Image: A watercolor & ink doodle from my art sketchbook.
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Before I start my very first entry blog, I'd thought I should share at least some basics. I'm an Asian female in Texas. I'm a senior, 18 and anxious to vote for the first time. I'm passionate about video games, art, and naps. This is the only blog I'll write in.
Personal Freedom
There is something I've got to pick at with my school lately. I'm not sure how other districts and campuses deal with this but, I have to have music. I'm quite confident that IPods and other music players are prohibited on campus, but that doesn't really stop anyone (at my school at least.) As of late, our Vice Principal has been really cracking down on us for bringing electronics to school. Now when I say 'cracking down' I mean she's actually taking up our stuff and giving them back to us in a week -which is really harsh on a small school like ours.* So I've stopped playing Tetris in the morning and left my Nintendo DS at home.
I don't mind that too much, but then they've been heckling the teachers about music. We can't even have headphones in our ears while working.** My school was once this tiny, laid-back thing and now it's changing for the worse.
I can sympathize with banning the headphones in the Math Center or Theatre, but do they really expect me to write articles in Newspaper and draw pieces in Art in COMPLETE SILENCE? Way to get my creative juices flowing.
* Note: My school is made up of less than 1,000 students and doesn't have any sports. I live in Houston -a pretty big city.
** Another Note: My school doesn't have traditional classrooms and we have seminars and tests once a week. The rest of the week we sit at tables "working" on our packet of worksheets and bookwork.
My question to you high school readers is: What is the general rule about mp3 players on campus?
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I dropped out of high school when I was fourteen. It was very strict and conservative but there were certainly no rules against cellphones or mp3 players, etc, in the school. You just couldn't have them in class. If the teacher was really a bitch he/she might confisticate the cellphone (though usually not mp3 players), but usually not for long unless it was a repeat offense.
The "alternative" school I went to (I basically just got some tutoring there and hung out there, it was also a sort of center for drop-outs and "at-risk" youth) had no such rule at all. Technically you could listen to your mp3 player in class or leave the class to answer a call, or text during class, etc. It was up to the individual teacher whether to allow it or not.
Same at my college.