Some random thoughts
1) Earlier in the past week, at a school I work at , another teacher mentioned about a time a bunch of kids told him off with "we don't need to learn this, we don't need this later in life". That teacher responded with something along the lines of "one day, you'll have kids and they're going ask you about this topic. It will be embarrassing if you don't have an answer."
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2) One of the funniest quote on the "gays in the military controversy"! This one was written by Casey Ishitani
"I want to see a homophobic neo-con and an outed, discharged Marine or Ranger go head-to-head, no-holds-barred on a mat with sticks and we'll see who gets to ask and who gets to tell"
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Now my thoughts on those who object to gays in the military.
This mentality of "ewww, I don't want to work with him, he's gay" is bad enough hearing from middle school students. Any adult with that mentality is a seriously immature person!
3) The link below mentioned about a group of teachers in Oregon that didn't want to chaperone a school dance because kids might be "freak dancing"
http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet/2010/11/12/dirty_dancing/index.html
Obviously, when I work at the schools, I got to enforce school rules. As a substitute teacher, I remember having to enforce rules against dirty dancing. Just doing my job!
However, I think people over-react to this "freak dancing".
They whine about "how gross" freak dancing is! You can't pregnant from freak dancing. If you can't satisfy your man/woman in that manner, someone else will! It wouldn't even matter how much "values" were taught by his/her parents! That's the politically incorrect reality!
Also, some people react to freak dancing with "omg, if the kids are dirty dancing, that would automatically lead to sexual intercourse" !
Useless fear-mongering!
I mean, in overwhelming majority of my experiences in dance parties in which some dirty dancing is featured, the overwhelming majority of those "dirty dances" are like one-song stands, meaning in most cases, you'll probably aren't likely to freak dance (or do anything else) with that person again after the song is over! In most cases, most people just move on to dancing with the next person.
Unlike the fear-mongering stories, they just dance dirty for a little while, then that's it, nothing else! A dance is just a dance! And life goes on as usual!
But it's a lot more easier to scare people with "omg, if the kids are dirty dancing, that would automatically lead to sexual intercourse" which happens way more often in fantasy than real life!
Sometimes, a dance is just a dance! Find more important things to worry about!
4) Still working on my blog post on the US elections from earlier this month! Stay tuned!
