Partner+Editorials

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I went to the local mall with my family to get some clothes for my little brother, when something caught the corner of my eye. There were smoking ads everywhere, near the pay phones and on the walls. I was shocked because it’s a local mall where teens and children shop, it could easily convince them to do what the poster says. ======

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I think there shouldn’t be any smoking ads in the local malls because it’s a bad influence on the children. What if the person smoking in the ad is the child’s role model? They might want to do what their idol does, smoke. ======

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The child who chooses to smoke could end up with a health issue, such as lung disease, heart attack or heart disease, mouth cancer or bloody pee, which may lead to bladder cancer. It also costs a lot of money to heal, especially because smoking causes you to slow down healing time. ======

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Smoking cigarettes cost a lot too, for a pack of 20 it’s $10.00. On average a smoker smokes a pack of 20 a day. So, it adds up to about 7300 cigarettes per year. Which costs around $3650 a year – that’s really expensive! ======

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Cigarettes are so bad for you! They can harm you in so many ways. People may think it looks cool to smoke, but it slowly kills you inside and wastes most of your money. I can’t believe that there are smoking ads in the malls; it’s where most of the teens hang out with their friends. So if some kids decide to smoke I’d blame the advertisements, after all, who convinced the kids to smoke? That’s why we think it should be illegal to have smoking ads in local places, like the malls. ======

Thank you for listening.
Anisa & Katie Building a youth center

Five things 1.playing basketball. 2.hanging with friends. 3.going on my computer. 4.doing my homework. 5.going to the mall.

Hey, how many of you guys/girls like to play something after school? Mostly everyone right? How many of you get bored after school and have nothing to do?

Well we think that building a youth center will be good for you to hang with friends, have fun and your mom and dad will always know where you are at all times.

With this youth center kids can come here after school to do homework, read, take out books, play basketball, tennis, and go on the computer like you normally would.

This youth center could give teenagers a chance to stay out of trouble and perhaps give them a job to help younger kids learn, play, and have a good time. If teenagers are given opportunities to work they can get out of doing drugs and drinking and having sex and can just work with kids and get paid.

Even though the youth center will cost lots of money we can make it worth it by raising money at a car wash or a bake sale to support building this youth center.

With out this youth center kid can be out doing drugs getting drunk getting pregnant and will drop out of school, won’t get a good job could loose their license do to drinking and driving.

So now that you know what sort of things you can get in trouble/ get into, do you think we should have a youth center? If so then will you please help us raise money to build this for all of you, (including teenagers.)

Fact 1: Kids and teens are more likely to do bad thing such as: Tobacco, Alcohol, and Drug use or Sexual activity when after school hours are over.

Fact 2: Children and teens are most likely to be victims of crime after school, when walking home with a group of friends.

Fact 3: Kids that walk home by their self’s are most likely to get stolen by some one that followed them home and knows that their mom and dad are at work.

Thank you, for reading our paper now that you know what happens to kids if we don’t have a youth center so please help us raise money for it.

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Surrey has been a construction site for the past year. Every block there is something being built. Do you know how many trees are chopped down to make those buildings? The builders need wood for the actual building, plus they probably have to cut down a lot of trees to make room for the buildings. That’s a lot of trees. We need trees to survive. We need oxygen, food, and shelter. In this world we live in, trees are constantly neglected as forests are cut down to build buildings, and other things we need. Trees provide these things. ======

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Trees provide oxygen and clean the earth of carbon monoxide, which can poison people, and kill them. So without trees we would be suffocating and have carbon monoxide poisoning. Also, trees provide homes for animals like squirrels and birds and other woodland creatures. Without trees we would all die and if we would all die that wouldn’t be cool man. ======

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When there are trees around houses that are for sale the houses sell for more money and they sell faster because the property value goes up. In 2008 the city of Surrey had trees planted in peoples front yards. This was so property value would go up and the trees could help the environment. ======

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Trees are very important, and if people keep cutting them down our world is going to end, since there will be no oxygen and everyone will have carbon monoxide poisoning and they will all die. So save the trees. ====== Community Playgrounds-Navy and Austin Everywhere I look I see empty, rusty old playgrounds. Instead of kids playing on playgrounds their at home playing video games and not getting any fresh air. The school should ask the kids what they want in a playground. We think our school should have a new community playground because kids are board with the one they have now. So we think our school should have under ground tunnels with a jungle gym and a wrestling ring and a hockey rink with an ice rink. We think it should these things because its all fun and it will be new too so it’s a better chance of kids not getting hurt. And it will be good because kids will play on it a lot and it’s a better chance of the school not getting graphite on it and, parents have a lot of time to meet each other.

Kids will not get hurt because the playground will have safe things and the wrestling area will only be for grade 6 and 7 the hockey rink will have times for certain age groups to play. It’s a better chance of people not graphiteing the school because if this playground come there will be kids there and if kids are there usually there parents tag along to make sure there kids are safe and not getting hurt if you want your school clean and not having paint on it get this play ground. Parents are having alot more time to meet each other and monitor their kids. The parents will have time to make new friends and keep them company while the kids are playing so the adults would want to come there more to talk to their friends and that would get their kids active. If you want a safe nice clean school get a nice good play ground buy one like this that is actually fun for kids so kids can play there a lot and parents will come and watch there kids so if they see someone bad doing something they can tell them to stop what there doing or they will call the police. Reducing class size by clio & jasmin

1) Need more materials for students. 2) Not much space in each class. 3) Volume of noise in each class.

Have you ever seen a big amount of students in one class? Well we imagined it. It was just a desaster. The volume of the class was so loud that no one could hear each other. It was hard to get to another place in the class. The school districted had to spend so much money to get more materials for the schools.

It’s important that the class size stays small because the schools will have to spend more money for materials that the students need. The materials will cost lots of money because the school district will have to buy more supplies and the schools will have to raise more money for the class rooms for hot lunches, field trips and other special events.

The classes wouldn’t have much space for the supplies that they need such as desks. If the classes didn’t have much space it would be hard to get to another place in the class.

The volume of noise in each class would continue to be louder. If the volume is louder the kids won’t be able to hear them selves. The kids won’t be able to pay attention to the teacher with all the noise.

We Jasmin and Clio think the classes should stay how it is because it would be a disaster if the classes got bigger. The volume, space and spending money are just a disaster. The volume should stay in limit there should be enough space and they schools needs money.

Classroom size

Recently we have realized that classroom sizes have been getting larger every year for the past 5 years. In about 15-30 we would have more classes and more schools. Probably more then 100 just in B.C. alone. Imagine that 100 schools in B.C.

It has become a challenge for teachers to teach large groups of children because there are too many. The amount if noise doesn’t help very much either. Teachers are finding it harder to concentrate on one pupil because of the amount of children in the class. Then the school would need more money for books, math books, science books etc. If each grade 6 class had around 30 students it would cost $6120.00 just for math books alone. Imagine how much it would cost for science books, social studies, science, laptops etc. The kindergarten teacher would have a lot harder time because they would need to take care of a lot of children the can’t take care of them. Also they would scream and cry. Teachers might even quit because people that come from other country’s won’t know a lot of English so they won’t be able to do a lot by them self. So they would need support.

It has also become a challenge for the librarian because she needs to constantly get more and more books for the growing amount of children. Also the cost of books would be enormous due to the amount of children. It is also bad for the environment because we would need to cut down more trees to supply books, paper etc. The room size of the library would increase because they would need more room for books and more room to teach the amount to of kids. The fact that the books would become very worn easily doesn’t help the librarian. All books will eventually become ripped from all the times it has been taken out. Not to mention the spills and food stains that would eventually show up.

Finally the school would be losing money because of all the supplies, teachers and field trips that are needed in the curriculum. Also some filed trips might me canceled due to not in of money. Also if there is to many students the school might have to reject some new students. Or even have to rent a portable school for the students. They might even have to get a second school!!

Removing Smoking Ads From Local Malls

1.Ruin my teeth 2.Bad Lungs 3.Life will shorten

I realize that smoking ads should be banned from malls because it will influence kids and teens to smoke when they get older.

Yesterday I went to the local mall with my family, when I was there I saw that there were lots of smoking ads beside the stores. My family felt uncomfortable seeing those ads because it was giving off bad signs to kids. They would think its cool to smoke and I say that is so un-cool. It was hard to enjoy the time at the mall because I kept smoking ads that gave out bad influence to little kids. So I think that ads should be removed from all malls because it can lead kids to a very unhealthy lifestyle. If they start smoking at a young age, it will affect your grades, and this will lead to a bad future. My perspective to this article is that I care for the people who smoke and the people who are ruining their lives. I think this world should have never invented smoking. I believe that the person who created smoking was mad because he knew that there are bad things in it. Then the manufactures use smoking advertisements to lure people to start smoking. I think that influencing people is almost as worst as the smoking itself.

As I said, smoking ads are bad. So the society should make a petition to stop smoking ads from being made and the ads should never be in the malls or anywhere.


 * Building a community playground **
 * Vaneet and Alejandra **


 * __5 things:__ **
 * 1. Variety of swings **
 * 2. Slides **
 * 3. Jungle gym **
 * 4. Water park **
 * 5. Huge trampoline **


 * __reasons:__ **
 * 1) **parents can socialize **
 * 2) **kids can make new friends **
 * 3) **kids can be less motivated to get into trouble **
 * 4) **kids get the exercise they need **
 * Are your kids sitting in front of the TV all day long complaining that they have nothing to do? Well if there was a huge community playground with cool and fun equipment, they’ll never want to come inside ever again. They will get their exercise from running around, so you don’t ever have to go after them nagging your heads off telling them to get their butts of the sofa to do something!!!!!! If there’s a community playground, parents can socialize with other parents, kids can make new friends, kids will be less motivated to get into trouble if they are busy playing on the playground, and with all the running around going on, kids get the exercise they need. **


 * <span style="color: #1a181b; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; font-weight: normal;">When your kids are having lots of fun on the playground, parents, you guys can finally get the chance to meet with your friends and have time to catch up with each other. Now that there’s a place you can meet each other, you can have a nice conversation while your kids are playing on the playground. **


 * <span style="color: #1a181b; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; font-weight: normal;">Do you have kids starting in preschool or kindergarten? Do they get shy around other children? Well if you start taking your kids to a fun playground, they can get use to being around other kids and they can make new friends. They can easily make new friends when they start school. **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%;">** Are your kids getting into a **** LOT ****<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; font-weight: normal;"> of trouble these days and are you tired of dealing with it? Well if there’s a community playground, kids will be less motivated to get into trouble because there are other kids there that your kids can talk to. They can make new friends by socializing with them, so your child can talk with them when they need to. **


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; font-weight: normal;">With all the fun equipment, kids would want to go on everything, so obviously they’ll be running around wanting to try everything. They’ll be making new friends every time they come, and with all the running around they’ll be getting the recommended daily exercise they need. **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 81%;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10.8pt; font-weight: normal;">Forget the old tattered playground, let’s pitch in and build a new one. It may cost a lot, but think of the children. They’ll actually have a fun place to hang out, so you don’t really have to worry about them getting into trouble. Your kids will never want to stay in the house once they experience the fun new playground <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">. **

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Our school size has increased by 10% from the past 5 years. The last time we asked the teacher for help It took 20 minutes of waiting for our turn, which left us with 5 minutes left of work time. Which resulted in a C- in math since we couldn’t get anything done. Also the last time we used the laptops over 10 kids did not get a chance to use them, so 10 unlucky kids had to write a long paragraph on paper. We think that you should talk to the school officials and the politicians about this situation since it is concerning our education.=====

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Do you know how we feel to be stuck in a class with 40 kids, we think that our teachers don't even know our names. I can’t even imagine how we will live if the class had another 10 kids. With 40 kids we don’t even get a turn to use the classroom materials like the laptops and whenever the teacher buys treats only a few lucky kids get it.=====

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The worst part of a class of 40 kids is waiting for the teacher to help you. Do you even know how much we have to wait for, we had to wait for 2 hours for the teacher to help us .By the time we get your turn the schools over and we have to do all that work that we don’t know how to for homework. This is unfair, kids have the right to learn and understand, but here kids don’t get a turn to learn. It’s like there’s a race to learn here.=====

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AHHHHH! I can’t concentrate. How many times have you heard that, let me guess not a lot. Do you know that we hear it almost 20 times a day and do you know how annoying it is. In our classroom we don’t even get time to think because everybody is screaming 24/7. The last time we heard the teacher talk was like a month ago because it’s so noisy you can’t even hear the teacher.=====

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We think that the classrooms should have 15-20 kids in a class, if that is not possible they should make new classrooms and increase the school budget. We also think that the politicians should spend more money towards school materials like playgrounds and computers so kids don’t have to wait for a long time. It is very important for the government to make more services for kids not just adults because that is not fair.=====