Blog 8 "the last one"

This post is in response to Lissa’s post entitled “Freedom of Speech or Just a Case of Senioritis.” Lissa, good post, I understand where you are coming from, and also agree with a sum of what you said. Personally, I don’t think that the t-shirt is that big of a deal, it’s not that big of a distraction, and could have said something a lot worse. The whole t-shirt said “HHS seniors 2010” on the front, and the “well that sucked” was on the back. Come on… that’s a little amusing.
What the school faculty doesn’t realize is that pulling students out of class is more of a distraction than the t-shirts themselves. They are just angry that a student expressed himself in a way that made the school look bad. And what students don’t realize is that when they are in the public school system they don’t have any rights. Remember, school districts are their own little governing bodies, and they make the rules. If a student/parent doesn’t like the rules…. Tuff! If a parent of one of the student’s doesn’t like it they can take it up with the school board, and that’s about it. The only place that democracy shows up in the school district is when someone runs for the school board.
The only problem I had with your post is the last sentence. “Adam’s is a direct representation of today’s adolescent and young adults who have taken the constitutional meaning of “liberties” to the extreme; resulting in a moral, educational, and cultural declination.” First, “extreme” was a poor choice of words, yes he pushed some buttons, but did anyone get hurt? No, besides some of the faculty’s feelings, he is just being a teenager. Second, “resulting in a moral, educational, and cultural declination” Education has been on the decline for some time now, it was going down the shitter when we were in high school. But morals, and culture are not declining….they are just changing. Our grandparents thought the same thing about our generation; do you think that they were right? That’s what happens, throughout the course of history, when times change older generations think it’s always declining, and it’s not declining, just changing.

Arizona.... Really?

Well I honestly don't think that it will be but a few years, and Arizona will be changing their immigration laws again. Do they really think that the immigration bill was a good idea? Now Arizona police will have the right to pull anyone over and ask them for their papers. Hmm... Racial profiling... Do they really think that that is right? Yes, there U.S. immigration laws which are basically the same as Arizona's laws, but they don't get enforced stringently enough. But making it as easy as saying... Look, there's a person with brown skin, let’s see if he is legal? That will get annoying really quick to both the police and the Latinos.

Second, do they really think that their economy will survive long? I don't think so. Like it or not, illegal immigrants do the jobs that Americans don't want. They do what they have to do to survive, and our economy survives because of their help. I was listening to the radio a few days ago, and they were talking about a city up north, (in Iowa or Indiana.... somewhere up there) and they passed the same sort of bill. Know what the end results were? The cities economy went down the shitter and didn't recover. So let me ask this again, Arizona, do you really think that that was the best decision that you could have made?

I just hope Texas won't make the same mistake? I personally don't think they will.

Look I've said this in other posts, I don't have a problem with immigrants coming over to make better lives for themselves, but do it the legal way! Now because Arizona has decided that racial profiling is legal, more illegal immigrants will be trying to come to Texas to find work in an already shitty job market.

In closing, congratulations Arizona! In my opinion you guys look like idiots on this one.