Positive: The University of Florida (go gators) is updating its bus system in a two hundred thousand dollar improvement plan. The money will go towards installing GPS systems in all of Gainesville’s (the city where the university is located) buses. This will allow students and faculty who ride the bus system to track the buses, eliminating rushing out of the house only to find that a bus is late. Student government for the university believes that this will help students to be more informed and will help lessen drunk driving. Also included in the renovation will be LCD screens in areas like the student union to show students where buses are, eliminating the need to wait outside in the dark.

Negative: Many of you know that I am a student and an intern in a classroom in West Palm Beach, so when I hear news about students, it really effects me. The stories I absolutely hate to hear, are like the two that follow. The first is a copy-cat crime that will sound familiar to you. As you may know, a group of students in Polk county Florida brutally beat a girl and recorded it. Those students are arrested. Well, a group of middle schoolers in Indiana decided to duplicate the Florida beatings. A group of tween girls got together and beat up a 12 year old in a warehouse parking lot and then promptly posted the footage on Photobucket. The victim only had minor injuries. Since they are juveniles, I doubt they will face much punishment, but come on. How unintelligent do you have to be to tape and post a crime you commit? Are we teaching our children to be so dumb?

In addition to this, an eighth grader in Kentucky decided to harm a classmate. Doesn’t sound too unusual right? Wrong. This student decided to place broken peanut pieces into a classmate’s lunch box when he knew that his classmate was highly allergic. Thankfully the student did not eat any of the peanuts, and was okay. It is scary to think that something as simple as a peanut could end a young life. Let’s all be grateful that there was no fatalities in this case.