Friday, March 5, 2010

Battle of the sexes.

Every year at Timpview we have a men's week and a girl's week. For the past few years men's week and girl's week have been endangered of being canceled. For this year they were very close to being canceled but luckily the administration decided to have a combined week. Today the video announcements showed our elected men's and girl's president telling the students what the dress up days were and telling people what rules they needed to follow in order to prevent it from being canceled. I was pretty happy that our administration was telling us what we need to do in order to not have our gender pride week canceled. Often we feel that our administration keeps us in the dark until it's to late to start a petition. But there was a problem with this video. one of the rules that we needed to follow is that we can't have any "unauthorized gatherings." To me this seems like a 1st amendment violation. Although, now that I write about it I'm not so sure about myself. I guess writing about something makes you think about it a lot more and learn more. I was thinking that they can't punish us for gathering but now that I write more about it as long as they don't suspend us or anything it might be constitutional for them not to have gender weeks next week. After all, they're not obligated to sponsor gender pride weeks at all. I can understand that there would be a lot of complaints about men's and girl's weeks. I guess that they definitely should be able to punish students for some gathering. The 1st amendment doesn't give people the right to invade a classroom or gym. My problem with men's week is that they'll usually be a pajama day when there's a late start day. Boys will sleep on the outside of the school overnight and the next morning they will boo all the females that walk by. My problem with this is that I think I once saw a woman with a 4 year old walking to the school. She probably needed to talk to her child's teacher or counselor and some stupid boys were yelling at her for being female, I find this morally un-defendable. Although I don't see any reason the girls can't do this as well. The first day of battle of the sexes week is a blood drive competition. I think this is morally questionable because you're not supposed to give your blood because you were pressured into it. I think gender pride week don't have a favorable chance of happening next year because competition between the sexes is endorsed it becomes more controversial for the same reasons the original separate weeks were controversial.

Monday, March 1, 2010

Why the U.S.A did not deserve to win the hockey game

When I was in elementary school we had gym class 2 or 3 days a week. Sometimes we would play hockey. Every time we played hockey our gym teacher would put her index finger and her thumb really close together and say that the school was this close to banning hockey. Canada losing Hockey to the U.S. would be kind of like most nations on the earth losing at soccer to the U.S. Or if the U.S. had an american football team that lost to some other country's team.