Energy Drinks in Schools?

Energy Drinks in Schools?

Just recently schools everywhere have banned energy drinks from their grounds. The drinks are no longer allowed on school grounds due to the high levels of caffeine in them. Caffeine causes: increased urination, calcium loss, osteoporosis, increased stress or anxiousness, restlessness, nervousness, insomnia, flushed face, muscle twitching, stomach upset, agitation and irregular heartbeat and teens may feel the effects up to six hours  and because of those reasons school administrators have banned them from schools.

The part that doesn’t make sense though is that teens are still allowed to buy energy drinks but not drink them in school, so what they do is, they buy them at lunch time and drink them really fast so the effects take full effect right away making forth and fifth period classes worse for the teachers then before.

Since the school board cant stop teens from buying energy drinks the best thing they can do about the problem is to let teens slowly drink them during classes so the complete effects of the drinks don’t take effect right away making the students distractions to each other and the teachers. If the school board really wants to change the problem they’ll have to look much farther up the line and go to the government for help and regulations. The recommended amount of caffeine for teens is 100mg while a whole can, can contain up to 2800mg (Spike Shooter Double Shot).

So if a lot of planning and debating will have to take place in order for teens, school board administrators, adults, and government officials to agree on a plan that they can all agree with. But personally they should’ve have left it the way it was, because it worked and no serious problems occurred and the teens parents should regulate how much caffeine teens get not the school boards and government.