Should Rolling Hills students be able to go home for lunch?

Should Rolling Hills… Yes we shouldNO we shouldn’t

Yes – Pro - For 6 th graders are responsible You can choose your own menu You could visit with your family

No – Con - Against Students won’t return to school Some live too far to walk Buses would be expensive and maybe not even available What if I get hurt, bullied on my way home, who will help? No one is home at my house I can’t socialize with my friends at home like I can in the cafeteria

Should Rolling Hills students be required to wear uniforms?

Yes-Pro-For Ease of choice in deciding what to wear in the morning Nurse will have the exact replacement clothes if you rip or spill something on yourself You can proudly represent your school Everyone looks the same for field trips and away from school events, no one gets lost There are many colors, styles and fabrics to choose from

No – Con - Against No freedom of expression Uncomfortable Expensive You have to have two styles-winter and summer Attitude and self-esteem would decrease and learning goes down too

Should kids living in Pennsylvania be required to wear helmets when they ride their bicycles?

Pro Riders can have brain damage, coma, paralysis, and even death If you ever witnessed an accident, you would wear one Baseball players wear helmets, why can’t you? Remember Roethelisberger’s accident?

Con It should be highly suggested but a choice A broken helmet could hurt your head too Only long rides should require a helmet not short ones in your neighborhood Looks cool with no helmet Can’t hear well with a helmet covering your ears Can’t see well, limits your side vision

Is Pennsylvania doing the right thing; giving permission to shoot cormorants?

Pro Cormorants damage trees and fish Less fish means less food for people to eat Business are affected, cormorants take jobs away It’s only controlling the population, not exterminating them Environmental destruction is a good reason to kill

Con Shooters may miss and kill something else Killing is too drastic, there must be a non-violent way The birds could be moved to another environment, or sanctuary, or zoo We could cause them to go extinct Cormorants might have helpful benefits that we don’t even know about yet The birds are only doing what is natural for them Cormorants are alive, killing is wrong, it’s murder We could train the birds to stop the bad behavior Humans are supposed to preserve nature not destroy it, birds are nature

Should pennies be abolished from U. S. currency?

Pro-Elimination Taxes would be lowered to 5 cents It cost more than a penny to make a penny Pennies are poisonous to people and animals if they are swallowed Pennies are small and get lost easily You can’t buy anything with one penny You can’t use pennies to pay turnpike tolls You can’t use pennies in vending machines

Pro-Elimination-Continued Pennies in wishing wells poison fish Pennies are heavy in your pocket Lincoln is on a $5 bill, we would still be honoring him People would give more to charity since they would not be able to give just pennies

Con-Preservation How will you get correct change after a purchase without pennies? The penny honors Abraham Lincoln Stores will have to change all their prices Pennies are easy to use, they are the only brown coin All coins are poisonous if you eat them You won’t be able to crank/flatten souvenir pennies

Con-Preservation-Continued Zinc producing factories would fail, since a penny is over 95% zinc Our entire currency system would have to change and that would hurt the economy Pennies can easily be counted for free at bank coin counter machines Pennies are small and easy to carry There would be no more penny candy

Con-Preservation-Continued You couldn’t say “A penny for your thoughts” anymore No more making wishes in a wishing well You can’t buy an 89 cent taco at Taco Bell You can’t buy much with a dollar, why don’t you get rid of that too? Pennies are a part of history Pennies are used as math manipulatives at schools; Pendulum experiments need pennies

Con-Preservation-Continued Pennies are a great charity coin, pennies for homeless animals, pennies for a child’s operation You couldn’t say “A penny saved is a penny earned” anymore The $2 bill is already gone, what will you want to abolish next? People collect pennies

Should kids in the United States spend more time in school?

Pro Going to school in the summer can boost your grades Students in other countries go to school 30% more than U.S. kids More time spent learning a subject equals better test scores on that subject Teachers get more time in their day Students can have more enrichment activities Disadvantaged kids have nothing to do in the summer and they forget what they learned

Con When would you play on a sport team or take music lessons Longer school days will make students feel stress It cost too much money to heat and light up the schools Schools would have to cook lunch and dinner You wouldn’t be able to socialize with your friends as much You wouldn’t get exercise sitting at a desk longer and kids would get unhealthy