Ah... Current Events
How could I have forgotten the wealth of material to be gleaned from you!
The latest:
Kids are using ipods and cell phones to cheat on tests.
Um, ok. Well. In my day (insert "very old me" shaking my fist) we weren't allowed to have calculator wrist watches in class much less tote around a walkman (that's what they called "media players" for you damn kids and your sugar drinks and complicated haircuts). I mean, really. Who fell asleep at the wheel on this one?
"kids have found a new way to cheat on tests!"
No shit. REALLY???
And goddamnit. I had something else to talk about and now I can't goddamn remember.
Well, I'll go with this:
They released some of the text from that kid's essay. Not the WHOLE THING, mind you, because God Forbid we actually get to see stuff in context, but there were some alarming things in the essay. Again, should he have been arrested? Fuck no. And actually, good for him for writing down what was in his head. Hey, maybe it was a cry for help. That cry doesn't need to include the cops.
The latest:
Kids are using ipods and cell phones to cheat on tests.
Um, ok. Well. In my day (insert "very old me" shaking my fist) we weren't allowed to have calculator wrist watches in class much less tote around a walkman (that's what they called "media players" for you damn kids and your sugar drinks and complicated haircuts). I mean, really. Who fell asleep at the wheel on this one?
"kids have found a new way to cheat on tests!"
No shit. REALLY???
And goddamnit. I had something else to talk about and now I can't goddamn remember.
Well, I'll go with this:
They released some of the text from that kid's essay. Not the WHOLE THING, mind you, because God Forbid we actually get to see stuff in context, but there were some alarming things in the essay. Again, should he have been arrested? Fuck no. And actually, good for him for writing down what was in his head. Hey, maybe it was a cry for help. That cry doesn't need to include the cops.
posted by LC Greenwood at 9:55 AM
1 Comments:
What I don't understand about this "free writing" assignment gone bad, is that if I were to write a fictional account of a teenager in Germany around 1939, shall we say, that DOESN'T mean I'm starting the next wave of genicide. Seriously. This country is making me sick already with how dumbed-down they are making us... they have to REMIND us that this is ficiton.
Christ.
Also - the iPod thing. We were not allowed to have calculators during tests, nor were we allowed to have pagers. Now, every Junior High student is walking to school with a phone up to their ear (ala Clueless), carrying their iPods - seriously! I remember when there was such thing as school contraband.
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