Life Ed Summary

In life ed, Michael has been teaching us about drugs, how to get out of situations, stories about people on drugs, what happens when you take drugs, puberty, delaying the decision etc. The main message of the year 8 life ed lessons is to delay the decision until you have climbed the ladder of puberty. There are 7 rungs in the ladder of puberty, which means 7 years until you have gone through all the stages of puberty and began the early stages of adulthood. The reason for this is that teenagers are a lot more affected by drugs/alcohol then adults are, as our bodies haven't fully developed yet, we also would not know how to deal with things, and get addicted a lot easier. 

We have been learning a lot about drugs as well. Drugs are very dangerous, they are categorised into classes, Class A, B & C. With A being the most dangerous and C being the least but still extremely dangerous. Michael showed us videos of past drug users and their stories of addiction and what happened. Most of the stories they got addicted to drugs at a young age, 13-14 and started stealing to get more. They were originally good kids but hanging in the wrong crowd and the peer pressure took over. It mucked up their sporting career and their potential. One of the stories about a drug user that Michael told us was a man on P, he was taking his daughter to school and she forgot something. The man got so angry, he killed her and buried her then helped the police look for her when knew he was the one that did it. Drugs stuff up your brain and make you do crazy things you wouldnt normally do when you think its making you feel better but you can't becasue you addicted. Drugs affect different people in different ways, because we all have different bodies and brains. If you didn't already know different drugs can do tremendously affecting things to your brain to make you not your self and make you look 20 years older then you already are, mess up your life, get you into prison. 

Alcohol is legal.