have emotional problems?

I recently read Sleep-deprivation causes an emotional brain 'disconnect' and to be truthful really scared me. My entire life I have not gotten enough sleep because I like staying up during the night. This shows emotion problems and higher chance of stress if people don't sleep and that seems a bit off to me because most people don't get enough sleep at night. I know I don't, but as the study shows the less sleep I get I become much more stressed angry and sometimes I get scared of really random things when I don't sleep. I also noticed it was right about body functions, if you ever stay up a long time you should try doing something that takes a lot of coordination like sports or video games you just cant do it as well. I think their test is for the greater good and overall very useful to show kids that don't like to sleep so that they go to bed earlier, but I don't think it's very important to have. I can understand things like this are what they study on so people know more but it seems like they could be researching on something more useful like diseases that need cures or other things that could help in making people and animals live longer. This study is useful but not all that necessary and I think they could work on something more important.

PLC

I recently read The Most Successful PLC this was about Samir Khan the blogged as news for North Carolina when blogging from his parents house on violent Islamic groups. This made me think about our personal blogs, well I know myself that only our teacher has looked at my blogs but it really got me wondering; if we used our blogs for other things like local news or as help information on certain topics would there be any chance of our blogs being looked at and commented by other people? Although we do show our own opinions on our blogs I don't think we are really so into it that random people online would check out what we have to say, not because our opinions don't matter but that we don't always say what people want to hear or want to know about. When we use blogger we do it to get our opinions and ideas out there to help us think for our selves instead of following the opinion of the general crowd so that we can be individuals, I think it's smart to have kids do things like this but they don't really spread their thoughts out there so them speaking on this would b like whispering in a crowd of a million people and planning on being heard.

seizure of cell phones

I read Phone searches spark protest. This article actually seemed useful it talked about how the taking of cell phones and reading messages was unconstitutional. The idea of people taking a cellphone and reading the texts on is actually kinda disturbing, that seems like a serious invasion of privacy and should not be tolerated by anyone. I can understand parent's doing it but a teacher or officer doing it seems a bit extreme to me, if you look suspicious or if they get tipped about you they should be aloud to search you but not read your conversations. Having people look through your items like that is unnecessary if you don't have anything on you then they shouldn't be able to check what your doing at home or after school. And to be truthful if they ever tried to check messages I leave friends without me saying they could I'd probably try to get them arrested. It's wrong and shouldn't be allowed, that's the same as being bugged twenty four seven. They don't need to read texts to know what your doing, smoking and marijuana leave a distinct smell and they don't need to read them. If they do it's to invading there are things that people generally don't need to know about you that they can find out while reading the messages on your phone, and probably a lot of private things you don't want them to know so I think that it is very wrong for them to even try.

for once i completely agree with a teacher

For my education blog this week i read More Thoughts On Filtering on the Fisch bowl. This is the first time a actually agreed with something a teacher commented on. I have always thought the filters on school websites a little bit extreem and they get really annoying sometimes. I also agree that the block on video sites like Google video and Youtube are unnecessary. They should at least allow certain videos aloud to be viewed just to make sure people can use the website but not watch anything profane. I think it should be the teachers decision what on the school computers is blocked since they are the people who monitor it not the district. I'll say this as an example but I tried to look things up on the human body for biology in 8th grade and every site I looked up it had block (it was really annoying since my computer was broken) and I had to go to another public library to do my homework. I don't know if the computers at Arapaho use the filter so harshly but that's how I will state my opinion, filtering of to many sites is annoying and it can make it really hard to do certain assignments, and since I'm sure a lot more people then me like getting homework done before they get home so they can hang out the filters can really be a problem. I do think that teachers should still block sites like myspace and game sites but Youtube and certain other websites we can use to help us in school and if their blocked then we cant use them, and a lot of times when we have to do simple assignments online for homework we wont do them at home because we forget. So I think at least they should unfilter websites if they would ask us to get on them or if they ask to go web searching so when we find a good site we could actually get on it.

SAFER

For my news comment I read Pro-pot group urges RB to join Broncos. This article was about a group called SAFER a group of people that want the government to pick pot over alcohol to get Ricky Williams to join the Broncos. Well I don't wanna say what this article is about but I kinda had to for my opinion on it. I have no doubt that alcohol is safer then pot if used in it's right amount. These people want pot over alcohol I mean seriously, pot is a poison to the body and can make you lose a lot of brain cells if used more then two times a month. The fact that they would prefer it over a drink that although can kill you is much more safe. Drinking is only really bad for you if your an alcoholic or if you dint have a designated driver. I have nothing wrong with people that do smoke pot I mean both drinking and pot probably have the same effect on you, people probably only do weed because it doesn't have the taste alcohol does. Either way it is a law that the person broke for that reason I don't think he should be aloud back in the sport after breaking it so many times.

AHS wirless connection

I read Two Steps Forward... on the fischbowl. Although I didn't really understand what was trying to get across on this it did make me think a little bit. The topic was about a wireless connection in school, although I know this will help the students out in school being able to find out teacher's off periods and a school map for new students wont it also effect the usage of electronics in the school? Wont it effect the number of student ditching, I mean seriously it might have the same amount of blocks that the school does but without teachers monitoring what their on they could still go to a lot of web sites that have nothing school related to them. And if there are some people that know how to get past the blocks (I'm sure there are a lot of them) whats to stop them from just getting on their ipods psp's and cell phones and just playing games during class. I'm not saying this isn't a useful thing for school but in my mind there seems to just be a lot of flaws with the idea. It did also talk about an override, I'm not entirely sure what that was about it didn't seem very clear on that part it could be for the entire connection or just a single student. If it were for a single student I think that it would be a good idea, like monitoring them and if they bend the rules like they have for the library could break their connection now that would be a great idea. But it still goes as I said above it's a good idea for people that use it for school but if people might use if for other things and it seems like kinda a big flaw to me.