First off, my homeroom and computer class teacher. I don't remember her name, so let's just call her Ms. C. Well, one time in homeroom I didn't stand for the pledge of allegiance. Everything was fine until Ms. C. went up to me and asked me to stand up. I said no, and then I just kept sitting. After class was over, she talked to me and said it is very disrespectful to not stand for the pledge. I think all I did was say sorry and went off to class. Here's what I should have said -
Look, I apologize that I didn't recite the pledge today, but my views today on America, it's politics and such have changed my viewpoint and I don't feel America needs my respect anymore. With a war for no reason, religious discrimination, and other things, reciting a pledge that I have said 2500 times, give or take a few hundred days, isn't really on my to-do list. I have the right as an American to chose to recite the pledge. And I should be applauded for upholding the Constitution of the United States of America. And you know what, I bet that the founding fathers are rolling in their graves when they see that religious bigots and other things are happening to a nation that they intended to be secular. No one in America today is what the founding fathers wanted Americans to be. Good day, I have to get to class.I would love to go back in time to say that, I mean, it's just a perfect counter-argument. Why wasn't I this intelligent 2 years ago?
And another argument, one that has been in my head forever since the incident, the confrontation with Mr. V. You see, Mr. V. is a douche bag teacher at the public school, but everyone loves him because he is popular with the students. I had him for English class and Journalism class, this incident in Journalism class. You see, in Journalism, we had to write reports of various things that we would chose, then we would switch subjects next week to write about something else. This week I had Music. So, to research for our reports we would go to the library to go on the computers. Also, we had teams of people to do reports, so one team would chose a person to do Music, and such. I think there were about 5 people, including myself, on the reporting team.
I looked up my favorite band at the time (I still like them, they just aren't the top spot on my list of favorite bands at the moment) Metallica. Of course, the first place you would go to research anything would be Wikipedia (the best site in the universe.) And after I had all of the info from Wiki, I went over to Metallica's website, which had flash and music and shit on it. Next thing you know, two of my OWN team members came over and said that they were telling on me for playing games! They obviously had the intelligence of a pineapple, and I was confused and appalled that they would tell on me for something which they had no evidence for. This little spat didn't end well. They got to Mr. V. before I did and told him their side of the story "Dean was playing games instead of researching.". And of course, the douche bag that he is, Mr. V. believed their side of the story instantly.
When I got back to the classroom, after getting all of the information that I needed for my report, Mr. V. called me into his office. He asked me why my 2 team members just told on me for playing games, and I said I wasn't playing games. He asked me a question I don't remember and for some dumb-ass reason, I said "I don't really care about Journalism Class that much. I don't really need it for my future." why oh why did I say that. It was a true statement, but I shouldn't have said something so stupid. I mean, what's freaking wrong with me? After the interrogation was over, Mr. V. came to the conclusion that I was full of shit and believed the two idiots that had no evidence for their claims instead of me who had my FREAKING RESEARCH ON MY DESK. He told everyone that because someone (I) was goofing off, we would switch to the book, which was an extremely boring Journalism book from the high-school. Everyone looked at me, since I just came out of Mr. V's office. I just sat there and said nothing, when I should have said is this -
This is extremely unfair, I told you my side of the story and I even have evidence of my claims, but no, you go with the 2 idiots that thought I was playing games? What kind of teacher are you, how did you even get through collage and get a job if you are so unintelligent and unfair to just disregard my evidence, my side and everything about my story and go with the one that has no evidence? This is unfair, but it is also very clever. I see what you are doing, you are making us do book work and blaming it on my incident to make yourself more popular and make me the disliked person in the class. Well done, you sadistic asshole. I'll walk myself to the principal's office, thank you very much.I don't even care if Mr. Vonmaxey reads this. I mean, go ahead you idiot! It's me Dean, remember? Me and K.C. both hated your guts. Hell, me and K.C.'s families hated you. But, I have to say, you did help me write pretty well. Thanks for that.. I guess...
Also, my apoligies to Mr. Deery. He was a teacher of mine, that was unfairly mocked by the students in school. I'm not talking about things like calling him a fag or anything, they truly disrespected him. The students went extreme by ruining his classroom, his building and even one case of someone allegedly throwing his car keys over a hard-hat fence. I really liked Mr. Deery, he didn't deserve the treatment he got.
To any teacher that I listed that may stumble apon this blog entry, I have some special messages for each of you.
Ms. C. - Hello, your class was interesting but I didn't really need the typing portion, I am already a pretty fast typer.
Mr. V. - Don't try and call my parents or anything about this post, they all have different jobs and calling my home number wont get you anywhere since I'm home schooled. Also, what I post on this blog is my property, my opinions, my everything.***
Mr. D. - How's it going Mr. D.? Did you ever go move to Michigan like you said you would, and write poetry? Don't tell me your still in stupid Florida!
* I took out all extreme curse words so that If a teacher reads this, they won't bother my parents saying that I curse like a sailor. They already know.
** My memory might be a little off, but I definitively got the basic situations down and my arguments attain to the subject.
*** I didn't mean that the copyrighted pictures and news articles are my property. I just meant that my opinions, and what I write on this is mine. Please don't sue me D:
