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Ok, why are people so stupid? If you are going to buy a car, why buy a brand new one? Lets say you buy a brand new Honda Civic for around 20 grand. In 1 year if you want to sell that car you'll only be able to get about 12 to 15 grand for it. But lets say you buy a '69 Camero for 15 grand. In 10 years, the car is still going to be 15 grand. Not to mention they are 10 times cooler looking then a damn Honda Civic and if that Camero was a Mustang you could go from 0 to 100 in like 2 seconds. So why do people waist there time with new cars?? You buy a bad ass old one and you always have the value, speed and the extra couple thousand you are saving by not investing in a peice of shit new car thats value will be cut in half within a year.
Now that thats off my chest, I'm going to ramble on about some other things. Friends? So I cheated. Sue me. I took those tiny answers and I slipped right up the tube of my mechanical pencil and cheated. I got a 100 percent on my final. Every answer I knew was right. I cheated. I dont feel guilty in the least. Happy, releived, proud...not guilty. I talked to the teacher afterward, she was curiouse as to how a C- student could have scored such a profond grade on the final. So I lied.Cheating is something to be proud of. Half the time in those worthless classes kids spend them sleeping or taking notes. One of the two. But when you discover a way to sleep, and still get good grades, your not immoral, your a thinker. And thats me, I'm a thinker. I'm confronted with a problem and I think of a way to get around it, or under it, or dig deep into, place a bomb right in the middle of it and destroy it. I cheat. I've grown up in a nation where the leader of this nation cheated on his wife and then lied to his citizens about it. I'm not a bad person, I'm only a thinker.
"Students do not shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate." Said the U.S Supreme Court in the 1969 decision in the case of Tinker V. Des Moines Independent Community School District. In which it sided with public high school students in allowing them to wear black armbands to school in protest of the Vietnam War.
It seems times have changed. Although the First Amendment has remained the same, many districts have set their own rules on these matters, including ours.
If you do your homework on underground newspapers you'll find this to be allowed at public schools. As long is you are reasonable about where, when, and how you go about the distribution, it is hardly a "material and substantial disruption". Meaning, it would effect your education if they where to be handed out during math class, but at lunch, its disrupting nothing. Yet if you look at the "rule book" for our district, you'll find that publications that are not school sponsered are required to go through the super intendent of schools, or the principal before students can read them. Which means you better leave your own books at home, because your breaking school policy if you decide to read it at school. Last year when Mohave came across its first underground newspaper, the creators spoke to the super entident Monty Silk about their efforts. His responce was to show them the rule in our book of school policys. Students are pretty much helpless against going against school policy, even if the policy violates their rights.
The school, however, cannot censor you from expressing your political or religious beleifs. They can't make you change your shirt that says, "Yes, I beleive in Jesus", the same as they can't make you change a shirt that says "I hate God". You are simply expressing your beleifs.
Since 1963 the Supreme Court has ruled that public schools, because they are government funded, cannot hold organized prayer for their students. Its only when students are forced to listen that this would be illegal. Religous clubs are allowed at school. In fact, if a group of Mohave students wanted to start an Atheist Club, their rights would be violated if refused the oppertunity.
It seems nearly everything we do at school must not contain anything even remotely offensive to anybody. Which makes it very hard to get your point across, or even bring up interesting debates. At last years Thunder Games, the winning team, "The Jumpin' Jews" where forced to change their name before competing, due to the use of the word "jew". Yet we are able to listen to announcments in the morning about the Fellow Cristian Athletes (FCA). I don't understand the differance. We are even allowed to receive fliers urging us to "meet me at the pole", a place where cristians pray at school in the morning. Yet, when the word "jew" is used, it is to be dismissed and replaced with a "J".
As students I beleive we should practise the rights we are allowed at school. The First Amendment states "Congress shall make no law...prohibiting the free exercise of; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press..." Yet the oposing side in the Tinker case stated, "the first amendment rights of children are not co-extensive with those of adults." Which to me says, we're under 18, so our rights are limited.
Everyone Knows Someone Like Her
I hear you. Trust me, I hear you. You walk through...no, thats wrong...you strut through the halls, proud of who you are, proud of who your friends are. I hear you. You speak so loud about so many things that seem so ridiculouse. "Did you hear so and so got with so and so this weekend but he was really with her and she was there and then he's all..." And you seem to always be the center of attention. And thats what you want. And thats what you get. Congratulations.
I hear you. Your loud, and your beautifull, and you wear shirts that show your breasts, and skirts that show your thighs, and you laugh when a cute boy flirts with you. And everytime I've talked to you, you never have anything interesting to say. And I suppose I seem the same to you, so we don't talk. You don't have a favorite movie, you've never read a book that wasn't required. Music is passed out to you by MTV and you think those punk rock kids are "so cool". I think that you have a word limit you must hit everyday, because if not you might stop talking for 2.3 seconds.
"I have to have a brain or I wouldn't be able to memorize the cheers." Actual retort I heard one day from a girl responding to anothers accusation of her not having a brain. Is she for real? I hear you. Everyone hears you! Because your so damn loud! I always walk by you in the halls and your always smiling and laughing and telling a story. Don't say you've never had sex, because you have. I don't know you, but I hear you.
Don't you have any depth? Don't you have any real opinions? Don't you ever think about things other than what your going to wear tommarow? I think you should be nice to me because you'll probably be working for me one day. I also think you should learn how to use an inside voice.
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