For High Schoolers: What product would help better your life?

For all age groups: tasers. They need to be a bigger part of our lives.

Showers with doors or curtains on them. Privacy is a huge deal to high school kids when they’re showering. A lot of kids at my school used to refuse to take showers because they were too embarrassed. Because of this, there were a lot of stinky kids!

These already exist, but when I was in high school I had to lug around all of my books and it really hurt my back (our school was huge and spread out and there wasn’t enough time to stop at my locker) so I would have been thrilled to have a rolling suitcase/backpack thingy.

An anti-bullying device (not sure exactly what that would entail).

Delicious and healthy tasting food in the cafeteria (rather than either or).

Something like Fluther, where kids can anonymously ask questions, but there would be teachers, counselors and students answering the questions (and moderating the questions and responses so as to prevent bullying).

@Kardamom said it all.

[ even though I’m not in school anymore I replied ]

An indoor trolley system to eradicate walking across the campus between every class for students who take a wide range of courses that require this.

Something for acne or energy drinks?

I agree with @Kardamom something should be done about the showers. though I was shy before now I dont mind walking naked around people I don’t even know and flaunt my ass but still something really need to be done.

Marijuana for sure

Not to be too graphic, but the shower thing is really horrific for females when they are having their period.

I would imagine it’s extremely traumatic for anyone who is overweight, or not allowed to shave their legs (by their parents) or have pimples all over their back or chest.

It would also be a good idea for there to be some kind of physical assessment that could be done to pair kids with the best kind of P.E. classes for them. I hated, and was very bad at ball games like baseball and soccer where you had to have a certain degree of skill and play with a team. It turns out that weight lifting and aerobics (non competititive) were better suited to me. All kids need to have physical activity each day, but unfortunately a lot of PE classes have been eliminated. Some kids do better with organized skill sports and others do better with a combination of walking and yoga. If the wrong kid gets stuck doing something he’s bad at, he won’t get fit and he’ll likely end up feeling humiliated.

There has to be an easily used system (what kind I don’t know) for kids to report bullying of themselves, or when they know that another kid is getting bullied (even online) but it has to be anonymous, so that the kid doesn’t create a bigger problem for himself or his friend by being called out as a snitch or a crybaby. A lot of bullying goes on because the bully knows all to well that his victim can’t or won’t go to the authorities.

Longer lunch time.
More time for the arts…they are really diminishing in time and in general.

Anything for acne, really. Also, anything that would eliminate the need to lug textbooks around, whether they be digital copies or more freely available (and prone to updates) on the internet.

Oh, and I completely second @Kardamom‘s suggestion about PE. I hate PE for similar reasons…

@Michael_Huntington would you buy an energy drink that cleared up acne?

@MonstrousPeace I would buy an energy drink that cleared up acne, as long as it tastes good. I’m not in high school yet, but I will be next year.