the Daily News.
Teen Victims: Four boys aged 12 to 15 were mugged or attacked in a spate of incidents within a few blocks of one another in Fort Greene last week. The attacks happened in the after-school hours, between 2:30 p.m. and 4 p.m
-A teenager slashed a 14-year-old boy in the back of the head with a knife during a fight on the northeast corner of Fulton Street and Hudson Avenue at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 21. A third teenager joined the fight, police said, attacking the victim from behind. The boy was left with a 1-and-a-1/2-inch cut on the back of his head.
-Four men punched and kicked a 15-year-old boy who had been sitting in Fort Greene Park at 2:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 24. The men took off with his cell phone and wallet. The boy’s injuries caused swelling on his face, and he was treated and released from Brooklyn Hospital.
2. Middle, elementary schools to get 2,500 more PE teachers
3. Korean students are very busy. They spend almost time to study many things. They can't think about another world. They think only their future. Their future seemed to university. Many schools overstress main subject(Math. Own language. English). So their health level is lower than other era. The goverment planned increasing PE teachers and classes. I think that plan is good for student. Health is power of our nation. Don't forget "Student is our furture.
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The government announced Thursday a plan to enhance physical education classes at elementary and middle schools in order to tackle deteriorating physical fitness among children.
Under the new plan, the government will provide more than 2,500 additional PE teachers and teaching assistants to schools by 2015 with infrastructure support and will help schools set up more sports clubs for students to join for their after-school activities.
The government will spend 512.7 billion won ($450 million) on enhancing PE by 2015, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said in a joint news conference.
“Childhood obesity is on the rise in this country, and the children’s lack of physical strength is now a serious problem,” said Education Minster Lee Joo-ho.
“The primary goal of our plan is to make more children enjoy their PE classes and enjoy more sports,” Lee added.
“Physical education classes have long been neglected in the school curriculum. From 2008, the two ministries have been working together to track down this problem, and this is another step, and we believe this will help solve the problem,” said Culture Minister Yoo In-chon.
The government is planning to introduce a two-division system in school leagues to encourage more pupils to take up sports, according to Yoo.
“By the year 2015, we hope to see one in two students joining at least one sports club,” he added.
The government’s new plan calls for schools to find easy and fun ways to make physical activities more interesting, the Education Minster explained.
3. this script was suprised for me. Many young people are smoking, I actually knew that, but Youth smoking rates are highest in South Korea for the fact that I was surprised. that was very serious problem I believed that the refrain from our contry for tobocco and alcohol was strictly. but the student through a small hole market,and fake ID to but alcohol and cigarettes is a rearlity that had been able to. in rearlity these youh are easily exposed to tobacco or alcohol was able to it made the reality of today did not cause wonder.
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5.youth smoking rates are higest in the world In particular, men who show high levels. this trend shows that they may be subjcec to problems. Smoking is associated with many illnesses, it cause many physical problems. for example cancer including lung, esophageal and laryngeal carcinomas, and numerous heart related illness. because the 4,000 toxic substances in a cigarette it will be developed the disease. many people know that, but They do not quit smoking easily. because The toxic ingredients in cigarettes, as well as a drug it contains. One of the reasons for high smoking rates among teenagers is the limit of law enforcement was weak. The government should implement a nationwide no smoking campaign and education on its dangers should be included on the school curriculum. Strict enforcement of laws relating to the sale of cigarettes is essential and price rises should be considered.
1.Yun Yeon Jung 2.Ministry aims to boost student interest in sports 3.In korea, Many students dont care about PE class. Unfortunately, many school emphasized korean, math, english subjects more than PE. Thus, most of students also think that PE is not important subject. I was too. When i was in high school, many class mates wanted to study instead of running outside. But, It is quite wrong. For example, In US, I heard that PE subject is very important to them, and emphasized to them too. Thats why They can have strong body. But how about Korea students? We just study in classroom, and just sitted and read wrote..thats it. I think Our students also can have strong body like other countries students. It can be help to them definitely. And Hopefully, They can enjoy PE class, dont care much about grades. -------------------------
Hoping to drum up interest in sports and exercise, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology outlined a plan yesterday that will help schools bolster physical education classes via subsidies, staffing increases and other types of support.
The plan, dubbed “Sports for all Students,” comes amid increasing concerns over the health and physical activity of the nation’s youth.
The government said many children and teenagers are losing interest in sports and outdoor activities because of the excessive amount of time they spend indoors studying for university entrance exams, which don’t test athletic ability.
“We will be focusing on encouraging students to enjoy sports and physical-education classes so that they can stay healthy," Education Minister Lee Ju-ho said yesterday.
The new policy will require students to get at least one hour of exercise each weekday and encourage them to enroll in “school sports clubs,” partially funded by the government that bring together students interested in sports and exercise.
The ministry indicated it will allow students in the second grade and above to apply to join the clubs.
3. You know, in thesedays especially for teens, sending a textmessage is a highly popular... just like a sensation. However, the problem is that they send texts on improper time. such as during in the classes, in the meals, in the hospitals, in the plances. Such like that behavior causes real severe problems. It could lead to death. So, teens should send text message by safe manner. They have to know, their simple act can cause critical disasters.
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When I first saw a New York Times photo of a teen texting while driving, I had assumed it was just a photo illustration. The picture showed the driver texting with both hands — a youth in the passenger seat was steadying the wheel. The spedometer visible in the photo suggested the car was moving at 60 miles per hour. It was too crazy and too horrible to be real.
But I learned this weekend that the photo is real — captured by coincidence while a Times photographer working on an unrelated story was riding in the back seat.
1. Jeong SoRa 2. Playing With Fire 3. These days, The average birthrate in Korea does not surpass 1.16 per woman. It is very low Because It can be decrease the population of Korea. In short, Korea people don't bear many babies. So Korea parents are too care about their children. It is called helicopter parents who meddle in everything about their children. But This news insist that parent let their children be. Because a lot of interferences can ruin them. Playing with fire means taking dangerous risks. But it is necessary process for children to have thier judgment whether is right or not. I agree this news. So I think at least in regard to nurture, traditional way is better than today. 4. ------------------------------------------- Playing With FireBy LAWRENCE DOWNES Published: October 2, 2010
Rearing a child is already a journey through self-doubt and guilt, and now here comes Gever Tulley to say we’re doing it wrong, and that what we really need to do is hand our young ones power tools and let them lick nine-volt batteries. Mr. Tulley is a pedagogical theorist, though not an academic one. He wrote a book, soon to be out from Penguin, and founded the Tinkering School, near San Francisco, whose students do their work with PVC pipe and two-by-fours. His argument: Children should get out more. They should learn to work with their hands, not just their Nintendo thumbs. Because if they don’t, they risk stunting their independence, ingenuity, curiosity and competence. Mr. Tulley’s book, “Fifty Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do),” is a rebuke to a world of blunt-edged scissors, insipid molded-plastic playground equipment and perpetual parental anxiety. He believes parents don’t recognize what is most likely to endanger children (car trips, corn syrup). And he says that by engaging in seemingly (or mildly) risky exploration and play, children can become better problem-solvers and judges of risk. Children who don’t get acquainted with trivial danger (No. 5: Stick Your Hand Out the Window; No. 28: Climb a Tree), he says, don’t recognize real danger or can’t handle it when it comes. Mr. Tulley has no children. His theories probably make more sense in edenic suburbs than in cities with crime. I would not endorse all his 50 things, some of which — like No. 36: Poison Your Friends (with super-salty cookies) and No. 1: Lick a Nine-Volt Battery — are inexplicable or gross. But it’s easy enough to think of good replacements: Dig a hole, roll down a hill, row a boat. His book reminded me of David Samwell, ship’s surgeon to Capt. James Cook, the British explorer. In 1779, transfixed by the sight of Hawaiian children on surfboards, Samwell wrote: “We saw with astonishment young boys & Girls about 9 or ten years of age playing amid such tempestuous Waves that the hardiest of our seamen would have trembled to face. So true it is that many seeming difficulties are easily overcome by dexterity & Perseverance.” Mr. Samwell, meet Mr. Tulley, today’s keeper of your nice insight. Some danger can dissolve into fun, if you know what you’re doing. 6. --------------------------------------- 7. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/03/opinion/03sun4.html?ref=children_and_youth
1.Hong seob Shim 2.Teen moms' rights to study will be protected 3.Recently teen mom has incresed. this problem has a possibility to develop the juvenile delinquency. so govenment and socail are not negelct teen mom they have a right to study 4.------------------ 5.About 5,000 teenagers give birth to babies out of wedlock and most of them “unwillingly” quit school and stay outside the social mainstream, the commission said.
Kim Yun-hee, 21, was one of them. She was 17 when she became pregnant with her high school boyfriend’s child in 2007. She was devastated and had very limited options at hand. She had to quit school because neither her parents nor schoolteachers approved of her giving birth to the baby.
“Now I regret running away from school. I should have fought more fiercely,” she said. She is staying at a shelter and is studying on her own to get her high school diploma with the help of a local charity group but admitted that it isn’t easy. “Sometimes, you just don’t know where to start.” 6.------------------------------------- 7.http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/09/117_73530.html
1. Dana Kim 2. Physical education need changes 3. I know that physical education in school is totally nothing. I mean its always depends on who my teacher is.. and what they want to teach. if I meet boring teacher I will have boring classes with worthless classes. there are some students who are not good at sports. but koreas physical education classes are asking all students for "join" to get great marks. none of my classes were joyful or fun. I just did it for my marks. government is saying they will offer more fun and joyful classes for students but it always never happened. I hope government can give us specific plan. I hope students in highschool or middle school students can join their physical education class. ----------------------------------------------------------------- compare Europe and Japan , Koreas physical education classes are not much useful and joyful to students. they said physical education classes are helping students to improve their health, and also let can have more cooperation ability. and physical activities make their blood can flow to brain so that make students to can have active brain which means smarter. government should offer specific plan to students psychical education classes. not just for marks.. ---------------------------------------------------------------- http://news.donga.com/3/all/20101002/31554442/1
1. Jo Young Joo 2. Heavy smoking rate increasing ...among teenagers 3. I think teens feel smoking no guilty. Inspite of prevention education, students don't seriously think the damage of smoking. I was told that students who had not smoked was easily influenced by friends smoking. Maybe, they consider smoking as sharing friendship. I agree that non-smoke students can feel alienation when they don't follow some smoking friends. But it is so frustrating. 4. -------------------------------------------------- 5. An increasing number of young teens are smoking, and they are starting younger, a lawmaker said Thursday.
In a nationwide survey of 80,000 teenage students between 2005 and 2008, 12.8 percent of them were cigarette smokers who had smoked more than once over the previous 30 days, Rep. Lim Hye-kyu of the ruling Grand National Party said during a parliamentary audit Thursday.
While the overall smoking rate saw fluctuations in recent years, the number of heavily smoking teens has continued to grow, Lim said.
Of the students surveyed, 6.5 percent smoked every day and 2.8 percent smoked more than 10 cigarettes a day in 2008, up from 3.9 percent and 2.1 percent in 2005, respectively.
The percentage of male students who smoked every day almost doubled from 5.3 percent in 2005 to 9 percent in 2008.
The smoking age also is getting younger, with three in 10 teenage smokers saying that they first smoked when they were in middle school.
Those who said they smoked before entering middle schools accounted for 10.3 percent of boys and 6.5 percent of girls in 2008.
Second-hand smoke was serious among female students as well. In 2008, 49.1 percent of middle school students and 46 percent of high school students said they were affected by smoking at home more than one day per week. 6. ----------------------------- 7. http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20100930000701
1. kim ji young
ReplyDelete2. improving teen health
3. There are many parks where people are able to enjoy recreational activities in US and Canada and so on. But in Korea, it is hard to find parks. Many teens spend their time on internet rather than playing outside. I think this is a serious problem. It can increase youth crime. Not only school but also government makes phisical activities for teens. This will be helpful for teens' phisical health and mental health.
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As a result, students in Korea spend more time in Internet cafes rather than exercising their bodies playing sports. Therefore, Korea should focus on building more courts and fields for adolescents to play on.
We must realize school is not only a place for studying and learning, it is also place for learning how to maintain health and fitness. Korea has a myopic focus on class work and study time. There is no time for leisure or to do the things teenagers want to do. Also, parents force their children to study more by sending them to after school classes or tutors every day.
One difference between Canada and Korea is that Korea does not value PE time and thus has reduced physical education curriculum time to force students to focus even more on other subjects.
However, taking out physical education time will not positively influence student grades. In fact, it may lower them because PE classes relieve stress and improve mental sharpness and focus. Removing them is definitely them the wrong thing to do.
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1. kim min ah
ReplyDelete2. Bridging gap between students
3. It still have gap between ethnic groups. This article is about briging gap between black students and white students. Actually in Korea, we can't see this kind of situations. So we don't know how much serious it is. I know this isn't one side problem. And looks like it is not easy to solve it. After I read this I keep thinking about what can I do for that.
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The first weeks of the U.S. school year invariably bring fresh evidence of the achievement gap that separates black and Latino students from their white classmates. Worst off, by far, are African American males.
A new study from the Schott Foundation for Public Education sets out the sorry statistics. Across the country, fewer than half of all black males graduate from high school, compared with 78 percent of white males.
In Los Angeles, the situation is similarly grim: Just 41 percent of black males graduate, compared with 58 percent of white males.
Scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the nation’s “report card,” tell the same tale. By eighth grade, a third of white males, compared with just 8 percent of black males, are “proficient” in reading.
In Los Angeles, just 10 percent of black male eighth-graders are “proficient” and fewer than 1 percent are “advanced” readers.
On measure after measure, black males are struggling. Nationwide, they are twice as likely to be left back or assigned to dead-end special education and three times as likely to be kicked out of school as white males. All too often they’re on what educators privately dub “the prison track.” And while girls of all races do better than boys, the gender gap among African Americans when it comes to high school graduation 13 percent is wider than among white youngsters.
These disparities aren’t new the Schott report could have been published a generation ago. What is new and noteworthy is solid evidence that this gap can be bridged, with well-tested approaches that don’t require massive changes in public education and don’t depend on superhero teachers and administrators.
Because African American boys are academically behind even before they start kindergarten, their education needs to begin earlier, at age 3 or 4. Decades-long studies that have monitored youngsters who attended high-quality preschools, almost all of them African-American children from poor families, show that they were significantly more likely to succeed in school than their peers who lacked that opportunity. They were also healthier, less likely to get in trouble with the law and able to earn more money. A large-scale study in Chicago found that 74 percent of the boys who attended preschool graduated from high school, compared with 57 percent of those who didn’t.
Preschool makes a good beginning, but it’s no magic bullet. An analysis of the effects of Head Start, the biggest early-education program, concludes that the program had no long-term impact on children who went to underfunded public schools. The outcome was entirely different for Head Start alums who attended well-funded schools: They were substantially more likely to graduate from high school, to earn more and to be healthier. The message is plain: Effective education can’t be accomplished on the cheap.
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1. Joonkoo Chung
ReplyDelete2. Student suspended for Facebook posting
3. We couldn't see this kind of article 10 years ago.
But the Internet has become popular more and more, It changes our society a lot. The boy and his parents claim that school shouldn't punish him for something happened at home. In my opinion, school has some rights to punish a student for what he did as long as it's something to do with school. Even if it happened at home.
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Justin Bird, 16, a sophomore at Oak Forest High School, used his Facebook page to criticize a teacher.
Oak Forest High School's superintendent says the Facebook posting disrupted the school day, and that's why the student was suspended.
Bird's suspension has raised questions about whether school officials overstepped their authority.
A few keyboard strokes, a click of the mouse and a new Facebook page is born. And almost just like that, Justin Bird was suspended.
"I did this on this laptop in my room, sitting on my chair. I don't know how they can come into my house and suspend me for what I did on my own time," said Bird.
Bird admits he created a Facebook fan page on which he called a teacher a derogatory name. About 50 people became fans. And then, Justin took it down. But the next day at school, he received a five-day suspension. His parents are now considering taking legal action against the school.
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1. Jung-Kwan Lim
ReplyDelete2. how parents raise their children in modern society.
3. Nowadays how can parents deal with their children? what parents should have in order to raise their children desirably? everything is quickly changed per day.
When I was 11 years old, I did not feel any need for mobile phones. At that time, kids with mobile phones seems to be rare. But, smart phones like IPhone, BlackBerry are one of the necessities in modern society. Even not yet the elementary school kids who carry a cell phone can be seen. The current situation we and their parents faced is totally different from our times. So parents should devise measures if they don't want one step behind in the world of a trend.
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5. For the past few years, Andreas Haralambou has performed the same ritual. “Can I have a cellphone?” he asks his dad. “When you’re older,” his dad says. “Every year I ask him, because I get older every year,” Andreas, now 11 and still cellphoneless, said the other day.
If Andreas had one, he could keep a virtual pet alien with the Furdiburb app, play the video game Doodle Jump and not get bored when his friends ignore him to watch videos on YouTube.
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7.http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/magazine/19Essays-cellphone-t.html?_r=1&scp=10&sq=children%20and%20youth&st=cse
1.Park Kyu Hwan
ReplyDelete2.young poeple in danger because of obesity
3.Nowdays, obesity is rising up,which is a new problem. Especially,obesity of young people is definitely increasing.I think there needs a alternative plan.
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Everyone is clear: obesity is a growing problem and must be tackled. Latest figures show that 17 percent of boys and girls aged two to 10 in England are classified as obese. This is an increase from 11 per cent for boys and 12 per cent for girls since 1995.
Obesity now costs the NHS around £1 billion a year and the UK economy a further £2.3 billion in indirect costs. The government has set targets:
“to be the first major country to reverse the rising tide of obesity and overweight in the population by ensuring that everyone is able to maintain a healthy weight. Our initial focus will be on children: by 2020, we aim to reduce the proportion of overweight and obese children to 2000 levels.”
Foundations are being laid through healthy food programmes at school, better labeling in shops and the forthcoming restrictions on junk food advertising.
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http://www.idea.gov.uk/idk/core/page.do?pageId=6462869
1. Jeong Kwang Hoon
ReplyDelete2. Korea's Youth Population Continues to Decline
3. It's the biggest concern in Korea. A lot of women doesn't want to have child. It is getting developed society in Korea, the entry of women in public affair is getting increase. Because of that reason, women want to concentrate on their work more than having baby. If this situation is kept going continually, many problems will be happened. For example, it is really hard to get a job these days, because of almost high school students enter university. So it is really competitive to get a job. But decades later, almost company will be hard to search for workers and our military force will be weak than before because of short population. The government keep making many policies to solve low birth rate, but it isn't enough yet. I hope the government try more to solve that problem and we also need to change our mind. Children is our future.
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5. Korea's youth population is on a continual downward slope due to the country's record-low birthrate, with young people projected to account for a mere 15 percent of the nation's total population by 2025. According to Statistics Korea, the number of youths aged between nine and 24 fell to slightly over 10 million this year, a 16-percent decrease from the country's baby boom period in 1978. The government has nearly tripled its childcare budget over the past five years in an effort to boost the shrinking birthrate, but the results so far are below expectations.
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7. http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2010/09/06/2010090600678.html
1. Jeong Won Bum
ReplyDelete2. Last year, teenager's suicide rate was increasing.
3. I think teenagers don't know about the priceless value of life. The life is very precious and important. Even if it's criminal's life, except for murderer. But today's teenagers and many people don't know about that. And I think the people who suicide are very selfish. Because, when one's died, their family or friends are so sad and maybe fall into despair. For them, we have to hold our life dear. And the think that take life lightly must be changed!
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5. Last year, teenagers in Korea who suicide are more than 200. Elementary school students were 6, middle school students were 56, and high school students were 140. High school students were 69.3% of all. The first cause of suicide was family troubles. Second and third were the depression and burden of grades.
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7. http://www.mt.co.kr/view/mtview.php?type=1&no=2010092908145018889&outlink=1
1. Choi Ji Hoon
ReplyDelete2. Schooling for Teen Mothers
3. Especially in Korea, there are a lot of prejudice to Unwed teen mothers. this is probably for convention(custom, idiosyncratic)
we think teen mothers impact bad influence about all the things. but i disagree. they have a basic human right. is it not necessarily bad itself? we help them adapt to schooling.
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Unwed teen mothers have long been treated as sinners who neglect their studies and bear children out of wedlock. They have often been stigmatized as ``bad students" who should be kicked out of school. In fact, most pregnant teens have been forced to drop out at the request of school authorities. But things are changing as Korean society can no longer ignore their basic human rights and opportunities for education.
But, depriving unwed teen mothers of their right to schooling will create a bad cycle of no education, no job and poverty. This could also make their child's life difficult due to the inheritance of poverty. The best solution might be to help teens avoid unintended pregnancies by stepping up sex education. Of course, it is hard to completely prevent unplanned pregnancies.
Thus, it is necessary to raise awareness about teen pregnancies and single motherhood as well as set up a social system to enable young single mothers to continue their schooling and the process of having a child and childcare at the same time.
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/2010/03/202_62537.html
1. Min Jee Kwak
ReplyDelete2. Heavy smoking rate increasing among teenagers
3. Early Education is needed for young student for their continuous life. As lifetime get longer, People have more interest in health and the way how get along with people. Although
science helped us to live longer, they couldn't help with habit. That's the reason why habits are important. Hard to change. But we didn't care about early notice even they got their bad habit like drinking smoking when they are in school.they should know how bad it is or how hard to quit smoking. we should tell them before they start.
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5. An increasing number of young teens are smoking, and they are starting younger, a lawmaker said Thursday.
In a nationwide survey of 80,000 teenage students between 2005 and 2008, 12.8 percent of them were cigarette smokers who had smoked more than once over the previous 30 days, Rep. Lim Hye-kyu of the ruling Grand National Party said during a parliamentary audit Thursday.
While the overall smoking rate saw fluctuations in recent years, the number of heavily smoking teens has continued to grow, Lim said.
Of the students surveyed, 6.5 percent smoked every day and 2.8 percent smoked more than 10 cigarettes a day in 2008, up from 3.9 percent and 2.1 percent in 2005, respectively.
The percentage of male students who smoked every day almost doubled from 5.3 percent in 2005 to 9 percent in 2008.
The smoking age also is getting younger, with three in 10 teenage smokers saying that they first smoked when they were in middle school.
Those who said they smoked before entering middle schools accounted for 10.3 percent of boys and 6.5 percent of girls in 2008.
Second-hand smoke was serious among female students as well. In 2008, 49.1 percent of middle school students and 46 percent of high school students said they were affected by smoking at home more than one day per week.
Despite the growing prevalence of teenage smoking, only half the students surveyed said they had received antismoking education more than once a year in 2008.
“Adults try to quit smoking when they have health problems. But young teens are vulnerable to its risk and addiction. Education for prevention should be done in the long term at schools,” said Lim.
By Lee Ji-yoon (jylee@heraldm.com)
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7. http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20100930000701
1. Kwak Bo Ram
ReplyDelete2. The Week in Crime: Teens Attacked After School
3. crime is more and more increasing. especially in after school.
I hope the schools teach teens about dangerous street after school.
teens is vulnerable to attack. and the police guard teens in dangerous street after school. if we continue to be defenseless on crime, these crime will persist and teens are attacked continually. we should guard our teens.
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5. Teenagers were victims in four after-school street attacks in the 88th Precinct last week. Among the other violence in today’s blotter: A man was hit in the head with a wooden chair during a fight, police said. A woman was punched in a mugging, two attacks involved knives, and one man escaped injury after being held up at gunpoint.
Though it’s on the other side of Atlantic Avenue in Prospect Heights, part of the 77th Precinct, we should also note the stabbing death early this morning of bartender Chai Eun Hillmann, 42, outside the Branded Saloon on Vanderbilt Avenue. A waiter from the bar, Daniel Hultquist, 35, was slashed in the neck in the fight, which began as a tussle between dogs, the New York Post reports. Daniel Pagan, 36, has been charged with murder, according to the Daily News.
Teen Victims: Four boys aged 12 to 15 were mugged or attacked in a spate of incidents within a few blocks of one another in Fort Greene last week. The attacks happened in the after-school hours, between 2:30 p.m. and 4 p.m
-A teenager slashed a 14-year-old boy in the back of the head with a knife during a fight on the northeast corner of Fulton Street and Hudson Avenue at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 21. A third teenager joined the fight, police said, attacking the victim from behind. The boy was left with a 1-and-a-1/2-inch cut on the back of his head.
-Four men punched and kicked a 15-year-old boy who had been sitting in Fort Greene Park at 2:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 24. The men took off with his cell phone and wallet. The boy’s injuries caused swelling on his face, and he was treated and released from Brooklyn Hospital.
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7. http://fort-greene.thelocal.nytimes.com/2010/09/30/the-week-in-crime-teens-attacked-after-school/?scp=1&sq=teens&st=cse
1. Il-ho. Jang
ReplyDelete2. Middle, elementary schools to get 2,500 more PE teachers
3. Korean students are very busy. They spend almost time to study many things. They can't think about another world. They think only their future. Their future seemed to university. Many schools overstress main subject(Math. Own language. English). So their health level is lower than other era. The goverment planned increasing PE teachers and classes. I think that plan is good for student. Health is power of our nation. Don't forget "Student is our furture.
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The government announced Thursday a plan to enhance physical education classes at elementary and middle schools in order to tackle deteriorating physical fitness among children.
Under the new plan, the government will provide more than 2,500 additional PE teachers and teaching assistants to schools by 2015 with infrastructure support and will help schools set up more sports clubs for students to join for their after-school activities.
The government will spend 512.7 billion won ($450 million) on enhancing PE by 2015, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said in a joint news conference.
“Childhood obesity is on the rise in this country, and the children’s lack of physical strength is now a serious problem,” said Education Minster Lee Joo-ho.
“The primary goal of our plan is to make more children enjoy their PE classes and enjoy more sports,” Lee added.
“Physical education classes have long been neglected in the school curriculum. From 2008, the two ministries have been working together to track down this problem, and this is another step, and we believe this will help solve the problem,” said Culture Minister Yoo In-chon.
The government is planning to introduce a two-division system in school leagues to encourage more pupils to take up sports, according to Yoo.
“By the year 2015, we hope to see one in two students joining at least one sports club,” he added.
The government’s new plan calls for schools to find easy and fun ways to make physical activities more interesting, the Education Minster explained.
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http://www.koreaherald.com/sports/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20100930000758
1. Ji Yeon WOO
ReplyDelete2. Smoking Gaining Popularity Among Korean Teens
3. this script was suprised for me.
Many young people are smoking, I actually knew that, but Youth smoking rates are highest in South Korea for the fact that I was surprised.
that was very serious problem
I believed that the refrain from our contry for tobocco and alcohol was strictly.
but the student through a small hole market,and fake ID to but alcohol and cigarettes is a rearlity that had been able to.
in rearlity these youh are easily exposed to tobacco or alcohol was able to it made the reality of today did not cause wonder.
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5.youth smoking rates are higest in the world
In particular, men who show high levels.
this trend shows that they may be subjcec to problems.
Smoking is associated with many illnesses,
it cause many physical problems.
for example cancer including lung, esophageal and laryngeal carcinomas, and numerous heart related illness.
because the 4,000 toxic substances in a cigarette it will be developed the disease.
many people know that, but They do not quit smoking easily.
because The toxic ingredients in cigarettes, as well as a drug it contains.
One of the reasons for high smoking rates among teenagers is the limit of law enforcement was weak.
The government should implement a nationwide no smoking campaign and education on its dangers should be included on the school curriculum. Strict enforcement of laws relating to the sale of cigarettes is essential and price rises should be considered.
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http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2007/10/19/2007101961008.html
1.Yun Yeon Jung
ReplyDelete2.Ministry aims to boost student interest in sports
3.In korea, Many students dont care about PE class. Unfortunately, many school emphasized korean, math, english subjects more than PE. Thus, most of students also think that PE is not important subject. I was too. When i was in high school, many class mates wanted to study instead of running outside. But, It is quite wrong. For example, In US, I heard that PE subject is very important to them, and emphasized to them too. Thats why They can have strong body. But how about Korea students? We just study in classroom, and just sitted and read wrote..thats it. I think Our students also can have strong body like other countries students. It can be help to them definitely. And Hopefully, They can enjoy PE class, dont care much about grades.
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Hoping to drum up interest in sports and exercise, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology outlined a plan yesterday that will help schools bolster physical education classes via subsidies, staffing increases and other types of support.
The plan, dubbed “Sports for all Students,” comes amid increasing concerns over the health and physical activity of the nation’s youth.
The government said many children and teenagers are losing interest in sports and outdoor activities because of the excessive amount of time they spend indoors studying for university entrance exams, which don’t test athletic ability.
“We will be focusing on encouraging students to enjoy sports and physical-education classes so that they can stay healthy," Education Minister Lee Ju-ho said yesterday.
The new policy will require students to get at least one hour of exercise each weekday and encourage them to enroll in “school sports clubs,” partially funded by the government that bring together students interested in sports and exercise.
The ministry indicated it will allow students in the second grade and above to apply to join the clubs.
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http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2926620
1. Lee Woo Yong
ReplyDelete2. Textmessaging while teens are driving.
3. You know, in thesedays especially for teens, sending a textmessage is a highly popular... just like a sensation.
However, the problem is that they send texts on improper time. such as during in the classes, in the meals, in the hospitals, in the plances. Such like that behavior causes real severe problems. It could lead to death. So, teens should send text message by safe manner. They have to know, their simple act can cause critical disasters.
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When I first saw a New York Times photo of a teen texting while driving, I had assumed it was just a photo illustration. The picture showed the driver texting with both hands — a youth in the passenger seat was steadying the wheel. The spedometer visible in the photo suggested the car was moving at 60 miles per hour. It was too crazy and too horrible to be real.
But I learned this weekend that the photo is real — captured by coincidence while a Times photographer working on an unrelated story was riding in the back seat.
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http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/27/teens-texting-and-driving/?scp=8&sq=teens&st=cse
1. Jeong SoRa
ReplyDelete2. Playing With Fire
3. These days, The average birthrate in Korea does not surpass 1.16 per woman. It is very low Because It can be decrease the population of Korea. In short, Korea people don't bear many babies. So Korea parents are too care about their children. It is called helicopter parents who meddle in everything about their children.
But This news insist that parent let their children be. Because a lot of interferences can ruin them. Playing with fire means taking dangerous risks. But it is necessary process for children to have thier judgment whether is right or not. I agree this news. So I think at least in regard to nurture, traditional way is better than today.
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Playing With FireBy LAWRENCE DOWNES
Published: October 2, 2010
Rearing a child is already a journey through self-doubt and guilt, and now here comes Gever Tulley to say we’re doing it wrong, and that what we really need to do is hand our young ones power tools and let them lick nine-volt batteries.
Mr. Tulley is a pedagogical theorist, though not an academic one. He wrote a book, soon to be out from Penguin, and founded the Tinkering School, near San Francisco, whose students do their work with PVC pipe and two-by-fours.
His argument: Children should get out more. They should learn to work with their hands, not just their Nintendo thumbs. Because if they don’t, they risk stunting their independence, ingenuity, curiosity and competence.
Mr. Tulley’s book, “Fifty Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do),” is a rebuke to a world of blunt-edged scissors, insipid molded-plastic playground equipment and perpetual parental anxiety. He believes parents don’t recognize what is most likely to endanger children (car trips, corn syrup). And he says that by engaging in seemingly (or mildly) risky exploration and play, children can become better problem-solvers and judges of risk. Children who don’t get acquainted with trivial danger (No. 5: Stick Your Hand Out the Window; No. 28: Climb a Tree), he says, don’t recognize real danger or can’t handle it when it comes.
Mr. Tulley has no children. His theories probably make more sense in edenic suburbs than in cities with crime. I would not endorse all his 50 things, some of which — like No. 36: Poison Your Friends (with super-salty cookies) and No. 1: Lick a Nine-Volt Battery — are inexplicable or gross. But it’s easy enough to think of good replacements: Dig a hole, roll down a hill, row a boat.
His book reminded me of David Samwell, ship’s surgeon to Capt. James Cook, the British explorer. In 1779, transfixed by the sight of Hawaiian children on surfboards, Samwell wrote: “We saw with astonishment young boys & Girls about 9 or ten years of age playing amid such tempestuous Waves that the hardiest of our seamen would have trembled to face. So true it is that many seeming difficulties are easily overcome by dexterity & Perseverance.”
Mr. Samwell, meet Mr. Tulley, today’s keeper of your nice insight. Some danger can dissolve into fun, if you know what you’re doing.
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7. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/03/opinion/03sun4.html?ref=children_and_youth
1.Hong seob Shim
ReplyDelete2.Teen moms' rights to study will be protected
3.Recently teen mom has incresed. this problem has a possibility to develop the juvenile delinquency. so govenment and socail are not negelct teen mom they have a right to study
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5.About 5,000 teenagers give birth to babies out of wedlock and most of them “unwillingly” quit school and stay outside the social mainstream, the commission said.
Kim Yun-hee, 21, was one of them. She was 17 when she became pregnant with her high school boyfriend’s child in 2007. She was devastated and had very limited options at hand. She had to quit school because neither her parents nor schoolteachers approved of her giving birth to the baby.
“Now I regret running away from school. I should have fought more fiercely,” she said. She is staying at a shelter and is studying on her own to get her high school diploma with the help of a local charity group but admitted that it isn’t easy. “Sometimes, you just don’t know where to start.”
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7.http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/09/117_73530.html
1. Dana Kim
ReplyDelete2. Physical education need changes
3. I know that physical education in school is totally nothing. I mean its always depends on who my teacher is.. and what they want to teach. if I meet boring teacher I will have boring classes with worthless classes. there are some students who are not good at sports. but koreas physical education classes are asking all students for "join" to get great marks. none of my classes were joyful or fun. I just did it for my marks. government is saying they will offer more fun and joyful classes for students but it always never happened. I hope government can give us specific plan. I hope students in highschool or middle school students can join their physical education class.
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compare Europe and Japan , Koreas physical education classes are not much useful and joyful to students.
they said physical education classes are helping students to improve their health, and also let can have more cooperation ability. and physical activities make their blood can flow to brain so that make students to can have active brain which means smarter. government should offer specific plan to students psychical education classes. not just for marks..
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http://news.donga.com/3/all/20101002/31554442/1
1. Jo Young Joo
ReplyDelete2. Heavy smoking rate increasing ...among teenagers
3. I think teens feel smoking no guilty. Inspite of prevention education, students don't seriously think the damage of smoking. I was told that students who had not smoked was easily influenced by friends smoking. Maybe, they consider smoking as sharing friendship. I agree that non-smoke students can feel alienation when they don't follow some smoking friends. But it is so frustrating.
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5. An increasing number of young teens are smoking, and they are starting younger, a lawmaker said Thursday.
In a nationwide survey of 80,000 teenage students between 2005 and 2008, 12.8 percent of them were cigarette smokers who had smoked more than once over the previous 30 days, Rep. Lim Hye-kyu of the ruling Grand National Party said during a parliamentary audit Thursday.
While the overall smoking rate saw fluctuations in recent years, the number of heavily smoking teens has continued to grow, Lim said.
Of the students surveyed, 6.5 percent smoked every day and 2.8 percent smoked more than 10 cigarettes a day in 2008, up from 3.9 percent and 2.1 percent in 2005, respectively.
The percentage of male students who smoked every day almost doubled from 5.3 percent in 2005 to 9 percent in 2008.
The smoking age also is getting younger, with three in 10 teenage smokers saying that they first smoked when they were in middle school.
Those who said they smoked before entering middle schools accounted for 10.3 percent of boys and 6.5 percent of girls in 2008.
Second-hand smoke was serious among female students as well. In 2008, 49.1 percent of middle school students and 46 percent of high school students said they were affected by smoking at home more than one day per week.
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7. http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20100930000701