Stricter School Laws

In Cheektowga, New York, schools are becoming more strict with how they discipline their students. If any students grade falls below 65, they are not allowed to participate in any after school activities. Melissa Gladwell, a sixth grade teacher, stood in front of the main entrance on Friday night with a list of 150 students that were not allowed to participate in the after school activities that were going on. The only way for students to regain their privileges would be if after a week of improvement and approval by the teacher. Students who failed were also required to wear identification cards and if they did not, they automatically received detention. While walking down the halls, they are required to walk to the right of a dotted yellow line and assigned seats at lunch. They also have to wait for the teacher to call them up to get their lunches.
Many people have said that because these students are not allowed to attend activities that prevent them from doing crimes and wrongful things that they will be prone to bad things in the community. Laura Rogers, a psychologist, says that students are less likely to go to school when they have detention at the end of the day for something as unnecessary as forgetting their identification cards for failing.

This story is closely related to the 1960s Civil Rights Movement and the 1920s when the Great Depression restricted children from going to school. The Civil Rights Movement was a time when many African Americans began attending white schools and were not allowed most of the privileges as whites had. This also happened in any common place when whites had better bathrooms and drinking faucets then the blacks and were also allowed to use the front entrance of a place. The1920s was a very hard time which led to children being forced to go to work for their families instead of seeking an education to make it farther in life. They did not even have the privilege to go to school, let alone fail subjects and make their parents feel bad about working hard for them to get an education.