hear, hear for those half Mexican Americans blognroll

Oh yeah!  Yaaaa!

(German is way cool-- as a language at any rate -- bier is good too!)

Don't teach them Canadian though. A dead language. Even Latin would be better!

The lyrics of your kids song say ita all esse

Its just too bad many "races" want their cake and eat it too.

On the one hand they want to use their "minority" status (Latino, Black, Asian, etc.) for sepcial treatment, but on the other they want others to be "color blind" when dealing with them as far as loans, etc. (things they percieve as "white" advantaged things)

What many of them really want is to be placed in a privelaged position relative to others because of their "race" (ethnicity). Full Stop! (Period for those of you non-anglophiles) - haha!

Its all [edit.] esse!

People are people. Until we get there all this "multi-culturalism" is just a pound of hieffer dust on yer boots!

Did you realy mean KUHS Sage?

ha!

Took draft physical in Fresno with a dude from BHS. Think his name was Burris. Balck dude. Funny as hell.

He was the guy who "passed out"when they went to take blood (then he winked at me as they had him laying on a gurney)

Guys were doing everything imaginable back then to get out of going.

I always wondered what happened to that dude. Wonder if he went.

There was only a coupla guys that were "Group W" BTW.

We were all in socks and undies and one of the "Group W" guys  was ...... well......excited?

We were all glad he flunked.....haha!

Hi, I am the student who wrote the article in the BHS Blue and White that has come under question, and I would postulate, and I believe correctly so, that you missed the entire point of the article as well as what you were supposed to be "blogging" about.  You completely failed to adress the actual issue under question: the crime at BHS.  You list an excellent point about the ethnic issues at BHS and the general moral degradation prevalent on high school campuses everywhere, but is it really the fault of the parents?  And how is that actually significant.  It does not matter whose fault it is, it only matters that it is indeed a reality, a bitter, harsh, and horribly unfortunate one, but mindless idealism will not solve the problem.  No, there are a number of potential solutions to the actual problems, but those were not even mentioned.  Rather, the focus was on WHY the students even had the items in the first place.  Yes, it could be considered unfortunate that "kids" are given expensive things by their parents, but does that necessarily teach them that they have the right to steal those things, and does that honestly CAUSE the problems our nations youth are faced with.  I, in my severely finite wisdom, can answer that for you with a resounding NO!  I am personally insulted by this assertion, I am what you could consider "middle class," my parents have provided me with a car, a cell phone, funding in my athletic endeavors, and have given me essentially everything that I need.  And yet I have developed into a self-reliant individual.  I simply must say that I fail to understand why you believe that the provisions that our parents give to us cause us to become mindless swarms of careless teens, because I can honestly tell you that that is not the issue at hand.  Perhaps the thieves are indeed being affected by their parents lack of ethical teaching, but don't insult the students who are having their things stolen, it is not their fault, and the problem is real and it won't go away by just telling parents about it or fining them, a fine will do nothing more than cause an increase in student beatings and a much larger group of  incarcerated parents.  And to all of those who believe that cell phones are not allowed on campus, that is not true, the actual policy is "Cell phones: off and away all day,"  not "Absolutely no electronics on campus."  And both of the students who had their phones stolen in my article had them stolen from their backpacks, and they were off, thus in compliance with the school policy.  In conclusion, the issue is no longer who is to blame for this proliferation of thievery, that was the issue seventeen years ago when these young thieves were born, no the issue is now: can we backtrack and teach these students that what they are doing is wrong, and provide the community with truly ethical and conscientious individuals?

Thank you,

Brandt Champion