how much can you talk without having a point?
hmm blake updated, i think i will. so alot has happened since i last did that post below this one and some that happend before that could be told, if i can remember it all as i go. my mind first went back to that crazy night when me and aaron schulz called all these girls and told them to make us sandwiches at three in the morning. good times. the best one was by far the one to chrissy olsen which started, "Chrissy if your not busy killing babys you should come over to Schleef's house and make us sandwiches." a close second was a call to aaron's ex-girlfriend which aaron stated as, "Trista i know we broke up 6 months ago, but that doesnt mean you can schluff off on your duties. i want a sandwich hear by 3:15......" yeah we kinda just continued on. good thing Aaron schulz knows how to have fun. of course if this offends you i would ask you to not take what i say about stuff like this so seriously because im not taking it seriously and if that doesnt help maybe you would feel better if i told you we did feel a little guilty. of course i didnt feel as guilty as aaron who told a girl she could kick him in the balls after he left a rather insulting message. yeah no one answered the phone so we just left messages. i suppose that was for the best. speaking of aaron schulz me and him are working on a sign language so we can tell each other what were thinking without talking. usually it just makes me laugh though. maybe some day ill teach it to you. it really is brilliant. other than that school has been tough, especially creative writing where the basic class is to get an assignment, proofread each others work and then work. not a whole lot of teaching but its good to get back into writing. i was reading some of the stuff i wrote for that class from before and i just thought, wow what am i doing? i think im ok on here but then on here i dont worry too much about runon scentences, spelling, or sticking to my thesis. or even about starting new paragraphs. i do have to worry about these for my camp application though. im not done yet but i sent out three for people to proofread. my religion teacher mr bartlelt, ali german and aaron schulz. what i got done is quite a bit 11 pages on 1.5 spacing. double spaced it was 15. im debating wether or not to send it in double spaced or 1.5. i guess ill leave it up to you guys if you comment then vote for either one and then ill count it all up do what you guys say. i had forensics practice today. like usual i got 5 questions to pick from, they all revolved around the news so one was about what the us should do about the enviroment. two were about natural disasters and one i dont remember and the one i eventually picked was "what changes need to be in the education system." i picked i saw a thing on abc about it that made alot of sense and it was by far the most applicable to myself. so like all the other practices i took a notecard and went to the library and a notecard and started researching. i have a half hour to research before i give the speach so i checked out newsweek which just did a big thing about how boys are falling behind in school. i used a little of that but used alot more of abc's 20/20 website which just had a special called stupid in america. the basic thesis of the special was that America needs to open up the schools to competition and the teachers union is too powerful. both of these things i agree with. i learned alot in reasearching about how belgium south korea and the czech republic have systems similar to this and clean our clock in standarized tests. plus in oakland a principal made his school a charter school so he wouldnt have to deal with the teachers union and in four years turned the school from one of the worst to one of the best with less money than before. i also talked about how if schools competed the possibilities were almost limitless. for example one school mentioned in the report gave the teachers cell phones. that had to be on until 8 oclock. these were so students could call the teachers if they had any questions. brilliant but something no teachers union would allow. i didnt talk to much about the teachers union which my coach mr deibert said was good. he was also part of the teachers union when he taught public school before he came to kettle. he said they did some good things and some bad things but he said that alot of people who criticize it dont know what they were talking about. which is prolly true but no one can doubt that the teachers union is too powerful. the best example that i can give was from the abc report that showed a map that was prolly 7 pages long about all the steps that must be taken before firing a teacher. this even counted for teachers who had made sexual advances on students in writing. stupid and dangerous and sickening. overall the speach went very well, mr d said i was very organized but for a little bit i lost my focus and started talking about how harvard was better than a community college which actually supported my point. part of this was because i lost my notecard while researching and instead of admitting i lost it and getting another one, i just went without it. but i knew this topic pretty well so i got lucky. i really did like my closing statement which went back to my thesis of how the money for education should go to the parents who then pick the school, rather than the money just going straight to the school. "parents of the kids should decide where their kid and that kid's education money goes because the system is educating the kids and not about schools." i suppose it doesnt make alot sense because the money would go to a school anyway but after a good speach i had to think of something emotional and i liked it. i bought a laptop this week. nothing extravagant. abts's neighbor couldnt pay their cable bill and needed 80 bucks so i stepped in for the rescue. its a 1999 ibm thinkpad and works very well for what i need it to do which is pretty much a portable word processor. and play a little music. of course we did talk today about putting oregon trail on there. that would be so much fun, i havent played that game in years. tomorrow we play luther prep. im so excited. ive telling everyone all week that we should start a chant of, "save the wels, close luther prep." itll get them back for their stupid chant of "lets play football" after we beat them earlier in the season. i think me aaron should make t-shirts. just take white t shirts and write "save the wels" on the front and "close luther prep" on the back. of course i owe this idea to an lps graduate who has no affinity for it whatsover. of couse this man is elliot kazprack. he wanted to make it into a bumper sticker. we actually talked about what the synod should do with prep in my religion class. mr bartelt threw out that bassically the kids who dont go to mlc should have to pay back the synod for the funding they got. this makes sense but i honestly think that they should combine lakeside and prep on the prep campus and have an area lutheran high school with optional boarding for kids from around the country. of course this would make the whole prep thing lose some of its luster but the truth is that prep doesnt do a whole lot more to prepare kids for the ministry than any other area lutheran high school. the school does offer Greek and thats about it. but constrast that with going to a school where everyone is supposed to go to mlc and you end up with such a weird result with the half that actually do go there which jake basses called "the liberated luther prep kids" plus you get a much more diverse student body than one where everyone wants to be a teacher or a pastor. i guess i am glad i decided against going there way back when i was an eighth grader or maybe im just partial cuz the only people ive really talked to about it who go to the school are the kaz kids.
i think im done
schleef
posted by schleef at 7:00 PM
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