Wallblog

I am sick and tired of all of the media portraying everything as bad or scary in America. I recently read an article that talked about the poisoning of candy during Halloween. It turns out that there have only been 2 confirmed cases, and both of them were the child's parents poisioning them. I have very fond memories of running house to house and asking total strangers for candy. I then trudged home and compared my haul to that of my older brother. I think that the media blows things way out of proportion, such as there is a murderer hiding behind every bush and that all students are lazy. I don't believe that. We have some great students here at Arapahoe, and great educators. It seems like the only time an educator is in the news is when they are sleeping with a student. I just wish the news was not so pessimistic and frightening, when it could be used for much greater purposes.

Do you think that the grading system at Arapahoe is too lenient? I was looking and the median (50%) of the seniors GPA is around 3.3! This means that over half of our students have over a B average! Are they smarter now than 15 years ago or are A's handed out much more frequently? I foresee a problem with this on application to colleges. A 3.2 GPA and you're not even in the top half of your grade! Can we change this?

I am really having problems trying to understand all of the blogging. I just created a class blog but do not know from there how to get students into it to start blogging. I know that we will be covering this stuff in class but I just wish for more time to go through it step by step and actually come out with a finished product.