i just figured out tool is the first progressive band i found...
...well, i have a feeling i might be getting expelled pretty soon. i like to think that the reason all of this came up was on account me getting my friends' phones taken up. that's where it all started; after i got justin's taken up during church. succeeding that event came another: aaron busting me for dress code. proceeding that event came my encounter with the principal. he gave me a talk about dignity and manhood and about how i wasn't there yet because i can't follow the rules. the rules like wearing appropriate colors on a given day. that's a little too Brave New World for me. that's basically his argument for asking aquiescense of my right to return to IWA for my senior year; that, and not being fully shaven. however, i did come to school unshaven a lot and out of dress code on about four accounts. that's the reason i've been issued ISS six times this year: dress code. in our meeting last friday he also asserted a certain point, "IWA makes MEN out of boys." he kept telling me that i wasn't a man yet because i can't follow the rules. so it all comes around full circle pointing back to aaron busting me that day for wearing the wrong color on spirit day. i'm not blaming aaron and i'm not letting karma hold this either. in actuality, jason and aaron were already using their phones in class, that's the risk they took. justin didn't have his out or anything. i hold my self accountable for justin's phone but not the rest. but back to my point - possible expulsion. it's been a whole week since lugerasi told me he doesn't want me back, that's of his "personal" opinion. he asked me to write a letter to him stating why he should let me back, so here it is:
Due Process
Due Process: An established course for judicial proceedings or other governmental activities designed to safeguard the legal rights of the individual. We both already knew this. However, you allocated me to a deeper understanding of due process above the judicial definition. When we spoke on Friday, I was confused, at the time, about some of what you said to me. Spending time to think about it this morning and yesterday evening I began to wonder why you would continually give persons like myself chance after chance. At that precise moment it dawned on me that you’re showing me how to continue to grow, but I was being too belligerent to see your efforts. Your ultimatum had a profound effect on my conscience when you spoke to me about your suggestion that I shouldn’t return to Incarnate Word next year. I can see why you wouldn’t want me there, but I can also see why you would want me there. I could see that you wouldn’t want me at IWA on account of my unkempt presentation on a continual basis, a small mishap albeit a continual one. I tried your patience again and again, but I still pushed your patience. You reacted and I now stand in my current position. I pushed your patience because, as you said, I am not yet a man. It is now that I find myself at a fork in the road. These two forks lead one of two ways; one way leads to a continuation of my journey as well as my growth to manhood, the other - nowhere. Again, we both know the obvious choice but is it a shame that it came about this way? I find experiences like this to be milestones in my life, milestones where I’m called to search deep inside myself as to why I should be anything anywhere in anyplace. With that thought in mind, I came to the conclusion that nobody belongs anywhere, but rather, they earn a place. I’m well overdue for earning my place. When school was dismissed I was questioned by a few of my peers as to what happened between you and I. As soon as they asked me that question I knew immediately that what had just happened, I couldn’t explain in words. Even though we were engaged as student and principal in your office, I found more meaning than, “just another meeting with Mr. Lugaresi”, in our discussion. I found that the time has come for me to make a choice, a vital choice. I can only ask that I be allowed refuge to demonstrate in a final plea my urgency to finish school at IWA. I want to be an astrophysicist. I’m going to be an astrophysicist with your choice. I’ll demonstrate my need and desire for IWA and I can only ask that you grant me enrollment next year to finish strong at IWA to begin my studies for astrophysics.
sincerly,
Jake P. Montez
it stung more than anything than to kiss his ass like that. and the thing that irks me is that i think he could give a shit less about the letter. i can tell already it's going to be an interesting month. nothing that cannot be overcome but definitly interesting.
Due Process
Due Process: An established course for judicial proceedings or other governmental activities designed to safeguard the legal rights of the individual. We both already knew this. However, you allocated me to a deeper understanding of due process above the judicial definition. When we spoke on Friday, I was confused, at the time, about some of what you said to me. Spending time to think about it this morning and yesterday evening I began to wonder why you would continually give persons like myself chance after chance. At that precise moment it dawned on me that you’re showing me how to continue to grow, but I was being too belligerent to see your efforts. Your ultimatum had a profound effect on my conscience when you spoke to me about your suggestion that I shouldn’t return to Incarnate Word next year. I can see why you wouldn’t want me there, but I can also see why you would want me there. I could see that you wouldn’t want me at IWA on account of my unkempt presentation on a continual basis, a small mishap albeit a continual one. I tried your patience again and again, but I still pushed your patience. You reacted and I now stand in my current position. I pushed your patience because, as you said, I am not yet a man. It is now that I find myself at a fork in the road. These two forks lead one of two ways; one way leads to a continuation of my journey as well as my growth to manhood, the other - nowhere. Again, we both know the obvious choice but is it a shame that it came about this way? I find experiences like this to be milestones in my life, milestones where I’m called to search deep inside myself as to why I should be anything anywhere in anyplace. With that thought in mind, I came to the conclusion that nobody belongs anywhere, but rather, they earn a place. I’m well overdue for earning my place. When school was dismissed I was questioned by a few of my peers as to what happened between you and I. As soon as they asked me that question I knew immediately that what had just happened, I couldn’t explain in words. Even though we were engaged as student and principal in your office, I found more meaning than, “just another meeting with Mr. Lugaresi”, in our discussion. I found that the time has come for me to make a choice, a vital choice. I can only ask that I be allowed refuge to demonstrate in a final plea my urgency to finish school at IWA. I want to be an astrophysicist. I’m going to be an astrophysicist with your choice. I’ll demonstrate my need and desire for IWA and I can only ask that you grant me enrollment next year to finish strong at IWA to begin my studies for astrophysics.
sincerly,
Jake P. Montez
it stung more than anything than to kiss his ass like that. and the thing that irks me is that i think he could give a shit less about the letter. i can tell already it's going to be an interesting month. nothing that cannot be overcome but definitly interesting.