10.05.2007
Yikes - old age
I fight it daily, but I fear I'm turning into what I termed as "old" when I was younger. Granted, I'm not old, and I'm generally a social liberal...but my patience for youth is so thin... I'm wondering.
A local high school is in danger of being closed down after being rated unacceptable 4 years in a row. It is in a poorer section of town, so I don't know that closing it down is the answer, and I won't even pretend to know enough about the politics of our local public education... Plus, 20+ years ago when I was in high school, this was a magnet school for busing. The kids in that neighborhood were bused out and others were bused in...the whole (extremely important) integration thing. Wonder if that stopped, and why? Anyway, this particular high school's principal sent out a memo that they were cancelling their football season due to injuries. (I'm assuming here that no pass, no play is also an issue, given the unacceptable rating) The students were in an uproar.
I read an article in the local rag, and sometimes I just want to shake a teenager and say "Did you listen to what you just said??" Here's the quote - I've removed identifiers.
For football player this is more than just a game.
"When I first heard I was shocked and just cried in the hallway..." said football player...
football player looked at it as a way into college.
"Maybe no college at all," player said. "I have to step up, get my grades better and do better in the classroom, cause football ain't going to be there anymore."
Oh the humanity! Study in school? Actually work for something? What?
A local high school is in danger of being closed down after being rated unacceptable 4 years in a row. It is in a poorer section of town, so I don't know that closing it down is the answer, and I won't even pretend to know enough about the politics of our local public education... Plus, 20+ years ago when I was in high school, this was a magnet school for busing. The kids in that neighborhood were bused out and others were bused in...the whole (extremely important) integration thing. Wonder if that stopped, and why? Anyway, this particular high school's principal sent out a memo that they were cancelling their football season due to injuries. (I'm assuming here that no pass, no play is also an issue, given the unacceptable rating) The students were in an uproar.
I read an article in the local rag, and sometimes I just want to shake a teenager and say "Did you listen to what you just said??" Here's the quote - I've removed identifiers.
For football player this is more than just a game.
"When I first heard I was shocked and just cried in the hallway..." said football player...
football player looked at it as a way into college.
"Maybe no college at all," player said. "I have to step up, get my grades better and do better in the classroom, cause football ain't going to be there anymore."
Oh the humanity! Study in school? Actually work for something? What?
# posted by Lisa @ 7:12 AM 
