Bunsen...let the truth be told
South Africa's passed laws seem to be inculcating (influencing) the staff here at Taravella, we should be beginning to feel like a black male during the mid 60’s in the Republic of South Africa at night; SUBSERVIENT. Subservient to the faculty (teachers not included), which seems to be discreetly taxing us, raping us of our rights, and building tension by trying to scare us with the threat of referrals. The only time I knew liberation of any sort during the caustic hours of being scorched with vocabulary skills, scientific methods, and quadratic inequalities, has now grown to inundate my rights as a student to purchase products as I please and visit parts of campus where I can find solitude from the multitudes. The question I keep asking is: Where is our Nelson Mandela, our martyr, or are we going to have to take "The Long Walk to Freedom" ourselves? The seed for this subversion was planted last school year, with the whole dilemma of trash. From here, this deficient seed soon grew rich in nutrients and sprouted roots. The totalitarian we call our Principle most likely figured the following; "What they don't know won't hurt them." knowing that the new entrants to our school would be ignorant to the fact that their rights were stripped before they even had the chance to familiarize themselves to these rights.
Try walking down the hallway to simply get a book from your locker, you're guaranteed to be harassed by faculty, the result of this flourishing plant of oppression, "Hey, what are you doing by your locker over here?" "What does it look like!? I'm getting a book out of my locker so I don't receive a detention for coming to class unprepared!” Try going out somewhere to be with yourself, you'll be ordered inside with the rest of the cattle. They're setting us up too, putting vending machines in areas of the school where you can be deliberately hassled for purchasing a drink. I went to the now $1.25 (It was one dollar last year.) beverage machine, with two slices of pizza in hand, purchased my overpriced soft drink, the security guard then barks something similar to the following "You know you can't have that pizza in here, and as a matter of fact, you shouldn't even have that Dr. Pepper down here either. "Get into the cafeteria, now." Being the rebel that I am, I responded "Why do you guys even have this overpriced vending machine down here then!?" This prompted him to ask my name, wanting to avoid punishment for questioning authority; I gave it to him with a tone of fear, thinking he has scared me, and was now in dominance, he let me go.
This price inflation of the beverage vending machines was also a mystery to me. I thought it may have been inflation, but realized that would be silly. I consulted "Spanky", I asked him if it was a direct result of greed or inflation or a combination of the two, he seemed to concur it was the combination of our schools capitalist greed and inflation. I did a bit further searching into this, and thanks to Tony, our vending supplier, I found out that all of the students who purchase from these machines are being taxed by our football team and other extracurricular activities .25 cents. WHEN DID WE CONSENT TO PAYING FOR SOMETHING WE DON'T SUPPORT! It's like when George Bush Sr. gave Osama Bin Laden billions of taxpayer’s dollars for the Taliban. IT JUST DOES NOT MAKE SENSE. The fact that we're banned from bringing our own bottled water to school is yet another perfect example of how our own school is working against us. They're trapping us and expect us to accept it.
Oppressions growth will soon be obstructing a beautiful horizon for the students of Taravella in the years preceding mine, unless of course, we do something about this uncontrollably, controllable foliage of subjugation.
So in conclusion, it is up to the underclassmen to become uniform- by putting aside their cultural differences- prune this vegetation of subversion and fight for their right to have access to their locker and have time to themselves, not be herded like cattle into a cafeteria where they'll be restricted and overseen. So in the not-so-subtle words of Zach De La Rocha "Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me! Your anger is a gift."
-Auston Bunsen
Try walking down the hallway to simply get a book from your locker, you're guaranteed to be harassed by faculty, the result of this flourishing plant of oppression, "Hey, what are you doing by your locker over here?" "What does it look like!? I'm getting a book out of my locker so I don't receive a detention for coming to class unprepared!” Try going out somewhere to be with yourself, you'll be ordered inside with the rest of the cattle. They're setting us up too, putting vending machines in areas of the school where you can be deliberately hassled for purchasing a drink. I went to the now $1.25 (It was one dollar last year.) beverage machine, with two slices of pizza in hand, purchased my overpriced soft drink, the security guard then barks something similar to the following "You know you can't have that pizza in here, and as a matter of fact, you shouldn't even have that Dr. Pepper down here either. "Get into the cafeteria, now." Being the rebel that I am, I responded "Why do you guys even have this overpriced vending machine down here then!?" This prompted him to ask my name, wanting to avoid punishment for questioning authority; I gave it to him with a tone of fear, thinking he has scared me, and was now in dominance, he let me go.
This price inflation of the beverage vending machines was also a mystery to me. I thought it may have been inflation, but realized that would be silly. I consulted "Spanky", I asked him if it was a direct result of greed or inflation or a combination of the two, he seemed to concur it was the combination of our schools capitalist greed and inflation. I did a bit further searching into this, and thanks to Tony, our vending supplier, I found out that all of the students who purchase from these machines are being taxed by our football team and other extracurricular activities .25 cents. WHEN DID WE CONSENT TO PAYING FOR SOMETHING WE DON'T SUPPORT! It's like when George Bush Sr. gave Osama Bin Laden billions of taxpayer’s dollars for the Taliban. IT JUST DOES NOT MAKE SENSE. The fact that we're banned from bringing our own bottled water to school is yet another perfect example of how our own school is working against us. They're trapping us and expect us to accept it.
Oppressions growth will soon be obstructing a beautiful horizon for the students of Taravella in the years preceding mine, unless of course, we do something about this uncontrollably, controllable foliage of subjugation.
So in conclusion, it is up to the underclassmen to become uniform- by putting aside their cultural differences- prune this vegetation of subversion and fight for their right to have access to their locker and have time to themselves, not be herded like cattle into a cafeteria where they'll be restricted and overseen. So in the not-so-subtle words of Zach De La Rocha "Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me! Your anger is a gift."
-Auston Bunsen