Class Notes

Ranting to write poetry

Why in the world would you expect someone to learn English just because they had to come to America? Not everyone comes to America for a jolly-good ole time. Some come here as refugees. To escape injustice. Some come as adults. Leave their homes and families behind. Hoping to create a new home. Many immigrants don't come here with much in their pocket. Some come hoping for more for their kids. Working two jobs. Doing what others won't. And they are supposed to have time to attend a class to learn English, because it inconveniences YOU? Why don't you try to go learn a new language? You go uproot yourself and build a new life in a country who doesn't speak your language and treats you differently. I'm not saying that it is unnecessary to learn the language of a country you move to, but to be appalled and upset that someone has not learned English, shows no consideration of their lives.

America.
The land of dreams,
Equality and
Freedom
of
Speech.

American Pride
of
The BIG
Melting Pot
Where everyone
Does NOT
Speak
English.


"Can-you-say-English?"
And
Silence.
Appalled, I just
Stare.
And in this silence
my silent mind
Rages, no longer silent.
Lazy, Inconsiderate and selfish
Accusations and assumptions
Begin.
Accusations of a person
And their past.
Their life.
All before they
Approach the window.
Assumptions
of capability
Between jobs and kids


Story Corps through NPR

"For Eli"

It is not fair to prepare our children for utopia, unprepared for the hardship in the world. Students need to learn of these depressing topics that they do and will have control over, if even within their own community alone.

fair, present, yes, important regardless of age, wait til older, society issues, effect them later, family deals with, comforting people to talk to, not just them or family, forming opinions, know their morals, right and wrong,

exposed to the horror of world at all, no, more unfair to not be given chance to respond, chance to talk, relate, form opinion, to understand, desensitized youth,

not fair to leave the unprepared for the world. give them the idea of a utopia. you leave the school and enter the world. outside the four walls. that's a lot to take in if you weren't taught to repsond. discuss. talk. your family isn't the only family to go through those issues. even certain families feel they should not talk about certain things at school.

there will be a time when something taboo will come up and that's life. students need to be able to cope.