Talking These Ideas Out

What has struck you?

What struck me the most about Food Inc. was the part where they talked about the illegal people that work there and get deported when they get fired or try to say something about what they are really doing to the food that is being produced. It is illegal to hire illegal workers in the company but the company has allied with the immigration officers to let them hire illegal people having that as a win win share because then when the companies fire the illegals they tell the immigration officers where to look for them and they have to at least deport 15 illegals everyday. This is really unfair and shows how people can be manipulated really easily just for money, and to produce unhealthy meals for us and our family.

Do you agree or disagree with the concepts? Why?

I strongly agree with the concepts that were being said in the movie because everything is said with a reason and everything thing that is being accused of has prove and reasons why. I think that this movie shows and talks about their different types of reasons why they are doing a documentary that makes the food companies look bad.

How can you apply them to the real world?

I can apply these things by buying locally and always reading what is in my food before I buy it or eat it. Also to encourage others to eat and have a healthier life style.

What do your parents or family members think?

As I was talking about this to my dad he knew what I was talking about and I was surprised because I couldn't believe he didn't care. But later on I was going deep in to what I had seen in the movie, my dad was getting more interested in it and I was glad about it. Now since I talk about it all the time they want to see the movie and learn more about it, they got really interested in it :)

School Daze & School Daze ll

"What one sees first is how far short real schooling falls from the ideal of young minds being awakened! Teachers for the most part would be delighted to awaken young minds, but the system within which they must work fundamentally frustrates that desire by insisting that all minds must be opened in the same order, using the same tools, and at the same pace, on a certain schedule. The teacher is charged with getting the class as a whole to a certain predetermined point in the curriculum by a certain predetermined time, and the individuals that make up the class soon learn how to help the teacher with this task. This is, in a sense, the first thing they must learn. Some learn it quickly and easily and others learn it slowly and painfully, but all eventually learn it."

This quote made me realize that this was true, and the fact that every school was the same and offered to learn the same basic learning strategies was boring, and nobody truly understood what was going on. When I was in middle school I was basically learning the same thing that others were in the same way and students didn't get it straight away because others had different levels of learning. But now ever since I came to High Tech High everything is different, the teachers help you alot more, they give you many more options of doing assignments and homework, and they also give you the special attention that is needed in order for you to truly understand a concept that is being taught. Us teenagers get bored and distracted easily with anything that gets us off school attention, this is why more schools should get the students attention by giving us more tools and resources that we are interested in using and that will benefit our future.