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October 31, 2014OPINIONSHi-Tide 2

H- TTe La Jolla High School

Editors-in-ChiefJordan BowmanZoe Hildebrand

Isabel MelvinNews Editors

Jeanine ErikatNessie Navarro

Opinions EditorsSara Espinosa

Kaitlin Wheeler

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Features EditorsCamille FurbyLilly Grossman

Student Focus EditorLily Kennedy

Sports EditorStephanie Buchbinder

A&E Editor

Sarah Rainsdon

Buisness ManagerMisha Kabbage

Media EditorsShane LynchRyan Robson

AdvisorRobert J. Boyd

StaffWritersAndrea AlbanezCreekstar AllanKieran Bauman

Viviana BonomieJoseph Carroll

Sophia DorfsmanLucille Fitzmaurice

Ana GimberSophia Ketring

Jillian KoppIlana Larry

Yenitzia LopezTristan MacelliGeorgie MorrisLauren Robbins

By Jillian Kopp

StaffWriter

Te purpose of homework isto allow students to review thelesson plans learned in schoolthat day so they can fully un-derstand the concepts. To de-compress from all the stress intheir lives, people participatein extracurricular activities.However, balancing home-work, extra-curricular activi-ties, and the daily necessities,such as eating and sleeping,can be a major challenge in theaverage students life. Most classes assign aboutthirty minutes of homeworkeach day, and Advanced Place-ment classes normally assigneven more homework eachnight. Tere are six classes in a day,which adds up to about threehours of homework, at thevery least. Time spent on ex-tra-curricular activities, suchas sports, normally run foran hour or two afer school.On average, students spendaround four to ve hours oftheir day doing homework andschool-related activities. Te LA Times stated thatthree and a half hours is too

much homework. If that is alight to medium amount at LaJolla High, how extreme is ourhomework load becoming? Lets say you signed up foran Advanced Placement class.Lets estimate about two hoursfor advanced classes. If a stu-dent takes all advanced class-es, they have eight hours ofhomework. Yes, this is at thevery most. Now, add in sports,and the time is now about12:15 am. Students are supposed to getten hours of sleep each night.Tis would mean going tosleep at eight pm, and wak-ing at six am to get ready anddrive to school. Sadly, moststudents dont go to sleep un-til 1 am because of an essay,a major assignment, or somebig tournament for a sport. It is unhealthy to assign toomuch homework. One hour ofhomework for a class isnt thatbad, but when students haveve other classes, the hoursstart to add up. Teenagers also need theirown free time to enjoy them-selves and relax. Its healthyto be social, exercise, be hap-py, and have free time. Manyteenagers only get this in ex-

tra-curricular activities, manyof which are sports. Partici-pating in sports can enable astudent to get into a good col-lege, or at least receive a smallscholarship. Sports and schoolcorrelate with one another,so there should have a decentamount of time devoted toeach.

Homework is an importantpart of school and should beincorporated in students lives.It is also a good way to workon the material alone, whereyou can focus on what youneed to learn more of. How-ever, it should not be assignedto a point where students havedifficulties keeping their livesbalanced. If you dont have anhour to eat your food and talkwith family and friends, then itstarts to become a problem.

According to Web MD, toomuch stress in a studentslife can cause low energy, in-somnia, chest pains, stomachproblems, frequent colds, ner-vousness, shaking, cold hands,ringing in ears, dry mouth,and teeth clenching. Tis dis-plays just one more reason whyteachers should be more con-scious of the amount of home-work they assign.

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By Andrea Albanez

StaffWriter

On Tuesday, October 2nd,a 91-year-old woman pinneda La Jolla mother of threebetween two cars on GirardStreet, not realizing she had

done so until she stepped outof her car and other bystandersinformed her of theaccident. Te wom-an died as a resultof the injuries shesustained, and thedriver is now fac-ing vehicular man-slaughter charges.

Since the incident,many people havebeen in an uproarabout why the el-derly woman was

behind the wheeland questioned if it is a hazardto let elderly citizens drive.

When you go into the Cal-ifornia Department of MotorVehicles website to get infor-mation about senior drivers,it opens with the comment,DMV wants you to maintainyour driving independence foras long as you can safely drive.Te denition of what makesfor a safe driver, though, isheavily debated.

I believe that once elder-

ly people reach a certain agethey should not be allowed todrive, even if they think theyare safe drivers.

Even though people areencouraged to keep theirindependence in regards todriving, there are limitations

that need to be more clearlyknown. According to help-

guide.org, fatal crash ratesrise sharply afer a driver hasreached the age of 70. Tedriver in the accident on Gi-rard was 21 years over the rec-ommended age limit.

Health problems, mem-ory loss, and slowing of re-exes are the major problemsthat plague elderly drivers.Because one woman wasntaware of her surroundingson October 2nd, a citizen losther life. In all fairness, if you

cant see through a car window,know which pedal is the gas orbrake, or even know if you justran over someone, then youshouldnt be on the road.

While some senior citizensare able to remain competentdrivers well into old age, there

are still many who should havehad their licenses taken long

ago.Te issue

of maintain-ing a driverslicense whileaging ofencomes downto an issue ofpride. La Jol-la, many of ustend to for-get, is a townwith a large

population ofseniors. Its not an uncommonsight to see them driving, andofen times the driving vergeson reckless and dangerous. Tetaboo of the losing of abilitiesthat accompany the aging pro-cess needs to be lifed. If elder-ly drivers continue to not beforced to understand they nolonger contain the mental abil-ities they once did when theywere young, dangerous acci-dents like these are more thanlikely to happen again.

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