Monday, May 21, 2012

5/21/12

School Fines
Kaitlyn Bernath
May 21, 2012
5th period
This article is talking about how some charter school systems are getting out of hand. They are making parents pay repetitious amounts of money, they may be small but they add up. The policy is pretty messed up but familiar to me. This school is charging money for every little thing the kids do wrong. If your shoe gets untied they give you a demerit. If you have no belt, they give you a demerit. If you don’t have a button, or one of your buttons is undone, you get a demerit. They use this excuse saying it helps them educationally. When your shoe becomes untied, you can’t help it. If you’re running late and forget a belt, it was an accident. The school is taking the little things to the extreme. Getting a demerit for accidentally forgetting a belt is ridiculous, and if anything it wouldn’t help you educationally, it would lower your self confidence. When you constantly do things by mistake you feel as if you have no responsibility, and as if you’re disappointing your parents. I went to Trinity. If you forget a belt at trinity and/or your friend doesn’t have an extra, you have to pay $10 for a new belt. If you get a Saturday school, it costs you $35. After 3 times of being late, its $5 and believe me, it adds up fast.  I don’t think that if these kids mess up just a little, they should be looked down upon and given demerits; it makes you feel bad, like you’re always doing something wrong. This system is messed up in a way, they shouldn’t get demerits for the little things that has nothing to do with discipline of other things. Pine Ridges discipline is different, if the teachers didn’t stress the students to be perfect and not make the littlest mistakes; I think problems would occur less.

IN Orange County, when kids are distracting kids from class with a toy or a match or a lighter, they get Out of School Suspension for 1, 3, or 10 days depending on age and what they bring. In Orange County, for dress code, you can’t wear any provocative clothing or things that are indecent which I completely agree with. You cannot wear hats, sweatbands, or sunglasses inside school buildings. Personally, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with hats unless they have inappropriate things on them, you aren’t going to hurt anyone with a hat. You aren’t allowed to wear bandanas or gang related pieces of clothing. Now with this, I agree but I don’t agree. If someone is wearing a bandana as a headband, there’s no harm, but if it’s intentionally meant for a gang related reason, I think it’s wrong. You also aren’t allowed to wear things adorned with spikes or chains which can be perceived or used as a weapon. This I agree with. It doesn’t look good to wear chains on your clothing anyways.  You can’t wear halters or tank tops. This I don’t agree with, if you’re not showing any undergarments, it does no harm. I agree that you need to wear clothes correctly as well. I also agree that clothing shouldn’t show too much skin. If you’re willing to show all that you have no morals or values. I think sagging is dumb, it doesn’t look good; I don’t know why boys think it’s attractive.  Clothing shouldn’t be too tight either, that’s gross. With the shirts and dresses policy, I agree that no one needs to see too much, but there are people out there who are tall and longer and things look shorter on them which aren’t fair. For the most part I agree with it all but some things could, and should be different.

Monday, May 14, 2012

5/14/12

“Blog about whatever”
Kaitlyn Bernath
David Beckham was born in England on May 2, 1975. His parent’s names were Ted and Sandra Beckham. Ted was a repairman and Sandra was a hairstylist. Beckham was a middle child. His family was always fond of Manchester United; it was something he grew up with. Manchester United is England’s legendary soccer franchise. Beckham showed his love for “football” at an early age. When he was 11 he won the Charlton Soccer Schools National Skills Competition showing his skill early in life. The Manchester United team officials started to notice his talent and asked him to try out for the youth team. Already at sixteen, Beckham was playing for the united training division, and had already left home. Two years later he got accepted into the club and already by 1995 he was playing as a full time starter. In 1997 Beckham was named The Professional Footballers Association Young Player of the Year. Beckham netted 13 million dollars in 1998 from an Adidas contract. The Beckham brand got even better when he met Victoria Adam. In ’97 they quickly fell in love and two years later had their first child, Brooklyn Joseph. Two Months later the two got married in Dublin, Ireland just outside of castle, and had an $800,000 wedding.  Beckham still continued to play well and didn’t fail. In 1999 he led the team to 3 titles, The Premier League Title, The FA Cup Championship, and The Champions League Title. England qualified for the World Cup in 2002. The same year, Beckham signed a $22 million dollar contract to stay with Manchester for 3 years. Yet, in 2003 he was offered a deal from Real Madrid.  Spanish players were thrilled to have him on the team. When the Americans were just getting to know him, the movie, Bend it like Beckham came out. America’s fascination with Beckham culminated in 2007 when Beckham moved across the Atlantic to sign a $250 million contract with LA Galaxy. In less than 48 hours, the Galaxy sold over 5,000 season tickets. Beckham injured his knee and missed out of the World Cup in 2010 because of an Achilles injury.  Last year, in July, David and Victoria welcomed their little girl, Harper Steven, in to the family after having 3 boys.