Chapter 8- A Safe and Healthy School Environment

I totally agree with all the points that this chapter made. I really feel that a school must have a healthy environment in order to help kids succeed. If students see teachers fighting, smoking, or swearing then they view these actions as ok since their role models are doing them. “If adults can do it, then so can we”. I also think that it is important for teachers to eat and drink the right things since the kids are watching that as well. If students see that their teacher is drinking Pepsi and eating a hamburger and a bag of chips for lunch I highly doubt they will want to then go to the cafeteria and drink orange juice and eat an Italian! I rally loved that the book pointed this fact out and stressed the point that Teachers must model the proper life styles that we want students to grow up to follow, especially with the high crime rates and obesity rates in our country. Having firm role models and going to school in a safe and healthy school system can make the difference in some of the kids.