Hello to all today:

I want to talk to you guys about something I have seen lately, and I am going to start off by saying this is probably a little contraversial...but please read it and comment.

The older I get and the more I open my eyes, I realize that I am shocked by what I see. I was raised to treat all people the same. To never discriminate, and to learn to accept others. However, the people who taught me this from early childhood to right now in college are confusing me.

For example, segregation in schools is a hot topic right now! When one looks at college ratios there is a large misrepresentation. I feel that colleges are choosing to migrate to a certain type of people. I am not saying that all colleges do this, however, what I am saying is that a school houses thousands of students and has a ratio of 82:18...there is a problem. It has, however, been pointed out to me that people want to be with "their own kind".

So off to think I go. I have never thought of school as "being with my own kind". I have also associated school with learning, not only school stuff, but personal stuff. In my secondary schools I always thought they were teaching acceptance of each other on a cultural level....but now I have been asking myself a very important question: "Was I taught acceptance or tolerance?"

So lets examine our culture shall we?

Gay rights:
Does America accept or tolerate this group? I say tolerate, if that is even appropriate! I can say there is no acceptance because this group within our culture does not have rights given to the rest of us (and by the way this is only an issue because some people in power want this to be a hot issue to keep seats....but more about politics later). To accept, we as a nation need to accept everything about them, even their choices and personalities, more importantly we need to see them as human being instead of a controversy!

People who cannot speak English:
Again I must tolerance....if that's what one would call open discrimination on a group of people. I receive more e-mails about people who can't speak English than I do any other! The number one thing that is associated with this group is "If you can't speak the language then leave". What a stupid comment. America is one of the few countries that is NOT bi- or tri- lingual. Which is considerably sad considering we border Mexico and are only a few miles away from South America. When did America become so dependent on their language? What if the rest of the world stopped learning English? We would have a hard time visiting Spain or France or even the Bahamas!

Religion:
This one infuriates me! It has gotten to the point when I fear that the next terrorist attacks will come from within the American borders and will inflict fear into all those not composed within the traditional Christian forum. AAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

Look I am loosing my train of thought. I just wanted to say, that with elections coming up and peoples fears being exploited please remember this country needs to uphold FREEDOM before anything else.

I guess that's it
Nik

I just wanted to stop in and give an update on my busy life. Tomorrow I will venturing into my first third grade class. I'm so excited....I went out and bought a new outfit just for this occasion. Wish me luck guys. I'm not going to be tutoring the students, but I will be introduced to the teacher. How much fun am I going to have?!?!

I also wanted to say that I will be opening up my other blog page to have a place to write about the characters in my head. They will mostly be college students...when I see and meet people I like to make up stories of their lives...and I want to share them with you guys! I hope you enjoy

Well I have to start getting ready for school
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Thanks for stopping in:
Nik

Hello to all today:

Just a quick note! I am ssssooooo busy this week. I am doing a research project on Evolution and Intelligent Design. I know there are tons of people here with strong views one way or the other, but if any of you have legitimate web-sites I can visit would you please leave me the web-sites!

Thanks so much. BTW I will be comparing the beliefs of Evolution to the beliefs of ID and then teaching it to my class and then taking a vote on which they think should be acceptable.

Again, thanks for all the help
Nik