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Mar. 8th, 2011 05:41 pmThe next three hours are going to be torture. I don't have any tutoring appointments until later into my shift, so it will at least start picking up then. It is getting to that point that will bore me close to tears. I can't exactly tell them I can't stay because there is a video game that came out today I have to get home to play. That would go over well, I'm sure. I shouldn't complain though, I'm currently being paid to sit here and post on LJ. LIfe could be worse.
In my Social Problems class this morning we watched a movie on bullying and it was quite moving. It was what one would expect from such a movie, so I won't go into the details, but I was so amazed at the school officials.Rather than do the job they were paid to do they pretty much turned a blind eye as this little boy was continually harassed and beaten. The people that were supposed to protect him said to him and his parents "Boys will be boys." Really? That just makes it all okay? To top it all off, the principal denied remembering an times that the boy came to her for help on the stand. People amaze me, they really do.
My next class had a pretty jaw-dropping moment as well. People are well aware that more and more people are obese, but never before had I seen it shown in such a way. Margot nabbed the Power point from Yale and it showed just how much it has gone up from 1985 to 2009, and just wow. We went from a few states having over a 10% rate to every state having at least 14% and most had a much higher rate than that. It wasn't overweight people, it was obese. If there was any motivation for me to keep eating good foods and moving, that was it. She then told us a story one of her students has shared with her once -- the student was a paramedic and they told her about a 20 year old that weighted 800 pounds and died in the basement of his parents house. They needed a team of firefighters to get the body out.
In my Social Problems class this morning we watched a movie on bullying and it was quite moving. It was what one would expect from such a movie, so I won't go into the details, but I was so amazed at the school officials.Rather than do the job they were paid to do they pretty much turned a blind eye as this little boy was continually harassed and beaten. The people that were supposed to protect him said to him and his parents "Boys will be boys." Really? That just makes it all okay? To top it all off, the principal denied remembering an times that the boy came to her for help on the stand. People amaze me, they really do.
My next class had a pretty jaw-dropping moment as well. People are well aware that more and more people are obese, but never before had I seen it shown in such a way. Margot nabbed the Power point from Yale and it showed just how much it has gone up from 1985 to 2009, and just wow. We went from a few states having over a 10% rate to every state having at least 14% and most had a much higher rate than that. It wasn't overweight people, it was obese. If there was any motivation for me to keep eating good foods and moving, that was it. She then told us a story one of her students has shared with her once -- the student was a paramedic and they told her about a 20 year old that weighted 800 pounds and died in the basement of his parents house. They needed a team of firefighters to get the body out.
