To the Editor:

Horseback riding, many say, is not a sport. Well, I am a rider myself and riding really is a sport. It is way harder than it looks.

A lot of people think that the horse does all the work; the horse does work but the rider has to give the horse the commands to do whatever the horse has to do.

To the Editor:

Do you think that baseball is just a couple of kids standing around and hitting balls with bats? If you’ve never played it, you don’t really know that.

To the Editor:

 Shortened lunch means there will be more fat kids in our society. (We don’t want that, do we?)  When the students wolf down their lunches, they are consuming more calories in a short amount of time; that means they absorb more calories than needed.

To the Editor:

Do you like to express yourself through fashion? Did you just buy a cute outfit that you really want to wear to school? Well, what if you didn’t have a choice on what to wear to school? Would you like to wear a school uniform, or not?

At Dave and Buster's Crossgates Mall opening, bartenders stood on their bar to juggle bottles while patrons played a variety of games.

To the Editor:

I see a lot of kids making bad food choices during lunch, in restaurants and in my classroom. They are eating the wrong things — chips, pizza, and candy to mention a few examples.

To the Editor:

In the United States, elementary- and middle-school testing has spiraled into something much more than it used to be. Starting with the No Child Left Behind Act, teachers were graded on their students’ performance on standardized tests.

To the Editor:

Everyone knows how programs from schools around the state have been getting cut, but what they might not know is that summer activities at schools are also getting cut due to lack of funds.

To the Editor:

The definition of sport is anything with physical activity or physical exertion and skill, usually played on a team or with teammates.

The definition of dance is moving rhythmically to music, following a set of steps.

So why isn’t dance considered a sport? It is harder than it looks.

To the Editor:

“All right, kids, time for recess”! All of my elementary teachers said that, but, now, in middle school, I have not heard that once.

We sit down in a chair for six hours or even more in school and only have physical-education class once every other day.