I have not finished the interviews writing them down becasue of a technical difficulty
here is what i have now
This policy addresses discrimination, harassment, and retaliation involving District students.
The District prohibits acts of any kind, including harassment, based on race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or any other basis prohibited by law (e.g., cyberbullying via social network sites). Retaliation against anyone involved in the new policy.
During citizens communication, board members heard support for the decision from a student as well as representatives from local nonprofit Out Youth, which provides services to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth in Austin and Central Texas.
Transgender youth have reported harassment, discrimination and physical attacks, said Keisha Martinez, Out Youth’s clinical services director.
Creating a gender-inclusive space is accomplished by using appropriate gender pronouns and providing access to services in accordance with individuals’ authentic identity versus their designated gender at birth and Policy changes are imperative
Sunday, October 25, 2015
Thursday, October 22, 2015
Current event Quiz 2.2 (a day late I might add)
1) The two possible causes for the fires were an overheating Shredder and also a farm accident. The burn ban may have been violated. At 10:30 am, officials let displaced home owners return to the crime scene. The estimated cost of damages was "hundreds of millions" of dollars worth. After reading the interviews, it impacted the story by adding an emotional appeal fort he reader. After reading the part about the guy's wife dying two weeks earlier and him losing everyhting, it made me actually more concerned for the story.
2) Schools have begun to use online textbooks for Math and social studies. The Robertson family was having trouble accessing the "cyberhomework" and so they spent 75 dollars on a paper textbook. The teacher expressed little concern with the so called "user-unfriendly" online textbooks. She said hat is a really easy way to show more content to the students. It costs a lot to get the devices for students who can't access them all the time. Much more than say... 75 dollars for a paper textbook. I guess this affects me at McCallum, but I've been using devices as an alternative to textbooks for many years that it's probably more strange to actually have a real textbook. I kinda like it more just because I can make myself think that if it's on a device hat it's been updated more recently than a textbook, whether that's true or not is a different discussion but..
3) First of all, Canada is really awesome. You should really seriously think about going there. It's just really... wow. CANADA'S BACK BABY! LEGALISM!!! WOOHOOO! (kinda funny but while I was in Canada over the summer, I saw a lot of campaigns for the legalization of mary-jane and a lot of the other things that are being pushed through now) Canada is going to surprise the world with just how cool and liberal they can be. The U.S. relationship will change because of the withdraw of Canada in the bombing of the Islamic states.
4) First of all, Eastside will NEVER be a "cool hip place to go". I bet my life on that. That school should of been closed. The band director, Alan Guckian, is nominated for a grammy-ish award. He is in the 25 finalists, and he was picked because of the biographies students and families wrote about him. He said he would throw a pizza party for all the kids, "and it won't be mr. Gattis'" This director knows where its at in pizza town.
5) The new coach is trying to stop the finger pointing and build up the confidence of the individual players before just trying to build up a team that doesn't trust themselves. I really like the way this coach thinks. That's the kind of coach that makes an okay team, into a watch out team.
2) Schools have begun to use online textbooks for Math and social studies. The Robertson family was having trouble accessing the "cyberhomework" and so they spent 75 dollars on a paper textbook. The teacher expressed little concern with the so called "user-unfriendly" online textbooks. She said hat is a really easy way to show more content to the students. It costs a lot to get the devices for students who can't access them all the time. Much more than say... 75 dollars for a paper textbook. I guess this affects me at McCallum, but I've been using devices as an alternative to textbooks for many years that it's probably more strange to actually have a real textbook. I kinda like it more just because I can make myself think that if it's on a device hat it's been updated more recently than a textbook, whether that's true or not is a different discussion but..
3) First of all, Canada is really awesome. You should really seriously think about going there. It's just really... wow. CANADA'S BACK BABY! LEGALISM!!! WOOHOOO! (kinda funny but while I was in Canada over the summer, I saw a lot of campaigns for the legalization of mary-jane and a lot of the other things that are being pushed through now) Canada is going to surprise the world with just how cool and liberal they can be. The U.S. relationship will change because of the withdraw of Canada in the bombing of the Islamic states.
4) First of all, Eastside will NEVER be a "cool hip place to go". I bet my life on that. That school should of been closed. The band director, Alan Guckian, is nominated for a grammy-ish award. He is in the 25 finalists, and he was picked because of the biographies students and families wrote about him. He said he would throw a pizza party for all the kids, "and it won't be mr. Gattis'" This director knows where its at in pizza town.
5) The new coach is trying to stop the finger pointing and build up the confidence of the individual players before just trying to build up a team that doesn't trust themselves. I really like the way this coach thinks. That's the kind of coach that makes an okay team, into a watch out team.
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Current Events Experience 2.1
Current Events Experience 2.1
1) The perk for the council members is VIP tickets and parking passes to one three day weekend to the ACL festival coming up. These passes are for "work purposes" only says the City Park's and Recreation's Board. Rick Cofer and Council Member Don Zimmerman declined the offer because they either have no interest in going to a festival of it's size or with he physical condition of the council man, and Rick Cofer feels as if he is being played by the festival as a way to blindly agree to anything that affects it. Romero says that the passes are for "municipal" purposes, a contradiction of what the PR board said. Kitchen said that the use of Austin’s major park for events much
of the year, and that the free passes wouldn’t sway her to
be more on the side of festivals. Personally, I think it's okay that they get their own passes mostly because the majority of the old people won't even show up. The people who do take the passes and actually go probably want to be here as much as anyone else who paid. I don't think the free tickets will affect their decisions as much as people are worried it will because the same people who think that probably didn't elect the ones in the council. Or at least feel as though they are not accurately represented.
2) Oklahoma put into place a stay all execution solution (haha it rhymes) because of the failure to comply to the newest law put into place to stop states from buying killing drugs from across the ocean. Tennessee is coming up with many new solutions on how to continue killing at a steady rate. Nitrogen gas, different lethal drugs, firing squad, and many other creative solutions. Texas has chosen to use lethal dosage as the weapon of choice. Some states hesitate to use the drug in lethal injections because it has been linked to several difficult executions recently.
3) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu barred his ministers from going to visit a Mosque, and had police make sure on one from parliament was able to reach the place. He was just trying to put a cap on the out of hand violence. They others reacted just as you would think, they were upset and felt like he was trying to rule like a king.
4) Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize for Literature the other day, because of her polyphonic writings and the rarity of her work being non-fiction.The blending of the views on the soviet union through the eyes of the everyday citizen. She looks to he future in a way that she has much left to do.
5) "Because
of the increased risk of the concealed carry law, I decided it is best
not to do this anymore,” Professor Emeritus Daniel S. Hamermesh. He resigned because of the concealed weapon law. The reporter found out because of a personal connection. another factor that contributed was the decreased of students at UT.
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Monday, October 5, 2015
Observation Piece LONG VERSION
The room was dim as I entered it. The bright outside light reflected off on the linoleum floor and shone into the room making the movie on the screen become lighter. Mr. Rodgers turned and tried to make eye contact with me as I slowly entered the room. I slunk in tot he room sitting on the ground next to three roller chairs with red carpet like upholstery. The movie not he screen was Thumb Wars, a parody of Star Wars, but only acted out by thumbs.
The annoying voices coming from the screen were easy to drown out and soon became white noise. The slight chitter chatter of the other student s became more apparent. The light illuminating front their phone screens made it obvious as to who was really watching the movie and who was just completely off task. I stood up again because the boy I was sitting under reeked of Axe Tropical. A little goes a long way and sitting new tho him was making it hard to breathe.
I walked from my seat at computer 3 all the way down the aisle trying to avoid crossing over the screen. I turned left after the row ended and walked into almost complete darkness. I know the layout of the back office. go straight and open the door to the control room. Take a left after the largest computer and go in to the storage cage room. I decided to go slightly to the left and then go down the corridor to a new door. I couldn't see anything but I reached forward and opened the usually locked back door. The room I walked into was dark and I hit my head on a low hanging ceiling and crouched to move under it. The automatic light flickered on. The inside room had a small stage and a huge sound room with sound proof walls. On top of the sound room, I could see guitar cases and next to the amp sitting on the ground, was a black Stradler guitar. In the corner was a keyboard connected to another amp and inside of the sound room there was a full drum kit. I sat in the room for the remainder of my observation period and strummed the guitar, trying to find the cords to play 'Come as You Are'. The room was quiet and caming allowing me to just relax and stop hearing the sounds of the school. The coolness on the room and the comfortableness of the chair I was sitting in put me into a lull, almost putting me to sleep.
The annoying voices coming from the screen were easy to drown out and soon became white noise. The slight chitter chatter of the other student s became more apparent. The light illuminating front their phone screens made it obvious as to who was really watching the movie and who was just completely off task. I stood up again because the boy I was sitting under reeked of Axe Tropical. A little goes a long way and sitting new tho him was making it hard to breathe.
I walked from my seat at computer 3 all the way down the aisle trying to avoid crossing over the screen. I turned left after the row ended and walked into almost complete darkness. I know the layout of the back office. go straight and open the door to the control room. Take a left after the largest computer and go in to the storage cage room. I decided to go slightly to the left and then go down the corridor to a new door. I couldn't see anything but I reached forward and opened the usually locked back door. The room I walked into was dark and I hit my head on a low hanging ceiling and crouched to move under it. The automatic light flickered on. The inside room had a small stage and a huge sound room with sound proof walls. On top of the sound room, I could see guitar cases and next to the amp sitting on the ground, was a black Stradler guitar. In the corner was a keyboard connected to another amp and inside of the sound room there was a full drum kit. I sat in the room for the remainder of my observation period and strummed the guitar, trying to find the cords to play 'Come as You Are'. The room was quiet and caming allowing me to just relax and stop hearing the sounds of the school. The coolness on the room and the comfortableness of the chair I was sitting in put me into a lull, almost putting me to sleep.
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