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OK everyone, I know its been awhile. This past week was filled with lovely midterms. I had French yesterday, Religion test last Thursday and quizzes this Thursday (100 on the test, 100 on the group quiz, and I think an 80 on the individual), Western Civ Essay dur on Monday (our test was the previous Monday=95 bitches) and umm I don't remember what else. There was a quiz in film class. I failed. Literally. Like got a 67. Not good but I got a 94 on my essay so I think I can still pull an A in that class. I hate French. It is killing my 4.0. RAR.I'll try to be better about updating, for those of you who crave it (PAM).
I'm in Southlake. It's fun. I saw Langford, Eyer, and Salyer yesterday. Fabulous as usual. I miss talking to them all, especially Langford, who, despite being a demon catepillar, is the most amazing person ever. I saw a picture of Mrs. Eyer on Ms. Eyer's desk and almost cried. I do miss that class. She was an amazing teacher indeed. Langford says hello to all (you know who you are).
Had dinner with Matt, James and Dave at Olive Garden (yummy) and then we all hung out for awhile. Besides getting lost during their video game discussions, it was wicked fun. Indeed. The I went to Starbucks=delicious (fyi: when in town, the Starbucks on 1709 has the best Cafe Mochas out of the 3 in Southlake. The one in Town Square has the best atmosphere for hanging with friends and the Tom Thumb one the best atmostphere for studying and all have GREAT cofee but the 1709 chocolate to coffee ratio is simply divine). After Starbucks I met up with Jill and went to Corrie Melton's birthday party which was pretty cool. Watched Batman Begins and froze to death and then gathered around the fire. Felt kind of weird and old but had fun anyway. Ick I have a religion paper to write this weekend. Tonight Dave and I are chilling and then going to see MUSIC MAN!!! Matt and Allie are going too so maybe we'll chill with them or sit by them or something je ne sais pas. I'm kind of glad the football game is tonight because then we can get really good seats. woooo! Yeah. I don't know what else is new in my life since my political rant last week. Oh I had somethin to rant about the Carroll cheerleaders and their alcohol abuse (or their "non" alcohol abuse) but I shall save that for a later time because I am hungry and am going to eat breakfast.
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So here is my cheerleader rant:
There was an article in the Star Telegram last week about Carroll cheerleaders being inspected for drinking alcohol at a football game before they performed. Obviously, the girls who we sober were upset because they all had to perform tumbling and gymnastics stuff, and then the rest of the school was upset because none of them got in trouble (they were all seniors and some were the captains and two had fathers on the school board and such). Now, I think there is nothing wrong with a little drinking. Just so long as people are safe (relatively) and responsible. Drinking in the bathroom at a football game is not being responsible. Drinking and then driving is not responsible. Drinking and then taking part in cheerleading stunts is not responsible. Now this was just generally not a good situation. Pretty much people being stupid and making bad decisions. But what’s worse is, when the police came over, they decided the girls were completely sober. They did not give them a breathalyzer or any other form of alcohol test but rather just talked to them and decided that they were completely sober (because clearly, with them being underage, if the cops had suspected they had been drinking at all they would have been obligated to do something). This kind of bugged me because according to witnesses, the girls were clearly drunk/tipsy, but whatever. This was now, however, the thing that bugged me most. One parent said, "Performing like that in front of the entire city of Southlake is unacceptable. They can make whatever choices they're going to make on their own time, but don't do it in a Carroll High School uniform."
OK, now, call me crazy, but what kind of response is this? I mean, nothing about how dangerous and irresponsible it was for the girls to do this and put their teammates in danger and to break the law and all that stuff. No. The parents are worried about the image of Southlake and how the girls acting like this will effect it. Are you freaking kidding me? And even better, no on seems to think that there’s something drastically wrong with this response. And this isn’t just one parent. Yes, one parent said that to the paper people, but this is the real problem with Southlake. It’s this type of reaction to situations like this that causes so many problems in this town. Too many parents concerned with the football team and the school’s image and the economics of that situation (number one brand selling in that nation and a bad image would decrease sales, etc.) and don’t even care about the physical and psychological causes and effects of these actions. Seriously. This town needs to get its priorities in order.
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