Hey y'all, the last two days of class we have had some very interesting discussions and we were not required to post about them so I would like to take the opportunity to do so and share my thoughts will all of you.
1. Yesterday we were discussing Halloween costumes in the high school learning environment and the discussion came up about having teachers and students on the same level for a day. The idea that caught my interest was the when somebody suggested the idea of teachers being friends with the students. This is bad. Teachers are our respected elders that we should be friendly with in the school environment. They are there to be our mentors and not our friends. When teachers become to good of friends with the students then it jeopardizes the students learning because what ends up happening is the students will try and take advantage of the teacher, whether it be on a due date or a bad grade. We've all seen Boy Meets World in our lifetime, so we all know the relationship that Cory, Shawn, Eric, and Topanga have with Mr. Feeney. Although Feeney gives the gang many life lessons and rewarding lectures, Feeney crosses a boundary in one episode. Feeney over the series was pretty good about failing the boys and giving Topanga the grade she deserves, but in one episode he lets his guard down and gives Cory and Shawn extensions on their papers, which ends of back firing for the boys because they believe that Feeney will just give them extensions on every paper so they don't do the next one. Now i know what you are all saying... "do they even air that show anymore" the answer is yes, every day at 6 and 6:30 am on ABC Family. The main point I am getting at here is this... students do not become good friends with your teachers, find some your own age.
2. Trebek, I'll take sports for 500. This in my mind is one of the most interesting topics you can talk about when it comes to sports. Native Americans are offended by the use of their culture as mascots for sports teams. Why not be honored by this? First of all, how can anybody say that they do not love the logo on the Blackhawks jersey. It is the coolest logo in sports according to a Sports Illustrated poll. The reason that Native Americans are taking offense is because of it not being an authentic view of their culture and that it is the Hollywood perception. When it comes to this topic I belive that Native Americans are being too sensitive to this and they have to realize that they are being honored. I read earlier today in an interview with the president of the Washington Redskins in his response to this controversy that his belief is that the redskins are honoring them and they should be proud. That when it comes to his team he associates the words "courage, bravery, and loyalty" and that anybody should be proud to be associated with that sports franchise. Here is the truth, you do not see any people with Irish backgrounds making a fuss about the Notre Dame Fightin Irish. For goodness sake they have a little fricken leprachaun prancing around their football and basketball game making a mockery of the school, nobody is up in arms there.... because no matter how stupid it looks they are proud of their mascot and their school. Notre Dame is not even an Irish school, it is just the macot they chose to represent their school. This question was posed to me today by Mr. Kramer after class. If there was a school that chose the fighting rabbis as their mascot, and they had a rabbi in the middle of their court at basketball games dancing around with his outfit on, would I be offended. To him I simply responded. No. I would not be offended, I would think that would be hilarious and would most likely embrace the fact that a school has named themselves that. Now I did tell him that I would prefer the team to be call the Fightin Maccabi's because that would be a tad bit more intimidating, but again I feel like that only Jewish students would attend that school. In my closing, I believe that the Native American people are being a little too sensitve and that if they don't like it then they should just accept that it is out there because its intent is only to honor them and if they cannot realize that then they really do not deserve to be honored.
Well it looks like I am out of time, the final season of Friday Night Lights premieres in 10 minutes on DirecTV, so I will be firmly glued in front of the tv for the next hour, probably more because of game 1 of the World Series, Lincecum vs Lee. The bulls get ready to debut for another long and unexciting season of basketball, and the Blackhawks, yes the Blackhawks, look to get things rolling tonight after coming off a loss in their last contest. For The Katz Meow, I'm Jesse Katz signing off.... Issues class, you stay classy now.
Here's a fun fact....Florida State University was originally going to have their mascot be the crackers. can you imagine a matchup of rivals the Miami Hurricanes and the Florida State Crackers?
Great tone. Fun to read. Keep it up!!
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