Busy Busy Busy

Why do teachers give out so much homework?  Why is junior year so hard?

                This year has been the busiest and craziest year of school I’ve ever had.  One thing that probably makes it worse is playing soccer again this year instead of just basketball.  All I’m doing now is homework.  It’s almost like every teacher in the school got together over the summer to discuss how much homework they would give us sport players.  My Bible teacher is big on projects, Scripture memorization, and worksheets for studying for the test.  My history teacher is new this year, and he’s really big on the whole “preparing us for college” idea.  It’s great, but it’s just so much work.  My science teacher is cool, but it’s physics, so it’s just down right awful.  My math teacher is big on just giving us A LOT of homework.  My year book class is a completely different story though.  He’s really laid back and allows us to do whatever we want.  I’m doing this blog because of this class.  My English teacher is big on giving us work and preparing us for college too.  She’s really strict in our English class.  On the other hand though, she is also my speech teacher.  She’s really laid back in that class and jokes around with us.  She has personalities with the two different classes basically.

What's the Trend??

      Blue Grass Baptist is a VERY small school, so trends of all sorts go on. Trends around here are physical appearances, such as hair styles and clothes, and social media.


Physical appearances

     Due to our ridiculous dress code rules at our school, clothing trends cannot really happen. Our dress code is not as bad as other private schools, but all we students hate it.  We have to wear a polo or a button down with khakis, navy pants, or a few other pant colors.  One clothing trend that is going on right now is sweaters.  Both guys and girls have this trend going on now.  There is also a shoe trend right now.  The trend is Sperry’s and Vans.  
      There are also the “how you look” trends like hair and make-up.  The hair trends are straightening, curling, and scrunching.  I have no idea what these styles are, but thanks to the wonderful group of girls I talked to, they say these are the trends right now.  Close to the end of last school year, the straight bangs were the trend.  The guy trend at the moment is spiking your hair in certain ways. Here are some examples: the whole top is spiked, the front is spiked (aka “the bieber”), and spiked facing the side.  There are also the make-up trends.  For your eyes there are the cat eyes.  And supposedly there is the nude lip gloss trend. 

Social Media

     We can never forget about the social media aspect of trending.  There are social media sights coming out left and right and up and down for us citizens. The three biggest social media sites are Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

     Facebook was the biggest and most popular trend for the longest time.  It’s still popular among some, but twitter is taking over rapidly.  Facebook is designed to where you add friends that you don’t even know… but really you make a status about anything you want, like or comment on statuses or pictures, or add pictures. 

      Twitter is the biggest social trend right now.  You can tweet about anything you want, add pictures, follow people, and one major difference than Facebook.  The difference is that you can retweet or people’s tweets.  This shows up on other people’s time line allowing more entertainment (for the lack of a better word). 

     Instagram’s idea is sharing photos of your daily life.  You can add captions and tag people in the photo.  You can also comment on the photos uploaded and tag people in those comments.   

     I probably have made these social sites look so boring, but they really are great and addicting. Studies have come and said that social media sights are more addicting than drugs.  So go make an account now!!!!

Why I Think...

Why I think students should be able to text and/or use their phones in school…
    
  Many schools in this day in age are starting to allow their students to use their phones under certain conditions.  Because of this, I think Blue Grass should slim back some.  I do realize some people take advantage of the system and use their phones in class, but if that happens, then just take the phone —don’t punish the whole school.

     Blue Grass’s policy right now is that we have to turn our phones in at the beginning of the day so the teachers can WRITE down who has or hasn’t turned in their phones so they can be on a look-out.  I have talked to several people from different schools, both public and Christian schools. 




Here are different rules that I’ve learned:

·         Just don’t pull your phone out, then they won’t take it

·         You can text in between classes and at lunch.

·         You can text between class and at lunch; you can even use it IN class for note taking.

·         You are to turn in your phone into a basket at the beginning of each class.

·         The Blue Grass Rule
             As seen from the list above, Blue Grass has the strictest policy.  It’s because of those few  peopl that school that we have the policy.  Yes, I dislike the policy in the first place, but I have a major problem with how it’s enforced.  From what I’ve seen and heard, teachers have the right to empty your pockets, look through a girl’s purse, or go through someone’s locker if they suspect a phone.  That is too far.

                  For now, we students must live with the policy, which we should be able to handle for a little bit more time.  Hopefully Mr. Ellis can bring up this situation to the teachers so that all may agree with me.