In most houses, the rule is “Be back at home by 11, or you’re grounded.” In some houses, that is not the case. Many teenagers are out past 12 am or even some times 2 am, getting into all sorts of trouble. When they come to school the next day dazed and confused, they are very exhausted and usually sleeping in class while the guy next to them is poking them with a pencil. When someone is that tired, they don’t care if someone is poking them with a pencil. They don’t even care about school. If the city council proposed to make a curfew law that minors can’t be outdoors, that law would be very beneficial for the teenagers of that city.
Some people come to school tired from being out after 4 am. Some people come to school drunk because they had a 21- year-old friend buy them some whiskey. Some people even come to school high. Most drug dealers do not operate in broad daylight; it’s obvious they would have a higher chance of being caught. They operate in the wee hours between midnight and the crack of dawn. There are some teenagers that buy drugs from people at midnight. If there were a curfew law, granted we would not be able to put drug dealers out of business, but we would decrease the amount of minors on drugs. We would also hopefully decrease the amount of teenagers drinking and smoking also. There are people who buy tobacco products and liquor products for minors and like the drug dealers, they usually operate at night or behind closed doors. The amount of drugs, drinking and smoking would decrease in minors if that curfew law were in effect.
There are a lot of gangs on the streets of New York and Los Angeles. Granted, we don’t have the same amount of gangs here in Whiteland, but we do have our fair share of them. Most of the people in these gangs are minors. There are drive-by shootings every now and then in Whiteland in which some people are shot. These victims are usually not killed, but shot because of violence. Usually, when people get shot because of gang violence, it is in yet again, the wee hours of the morning. The amount of minors getting shot or even killed would decrease if there were a curfew law.
Every September, students are being taught everything they need to know about the I-STEP. There are some people whose ambition it is to pass plus in every part of it, and then you have the students that don’t even come on the I-STEP days. Or even worse, come on the I-STEP days tired, unprepared, or high. These people will fail miserably on the I-STEP. They fail because they were out so late and had no sleep before coming to school. If there are enough people that stay out late, they will ruin the school’s record in test scores. But if there are enough people to go to sleep at a good time and come prepared, our school’s average test scores will go up. If there is a curfew law, the school’s test scores should go up.
There are many reasons why people should stay off the streets after 10 pm. One is the use of drugs, alcohol and tobacco in minors. The violence will go down and the test scores will go up. There is not a downside to this law. A few hours is plenty of time to hang out with friends and banter about their day and what not. It is not enough time to do anything bad around the city. That is what will make this curfew law successful.
