should white-out be banned from school?, they dont allow it in our middle school Options

[azn_r4pf4n]

iite.. as lots of good debaters say, lets make this a debate, and if you have an opinion, support it with good facts.

Should white-out be banned from school or not?

White-out is used for: to white-out any mistakes you made in pen instead of scratching out with pen (english classes only accept writing in pen in our school).

Reason why our shcool banned white-out: because their afraid kids might get high from white-out by smelling white-out because white-out has a terrible smell that can make u feel high.

so what you think?

[*wind&fire*]

its banned in my school... i give it a yes and no feel... it has cut down on grafitti but the good old permanent marker comes into play... always reliable in writing on any surface with ease...

hmmm i love my whiter out and marker....

[Tung]

its stupid to bann it..if they gonna bann that, why not bann those stink marker pens teacher;s use to write on the white board. -_-

[azn_r4pf4n]

its stupid to bann it..if they gonna bann that, why not bann those stink marker pens teacher;s use to write on the white board. -_-

actually, all we do is throw them away instead, lol.

reason why it's stupid.. i know there's a reason why.

[ryfitaDF]

well maybe if the stupid kids wouldn't give the deans reasons to ban things such as white out...

friggin, as soon as research shows that a well hydrated student works more effectively, they ban all drinks at our school. because some stupid f**ks are dumb enough to bring alcohol.

if we're tired of being treated like children, we need to grow the f**k up.

[sweetxsimplicity]

Our school banned white out because people would graffiti with it (the ink kind) so yeah..I think for your reason, schools shouldn't band white out but the reason why my school banned white out is kind of like..yeah..

[RandomHero]

It's not banned at our school, but some teachers won't let you use it in class. I am 50-50 on this one. I mean, you can always use an eraseable pen if you really think you're gonna make a huge mistake on a paper. You can also just cross it out. Whoa. There's a new idea. Just use pencil if you're that consered.

[starfaerie06]

Banning white-out would be completely stupid. Most English classes require that you use pen and never pencil. What if you made a mistake at the bottom of the back side of a page and didn't want it to look sloppy by crossing it out? If you didn't have access to white-out you would have to redo the entire page... A huge waste of time that could be spent on editing and revising the paper to make it sound and flow better.

In a way I understand why they would want to ban it because of the huffing issue but the kids that are going to do that would find other ways of getting it anyway and most of them are smart enough to not do it at school.

[*tweeak*]

not only should we band white-out, we should also ban pencils, because you can poke peoples eyes out, and you could do the same with pens. and you can hit someone over the head with a ruler, and that might hurt, so lets ban them too. oh oh! and sharpies. we could definitely get high off them too. we also shouldnt be allowed to use glue on projects, like rubber cement because we could get high from any of that. not to mention erasers, which we could easily swallow and choke on. hell, i dont want to get a paper cut, so lets not use paper anymore either. not to mention those hazardous dry erase markers. desks could collapse on use too. in fact, the whole f**king school could fall on us if there were a tornado or something, so lets not go anymore.

people are stupid

[mirage]

no, i don't think they should ban white out. The school that i go to (middle school) allows white-out but maybe some other middle schools don't. Anyway, it's ridiculous to use "getting high" as an excuse to ban white out. If they are banning white out, what about sharpie markers? and those paints in art class? Those smells even worst and it could get people "higher". If the school want to prevent students from doing something like that, they should have a assembly for the grade or something giving them the right information about what to and to not do. White out is practical, a lot of other things are not.

[heyyfrankie]

if there is a problem with it, that is dangererous to the kid's health or harmful to the school itself or the environment, than it should be banned. why would you want to have something harmful around?

[*tweeak*]

^because its f**king white out!!

[*AngelicEyz00*]

i don't see how you can get high off of the white out.

[sadolakced acid]

have you ever heard of WHITE OUT TAPE?

they don't ban that. it's a perfectly viable way to white out. and you can't get high off it.

For those of you who say use a pencil, the ablility to erase is over-rated.

i use only pen- it's better because you can see it better and it doesn't smudge.

math teachers hate me. I do my work in pen...

of course they force me to use pencil.

but really; you can cross out, you can re-write.

i am currently calculating the angle between vectors with a pen.

[sunissed14127]

well it's not banned at my shcool...we even ask the teachers to let us use theirs and they let us. so no, i dont think it should be banned. if they catch someone trying to get high off of it, i think the person should face some kind of conciquence though.

[azn_r4pf4n]

ic.. i 4got to mention sharpie.. but they banned those 2..

white-out tape, their allowed in our school.

My opinion about it is that we shouldn't ban it in our school, but i find it dumb that it's banned cuz their afraid kids will get high from it...

The reason i think it's dumb to assume kids would wanna smell it: wow... none of my friends or classmates even do that when they are using white-out.. it basically depends on what school.. kids/teens do a lot of crazy stuff these days.. so you really dont know if they're smelling it or not.

I agree with starfaerie06, that happens to me a lot. i cant even bring white-out to school and i have to scratch it out and make it look hecka messy.

Our school banned white out because people would graffiti with it (the ink kind) so yeah..I think for your reason, schools shouldn't band white out but the reason why my school banned white out is kind of like..yeah..

hmmm. did they grafitti with it yet before it was banned?
well.. yea u could grafitti with the white-out. i saw a bunch of desks full of em one time.

not only should we band white-out, we should also ban pencils, because you can poke peoples eyes out, and you could do the same with pens. and you can hit someone over the head with a ruler, and that might hurt, so lets ban them too. oh oh! and sharpies. we could definitely get high off them too. we also shouldnt be allowed to use glue on projects, like rubber cement because we could get high from any of that. not to mention erasers, which we could easily swallow and choke on. hell, i dont want to get a paper cut, so lets not use paper anymore either. not to mention those hazardous dry erase markers. desks could collapse on use too. in fact, the whole f**king school could fall on us if there were a tornado or something, so lets not go anymore.

people are stupid 

lol.. ending up banning all the school supplies.

i don't see how you can get high off of the white out.

it smells terrible.. but some ppl can handle the smell and get high out of it.


We need white-out. English classes only allow u to use pen and i have to cross out a lot.. dang, it'll make my paper messy. but yeah... white out makes papers neater without crossing out with pen.

[gelionie]

Geez. There are similar and probably better stuff called correction tape / white-out tape. It doesn't need any time for drying and doesn't give out any smell.

I guess you can't really ban correction liquid, because it's just some stationery; but I think people should STOP sniffing in because it damages your brain cells and can be fatal.

[*tweeak*]

well, actually, whenever we write essays in class for tests or whatnot, were typically not allowed to use it, so i dont carry it anymore just because its a bit obsolete, but the fact that theyre banning it is ridiculous, as they could ban anything, as stated in my previous post

sharpies on the other hand are not so obsolete. we use those daily. crayola arent permanent. you need permenent markers.

[*AngelicEyz00*]

i love the smell of white out, rubbing alcohol,and nail polish remover

[starfaerie06]

i love the smell of white out, rubbing alcohol,and nail polish remover

seriously?

I like the smell of sharpie kinda but I don't huff it. I've never tried to get high off of it but I know people who have... One time in 8th grade I was using sharpie to color my book cover and I didn't get high but my pupils got dialated... my friends laughed at me.

[*islandgirl4eva*]

Seeing as virtually none of the kids at my school use white-out, I doubt that they get high off of it. I say no.

And besides, Sharpies do the job quite nicely.

[*x____duckii*]

I find the fact that white-out is being banned just plain stupid. I don't think anyone would get high out of white-out. Don't you need it when you make a mistake? I also find it stupid that they ban white-out because of graffiti. You can also graffiti with markers and some other stuff. My school banned white-out because of graffiti. Okay, if a school is gonna ban white-out because they believe is "hazardous," they might as well ban these things too:

Pencils and pens — you can poke somebody in the eye like that or stab someone.
Scizzors — you can stab someone, cut someone, or poke someone in the eye.
Markers — you can also get high out of those, no?
Paper — you can cut yourself.
Chalk — some people can be allergic to chalk.
Eraser — you can choke on it.
Desks — there are some people that are allergic to that too.
Paint — you can also get high out of that.

Let's just face it, almost everything is harmful in some form. So I don't think white out should be banned.

[azn_r4pf4n]

I find the fact that white-out is being banned just plain stupid. I don't think anyone would get high out of white-out. Don't you need it when you make a mistake? I also find it stupid that they ban white-out because of graffiti. You can also graffiti with markers and some other stuff. My school banned white-out because of graffiti. Okay, if a school is gonna ban white-out because they believe is "hazardous," they might as well ban these things too:

Pencils and pens — you can poke somebody in the eye like that or stab someone.
Scizzors — you can stab someone, cut someone, or poke someone in the eye.
Markers — you can also get high out of those, no?
Paper — you can cut yourself.
Chalk — some people can be allergic to chalk.
Eraser — you can choke on it.
Desks — there are some people that are allergic to that too.
Paint — you can also get high out of that.

Let's just face it, almost everything is harmful in some form. So I don't think white out should be banned.

you make a good point that almost everything is harmful.. some of that stuff u just pointed out our school doesnt even use, like chalk.

We use whiteboards in our school, and chalk was banned b/c ppl were allergic to it.

Desks — there are some people that are allergic to that too.

you mean wooden desks?

[krispy_kreme333]

not only should we band white-out, we should also ban pencils, because you can poke peoples eyes out, and you could do the same with pens. and you can hit someone over the head with a ruler, and that might hurt, so lets ban them too. oh oh! and sharpies. we could definitely get high off them too. we also shouldnt be allowed to use glue on projects, like rubber cement because we could get high from any of that. not to mention erasers, which we could easily swallow and choke on. hell, i dont want to get a paper cut, so lets not use paper anymore either. not to mention those hazardous dry erase markers. desks could collapse on use too. in fact, the whole f**king school could fall on us if there were a tornado or something, so lets not go anymore.

people are stupid

i completly agree!!! they cant ban white out on the basis that its harmful because everything is harmful and you cant excape it!!! and they cant ban it on graffiti (sp?) either because you can graffiti with almost anything so again they would have to ban alot of things just to stop people from graffiting or hurting themselves and also people can get high off of almost anything if you really wanted to or really tried, you could so they cant ban it for that reason either! personally i think the whole public school system is f**ked up!

[*Weird addiction*]

LMAO the usa cracks me up ,lmao!! white-outs rnt banned in my school! i have many of 'em and i love the smell but im never high

[azn_r4pf4n]

i completly agree!!! they cant ban white out on the basis that its harmful because everything is harmful and you cant excape it!!! and they cant ban it on graffiti (sp?) either because you can graffiti with almost anything so again they would have to ban alot of things just to stop people from graffiting or hurting themselves and also people can get high off of almost anything if you really wanted to or really tried, you could so they cant ban it for that reason either! personally i think the whole public school system is f**ked up!

haha that's true.. but the only problem is that most school supplies are strongly essential like pencils and pens and rulers for writing and measuring. stuff like white-out is important sometimes.. only problem is that as some schools suggested, "it's a health hazard," and stuff like getting hit with pencils and pens are just injuries.. they dont affect your health, but stuff like white-out could possibly can if you sniff it too much..

So what I'm saying is that: if the whole school system is what u claim "F**ked up," thats an opinion.. but everything is harmful, one way or another. Pens and pencils and rulers can give you injuries but not effect your health, but stuff like white-out can. Schools are trying their best to have stuff in school banned/not allowed in school that affects childrens' health.

[iheartjohn]

Sure and let's ban scissors because kids can slit their wrists with them. And pencils, because they could stab each other in the eye.

[azn_r4pf4n]

Sure and let's ban scissors because kids can slit their wrists with them. And pencils, because they could stab each other in the eye.

was that sarcastic or serious? haha

[jennyjenny]

Well, white-out is banned from our school.

But a lot of people use Sharpies and WhiteBoard markers (teachers, also), and they never said that thy can't use it...

But white-out for us isn't really like, banned... they just don't like it, and tell u to put it away...

but yeah, banning white out is like banning glue (can't u get high from sniffing glue?)

[iheartjohn]

was that sarcastic or serious? haha

Sarcasm.

[inthemudhole]

I think it's fricking stupid to ban white out.
I went to go buy some at Wal-Mart the other day and they wouldn't let me.
I was so pissed.. cause I really needed some.

But anyway.

ANYTHING can be dangerous. So what's the point of banning something like that when you can do something as dangerous with a pencil?

[sweetxsimplicity]

I never knew you could get high off white out tape. o.O

[azn_r4pf4n]

I never knew you could get high off white out tape. o.O

white-out tape? i never said white-out tape, only white-out. haha

I think it's fricking stupid to ban white out.
I went to go buy some at Wal-Mart the other day and they wouldn't let me.
I was so pissed.. cause I really needed some.

what the heck? why didnt they let cha?

[sadolakced acid]

my school has banned students, because all students do is write on desks, graffiti the bathrooms, get in fights, and smoke pot.

[demolished]

nope, my school havent banned white outs yet unless alot of people abuse it. well, i hardly use whiteout becuase i dont use pen very often .. even i did, i would scribble it or get a new paper . whiteout waste alot of my time .. take it out, shake it, press it, leak it out slowly, caps on, and put it back ..

[ashley26195]

hello.well i just want to say that normaly, up to a few weeks ago iv been a very good kid.never got in truble, always did what i was told, got all As in school and i still do.but a few weeks ago, i got in a HUGE fight with my entire family and it was rough.wev been fighting a lot and it really bothers me. so for soem reason a few weeks ago, i was painting my nails and i started to sniff the nail polish and it smelled good for some reason.so i stpped painting them and i went and got my nail polish remover out and started to sniff that.ever since then iv ben sniffing BUT i never feel like im high or anything.i barely feel any different.my toes tingle a little nad once or twice my nose burned a lil but thats it.iv now tried sniffing sooo many things including white out and i tried the hardest with white out but i cant get high off it.i asked some ppl at my school and none of them can get high of white out either.i dont think it shuld be banned bcuz 1. it is useful on papers and stuff and 2. its soo hard to get high off it if its even possible so its stupid to ban it.
if anyone wnats to talk to me, heres some info:
AIM S/N: AsHlEy26195
MSN: freshchickette@hotmail.com
well im going to go do some hmwk.such fun

[sammi rules you]

my english class let's me use pencil. and i use eraseable pen on my reports and stuff. or we usually type them, and we can just reprint if we find a mistake..

i think it's stupid to ban white out, but it's not really a big deal..

[azn_r4pf4n]

^teachers in my school claim it can get you high.

it's stupid to ban it? hey, i havent replied in this thread for a while, but the big question out of this is: which is considered the most harmful in school?

[sammi rules you]

it can get you high, but the people who do huff know enough not to do it in school. you do it at home..

..and you asked us if it was right to ban white-out..not what's most harmful in school..so..that's what we're debating. don't change subjects.

[Baku]

wow dumb... next its going to be sharpies and markers.... and mybe even pens!! oo and pencials they have a funny smel ohh and so does gym shorts.... -.- people are dum now n days

[alienchik]

hahaha. I dont think it should be banned. It kinda helps me. haha i dont get the point. people at my school sniff salt. its stupid to ban it. you really dont get a high off of it

[Paradox of Life]

well maybe if the stupid kids wouldn't give the deans reasons to ban things such as white out...

friggin, as soon as research shows that a well hydrated student works more effectively, they ban all drinks at our school. because some stupid f**ks are dumb enough to bring alcohol.

if we're tired of being treated like children, we need to grow the f**k up.

That's really true. White-out is an effective tool for erasing mistakes that can't be erased with normal erasers. If you're drawing a poster, it's not very neat to scratch out something you wrote wrong. Nor is it if you're drawing a picture at school and you make a wrong line in pen. You don't scratch it out and mess your whole picture up; you can just use white-out. If it makes kids feel high, whoop-dee-doo! If anything, they should allow it so kids will sniff white-out instead of coccain. It probably doesn't really harm kids. If it did, white-out would've already been gone by now.
And it's really our choice if we want to use white-out or not. If we want to sniff white-out at school, that's our choice! Teachers shouldn't prevent us from smelling an object because it makes us feel good (I actually haven't tried it so I'm just saying this from a logical standpoint).
It's not banned in my school, if you were curious.

[sammi rules you]

um, getting high kills brain cells and messes up your nervous system so um..it's quite harmful to huff.

[sweetdreamsx3]

No, it should not be banned. That's completely stupid. Take me for instance. I'm a really neat person and even a little scratch out annoys the shit out of me.

Plus, like x___duckii said. Almost all objects are dangerous. If they are going to ban white-out, they might as well ban every utensils that we can use for writing, eating, etc. etc.

----
If kids want to sniff it, that's their life. Not ours.

[azn_r4pf4n]

Plus, like x___duckii said. Almost all objects are dangerous. If they are going to ban white-out, they might as well ban every utensils that we can use for writing, eating, etc. etc.

yea... almost all objects are dangerous (refers himself to this episode on CatDog on how everything is dangerous, haha)... well anyways, i would infer that the school is trying to ban the most dangerous objects. Yes, almost all objects are dangerous, but the schools intentions r possibly trying to ban the objects that are most dangerous.

[racoons > you]

what a load of crap.

like everyone else has said, if you want to start banning stuff b/c its harmful, you might as well ban clothes. i mean, if i really waned to i could take of my jeans and throttle the girl sitting next to me with them... or my shoe laces...

and white out tape is annoying. it always breaks. or maybe im just retarded. what ever.

white out should stay. i mean frankly, what percent of kids-getting-highness actually happens in class? i mean, if its banned from schools, kids are still gonna get high at home, i doubt it would even have a slight impact on the statistics

[*xcaitlinx*]

white-out is not banned from my school. i dont believe it should be, either. When studnets use white-out in class, the teachers should be watchign their kids anyway, and if they see any jackass sniffing it, then they should just send him/her to the office. the kid gets suspended, gets an ass whoopin from their parents, and then the problem is solved. woopie.

Permanent black markers are banned from my school though. Last year we had a major issue with people writing on school property [ie: desks and bathroom stalls] so whenever they see someone with a permanent marker, they immediately snatch it and throw it in some filing cabinet with piles of markers in it. heh.

[*SimplePlan_Luvr*]

Its banned freom mai skewl I think.... but I got it in mai pencil case

[whomps]

They permit white-out tape. Or at least that what my school allowed..

[gigiopolis]

There must be SOME medical studies that show white-out is harmful to your body. Let's think about it, it smells awful, like some horrid chemical. It smells like turpentine. People don't necessarily inhale the stuff to get high, but it's probably dangerous to our health if too much is inhaled. I'm just too lazy to google any of this.

Of course, this isnt' saying that white-out in small amounts is harmful. If a mere sniff of white-out could black someone out, don't you think that manufacturers would have be told to stop making these products, or modify them so they don't harm people? Obviously, white-out is unhazardous to a certain extent.

Of course, anything that is taken in too large a dose will be harmful, so we just have to be careful around white-out, just like any other chemical in chemistry class, or painkillers. It's silly to ban it in school.

[sadolakced acid]

i don't think there is...

if you notice.. they only say 'deleberatly concentrating and inhaling"

which would mean if you don't concentrate it then it wouldn't be enough to really do damage... i think..

[xj_liana_tx]

.. how can you get high from it.. wow
i don't think it should get banned, it's not like marijuana

[nevernothere]

White-out is banned? Ridiculous.

[thait3n]

Some reasons the school should consider..

1. First off, if the kids decide to get "high" of white out, they are dumbasses

2. Okay, you get rid of white out in school cause you fear that kids will get high...ummm they can walk to the nearest Target or K-mart people, buy a whole cart of white out....and get high....

The school is just being really dumb, and naive. They might as well have the whole state ban whit eout then if they think its so dangerous

[kokosofly]

If a school has a lot of problems with kids and white out, then yeah.

The kids at my school used to play around sometimes and sniff it, but not so much as to get high off of it. They've never had any problems with it though, I don't think, besides kids sometimes getting whiteout on desks and stuff

[Outloved]

I don't think they should ban it. There is so much more students can sniff and get addicted to. There's markers, highliters, paint, and more. White out is just one of them, so if their going to ban white out, why not ban them all.

[jnukes]

white-out should be .. ALLOWED


kids should be able to do what they want .. fixing their mistakes .. or getting high off of them ..

we're allowed to have it .. i don't see tha problem .. no one in our school does it, anyway

[*mona lisa*]

my white-out doesn't smell terrible. it smells really good in fact. i don't get high over it lol but if i do use it, some of it will probably go in my nose. and i'm pretty sure you would get high over a little bottle of white-out like what after sniffing it for hours? one hour? i mean, its stupid.

[angel-roh]

Whoa, it can make you high?
ROFL I didn't know that.
I don't think it should be banned.
I mean we need them. Cause a lot
of students uses pens these days
at schools. And they don't have an eraser
to erase it. So yeah duh we need a white-outs
for sure. I mean that's kinda weird that it got
banned at your school. Ours didn't get banned.

[haffkrazy3]

banning white out is uncalled for. people who actually want to get high off of white out deserve to have their brain cells killed. students need white out to undo their mistakes. and theres a bunch of other stuff students can get high off of but isnt banned.

[*kryogenix*]

white out should be banned because it's offensive. how come there is no black out, red out, yellow out or brown out? those racists!

kidding.

[redderstarr]

they banned white-out in our school too because kids were pouring it all over stuff and vandalizing with it.

[ShEraBaRoO]

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thats true. people are sniffing it like crazy in my school, thinking its really funny but the behavior is influential. getting high off of everything is just wrong.

[yukichan]

white out isnt banned from my skool..sharpies and black markers r..

[5ayuri]

i love the smell of white out, rubbing alcohol,and nail polish remover

omg me too i love all of those smells but i mean i dont spend all day in school smelling the whiteout..they did ban whiteout form my school but a lot of people still use it. i dont think it should be banned

[WhiteLotus*]

I don't think that tape white out should be banned. You can't get high off it ( at least I don't think.. )

I need white out constantly. I love writing in my purple thin tip sharpie.

[sharerol]

White-out should definately not be banned. I use it quite often. It's silly how kids could get "high" off of white-out. I use the white-out "tape" or whatever you call it, instead of the liquid one, though. So yeah, it wouldn't have a smell.

[iwalkbackwards]

They should ban sharpies too, then. It's stupid to ban white-out.

[Teesa]

^yeah, if they are going to ban white-out, then they should ban a lot of other things as well. and it's used all the time and for me, sometimes white-out is necessary because I use pen all the time.

[xTINAA]

What an absurd concept. Why would you ban white out? Because of the possibility of stupid fools trying to get high off of it. Hahaha. There are so many things that could possibly endanger us that to ban white out would mean we would have to ban everything. You could stab someone with a pencil/pen, you can cut yourself with paper, you could chuck a book at someone's head, you could staple something not meant to be stapled, you could get high off of sharpies, you could do this and that. White out shouldn't be banned.

[aznxdreamer]

some teachers are not allowing white out at our school because people paint it on there nails and put their hands up to their nose and get high without the teacher noticing anything weird.

[CreateBlob]

I agree that tape white-out should be allowed .. but not the paint kind. Who seriously needs that type anymore anyway? It can be used as fingernail mutattion, and a drug .. a weapon too.

[xTINAA]

I agree that tape white-out should be allowed .. but not the paint kind. Who seriously needs that type anymore anyway? It can be used as fingernail mutattion, and a drug .. a weapon too.

Again by stating that it could be a weapon means that EVERYTHING that could possibly be used as a weapon should be banned as well such as pencils, papers, and books.

[Levy2k6]

at my school, it isnt banned or illegal but i think it might, if it is, its not enforced.. white out should be legal at school tho. there's no real big reason to ban it.

[lakerfever2476]

Their toxic. Some dumb kids start smelling it to look cool. Whatever. I'm a perfectionist, so whenever I make a mistake with pen, I just start over. HAHA ..( think about the trees, Pia. )

[*salcha*]

sheesh. who gets high off of WHITE-OUT?
they're school supplies, no, i don't see why you have to ban it.
sure, it smells bad, but it's not like someone's gonna die from smelling it (i think...hopefully).
plus, it's a persons fault for smelling it anyways.

[ohh_so_elektrikk...]

i think if they should ban white-out, they should ban everything else that has to do with kids getting high.... like sharpies, and rubber cement. i think its crazy that they banned white-out... its not their responsibility to make sure kids dont get high, its the parents.