Well, promos are looming just ahead. Still, I'm kind of online now, so it shows how much I care about promos. I mean, I've yet to start to history, lit and econs. I'm going down.
It probably should be the focus of my life now, but there are still monkeys on my back I've yet to shake off.
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Seems like recently, many students have been facing repurcussions of blogging about higher authorities than themselves. Not Bertrand-esque "you're the prettiest girl in arts fac" repurcussions, but still pretty bad nontheless. Which is laughable, since we're essentially looking at 2 groups of stupid people at odds with each other.
Firstly, we have the students. Firstly, half the time they do not get their facts right before they start on their ranting and raving, which often either goes unnoticed or ends up being a moot point. Then they proceed to say every bad thing they can tangibly think of about these higher authorities. This is, of course, done without the consideration that teachers and principals alike, no matter how old, wrinkly and ancient they may be *thinks of maths lecturer who still uses OHPs* still know how to use the computer and internet. They did put the "world wide" beside the "web" for a reason, you know. Stupidly enough, they don't know enough to even attempt to disguise it and make it an inside thing.
Then, we have the teachers, or old people who pretty much have egos so fragile that even a single scalding comment that MIGHT be a reference to them sparks of a massacre of student bloggers, despite them PROBABLY being smarter, more experienced, and supposedly more professional. What they don't notice, of course, is that forcing students to take down these so-called offensive posts often reflects even worse than them, which obviously might ignite more teacher-hate posts on other blogs.
That's pretty much the short argument. Would be saying more, but in a nutshell students outside of school can't be controlled, why try?
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He sighed.
It probably should be the focus of my life now, but there are still monkeys on my back I've yet to shake off.
---
Seems like recently, many students have been facing repurcussions of blogging about higher authorities than themselves. Not Bertrand-esque "you're the prettiest girl in arts fac" repurcussions, but still pretty bad nontheless. Which is laughable, since we're essentially looking at 2 groups of stupid people at odds with each other.
Firstly, we have the students. Firstly, half the time they do not get their facts right before they start on their ranting and raving, which often either goes unnoticed or ends up being a moot point. Then they proceed to say every bad thing they can tangibly think of about these higher authorities. This is, of course, done without the consideration that teachers and principals alike, no matter how old, wrinkly and ancient they may be *thinks of maths lecturer who still uses OHPs* still know how to use the computer and internet. They did put the "world wide" beside the "web" for a reason, you know. Stupidly enough, they don't know enough to even attempt to disguise it and make it an inside thing.
Then, we have the teachers, or old people who pretty much have egos so fragile that even a single scalding comment that MIGHT be a reference to them sparks of a massacre of student bloggers, despite them PROBABLY being smarter, more experienced, and supposedly more professional. What they don't notice, of course, is that forcing students to take down these so-called offensive posts often reflects even worse than them, which obviously might ignite more teacher-hate posts on other blogs.
That's pretty much the short argument. Would be saying more, but in a nutshell students outside of school can't be controlled, why try?
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He sighed.
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