It be like that sometimes

45 long years has gone by since blacks have struggled for many rights that were promised to them in our own constitution. Even today blacks are still struggling for their rights. About 45 years ago there was a great non violent march in Alabama that led to a very violent outcome. This shows how far white America would go just so a black America doesn't form. Thank goodness we have come as far as having a black President. Go Obama!

How i feel about this school

OUR MISSION IS STUDENT SUCCESS... ACADEMIC, ARTISTIC, AND HUMANISTIC.

To me academic student success means to have an outreach to students that crave knowledge. Not necessarily a student that is striving for a higher A-- even though that is student academic success as well; but a student that tries their best and still gets acknowledged.

I have come across too many teachers that over look the students that put forth 100% effort and still get let down with C's and D's. This only discourages the student to not care about what he/she does. Most teachers don't understand that not every student can stay after school for extra help. It may not necessarily be the students lack of assertiveness, it may also be the students parents. This is where our school system fails miserably. almost all the teachers in SOTA automatically assume that its the students fault, and although some of the time, it may very well be, some of the time it's not. If a student already has a defeatist attitude about a certain subject, because they may not be the best at whatever class they are in, dismissing them will not help. Once these teachers at SOTA look outside of their everyday life and into the lives of students that have a hardknock life, they will remain ignorant to the reasons some students act the way they do, and fail at what they teach.

Artistic success to me means when an individual is allowed to express themselves in an artistic way, whether its drawing, singing, dancing, or even writing, rapping, or just plain talking.

Many teachers (not neccesarily in SOTA, because arts is what they specialize in) find that artistic success is not neccesarily important to students everyday lives. Expressing ourselves artistically may be one of very few ways to actually get what we feel out in the open. I know many people that write or sing or dance their lives away just to keep from crying. I believe that SOTA is doing its part as far as the artistic aspect of success.

Humanistic success is when people care about the welfare of other people. They can do this by helping their community and/or even just giving good advice.

I don't think that some teachers in SOTA care about the humanistic success of the students. I believe that some of them care more so for the academic "rates" rather than the welfare of the actual student. For instance there are teachers that boost the grade of their students if most of the class is failing. Not for the welfare of the student's but just so that they don't attract bad media from administrators. There are also teachers that don't want to take time out of their schedule to help the student's because they feel that they should get all of the information out of the class. Some students learn better 1 on 1 instead of in a class environment, and some teachers don't understand that.

If I could change SOTA I would change how some teacher teach their subjects. SOTA unfortunately beats the talent that students have into their heads, until the student looses the passion they had for their talent in the 1st place. I think if I were a head administrator of SOTA I would allow students to go to their arts class every other day instead of every day. This would take the edge off of the work they have to do to be good at what ever major they do. The academic, artistic, and humanistic success of the students can really have a greater affect on the student than some people think.

I want to brag a minuet

I want to brag a minuet and say that I am beyond bad. Bad is not even the word. I don't even think there is a word for my beauty. I am not a conceited person at all though. I'm actually quite confident. Anybody that has said I was ugly in my pass were either ugly themselves or haters that stay on my back. I can't stand girls that want to put another person down, just because they have some insecurities themselves.

I myself don't talk about anyone, because I'm not insecure. I love myself and I love anyone that loves me too. I brag about my beauty because beauty can be found anywhere, not just on the exterior. I am beautiful on the inside and out . and I try to make life so much better by spreading my inner and outer beauty. I just thought that if i took a minuet to brag about myself i might grab some haters, because, i value the envious. They just make me feel so much better about myself. When females learn that talking about people may hurt some it's the best feeling in the world for others. Gracias amigas!

technology that empowers me

Technology that empowers me would have to be my phone. I'm just in-love with the fact that I can text my life away. Texting has been my new best friend when I couldn't find the words to say out loud. Texting is convenient, and you don't have to have all those attached emotions that deal with regular conversation.

Texting has empowered me tremendously by allowing me to express how i feel in less than 160 articles. Texting has allowed me to tell my parents things that i would have otherwise kept to myself. Texting has freed me as an individual, and allowed me to flock free with the words of the community I live in.I can even be myself with words not even acceptable to Webster himself. I text, because texting may be the only way to express myself. I hide emotions and fears that vocally couldn't be renounced behind words like ttyl and idgaf. Texting is my medicine, texting numbs my pain to outside diseases.

I mean you know what grinds my gears!

I absolutely can’t stand when girls try way too hard to attract attention from boys. It’s a turn off. It makes boys avoid them, and it makes other females feel awkward around them.
I absolutely positively can’t stand when boys approach a girl with “Wussup Mah!” As if girls will actually drop their drawers for men who don’t even put in the effort to learn their names. And then of course there are the women who disrespect THEMSELVES by answering to these disrespectful buzzards.
I can’t stand when females wear a certain color weave to match their outfit for a certain day. They don’t understand that if their not wearing that same color everyday for about a week it’s just corny. I hate walking into Walmart and seeing Shaquanda or Shante’ with purple weave and an orange and blue polo outfit. Come on people!
What really grinds my gears is when boys put their entire secret life on myspace like no one will see it. Everyone has a myspace page; what makes them think that if they put on their page that they’re in love with Mary- Jane that Susy- Joe won’t see it. And then what REALLY grinds my gears is when they deny it after they blatantly got caught… oops!
Maybe Boys in this day in age just don’t have any class any more. Life will continue to be nerve wrecking with these worthless low- lives we call men and boys. I just want a boy to approach me with a “Hello, how are you doing…” I want them to actually try to get to know me for me. I want a boy to bring me flowers and chocolate instead of their latest version of their mix tape (insider). Until they learn to have some respect for the opposite sex they will continue to grind my gears.

I cant believe this!

Tom Tancredo most recently stated that there should be another literacy test reinstated for voters who can't spell the word "Vote" or say it in english, and everyone who voted for Barack Obama. That statement was absolutely racist, and very ignorant to say. How dare Tom Tancredo come out of his mouth with such defamation. I don't respect him as a person, and I definitely don't respect his ideals and thoughts. If the issue was flipped there would have been an even greater uproar, and every Caucasian in America would have shut whoever said that down. Literacy test in itself are very degrading and unacceptable. Tom Tancredo should apologize for his ignorance and this whole ordeal should be dismissed and forgotten immediately.

conforming is the new "black"

Margaret Drabble once said, "Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts." She was basically stating that people rather look in a conformist direction rather than rationalizing the actual good and/or bad of the popular way. Conforming has been a new up and coming "thing". many people find conforming as an interesting way of being different. People nowadays feel that by conforming it actually makes you a leader, but in all actuality it still makes you a follower. Since conforming has been the new thing to do everyone has hopped on the bandwagon on the road to conforming. People try so hard to stray away from the "norm" that a large enough group has actually made it impossible to be different.