on Mar 31st, 2006
News on TV
So I enjoy watching the news when interesting things are happening. So I have two topics I want to blog about that I saw on the news this morning.
First is about a high school teacher (I forget what school) who apparently told his psychologist that he has had homicidal thoughts about killing the school administration. The psychologist apparently thought the threat was real enough that he contacted local police, and he now has an order to stay away from the school. Now, that in itself isn’t very funny… except that one of the kids they interviewed said, “Well, he could never really control a class… and if you can’t control 30 people then you can’t control yourself”. Lol… judging from the way the kids looked in the interview… I think I would have a hard time controling 30 of them if they didn’t want to be “controlled”… lol, so I guess that means I’m mentally incompetent.
My second thought is on the recent issues about the immigration laws that are looking to be passed, and how a bunch of kids are skipping school to go “protest” about it. What’s funny about this is *most* of the kids they interviewed that were walking in Houston and protesting… didn’t really know what they were protesting. And of course there was the expected, “I hate Bush, Bush is going to ruin everything” comment… but the funny thing is, is Bush (from what I’ve read) supports letting immigrants come and work here (not having to be a citizen, but having to be registered I believe). So I don’t think the large majority of these kids know what the real issues are on the plate. (Not claiming that I know everything that’s going on either).
That’s not really what I take issue with however. What I take issue with, is that at Reagan High School, the students wanted to put the Mexican flag up with the American flag, and the principle let them! They also interviewed people who thought the Mexican flag should be flown higher than the Texas flag. This made me laugh at first… because that’s just ridiculous… until they interviewed 2 random people, and one of them (of hispanic descent) said, “Well I don’t see what the big deal is… it’s just a symbol, you know? This should be about the people, not about a symbol.”
If “symbols” don’t mean anything then why do we fly flags at all? And why did they want a Mexican flag up there? And why did they want it HIGHER than the TEXAS flag?? I’m sorry, but no other country is going to be put “higher” than our country and our states. This isn’t Mexico, this is America.
That’s all! ![]()