(Procon.org, con #10). Already high schoolers can get easier access from people only a few years older, and lowering does the same thing but for lower ages. The drinking age as it now, reduces traffic accident and fatalities, 98% in a 2002 study found that higher drinking ages led to fewer highway fatalities (Procon.org, con #4). Less drunk driving leads to fewer death and fewer devastated families. Alcohol consumption can interfere with the development of a young adults brain (Procon.org, con #1). It
researchers on how texting affects human behavior. It was found that teens who begin chatting when they are upset usually feel better after they are able to communicate with a friend. Apparently, the digital barrier provides a certain sense of comfort. Texting and other forms of mobile communication apparently also helps the introverted teenagers, this was shown in the research done by the NYU Child Study Center when they surveyed teens. It gives them an opportunity to express themselves better in
in students’ health and academics. This has become a difficult situation, however, because of conflicts in the bus schedules in school districts with elementary and middle school schedules. Even though changing the time teens start school affects bus and district operations, teens should start school later because students would be more alert and get better grades. After changing the morning start times to later, students have shown dramatic changes in their academics. “When seven Minneapolis high
with each other; they are communicating electronically not emotionally (Roden, 2013). In addition, according to the Pew Research Centre, 26 percent of teenagers where bullied through cell phones. These teens where either bullied by text messages, voice messages or pictures. Not only through sending teens these threatening messages, they also might be bullied through social media if they are using smart phones (Szumski & Karson, n.d.). It has been reported by Caudle, a family