It is 11:37 a.m…might you take a crack at where I am? Yes, yes, I am at school. The wonderful sights and smells filling my eyes and nose to the limit. I mean how happy can one get when one sees the dilapidated hallways and the rude boys and girls who dress inappropriately, and smell the perfume and cologne that fills the hallways, as if it was dumped in buckets on all of the students? Well, anyway, I am in business class…possibly the most pointless class I have ever taken, and I have discovered that I can access this site through Websense. Websense, by the way, is the worst proxy block ever. Nothing can get around it…I mean, I try to go to Christian websites BLOCKED! I try to go to my email BLOCKED (well, until recently), I try to go to various websites, that are truly up to no good, BLOCKED. This is like the school system in general, everything is blocked. Ripped jeans, certain attire, language, contents of backpacks, topics being discussed, cell phones, iPods, mp3 players, and a true multitude of technology, BLOCKED. Though I really can’t care less about the first five things listed, I do care for the rights of myself as an American and the rights of others. Who is the school system, to systematically strip us of all rights as we walk through the door at 7:30 in the morning. One of the main things that irks me is the ban on cell phone use. Believe you me, I don’t want to just take out my cell phone in the middle of class and chat away, but i do wish we could use it during our lunch period, to make important calls: arranging for a ride home, arranging after school activities, calling to schedule an appointment somewhere, calling to cancel an appointment. Instead, for any of these things, you have to find one of your teachers who is compassionate enough to let you use their phone, and then have the whole class “eavesdrop” as you ask your mom if you can go to the history review session that day. I believe that is ridiculous. Case in point, all rights of students are taken away at the threshold of learning, at the door of the school.
As a side note, new years resolutions are going great! I am praying more, keeping a prayer journal, have been eating healthy (no bread), drinking enough water, doing my work, and being nice! I’m on quite a roll, if I do say so myself!
