biggest lie ever told on my school's campus:
"baby, you're not going to need a foreign language or a third science or math to get into college."

my favorite part about that statement is the "baby." my theory is that if the counselor would call the students by name and get to know them on a personal level, she couldn't look them in the face, call them false endearments, and lie to them.

why do counselors perpetuate the myth that it is perfectly acceptable to settle for mediocrity??? our school motto is "if better is possible, then good is not enough." well, mister president, good may not be enough, but half-assed apparently is. and i understand the arguments, really i do. funding is tight, so we're short teachers; therefore, we can't offer every subject to every child. got it. we have to have enough students in votech to support it. got it. a solid percentage of our kids won't go on to college. got it.

but here's my thing. you goddamn better well prepare all of them to go, because we're not doing our job as educators if we don't. we have a principal who is passionate about putting students in the best position possible to succeed. that's one of his catch phrases. and last year, when i was busy hating the way he ran things, i still respected him because he put the students first, and that's something that i'm down with, too. but, mister president, our actions belie our words. until we start focusing more on academics and less on extra-curriculars, we're not giving them opportunities that they so desperately deserve.