Life's hard...play dirty!
[[What goes around, goes around, goes around, goes it's way back around...]]
There are some things in life I really don't agree with. Yes, life's hard, get a helmet, but the principle that if you work hard and earnestly that you will get what you're going for is complete and utter bullshit, and sometimes, there's nothing you can do about it. Life's hard, play dirty is the real principle in the end, because, for the most part, work-wise, being earnest and hard-working can get you shit. That kind of has something to do with what I want to write about and kind of doesn't, but in the end, it's what it comes down to and what, sadly, I have learned to be true.
I don't care WHAT or WHY, but it is wrong for you to force people to basically buy their grades. It disgusts me when I heard Ms. T was still forcing the ads upon the Journalism class, having increased it as well or their grades were endangered. You cannot coerce kids to sell ads for what you are lacking in the business department. When I was on the yearbook, I always disagreed with this. These kids may not even purchase the yearbook you are trying to force them to raise money for which is complete and utter bs. I know the yearbook needs funding and ads, but still, get the hell out. That is not by the system at all, and it will not be stopped, but it is wrong. So what if the kid fails selling ads? You punish their grade 'cause you can't do it yourself? You know what, have more fundraisers, or raise the price of the yearbook, but making them do something like this is fucking ridiculous. It's a horrible idea, and don't dare rant on my sister about this, because this is my opinion and has been since it started last year. What happened to the honesty of the system, it has been stabbed in the back. The worst part is journalism is supposed to be the righteousness for the world, and "for the people", the last representation of honesty and the truth, and this is the complete opposite.
I also am disgusted by the principal. I never liked her from my initial orientation since she said, "I always dreamed of working at a school with my name." If anyone starts off like that, it's never good. It appears as an attempt to grab already at what is not yours. Her bias is ridiculous. Not only did she send out propaganda by taking the school's mailing list and mailing us for her husband, she pulled out the king of cards and had her daughter transfer in.
After working hard in that school for 2 years, they came in to sweep it all out from under us. Hard work gets you far? Bullshit. This was becoming my elementary school nightmare all over again. I was supposed to be a head editor, and that was taken away from me and I was placed under some minute title. You wonder why I died the second half of the year? I spoke about it, kept my stand, saw where the favoritism lay after that whole Xanga incident and you know what? It made me see where it was and did not give me enough to care for. In the end, it did not end well from what I have heard on terms with one of the main editors. I said it and was ignored. That's what you get. People are not appreciated until others mess up. Life once again, is not fair. Not only that but there was the SO race, don't even get me into that. And like my dad said, "They'll be nice, but believe me they're playing their game to the fullest." And they are. Everyone loves them and I've heard of what school spirit they've had, you cannot have school spirit and KNOW Curtis when you've been there 2 years. No, you cannot.
Also, this principal had the audacity to try and humiliate my father at a recent meeting of the IB program saying that our school never told us there was such an IB program in place. In fact, you are lying, because we WERE misinformed. And the bias is disgusting. It really turned out being one of my worst years.
Then there are the coaches that favor certain players that they deem make a team. It doesn't matter if you show up to every practice and early and ask what you need to do, you are still put out and insulted. People in general disgust me. There will always be favoritism, even if they are not better in general. So you know what, after hearing of all this crap that is still going on and how corrupt Curtis is becoming under the dictator, I am telling you, speak up, write a letter, get a helmet. Also get some padding, because life's hard, play dirty.
Luckily, I am not letting my bad terms with journalism scar me for life and I am still pursuing it. I just needed to get that off my chest. Also, I am going to be that writer that only writes the truth and cannot be bought off or biased. I've had too much of this crap happen in my life, at school and to my family in other ways and I can't stand it. One person can try and make a difference.
Remember, this is just my opinion.